Dr. Alan Baratz joined Avaya in October 2008 as Senior Vice President and President – Global Communications Solutions (GCS). In this capacity, he is accountable for the full life cycle of the company’s Intelligent Communications products; including all activity supporting innovation, design, development and launch of Avaya’s product offerings. His organization includes the company’s three strategic business units: Contact Center, Unified Communications, and Integrated Office Communications for the small and midsized enterprise market.

Before joining Avaya, Alan was most recently the Senior Vice President for Cisco's Network Software and Systems Technology Group. In this role, he was responsible for Cisco's core software organization, comprising more than 2,400 software developers and supporting more than $20B of network product sales. Previously, Alan served as President of Sun Microsystems' Software division, with responsibility for all of Sun's software products (including Solaris and Java) as well as software sales and software marketing. He has also held leadership positions at IBM and served as CEO of several information technology startups, as well as partner and advisor to several venture capital and private equity firms.

Alan holds both a doctorate and a master's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from UCLA.