{"id":42829,"date":"2020-07-31T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/blog\/?p=35123"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:44:15","slug":"uc-today-names-vlad-shmunis-uc-leader-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/uc-today-names-vlad-shmunis-uc-leader-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Today Names Vlad Shmunis UC Leader of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UC Today, the leading publication for unified communications and collaboration recently announced its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctoday.com\/awards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 UC Awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. RingCentral was honored in multiple categories including:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best Collaboration Platform, Best Wholesale Cloud Communications Provider, Best Cloud Communications Provider, and Best UC Platform. Additionally, the UC Today Judging Panel selected our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/whyringcentral\/leadership\/vlad-shmunis.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founder and CEO Vlad Shmunis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the UC Leader of the Year!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the UC Today judging panel, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vlad has demonstrated continued innovation, sealed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctoday.com\/unified-communications\/ucaas\/avaya-and-ringcentral-announce-strategic-partnership-closing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">landmark partnership with Avaya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and continued to grow whilst reaching its $1 billion revenue target by 2020. The list is long, and this level of achievement made him the perfect candidate for the award.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve had the honor of working with Vlad since RingCentral\u2019s early days, I\u2019ve been by his side as he led our company from a venture capital-funded start-up to a billion-dollar organization listed in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/whyringcentral\/company\/pressreleases\/ringcentral-ranked-amongst-largest-publicly-traded-companies-in-forbes-annual-global-2000-listing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes Global 2000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We\u2019ve had many achievements along the way, including: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five straight years as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide report (2015-2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top-ranked company in the IHS Markit North American UCaaS Leadership three years in a row\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The highest-ranked for growth in Frost &amp; Sullivan\u2019s 2019 UCaaS Radar Report<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things I truly appreciate about working with Vlad is his focus on employees\u2019 and customers\u2019 success. Few people have taken a company from the kitchen table to where we are now. This year, based on employee surveys, Vlad ranked as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2020\/07\/20\/job-hunting-heads-microsoft-google-ranked-best-ceos-diversity\/5449921002\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#2 CEO for Diversity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Between Microsoft and Google) and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/news\/best-ceos-for-women-2020\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#8 CEO for Women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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