Jay Patel

GVP, Product Management

Jayesh (Jay) Patel serves as the Global Vice President of Product Management at Avaya, bringing more than 25 years of global experience as an executive leading customer-centric product and operational strategies that are based on emerging technologies, and market and competitive trends. Most recently, Jay was the Chief Product Officer at Kandy Communications, a provider of white label cloud communications solutions to service providers, where he contributed to the development and success of innovative communication solutions. Before his tenure at Kandy Communications, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Vonage, a leading business cloud communications provider. He was the VP of Consumer Products Engineering at Lenovo, and VP of Strategy for Internal Business & Technical Strategy Consulting at Google and also held various leadership positions at Motorola.