Daniel Blais
Dir Avant-Ventes, Genband France
Close to 25 years of international experience in the Telecommunications Equipment and Networking industry covering most Next Generation Network technologies and solutions deployed in Telecoms Carriers Networks today. Most of this experience spent in a customer facing environment with a combination of strong technical, commercial, relationship and leadership skills.
Reporting to the President of Carrier Networks EMEA, responsible for the management & development of a team of over 140 Carrier Sales Engineers, Product Experts and Network Solutions Architects providing pre-sales technical and commercial customer engagement support for Wireline (VoIP & Multimedia), Optical and Wireless (GSM, GSM-R, CDMA, Wimax & LTE) business for all the Carrier opportunities in the EMEA Region. This represents a total of over 1B$ of annual business.
2006 - 2008Reporting to the President of Southern Region, responsible for the management & development of a team of over 60 sales engineers & product experts providing pre-sales technical and commercial customer engagement support for Wireline (VoIP), Optical and Wireless business for all the Carrier opportunities in the Southern Europe (France, Iberia, Italy), Middle East & Africa Region. This represents a total of over 500M$ of annual business.