Blair Pleasant is President & Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC and a co-founder of UCStrategies. As a communications industry analyst, she provides strategic consulting services and market analysis on business communication applications, technologies, and markets, aimed at helping end-user and vendor clients both strategically and tactically. Her primary areas of focus are Unified Communications and Collaboration, contact center, social media, and unified messaging. Blair provides clients with a variety of services, including surveys and research, white papers, product assessment, strategic development, vendor analysis, and more.

Prior to COMMfusion, Ms. Pleasant was Director of Communications Analysis for The PELORUS Group, a market research and consulting firm, and President of Lower Falls Consulting.

With more than twenty years of experience as a senior software and SaaS marketing executive, Lisa Abbott has a long track record of successfully driving B2B marketing strategies for products that harness the web, social media, mobile and voice as customer channels. Within her past experience, Lisa has worked with brands including Charles Schwab, Autodesk, Informix Software and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to drive migration to and investment of new web-based and mobile products and services, as well as increase collaboration across the organization.

As Product Marketing Director at Genesys, Lisa is part of the original team responsible for establishing their SaaS offering. With her expertise in customer experience and engagement, customer service and contact center infrastructure markets, she defines the strategy and execution for the Genesys Cloud Virtual Contact Center offer worldwide. Lisa is also recognized for driving the early adoption of Social Media for use within the Contact Center with the development of Genesys Social Engagement. Within this role she is constantly acting as a resource for organizations that are looking to improve customer experience and evolve their customer interaction beyond voice, to a true cross channel strategy and has been recognized as an industry leader through speaking opportunities and forums at various industry events worldwide.

A passionate connector of people, Erica Marois is a customer and employee experience enthusiast who loves helping others find unique solutions to their biggest challenges. She has 12+ years of experience in content creation and community building and volunteers as a facilitator for CX Accelerator. A content marketing specialist with 8x8, Erica works from home in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and their lab-mix, Quinn. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling, and reading.