Soren Abildgaard

Soren Abildgaard is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Avaya. Soren has more than two decades of experience in global software development and engineering at high-growth SaaS companies, with international experience leading cross-functional teams to create and bring software products to market.

He brings to Avaya his strong focus and deep expertise in delivering platforms and products that enable customers to design and deliver great digital experiences. Soren came to Avaya from Contentful where he was EVP of Engineering. Under his leadership, he scaled the Contentful Platform to service many of the world’s largest brands. He also served as EVP of Engineering at Zendesk, where his team enabled growth in excess of $1B. Prior to Zendesk, Soren was VP of Engineering at Adobe’s Advertising Cloud (through the acquisition of TubeMogul, where he led engineering). He has held senior product development positions at several companies including Autodesk and Microsoft.

Soren has a Master of Science in Engineering from Technical University in Demark.