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For Immediate Release: 8-Oct-2009

AUSTRALIA – GlobalConnect Australia, a leading convergence and contact centre integrator, today announced the expansion of its sales team with several new hires including the key appointment of industry veteran Dean Hodgson to the role of National Sales Director.

Dean's appointment marks an aggressive plan to acquire the best industry talent to support GlobalConnect’s new go-to-market model beyond its successful relationship with Avaya into new relationships with complementary third party vendors.

Dean joins GlobalConnect from Datasquirt where he spent two years as General Manager building the Australian and Singapore operations. Formerly a 5-year Avaya veteran leading the Strategic Alliance organisation for Asia Pacific, Dean brings extensive experience in best-practice sales and customer service delivery.

Other new hires in the sales team include:

• Harsha Hewapathirane from 3D Networks, IBM and Cisco with a stint in Silicon Valley
• Paul Le Maitre ex-Touchbase and VeCommerce recruit
• Wayne McAuliffe with a background at Avaya, Citrix and IBM

The expanded sales team comes under the strategic direction of Pushkar Taneja, managing director of GlobalConnect Australia who said, "At a time when more and more local companies are embracing GlobalConnect's compelling offer around telephony, networking, wireless, videoconferencing and services, we are focused on attracting high caliber individuals to take our end-to-end offer to market to meet customer needs and drive further growth across our organisation."

He added, "We are extremely pleased to have the expertise of Dean and the new members of his team on board particularly as we start a new financial year. Kicking off FY10, we see positive market sentiment that our economy is improving and a readiness from customers to increase investment in the IT sector."

Dean brings over 20 years experience to the role and holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from Auckland University of Technology.

About GlobalConnect Australia
GlobalConnect Australia is a leading IP telephony and contact centre integrator to organisations across Australia. With broad capabilities, GlobalConnect provides a comprehensive suite of converged solutions, advanced delivery and unequalled support services. We partner with our customers to deploy leading edge solutions that enable medium and large enterprises to transform the way they work and enhance their everyday performance with simple, flexible and reliable communications.

GlobalConnect Australia is a Gold BusinessPartner of Avaya in Australia, with specialisations in contact centre, unified communications and IP telephony. For further information, visit http://www.globalconnect.com.au

For further details visit www.globalconnect.com.au

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