Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders

The success of a company can hinge on clear and accessible communication with customers. Today's guest is leveraging tech to marry communication quality with the ultimate efficiency.

This week, we're sitting down with John DiLullo. John is the CEO of Live Vox, which is transforming call centre communications with cloud technology. LiveVox trades under the symbol LVOX.  John is a growth oriented industry veteran with a track record spanning more than 30 years in networking, telecom application delivery and cybersecurity, including 10 years experience in multi-channel contact center and enterprise voice communications.

Most recently, John was the Chief Revenue Officer at Force Point where he drove the company's worldwide revenue operations, sales, marketing, and business development efforts. Prior to Force Point, John served as the CEO of Last Line Security, a fast-growing AI-based network, threat detection company that was acquired by VMware in 2020. John holds two US patents and is a former Stanford University fellow. 

John and I had a great conversation about LiveVox's state-of-the art cloud data platform, hybrid and remote working, and the future of AI. 

Highlights:
  • John describes his career path leading up to LiveVox (2:51)
  • How the software works, and customer service (4:18)
  • LiveVox's customers (5:59)
  • How the software improves an agent's service quality (7:29)
  • LiveVox's unique cloud-based architecture (8:48)
  • Implementing the software, and transforming old systems (11:10)
  • Employee retention rate and managing enterprise risk (15:10)
  • Catering to customer experience (17:12)
  • The future of customer service and how LiveVox will respond (19:06)
  • How LiveVox uses and creates AI solutions (21:30)
  • LiveVox's projection and growth goals (24:28)
  • What investors miss about the company (26:06)
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John DiLullo on LinkedIn
LiveVox on LinkedIn
LiveVox Website

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What is Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders?

In the increasingly crowded and competitive corporate and financial ecosystem, it’s harder than ever for companies to break through the clutter and be heard. The media, investors, agenda-driven influencers, even customers and competitors, are defining your business story on their terms. Therefore, it is imperative that companies take control and proactively drive the conversation with stakeholders in an effort to build & maintain equity value.

In Welcome to the Arena from ICR, Co-Founder & CEO of ICR, Tom Ryan, interviews key business and financial players who influence the fate of public or aspiring public companies in the capital markets. As a former Wall Street Journal ranked sell-side equity analyst and the founder of one of the largest strategic communications firms in the world, Tom understands what it takes to navigate this complex environment.

This is a forum for CEOs, CFOs, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, financial journalists, private equity professionals and other financial community participants to share their stories and give advice in an open and candid conversation.

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