SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 6, 2016 – Guavus, Inc., a leading provider of big data analytics applications for operational intelligence, today announced that Pirjo Tuomi has joined the company as Vice President of Sales, Cable. Ms. Tuomi, a proven sales leader will head Guavus’ cable global sales team, working closely with operator customers around the world.
“Pirjo is a great asset for us as we advance our global cable sales strategy,” said Anukool Lakhina, CEO and Founder of Guavus. “Our company is experiencing explosive growth of our analytics products and Pirjo’s appointment will help us build on our forward momentum and enable Guavus to sustain this rapid growth and new customer acquisition.”
Ms. Tuomi is a 20-year sales veteran in the telecommunications and cable industry. She spent the last six years at Aurora Networks (now part of ARRIS), most recently as Vice President of Worldwide Sales where she nearly doubled global revenues to over $300M for the company’s advanced, next-generation optical transport and access systems through organic growth and acquisition. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Vello Systems, a provider of optical transport and DWDM technologies, driving annual revenues of more than 10 Million dollars with cable and telecom operators. Prior to Vello, Pirjo held management positions with BigBand Networks/ADC/Broadband Access Systems taking the company to an IPO and Nortel, ICL Data/Nokia Data. During her tenure at Finnish Telecom, now TeliaSonera, she helped establish one of the first router networks and commercial email systems in Finland and all of Europe. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Helsinki University, and an MBA from Northeastern University.
“I am excited to join Guavus,”said Pirjo Tuomi. “The Guavus team has built a suite of innovative analytics products that provide the necessary context and clarity to allow service providers to better understand the complete customer journey. We have an opportunity to transform customer experience and service operations through the intelligent use of operations analytics.”
About Guavus
Guavus solves the world’s most complex data problems. Proven across Tier 1 service providers, Guavus provides a new generation of analytically powered big data applications to address specific business problems for next-generation service assurance, next-generation customer experience management and the Internet of Things. The Company uniquely breaks down the barriers between Operational Support Systems and Business Support Systems to enable customers to deliver a better customer experience, improve service operations and more efficiently plan network capacity. Guavus’ operational intelligence applications correlate and analyze massive amounts of streaming and stored business, operational and sensor data from multiple, disparate source systems in real time. Guavus products currently process more than two trillion transactions per day.
