Call centre software firm Aircall names Scott Chancellor as new CEO

PARIS (Reuters) - Aircall, a call centre software company that has been valued at around $1 billion, on Thursday named 41-year old Scott Chancellor as its new chief executive officer.

Chancellor, who was previously CEO of tech company Humu and who has also worked at Amazon Web Services, succeeds Olivier Pailhes, who co-founded Aircall. Pailhes will remain on the Aircall board of directors.

Aircall is among a cluster of tech companies, most notably Zoom, whose fortunes surged during the 2020 COVID pandemic, as many companies around the world resorted to working-from-home and hosting meetings and calls online.

Aircall, launched in Paris in 2014, is viewed as a success story from France's technology sector, although the company is now headquartered in New York.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)