Uniphore Software Systems appoints Douglas Peris as GM, Asia Pacific & Middle East

MUMBAI: Uniphore Software Systems, Chennai-based speech recognition solutions company, has appointed Douglas Peris as General Manager, Asia Pacific & Middle East.

Peris will be based in Singapore and will be responsible for new customer acquisitions and expanding partner relationships in the two regions.

Umesh Sachdev, Co-Founder & CEO, Uniphore Software Systems said, "He is an entrepreneur at heart and brings experience of scaling up global technology companies. We look forward to expanding our business in Asia Pacific and Middle East region under his able leadership.”

Peris has more than three decades of experience in telecom and technology sectors and has also founded two companies in Singapore. Prior to his appointment at Uniphore Software Systems, he was Co-Founder & CEO at AdZtream.

He has worked with diverse set of organisations in Singapore, Philippines and Australia across large telecom, technology and consulting companies namely Avaya, British Telecom, Telstra, Group Four Consulting, Unisys Australia and Wavecom. During his five year stint with British Telecom as VP, Global Customer Service Operations, he was responsible for all the aspects of service operations, in-life customer experience, 3rd party Telco channel services and supplier performance in the entire Asia Pacific region. At Avaya, Douglas was the Regional Director for the Asia Pacific region, where he led Avaya's managed services.