The Contact Center Gurus

Andreas Knoefel: · Top50 Customer Success Influencer for the second year in a row · Inventor of the Customer Success Performance Index™, a benchmark which highlights how the best-in-class businesses achieve 28% higher NRR · Chief Customer Officer and CS strategy consultant from startups, to SMB’s and F100 enterprises · Math Ph.D. (don’t hold that against me) · Mountain b

Employees have lost faith in leaders' ability to move the business forward. Supervisors are trying to band-aid processes and the lack of technology to keep their teams moving. Frustration is leading to a mass exodus. Increased recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, nesting and new agent speedto competency all costs money. Eroding brand reputation as a result of negative customer

Chaitanya is the co-founder/chief product officer of Ozonetel Communications Inc. At Ozonetel, Chaitanya built the core CCaaS/CPaaS application framework responsible for handling 20 million calls and 100,000 agent logins per day. The Ozonetel platform has 3000 businesses as their customers and handles more than a billion calls per year. Chaitanya is a core technologist with a Maste

Jim Triggs was named President and CEO of MMI in 2019. Since joining the organization over 20 years ago, Jim has held a number of executive positions, providing vision and guidance to many of MMI’s core national programs. His focus across every leadership role has been to increase the accessibility and efficiency of MMI’s counseling programs, leveraging emerging technology and

Alex is a partner at Adler Advisors. His career in telecommunications started as an independent Time Warner Cable sales consultant for Sandler Partners. After only 18 months he had acquired 395 clients! Him and his team are Technology Leaders, who simplify the technology buying process from start through service. They believe an unbiased technology recommendation builds long lastin

Lance Fried is the Chief Marketing Officer at Thrio, a leading CCaaS provider. He is a recognized cloud software evangelist focused on marketing, strategy, product, team building, and driving revenue growth for emerging high-technology companies. Lance has spent the majority of his career in the hosted contact center space and has enjoyed success everywhere he has been. Lance is a

Linda Klug is the Founder & CEO of Airin, an artificial intelligence deep technology company that clones the cognitive reasoning of experts. Airin has attracted enterprise early adopters including Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Teradata and Accenture. Linda formerly led global enterprise technology divisions in Silicon Valley for Fortune 500 technology companies including VERITAS, Sy

Eddie Christian is the Global Head of Customer Success as Resy, American Express Global Dining Network. Eddie is also a former professional baseball player and a talented Customer Success and Customer Experience leader with over 17 years of experience in Customer Success, Sales and Marketing. He brings a wealth of expertise with particular strengths in organization building, increa

Mark Pereira is a Trainer and On-Site Supervisor at Briljent LLC. He is a Certified Professional Trainer (CPT), Certified Customer Service Professional (CCSP), Corporate Trainer Certified (CTC), and Modern Classroom Certified Trainer (MCCT). Mark is a learning leader who applies what he learns to continuously add value to his team while also implementing proven teaching methods to

In this episode Emre Tekoglu, VP of Support with Zywave, and shares how the Customer Support World is Transforming Emre recently joined Zywave as their VP, Customer support from Salesforce, where he served as a senior support leader. Prior, he served in both support leadership, consulting and business analyst roles over his 18 year career history. He is an avid reader and learner a