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Five9 Expands Development Team; Appoints Industry Veteran Jim Dvorkin as CTO and Acquires VoIP/PBX Engineering Company.


Former CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.  of Echopass and Co-Founder of Contactual Brings Proven Track Record, Vision, and Industry Expertise to Lead Company's Large Engineering Team; Five9 Now the Largest On-Demand Telephony Development Team in the Industry With Recent Acquisition of Russian VoIP Development Company

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Five9, Inc., the leading global provider of on-demand call center solutions, today announced it has named Jim Dvorkin as chief technology officer. In this position, Dvorkin will lead development, product management, network operations, and customer support efforts of Five9. This appointment comes on the heels of Five9's acquisition of Eco NN, a Russia-based company with 60 development staff focused on developing VoIP and call center applications.

"Jim's proven experience in developing top-tier engineering teams and bringing innovative call center solutions to market will help us continue our leadership in the on-demand call center market, and develop innovative new products," said Brian Silverman, Five9 president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our marketing and sales momentum is accelerating in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  as well as internationally, and we welcome Jim's addition to the management team."

Prior to joining Five9, Dvorkin most recently headed up salesforce.com's call center initiative that resulted in that company's recent Winter '07 product announcements in this area. Previously he served as CTO for Echopass, an on-demand host of Genesys-based contact center solutions. He was also the founding CTO of White Pajama (now Contactual), an early provider of contact center solutions for small businesses. Earlier in his career, Dvorkin was CTO and co-founder of NextAge Technologies, a developer of workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space.  solutions. Prior to that, he held various technical positions at Genesys, a pioneer in the field of computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration . He was a technical director and he managed the deployment of Genesys solutions for all four French telecommunications providers and many large financial institutions. Dvorkin holds a master's degree master's degree
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An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree.

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 in Computer Science from the State University of Lithuania.

"Five9 is leading a fundamental change in the way companies build and deploy call centers," said Dvorkin. "This is an exciting time for Five9 as on-demand solutions are where the industry is headed. I look forward to bringing my vision and experience to extend our worldwide leadership in on-demand telephony. The acquisition of Eco NN and opening of the Five9 Russia office will accelerate our ability to bring exciting new products to market."

The acquisition of Eco NN was completed in September. All engineers at the company are now working on Five9's Virtual Call Center product and will continue to reside in the Five9 Russia office located in Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod (nyēsh`nyī nôf`gərəd), formerly Gorky or Gorki, city (1989 pop. , 250 miles east of Moscow. The addition of this development team gives Five9 the largest engineering organization of any on-demand call center solution provider.

About Five9 Virtual Call Center Solutions

Five9 Virtual Call Center solutions enable companies of any size to build a comprehensive, feature-rich call center - anywhere in the world - without any hardware, software or upfront capital expenditures. Their comprehensive capabilities enable outbound telemarketing and sales teams to reach more prospects in person, thereby significantly increasing leads, pipeline, and ultimately sales revenues, and help customer service and inside sales teams handle higher volumes of inbound calls, thus raising customer responsiveness and satisfaction. Businesses using Five9 typically increase revenues 200-300% based on the higher rate of "right party contacts" the on-demand solution helps deliver. In addition to the cost savings and benefits to the business bottom-line, Five9's on-demand, hosted service allows for easy set-up and administration of at-home agent workforces as well as singular or distributed, multi-site centers to act as one, regardless of geographic location. Additionally, Five9 can seamlessly integrate with salesforce.com, NetSuite, RightNow, and a variety of other leading vendors.

Built from the ground up by Five9 to eliminate third-party license fees and ensure costs are kept low, the Virtual Call Center solutions allow any business with just a PC and a broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband.  to deploy a comprehensive suite of powerful capabilities including: Call Blending and Prioritization, Predictive Dialing, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) A computerized phone system that responds to the caller with a voice menu and connects the call to the appropriate agent. It can also distribute calls equally to agents. ), Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), Interactive Voice Response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ), Call Scripting, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. ), Remote Agent Capabilities, Skills-based Routing, Call Recording, Do Not Call List and Call Abandonment Compliance, Silent Monitoring, Real-time Reporting, and Centralized Management.

About Five9

Five9 is the leading global provider of on-demand call center solutions for telemarketing, telesales telesales
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the selling of a commodity or service by telephone

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, and customer service. The award-winning Five9 Virtual Contact Center targets small and midsized call centers, contact center operations of large enterprises, and companies that provide outsourced call center services. Over 500 companies worldwide profit from Five9's reliable, robust functionality that is fast, easy, and affordable to deploy for any call center. For more information, visit http://www.five9.com.
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