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President EMEA

NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), is the worldwide leader of intent-based solutions that capture and analyze interactions and transactions, realize intent, and extract and leverage insights to deliver impact in real time. Driven by cross-channel and multi-sensor analytics, NICE solutions enable organizations to improve business performance, increase operational efficiency, prevent financial crime, ensure compliance, and enhance safety and security.

Accomplished executive with a successful 40 year career building and developing profitable, high growth sales operations for some of the world's largest global technology companies (Lotus, IBM, Microsoft, PB, NICE) as well as early growth companies. Recognized for an exceptional global understanding and mentality, building high performance teams and experience of acquiring, integrating and uniting numerous, disparate businesses behind a consistent message and purpose. A charismatic leader and strong communicator whose career spans regional, international and global roles including a 3 year period in the USA. Strong leadership skills spanning people, strategy and operational execution. Experiences: - Global business acumen and experience from living London, New York, Paris, Johannesburg - Managed U.S., Latam, APAC and European teams - Broad P&L responsibility: managed Sales, Marketing, Services, Product Management, R&D, HR, Legal, Finance - Enterprise software sales background in developing customer-oriented solutions involving software and services - Global expansion expertise - Acquiring and integrating multiple diverse businesses and creation of revenue and growth synergies - Expertise in Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Computing. 6 years experience in Customer Experience/Contact Centre technologies - Experience ranging from leading start-ups to running billion dollar businesses - Named by DataIQ as one of the Top 100 most influential people in data driven business in 2015. http://www.dataiq.co.uk/bigdata100