Wes leads the channel, field, product, and digital marketing teams at Extreme. He has 25 years of marketing experience including deep cloud and networking domain expertise. Wes has spent the past decade enabling successful "as-a-service" firms as the world moves from transactions to subscriptions. Most recently, as CMO for Mitel, he helped establish the company as the world's leading provider of cloud-based solutions for communications and collaboration and enhanced its profile and reach by building strong channel marketing programs and establishing partnerships with Major League Baseball and English Premier League teams. Prior to Mitel, he held marketing leadership roles with Sonus Networks and Fonality. He also served as Vice President and General Manager of Global Marketing for Avaya, where he guided all marketing initiatives following their 2009 acquisition of Nortel's enterprise division. Wes began his career in advertising, building brands including American Airlines, Bank of America, Pace Picante Sauce, and Dial.