Gerard Baglieri has become the new head of Avaya Canada, replacing president Mario Belanger, the company announced this afternoon. Baglieri will not have the same title as his predecessor. Instead he is managing director for Canada. A company spokesman explained that the change is because the country heads of all Avaya branches outside the U.S. are called managing director.
Baglieri will be responsible for all sales, service and support of Avaya unified communications and contact solutions here.According to a company news release, Baglieri left Motorola, where he was most recently responsible for leading that company’s enterprise mobility business in South Asia, which included more than 100 channel partners. Before that he held a similar position at Motorola supporting the Northeastern U.S. region. center
Baglieri began his career as a field engineer and has held tenures in sales and sales management at Racal Datacom, CDC, Cisco Systems, RouteScience (now a part of Avaya), GiantLoop, and Symbol Technologies.
There was no word in the release of where Belanger has gone. He came to Avaya almost exaclty five years ago from Paradyne Corporation, where he'd been president of Paradyne Worldwide Corp. and vice president of international sales. Before joining Paradyne, Belanger also held management positions at Xerox Canada and Bell Canada. According to to Avaya spokesman, he's gone back to Bell.