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Avaya appoints JFrog CPO Sagi Dudai as board advisor

By TechTaffy Desk

Avaya has appointed Sagi Dudai as board advisor. Mr. Dugai currently serves as the chief product and engineering officer at JFrog.

In his previous role Mr. Dugai served as chief technology officer at Vonage. He has also served in R&D leadership roles at fring (acquired by Genband), Telmap (acquired by Intel), and Mercury (acquired by Hewlett Packard).

Mr. Sagi currently serves on the advisory board at Bizzabo and is a mentor at the Tel Aviv University School of Management.

Mr. Sagi has a MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, and is a Computer Science graduate from Tel Aviv University.

[Image courtesy: Avaya]

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