Executive Change: Aspect Appoints Mike Sheridan to Executive VP of Worldwide Sales

CHELMSFORD, Mass.– Aspect, a unified communications (UC) solutions provider, today announced that Mike Sheridan has been named executive vice president of worldwide sales reporting directly to chief executive officer, Jim Foy. In this new role, Sheridan will be responsible for providing executive leadership for all sales teams across North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and the Latin America regions. Previously, he served as the company’s senior vice president of strategy and marketing, driving unified communications initiatives across product management and marketing.

“Unified communications has the potential to bring significant value to organizations,” said Sheridan. “In this new role, my efforts will be focused on bringing that value proposition to our customers and prospects around the world, as well as ensuring the entire global sales organization has the tools and capabilities they need to help companies maximize their technology investments, manage costs effectively and bring the highest level of service to their own customers.”

In his previous position, Sheridan was also the executive liaison with the unified communications teams at Microsoft. This responsibility transitions to Andy Bezaitis, senior vice president of corporate development at Aspect.

“Mike has played an instrumental role in cementing the company’s UC vision and product strategy, and as a result, it was a natural progression for him to lead our global sales organization to continue to raise awareness of Aspect’s offerings in both software and services,” said Jim Foy, chief executive officer, Aspect. “He brings a deep understanding of our customers’ needs from his expertise in enterprise and contact center business processes and I am confident that his direction and guidance will continue to demonstrate Aspect’s leadership in the unified communications space.”

Sheridan brings more than 20 years of experience in communications and technology to his new role. He has been with Aspect for more than eight years in various marketing and product strategy roles. Prior to Aspect, he held a number of positions in sales and information technology at leading companies like Hewlett-Packard.
 
Sheridan earned a master’s degree in computer science and telecommunications from DePaul University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and technology from Bradley University. He currently resides in Chicago.
 
About Aspect
Aspect provides software and consulting services that turn the potential of unified communications into real business results across the enterprise and in the contact center.  Applying 35 years of insight and experience, Aspect helps more than two-thirds of the FORTUNE Global 100, as well as small and medium enterprises, power their business processes with communications. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.