San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 28, 2014
PlayVox, a leading provider of gamified workforce optimization solutions, announced today that Carol Snell has been appointed as Chairman of the Board. Ms. Snell is an accomplished entrepreneur and CEO bringing more than three decades of executive management, operations, sales and marketing experience to this key role at PlayVox. Snell’s main role will be to attract top talent for the PlayVox team to drive enterprise growth and strategy in the Contact Center market.
PlayVox aims to be “The Salesforce of WFO”
PlayVox aims to be the leader in the underserved market for gamified workforce optimization solutions. The Contact Center industry is transitioning rapidly to the cloud. Traditional on-premise contact center technologies, with their closed and expensive solutions, are in decline – replaced by more flexible, available and integrated cloud solutions.
As with companies like Salesforce and Zendesk who had the vision of building simple-to-use CRM software in the cloud, the market goal with PlayVox is to make the Workforce Optimization Software category more simple, useful and easy to understand for today's changing and demanding workforce.
“Carol’s deep experience in the contact center industry will help PlayVox lead the adoption of gamification and social technologies in the enterprise and the BPO market” said Oscar Giraldo, co-founder and CEO of PlayVox. “It’s an exciting time to be involved in the contact center industry as it transitions to the cloud, social and gamification technologies”
“I’m delighted to be part of this PlayVox team. PlayVox is in the right place at the right time with the right solutions. Large enterprises have clearly benefited from Workforce Optimization practices and tools to improve agent productivity and the customer experience. PlayVox now offers contact center operations of all sizes an affordable and easy way to deploy these tools. With the added benefits of new social and gamification capabilities” said Snell.
Ms. Snell's career highlights include co-founder and SVP of Worldwide Operations of Aspect Communications, a leading provider of call distribution systems and services. She also managed Aspect's entry into international markets as SVP and Managing Director. Ms. Snell later spent two years as SVP at Lucent Technologies, Octel Messaging Division, where she led the division to a position of profitability and global market leadership. She also has been CEO of four venture-backed software companies.
About PlayVox
PlayVox provides the first cloud-based gamified solution for Workforce Optimization for in enterprise Sales, Service and Support organizations. The company initially targets sales and service contact centers with features that satisfy specific requirements and practices for this market. PlayVox helps companies like Groupon and Telefonica maximize sales and service performance and reduce agent training costs and onboarding from weeks to hours.
