
Most recently, Ackert served as Vice President, Channel Development at PPT Solutions, LLC, before joining Nextiva. “Nextiva has all the pieces in place to transform the world of business communications, and our partner community is on the front line of this change.īrandon Ackert is joining Nextiva as Strategic Partner Director, and brings a wealth of channel experience through his positions at Mitel, Five9 and UJET, where he played an integral role in the successful launch and wide-spread adoption of UJET’s channel program.


“The opportunity in front of us is massive, and I can’t imagine a better team to seize it,” said Pearce. Prior to these roles, he held sales leadership positions at Brinks Home Security and Windstream Communications. Most recently, Pearce served as Vice President of Sales, Global Channel Chief at Tangoe, and as Director, Channel Sales, North America, for Aryaka Networks. Pearce’s focus at Nextiva will be channel sales and development for the North region. At Nextiva, Antonacci will be responsible for amplifying Nextiva’s channel brand and driving demand through a variety of channel marketing programs and activities.Įd Pearce joins Nextiva as Vice President, Channel, North, with over two decades of experience in channel and commercial sales leadership. Jolynn Antonacci, the new Vice President of Channel Marketing, joins Nextiva with 15 years of experience in technology operations and marketing, including as the Vice President of Marketing at PPT Solutions, LLC, and Director, Channel Operations, Programs and Strategic Alliances at Aryaka Networks. “The next chapter in customer communications is being written and it extends far beyond traditional unified communications, and Nextiva is leading this charge.” “There’s something special happening right now at Nextiva,” said Forbush. Before joining Nextiva, Forbush served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at PPT Solutions, LLC, and prior to that, as Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Telarus, where he drove significant growth across the master agency’s six regional sales teams, and successfully expanded the company’s Cloud, UCaaS and SD-WAN practices. Scott will oversee Nextiva’s channel sales and development activities on the West Coast. Scott Forbush, a channel veteran with over 25 years of sales leadership, joins Nextiva as Vice President, Channel, West. Nextiva has the innovative technology portfolio millions of businesses need to solve their greatest communication challenges, and the mission now is to get that information into the hands of our partner community.” “We’re positioned for unprecedented success. “We’re building the channel dream team at Nextiva,” said Olen Scott, Head of Channels at Nextiva. Brandon Ackert - Strategic Partner Director.Ed Pearce - Vice President, Channel - North.

Jolynn Antonacci - Vice President, Channel Marketing.Scott Forbush - Vice President, Channel - West.The newly expanded team will focus on developing and growing Nextiva’s partner channel, and bring to life a number of strategic initiatives, including driving visibility and demand around the company’s multi-site, distributed enterprise customer segment. Scottsdale, Ariz., Nextiva, the leading conversation platform, today announced the addition of four new channel leaders to its team.
