AVCT Announces Michael Dennis as New COO
December 07 2020 - 8:25AM
American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
AVCT), a leading cloud communications and IT service provider, is
pleased to announce Michael A. Dennis joined the company as Chief
Operating Officer on December 1, 2020.
Mr. Dennis succeeds Graham McGonigal who has served
as AVCT’s Chief Operating & Strategy Officer. Mr. McGonigal
will continue as AVCT’s Chief Strategy Officer.
Mr. Dennis is a veteran in the telecommunications and technology
industries with twenty-five years of executive leadership and
strategic execution leveraged across AT&T, Lucent Technologies,
and Avaya. Over the course of his career, he held various Executive
Leadership positions responsible for sales, sales operations,
customer service, project management, manufacturing, outsourcing,
professional services, infrastructure, and digital platform
management. Most notable, during his tenure at Avaya as Group Vice
President, Michael managed a service revenue portfolio of $3+
billion and twenty-five thousand associates with the responsibility
to grow forty-three percent of the total technology equipment and
professional service revenue base. He was a member of the Senior
Leadership team that took Avaya public in 2000.
Mr. Dennis is an entrepreneur with a proven track record for
delivering extraordinary profits by leveraging executive
relationships to drive sales growth and access to new opportunities
and partnerships. He was the principal owner of General Sports
Venue-Astro Turf, a certified minority business enterprise and
national synthetic turf company with exclusive rights to the
AstroTurf brand, which he sold in 2009. In 2002, he served as a
Partner and Chief Operating Officer for JNET Communications, a
minority-owned firm serving the cable industry through installation
and construction services. Mr. Dennis provided executive oversight
for an $80M portfolio managing fiber and coax construction and
infrastructure programs across the United States.
In his most recent position, Michael served as the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Green Group (BGG), a
Cellular Telecommunication and Broadband Services provider. He
developed strategies to generate margins of twenty-five percent
over the $8M revenue base, managing fiber deployment, installation,
and maintenance for cellular towers. BGG’s clients included
Ericsson, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sirius/XM. The company
received MetLife’s small business of the year award in 2016.
“I am most grateful for the opportunity to join the
AVCT team,” said Dennis. “It’s an honor to be a member of such a
seasoned team of leaders who will shape the future of cloud
communications, information technology, and managed service
solutions. I welcome the opportunity to accelerate our growth to
meet our strategic objectives. I am committed to helping the
company achieve success by focusing on customer service,
operational execution, and the engagement and contribution from the
entire AVCT team.”
“As we enter a ‘New Day’ at AVCtechnologies, we are
fortunate to have a seasoned operating executive and proven
entrepreneur join us as the firm continues to evolve and grow,”
said Xavier Williams, CEO AVCtechnologies.
Mr. Dennis has been featured in the New York Times’
Business section in an article regarding “Workforce Management
Innovation” and profiled in the Sunday Times Boss’ column. He was
recognized as one of the “Top 50 African-American leaders in
Corporate America, Black Enterprise magazine. Michael also received
the prestigious Eagle Award from the National Eagle Leadership
Institute (NELI) in 2000. He served as the chairperson for INROADS,
Central New Jersey, from 2003 to 2005. Mr. Dennis looks forward to
joining the team at AVCtechnologies.
He earned a BA from Dartmouth College and has
completed multiple executive programs – Darden School of Business,
University of Virginia; Haas Business School, University of
California at Berkeley; and the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College.
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