#3 Avaya

Happiness (out of 5): 4.12

Average salary: $87,000

Kevin Kennedy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Avaya

Avaya is a privately held global provider of business communications and collaboration systems. The international headquarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States. The company provides contact centers, networking (routers, switches and other networking hardware), unified communications, and video products (integrated hardware and software) services.

Since 2001, the company has sold, and acquired several companies to support its current product set – Vista, VPNet, Quintus, Routescience, Nimcat Networks, Spectel, Ubiquity Software, and Traverse Networks. Avaya shifted from direct sales focused to a channel focused organization and while originally 98 percent of sales came from direct sales, now 50 percent of sales are from alternate channels. In 2003 Avaya sold its Connectivity Solutions segment to CommScope for $263 million to focus on its phone gear and communications services businesses.

In 2004 Avaya expanded in Europe through a $370 million acquisition of Tenovis and in Asia through a majority interest in Tata Telecom (now Avaya Global Connect.

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