Sheldon Eskin interviews Joe Gagnon, endurance athlete and founder of The High Performance Life.

Joe Gagnon is responsible on a global basis for Aspect’s Cloud business. This includes working to expand Aspect’s cloud contact center and solutions capabilities leveraging the success of the Voxeo and Qivox acquisitions, the launch of Aspect SaaS contact center solution, Zipwire and the affiliate partnership with Livevox.   He has 30+ years of business strategy and technology experience primarily running SaaS business.  Prior to this Joe was the President and COO of PennFoster one of the largest online schools in the US servicing 150,00 students across High School Career School and College.  Previously, Joe was President of e-Dialog, an eBay Inc. global marketing company, CEO of Exit41,  Vice President, Global Services Leader of IBM’s Retail Industry and a partner at E&Y.

Joe is an avid blogger and serious endurance athlete having completed five Ironman triathlons, three utlra-marathons, twelve marathons and numerous other endurance events.  He has been published in national periodicals from the New York Times to Inc. Magazine and has been featured on the History Channel, CNN and Fox News Live. The High Performance Life brings together elements of how to improve performance across Life, Learning and Fitness.