Wendell Black

Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Wendell Black joined Contactual in June of 2010 and leads all domestic and international sales and marketing initiatives including direct sales, partner sales, pre-sales and marketing teams. Prior to Contactual, Wendell was Vice President, Contact Center Anywhere for Oracle. In this role, he was responsible for on premise and on demand versions of Oracle's multi-channel and multi-tenant contact center infrastructure solutions for all North American customers. For the 4 years prior to Oracle he was President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Telephony@Work the original developer of Contact Center Anywhere and with the rest of the management team, sold the company to Oracle in 2006.

In 1999, Wendell joined IVR and speech recognition provider Periphonics to manage sales and sales engineering roles with a focus on service providers in the Americas. With the acquisition of Periphonics by Nortel in 2000, that role progressively expanded to include other contact center products in Nortel's portfolio. Wendell's experience also includes 10 years with Aspect Communications 8 years with Lanier/Harris.

Wendell holds degrees in Psychology and Business Administration from Baylor University.