In New Delhi: Polycom a unified communications solution provider has announced the appointment Ari Bose as senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) with global responsibility for Polycoms IT organisation and strategic transformation.
As part of his global IT responsibility, Bose will also oversee Polycoms internal global visual communications network. His team will serve as a resource for customers on best practice UC network adoption and to Polycoms product development team, providing input for future breakthrough innovations.
Bose joins Polycom from UTStarcom, where he served as senior vice president, CIO, and business transformation officer. At UTStarcom, Bose developed a global information strategy, re-engineered business processes and systems to drive the transformation of the company, and drove the integration process for several acquisitions.
"Ari joins Polycom at what we believe is an inflection point for our company and our industry," said Michael Kourey, Polycom executive vice president and chief financial officer. Aris leadership, technical competence, and proven track record in business transformation and efficiency make him the ideal CIO for Polycom at this exciting stage for our company."
"Polycom is an impressive company with a tremendous opportunity to capture the momentum of the fast-growing UC market. Polycom customer-premise and cloud-based UC solutions are renowned for quality, and the companys open, standards-based foundation gives IT leaders unrivalled flexibility, choice, and investment protectioncritical to our customers as they build out their UC networks, said Ari Bose. "I am thrilled to join Polycom, to serve as an example of how businesses can be truly transformed by UC technologies, and am energised by our overall evolution into what I believe will be one of the most important network companies worldwide."
Bose has a masters degree in software engineering from the National University in San Diego and a bachelors degree from Delhi University.
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