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Todd Woodstra Joins Interactions as Senior Vice President of Sales
[August 17, 2015]

Todd Woodstra Joins Interactions as Senior Vice President of Sales


Interactions, LLC, a leader in speech and natural language technology solutions, today announced that industry veteran Todd Woodstra has joined the executive leadership team as senior vice president, sales.

Woodstra, who spent ten plus years as an executive at Nuance Communications, will oversee the expansion and direction of Interactions' sales operations. He is tasked with expanding the company's rapidly growing Fortune 500 customer base; implementing an updated channel program built around Interactions' newest enterprise solutions; developing strategic partnerships with Business Process Outsourcing organizations and other groups; and product licensing agreements.

"I am thrilled that Todd will be joining the Interactions team as he shares our values and focus on innovation and has a proven track record of driving aggressive growth and adoption of new technologies," said Mike Iacobucci, CEO, Interactions, LLC "Todd will play a vital role in the expansion of Interactions as we begin to introduce the next generation of flexible, responsive, and platform-agnostic interfaces for speech, touch, and text-enabled devices."

"It is more important than ever for enterprises and developers to have the right partner to help them stay ahead of the demands of their customers and competition," said Woodstra. "The combination of the acquired AT&am;T Watson speech recognition and Interactions' unique Adaptive Understanding technology is disruptive in the Virtual Assistant industry. These combined market leading technologies solve problems where others continue to promise and fall short."



Woodstra continued: "I'm excited for the opportunity to help Interactions build an expansive ecosystem of customers, resellers and other partners as we collaboratively deliver the industry's most conversational speech and natural language understanding solutions."

Woodstra served as vice president of Worldwide Channels and Strategic Partner Alliances Nuance Communications (News - Alert) from 2002 until 2014. He has previously served as senior vice president of Global Unified Communications and Emerging Marketing at SpinVox (News - Alert), and western director of channel sales and strategies at SpeechWorks. Other sales leadership positions during his 25 year career include Williams Communications, Nortel (News - Alert) Networks and PacTel Meridian.


With its patented Adaptive-Understanding™ technology, Interactions is the first and only natural language technology provider to seamlessly blend human and artificial intelligence to achieve an unprecedented 95% understanding rate. The company's leading virtual assistant solutions are deployed by customer service-centric organizations such as Hyatt Hotels, Best Western, Humana, TXU Energy, Eyemed, and Asurion, as well as other Fortune 500 companies. In 2014, the company completed the industry-disrupting acquisition of the AT&T (News - Alert) Watson speech and natural language research and technology program to facilitate the creation of the "Interface of things," a new generation of highly accurate, responsible and flexible multi-modal interfaces of virtually any device.

About Interactions

Interactions develops and markets award-winning natural language understanding technology used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Built on its patented Adaptive-Understanding™ technology that seamlessly integrates both human and machine intelligence, Interactions provides highly conversational virtual assistant solutions. Companies such as Hyatt, Best Western, Humana, TXU Energy, Asurion (News - Alert) and AllConnect deploy Interactions' solutions.

The company's sales, service and support solutions are delivered across any device with type, touch or talk capabilities, and have handled more than one billion transactions to date. Rooted in natural speech recognition and built to adapt to human conversation, Interactions' solutions have delivered cost-savings and increased efficiencies in sales and support for some of the largest companies in the world. Interactions, founded in 2004, is headquartered in Franklin, Massachusetts and has additional offices located in Indianapolis, Indiana, Austin, Texas, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York.


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