Princeton Computer Science Professor and SaaS Technology Expert
Jaswinder Pal Singh Elected to 8x8 Board of Directors; Replaces Former
Director Mansour Salame
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), provider of cloud communications and
collaboration solutions, today announced that Jaswinder Pal (JP) Singh,
a leading computer science and SaaS technology expert, has been elected
to succeed Mansour Salame on the 8x8 board of directors. Mr. Salame has
served on the 8x8 board since January 2012 and resigned last week to
pursue other opportunities. This change to the 8x8 board is effective
immediately.
The appointment of Dr. Singh to 8x8's Board of Directors aligns with the
Company's recently announced plans to increase the investment in its
Research & Development activities to add new services and applications
to its cloud communications and collaboration services platform.
Dr. Singh is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science at Princeton
University and Chairman and Co-Founder of Gwynnie Bee, Inc., an Internet
technology company in the retail space. Previously, he was Co-founder
and Chief Technology Officer at firstRain, Inc., a SaaS provider of
market intelligence solutions for the enterprise, where he led the
development of award-winning technologies and products for web-based
communication and information access. Dr. Singh also served as an
advisor to Right Media, Inc., a SaaS online advertising exchange that
was acquired by Yahoo in 2007, and later led the development of Yahoo's
innovative next-generation advertising marketplace.
"JP brings a wealth of technology and business expertise to 8x8," said
8x8 CEO Vik Verma. "As one of the early technology pioneers in the SaaS
industry, his knowledge of web-based and cloud technologies and their
accompanying business applications is invaluable and will be a
tremendous resource to 8x8 as we ramp our investment in R&D to refine
and expand our cloud communications and collaboration suite of
services." Verma continued, "On behalf of the board of directors, I
thank Mansour for his service to 8x8 and wish him well in his future
endeavors."
Dr. Singh is a leading authority on Scalable Computing Systems,
Infrastructure and Applications and has served as a consultant to
several leading companies and agencies. He was the only computer
scientist to receive the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers in 1997 and was also a winner of the Sloan
Research Fellowship in the same year. He is a coauthor of Parallel
Computer Architecture: A Hardware-Software Approach, the leading
textbook in Parallel Computing, and author of several patents and over
75 published research papers. Dr. Singh has a BSE degree from Princeton
University and obtained his MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University.
"The SaaS communications and collaboration industry is very much in its
infancy, from both a business and technology perspective, with plenty of
room for innovation and growth," said Dr. Singh. "8x8, with its 91
issued US patents, is one of the most cutting-edge cloud technology
providers I have encountered during my career and I'm truly excited by
the opportunity to work with such talented and accomplished
professionals."
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) offers a comprehensive portfolio of unified
cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions that include hosted
cloud telephony, office communications, contact
center, video conferencing and virtual desktop software and
services. The company has been delivering business services to SMB,
mid-market and distributed enterprises since 2004 and has garnered a
reputation for technical excellence and outstanding reliability. In
2012, 8x8 was named a market "leader" in Gartner's
Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in
North America and was recognized as the No. 1 Provider of Hosted IP
Telephony by Frost
& Sullivan and Synergy
Research Group. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com,
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8x8, Inc.
Joan Citelli, 408-654-0970
Joan.citelli@8x8.com
Source: 8x8
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