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United States : ShoreTel Revamps Sales Organization And Appoints New Leaders [TendersInfo (India)]
[May 02, 2012]

United States : ShoreTel Revamps Sales Organization And Appoints New Leaders [TendersInfo (India)]

(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ShoreTel, the leading provider of brilliantly simple premise and cloud-based business phone system and communication solutions with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced new sales leadership. Joe Vitalone returns to ShoreTel to lead channel management, Tim Gaines takes the helm atop North America sales and Mark Arman leads international sales and worldwide distribution.

"These staffing appointments provide an even stronger focus on our fast growing core U.S. and international markets," said Peter Blackmore, ShoreTel CEO. "We are tremendously excited to be bringing back a key executive who has a history of driving positive growth in the channel for unified communications." Joe Vitalone, Vice President, Channel Management - Vitalone returns to head up ShoreTel's channel team today. An industry veteran with over 25 years of sales and business development experience in technology and telecommunications, Vitalone will be responsible for strengthening channel revenues and advocating for the channel.

Vitalone rejoins ShoreTel from Lifesize where he served as vice president of sales for the Americas. During his tenure there, Lifesize sales doubled. Prior to joining LifeSize, Vitalone was a company officer and vice president for North America sales for ShoreTel where he tripled revenues in four years and managed the sales team through ShoreTel's transition to a publicly held company.


Vitalone began his sales career at Mitel, and then entered the video conferencing market in its early days as the sales leader for PictureTel, followed by ViaVideo Communications. Vitalone was vice president of sales and business development for Polycom in 2000. Vitalone also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales at CoVi Technologies and has held management positions at Siemens, AT&T Wireless, and Wire One Technologies.

Timothy C. Gaines, Vice President of North America Sales - Gaines joined ShoreTel in 2007 and now oversees North American sales for all on-premise solutions including unified communications, contact center and mobility. With more than 20 years of sales and general management experience in the telecommunications industry, Timothy Gaines is a pioneer in the VoIP space and a proven leader in building high-powered sales teams.

Prior to ShoreTel, Gaines served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Covad (now MegaPath), a leading provider of broadband and VoIP solutions for commercial and government business segments. Previously Gaines served as regional director and general manager for a U.S. subsidiary of Fujitsu, where he developed and drove growth of the PBX switching systems business in the U.S.

Mark Arman, Vice President of International Sales and Worldwide Distribution - Arman joined ShoreTel in November 2006 and now leads ShoreTel's international sales and worldwide distribution teams.

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