PEOPLE NEWS Numerex announces chief marketing and chief revenue officers
Shu Gan
Numerex Corp has announced Shu Gan as chief marketing officer and Vin Costello as chief revenue officer in newly created executive management positions. Shu and Vin both served with Numerex CEO Marc Zionts on prior executive teams at Aicent and Allot Communications. "Shu and Vin are seasoned executives with decades of experience and a track record of success in the telecommunications and technology industries," said Zionts. "With their appointments to these executive level positions, we have strengthened our ability to expand and improve our sales and marketing operations in keeping with our goal of
being the premier IoT solutions provider in a dynamic and expanding market." Shu Gan will be responsible for product management, strategic market development and marketing for Numerex. Shu most recently served as corporate VP and GM of Strategic Solutions at Syniverse. Vin Costello will oversee sales strategy, business development and revenue generation for Numerex. Previously, Vin served as president and VP of sales, Americas, for Allot Communications, a provider of mobile, fixed and enterprise network solutions for service providers, carriers and enterprise.
Vin Costello
Maria Willander appointed head of marketing at Telenor Connexion
Maria Willander
Telenor Connexion has recruited Maria Willander as its new head of Marketing. Willander has worked in leading positions for over 15 years and comes from a similar role at the Swedish start-up company, myFC, a company that markets an acclaimed fuel cell charger, PowerTrekk. Prior to this Willander held positions as marketing director for Northern Europe at D-Link and marketing director for EMEA at FLIR Systems.
Willander will be responsible for strengthening the Telenor Connexion brand globally and for the further development of a broad marketing program that includes activities to support the company’s global sales and will report to Rickard Widerberg, VP of Product Marketing. She replaces Robert Brunbäck, former CMO, as he assumes a new position as VP of Internet of Things (IoT) within the Telenor Group, where he is responsible for enhancing the Group's investment in IoT.
New UK sales director for Netatmo
Sean O’Brien
Netatmo, the connected consumer lifestyle electronics company has appointed Sean O’Brien as sales director to the UK, also covering Ireland and the Nordic territories. Sean brings to Netatmo more than 20 years’ retail experience working with Fortune Global 500 brands. His track record has been earned through senior sales positions at European and British innovation-focused companies such as Targus Europe Ltd, Lexmark UK, Canon UK, Samsung UK and, most recently, Lenovo UK.
In his new UK-based role, Sean will predominantly focus on expanding Netatmo’s presence of smart and connected home products on the British market. “There is a definite momentum and excitement from both retailers and vendors that are backing the fast-moving category of connected products; giving Netatmo more opportunity to expose our brand to new smart home supporters,” O’Brien said. “Netatmo products offer real home innovation from the Welcome Camera for home security to our Smart Thermostat that allows you to control your heating on the move.”
PTC appoints new VP for Northern Europe
Dave Grammer
PTC has announced that Dave Grammer has been appointed as VP of the newly created Northern Europe Region, which will consist of the Nordics and the United Kingdom. The new region has been formed in order to better align focus and drive long-term growth for PTC. Grammer comes to PTC with over 20 years of experience in the enterprise technology sector, including cloud solutions and
will help PTC’s transition to becoming a predominantly subscription-based license company. Grammer joins PTC from Infor, a global software provider that specialises in enterprise solutions, where he most recently served as sales director and led the Systemi business unit.
Inrix hires former group head of analytics at Vodafone
Chris Handley
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INRIX, Inc., transportation information, analytics and driver services specialist for the connected car and smart cities worldwide, has named Chris Handley as VP of Product Management and Analytics. Handley will lead the development of INRIX’s ‘movement analytics’ capability, which combines mobile network and GPS data sets to provide public sector and enterprise customers with insights into the movement of people and commerce in urban areas worldwide.
“I am delighted to have joined INRIX as the company was one of the first to pioneer the use of mobile network data to provide population movement insights,” said Handley. He brings more than 20 years of data analytics and product development experience to INRIX, most recently as group head of Analytics at Vodafone. Previously, Handley held a variety of product management positions at AT&T Wireless, GoAhead Software and Visio. IoT Now - December / January 2015/16