AHT

Blackwells Campaign Successfully Forces Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.’s Chairman Monty J. Bennett and Director Kamal Jafarnia to Resign

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星期三, 五月 15, 2024
AHT, Holding company

NEW YORK, May 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blackwells Capital, an owner of 1,000 shares of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (“Ashford” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AHT), announced today that directors Monty J. Bennett and Kamal Jafarnia failed to receive the requisite number of votes required for re-election to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”) and were forced to tender their resignations. The Company’s remaining nominees were narrowly re-elected by disturbingly low numbers.

Key Points: 
  • The Company’s remaining nominees were narrowly re-elected by disturbingly low numbers.
  • Blackwells achieved this result despite the Company’s refusal to produce a stockholder list, and with just one mailing to stockholders.
  • Jason Aintabi, Chief Investment Officer of Blackwells Capital LLC, said:
    “The voting results are a conclusive indictment of the Board’s failure to act in the best interests of stockholders.
  • The Board’s reappointment of Monty Bennett and Kamal Jafarnia to the Board within hours of being voted out is a shameless maneuver and demonstrates the utter contempt Monty Bennett’s Board has for the Company’s stockholders.

Genesys Awards Kiwibank as Winner of CX Innovator Award

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星期二, 五月 14, 2024
Professional Services, Data Management, Small Business, Technology, VoIP, Artificial Intelligence, Banking, Cloud, Heart, Genesys, AI, Customer experience, Spark New Zealand, AHT, CX, Organization, System, SMB, Video game

Genesys ®, a global cloud leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, announced Kiwibank as the winner of the Customer Experience (CX) Innovator (SMB and Mid-Market) category during its 19th annual Customer Innovation Awards.

Key Points: 
  • Genesys ®, a global cloud leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, announced Kiwibank as the winner of the Customer Experience (CX) Innovator (SMB and Mid-Market) category during its 19th annual Customer Innovation Awards.
  • The CX Innovator award specifically is given to organizations that are pushing the limits to deliver smarter and more cohesive customer and employee experiences with Genesys Cloud AI.
  • Already achieving results with the Genesy Cloud™ platform, Kiwibank saw an opportunity to partner further with Genesys to modernize its use of voicebots.
  • Kiwibank accepted its CX Innovator award at Xperience 2024 in Denver.

Blackwells Releases Second Presentation to Fellow Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. Stockholders, Which is Available at www.montymustgo.com/letters-presentations

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星期三, 五月 8, 2024
Policy, Collection, Shareholder value, Failure, AHT, Annual general meeting, SRA, Holding company

NEW YORK, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blackwells Capital LLC and Blackwells Onshore I LLC (together, “Blackwells”) collectively own 1,000 shares of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (“Ashford” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AHT). In connection with its campaign urging stockholders to vote “AGAINST” the election of Monty J. Bennett, Amish Gupta, J. Robison Hays, III, Kamal Jafarnia, David W. Johnson, Frederick J. Kleisner, Sheri L. Pantermuehl, Davinder “Sonny” Sra and Alan L. Tallis to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”), which is scheduled to be held on May 14, 2024, today released a presentation to fellow stockholders available at www.montymustgo.com/letters-presentations.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blackwells Capital LLC and Blackwells Onshore I LLC (together, “Blackwells”) collectively own 1,000 shares of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (“Ashford” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AHT).
  • Jason Aintabi, Chief Investment Officer of Blackwells Capital LLC, said:
    “In our view, the Board of Ashford is unfit and incapable of acting as independent fiduciaries for stockholders.
  • Ashford has a policy that requires any directors who receive less than a majority of ‘for’ votes to immediately tender their resignation.
  • We continue to urge our fellow stockholders to send a clear message to the Board by voting ‘AGAINST’ the election of the incumbent directors at the 2024 Annual Meeting.”

Blackwells Files Definitive Proxy Statement for Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.’s 2024 Annual Meeting

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星期四, 五月 2, 2024
ISS, Institutional Shareholder Services, Failure, AHT, Annual general meeting, SRA, Holding company

NEW YORK, May 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blackwells Capital LLC and Blackwells Onshore I LLC (together, “Blackwells”) collectively own 1,000 shares of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (“Ashford” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AHT) and have filed a definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in connection with its campaign urging stockholders to vote “AGAINST” the election of Monty J. Bennett, Amish Gupta, J. Robison Hays, III, Kamal Jafarnia, David W. Johnson, Frederick J. Kleisner, Sheri L. Pantermuehl, Davinder “Sonny” Sra and Alan L. Tallis to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2024 Annual Meeting”), which is scheduled to be held on May 14, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • The Board must be held to account for its failure to act as independent fiduciaries.
  • Stockholders have an opportunity to send a clear and resounding message to the Board by voting “AGAINST” the election of the incumbent directors at the 2024 Annual Meeting.”
    Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) recommended that Ashford stockholders vote “AGAINST” all incumbent director nominees at the 2024 Annual Meeting.
  • ISS is a leading independent proxy advisory firm which, among other services, provides proxy voting recommendations to pension funds, investment managers, mutual funds and other institutional shareholders.
  • Its voting analyses and recommendations are relied upon by thousands of major institutional investment firms, mutual funds and fiduciaries throughout the world.

Cogito Grows Long-Standing Relationship with Fortune 25 Telecom Provider

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星期三, 四月 17, 2024
Data Management, Technology, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, Software, AHT, CRM, CTI, ROI, Generative, Synthetic media, Growth, CSAT, Computer telephony integration, API, AI, Sales

Cogito , the leader in real-time AI guidance and coaching for the enterprise, today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement to continue its collaboration with a Fortune 25 telecommunications (telecom) provider.

Key Points: 
  • Cogito , the leader in real-time AI guidance and coaching for the enterprise, today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement to continue its collaboration with a Fortune 25 telecommunications (telecom) provider.
  • The extended relationship supports 30,000+ frontline contact center agents with Cogito’s real-time AI guidance and coaching to manage complex customer interactions, bolster operational insights, and elevate customer and employee experiences.
  • Since beginning its relationship in 2019, Cogito has helped the organization continuously scale to become one of the largest U.S. telecom providers, achieving significant ROI.
  • This extension builds on Cogito deepening its relationship with the Fortune 25 telecom provider in 2023 through the integration of the company’s freshly developed Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) API interface.

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST ANNOUNCES CEO SUCCESSION PLAN

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星期四, 四月 18, 2024
Advisory Council, Saint Louis University, Organization, Corporate finance, Treasurer, UBS, Business administration, Trust, Kelley School of Business, Business, Senior, Pleasure, AHT, MBA, REIT, Fortune 500, Management

DALLAS, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced that Rob Hays, the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Ashford Trust, will be stepping down effective June 30, 2024 after nearly 20 years of dedicated service to the Company.

Key Points: 
  • DALLAS, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced that Rob Hays, the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Ashford Trust, will be stepping down effective June 30, 2024 after nearly 20 years of dedicated service to the Company.
  • The Company's current Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance & Strategy, Stephen Zsigray, will succeed him at that time to become Ashford Trust's President and Chief Executive Officer.
  • Ashford Trust is well positioned for long-term success."
  • Ashford Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing predominantly in upper upscale, full-service hotels.

Philippines' Globe Telecom shows outstanding results for NOC/SOC Automation with MYCOM OSI's Service Experience Assurance capability

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星期二, 四月 16, 2024
Ayala Corporation, Internet, Amazon Web Services, Automation, OSS, Service, Service assurance, Mean Time, Software as a service, Human, SMS, OSI, SOC, NOC, Root cause analysis, Correlation, Singtel, AHT, AWS, Mobile phone

MYCOM OSI's Service Experience Assurance solution (Service quality management, service impact analysis, and enterprise portal) and SOC Automation, operating on the AWS public cloud, monitors the quality of premium 4G/5G services using automation and intelligent traffic profiling and predictive algorithms.

Key Points: 
  • MYCOM OSI's Service Experience Assurance solution (Service quality management, service impact analysis, and enterprise portal) and SOC Automation, operating on the AWS public cloud, monitors the quality of premium 4G/5G services using automation and intelligent traffic profiling and predictive algorithms.
  • Globe Telecom is one of the largest CSPs in the Philippines and provides its more than 92 million mobile customers, fixed, broadband, data, internet, and managed services.
  • The MYCOM OSI Service Experience Assurance offering with the SOC Automation Solution operated on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure offers analytics and converged IT and network root-cause analysis to automate fault handling processes.
  • "MYCOM OSI's Service Experience Assurance offering with SOC Automation brings to fruition our goal of always placing our customers first and delivers key capabilities for our digital transformation," said Dennis Abella, Vice President and Head of OSS, Globe Telecom.

Operata Has Been Awarded Selection for the Innovation Showcase at Enterprise Connect 2024 (EC24) for Advancing Customer Experience With CX Observability

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星期二, 三月 26, 2024
Software, Data Analytics, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Professional Services, Technology, Electronic Commerce, Cloud, Organization, Communication, Health, TTR, CX, Enterprise, Insurance, AHT, FCR, Multimedia, CPU, Sales

Operata has been awarded selection for the Innovation Showcase at Enterprise Connect 2024 (EC24), marking a significant achievement in its commitment to enhancing the efficiency and functionality of contact centers through CX Observability.

Key Points: 
  • Operata has been awarded selection for the Innovation Showcase at Enterprise Connect 2024 (EC24), marking a significant achievement in its commitment to enhancing the efficiency and functionality of contact centers through CX Observability.
  • The selection of Operata for the Innovation Showcase at Enterprise Connect 2024 (EC24) recognizes it among cutting-edge technologies enhancing customer experiences.
  • The recognition of Operata at EC24 for its innovation in CX Observability underscores the company's unique approach.
  • In light of its selection for the Innovation Showcase, Operata is offering EC attendees a chance to experience the advantages of CX Observability with a free trial.

ASHFORD TRUST SETS FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL DATES

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星期二, 三月 26, 2024
AHT, Trust, REIT

DALLAS, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • DALLAS, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
  • Ashford Trust plans to issue its earnings release for the first quarter after the market closes on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, and will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
  • The live broadcast of Ashford Trust's quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.ahtreit.com , on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, beginning at 11:00 a.m.
  • Ashford Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing predominantly in upper upscale, full-service hotels.

Cyber Acoustics Announces New Headset that Completely Eliminates Background Noise in Call Centers, Offices, Homes, and Hybrid Work Environments

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星期二, 三月 5, 2024
Avaya, Google Meet, Microsoft Windows, Outsourcing, RingCentral, Friends, BPO, Dog, Noise, Airport, Peripheral, GoTo Meeting, AHT, Human, Acoustics, Skype, School, City centre, Coffee, Family, Cisco Webex, Chromebook, Genesys, Zoom, Face, Software, Microsoft Teams, ENC, Electric motor

Call center success relies on a number of factors, with Average Handle Time (AHT) being one of the biggest.

Key Points: 
  • Call center success relies on a number of factors, with Average Handle Time (AHT) being one of the biggest.
  • The superior AI Noise Reduction in the AC-304 headset eliminates all background noise from an agent’s environment, and can lead to shorter call times and an improved AHT metric.
  • The noise-cancelation in the AC-304 is so effective, it eliminates background noise in even the loudest call center or office, no additional software required.
  • “Cyber Acoustics really aims to serve as a technology partner to our customers, not just a vendor,” said Steve Erickson, COO at Cyber Acoustics.