Two new at Visitar…

Hosted communications provider Visitar kicked off August by welcoming two key executive appointments: Stephanie Anderson has been named vice president of channel and alliance marketing, while Tommy Nijem will be Visitar’s chief architect and vice president of engineering.

Anderson will lead Visitar efforts to deliver a proper channel program. Anderson will craft strategy and design of the channel and alliance programs; channel governance; sales enablement; and marketing programs.

Prior to joining Visitar, Anderson was vice president of services solutions sales for Avaya Inc. Prior to this, Anderson held positions with AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya in areas of executive leadership; strategic and integrated marketing; and channel and alliance management. Also jumping ship from Avaya is Nijem. Nijem will lead the Visitar development team, and will team with Visitar CTO George T. Sullivan in advancing the company’s solution architecture.

Most recently, Tommy held the position of director, services technology strategy and development. Nijem also held key positions with Tier3SME, VistaIT, First Union National Bank and TEAM Software. Tommy also founded the professional services consultancy AR-Experts LLC, which was later merged with Venimex, Inc.

Visitar is a provider of customer relationship management and sales force automation solutions that link telephony capability with business applications. Visitar specializes in small- and mid-sized businesses and its flagship solutions are known as “360° Care via Visitar.”