Former VMware and Hewlett Packard Senior Marketing Executive Will
Drive RingCentral's Global Marketing Efforts as Company Makes Big Push
into Enterprise
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral,
Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of enterprise cloud
communication and collaboration applications, today announced the
appointment of enterprise technology industry veteran Riadh Dridi as
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for the
strategy and execution of RingCentral’s global marketing efforts.
Dridi brings over 20 years of marketing, product management, and sales
experience with industry-leading enterprise technology providers. He was
most recently Vice President and Head of Americas Marketing for VMware
where he was responsible for driving awareness and demand for VMware’s
entire product portfolio across all customer segments and routes to
market. Before that, he held several leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard
in enterprise marketing, partner marketing, product management, and
sales.
“More organizations are realizing significant value from moving their
business communications to the cloud, ranging from improvements in
business mobility and agility to rapid scaling and deployment globally,”
said Dridi. “I’m excited to join RingCentral and build on the company’s
track record of delivering innovative, easy-to-use products combined
with world-class customer service.”
With 45 percent year-over-year growth of monthly recurring software
subscriptions of RingCentral
Office®, the company is today’s leading and fastest growing
pure-play cloud communications provider. RingCentral has been positioned
as a leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified
Communications as a Service Worldwide*.
“It’s an exciting time to join RingCentral as the adoption of cloud
technologies further accelerates in medium and large enterprises,” said
David Sipes, chief revenue officer for RingCentral. “We are thrilled to
bring on board Riadh Dridi as our new CMO and apply his deep enterprise
marketing experience and leadership skills to RingCentral’s next phase
of growth.”
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG) is a leading provider of cloud-based
business communications and collaboration solutions. RingCentral’s cloud
solution is easier to manage, and more flexible and cost-efficient than
legacy on-premise communications systems. It meets the needs of modern
distributed and mobile workforces spanning SMB to Enterprises globally.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, Calif. RingCentral, RingCentral
Office and the RingCentral logo are trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service,
Worldwide, Daniel
O'Connell, Bern
Elliot, 03 September 2015
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RingCentral
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Source: RingCentral, Inc.