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As GV continues strong growth and customer com- mitment the company has an- nounced the appointment of Nicola Cutting to the role of Commercial Director. Nicola has 16 years with the com- pany, bringing great practical, commercial and supply chain


knowledge to this crucial role. Chairman Brian Abrahams said, “We look forward to an exciting period of sustained growth as we invest in our people, skills and facilities to ensure we continue to meet, and indeed exceed, our valued customers' needs and expectations.”


Skype for Business and Micro- soft Teams compatibility. Warren Bone who heads up the Yealink sales operation at Ny- comm says Sam’s arrival will signal a major assault on the VC market to help resellers cap- italise on a flourishing market – pouring more fuel on a ‘phe- nomenal’ year of success. He explained: “Yealink’s end to end solution spanning, SIP, voice and conferencing end points together with Microsoft


Pascal has announced two ex- ecutive appointments to its management team, positioning the company for a new phase of


strategic expansion. Both


appointments are to newly cre- ated positions: those of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Op- erating Officer.


GV has announced the appointment of Nicola Cutting to the role of Commercial Director.


Technological Innovations Group (TIG) has strengthened its sales team in Russia with the addi- tion of Yuri Kryat as Regional Sales Manager. Yuri’s role will involve actively working with dealers as an ac- count manager and implement- ing TIG’s sales plan to attract new customers and end users. He will be promoting the range of integrated AV and commu- nications solutions that the company offers, as well as con- ducting training and marketing exercises, and participating in regional seminars and exhibi- tions.


Reporting to Sergey Kuptsov, the Sales Director for the re- gion, Yuri brings many years’ experience working for systems integrators and in AV and busi- ness development.


“I am very pleased to join the TIG team. It gives a great opportunity to use all of my knowledge and experience gained over my years working in the audio, video and com- munications solutions market,”


comments Yuri.


Sergey Kuptsov added: “Yuri is a great addition to our team. His experience will be a huge benefit to our customers in Russia and we’re looking for- ward to his contribution to our strategy to offer exciting new technologies to this region.” The Yealink business unit at Nycomm has been strength- ened by the arrival of a new face to help resellers ‘capture’ more video conferencing oppor- tunities.


Samantha Kay has joined as Business Development Manag- er for Videoconferencing and aims to accelerate growth of Yealink’s acclaimed portfolio such as Microsoft Teams cer- tified devices and new cloud- based services.


Sam benefits from eight years comms experience and will help resellers take advantage of Yealink’s advanced VC solu- tions such as the MVC portfolio of video conferencing hardware – from small huddle rooms to large boardrooms – featuring


Pictured (L–R): Pascal CFO Gorm Eichenberger, COO Gustaf Høskulds- son & CEO Lars Rosenkvist Fenger


pansion of management team skills in areas of business de- velopment and strengthening operations and customer sup- port. Both Eichenberger and Høskuldsson come to Pascal with extensive experience with audiology market leader Wi- dex, where Eichenberger ul- timately held the position of Head of Operation Finance and Høskuldsson Vice President, Global Supply Chain. Most re- cently


they respectively held


Samantha Kay has joined Yealink as Business Development Manager for Videoconferencing.


executive positions with Pan- dora, where Eichenberger was Group Finance Director, and Cobham PLC, where Høskulds- son was Senior Vice President Operations and Manufacturing. During his tenure at Widex as Director then VP, Global Supply Chain, Høskuldsson oversaw a company-wide transformation that resulted in it becoming the most profitable company in the audiology industry. Com- menting on the challenges that face entrepreneurial companies in developing a sustainable growth strategy, Høskuldsson says, “There is a tendency in the market which, to a high de-


ering a value proposition that is very different.”


The appointments follow a 12-month period of sustained investment by the company, during which personnel, and R&D and operations facilities at its Copenhagen HQ have expanded by more than 30%. “In continuing to manage the growth process and maintain an exceptional rate of expansion, we are seeking to become ever more outside-in customer cen- tric,” said CEO Lars Rosenkvist Fenger. “Customer-centricity has always been a core value for Pascal; offering our clients what they actually want, rather than what they have come to expect. This new phase of our growth strategy is centred on the expansion of our existing customer specific offerings and on developing new customer interfacing capabilities for the pro audio industry."


Gorm Eichenberger has been appointed as CFO, following the retirement of Henrik Gunst Smith, the company’s Director of Finance since 2013. Also joining the company this month is Gustaf Høskuldsson, taking up the newly created position of COO.


Both roles represent an ex-


native solutions for voice and video ensure there’s no reason for resellers and their custom- ers to go anywhere else. “We’ve seen huge growth in all areas this year. SIP is very well established, and Microsoft is gaining massive traction espe- cially the transition from Skype to Teams. Next year is going to be even bigger and better. With the products and partners, we have on board, it’s all systems go.”


gree, is maturing, for clients to be looking to the supply chain for fewer suppliers with more capabilities across the value chain. It’s a developmental process, changing the way we work to- gether with our customers; clearly understanding what they want, where are the over- laps and where we can help them be successful. “The questions of process and the solution depend on the indi- vidual customers. It can be ge- neric or specific, depending on where the market is going. It is about leveraging the skills the company has now but in deliv-


Electronics has an- nounced the appointment of Itzhak Bambagi as Chief Ex- ecutive Officer, effective im- mediately. The appointment reinforces Kramer’s position as a leader in pro AV inno- vation as the company aims to further drive its software and cloud-based initiatives to both support and adopt new business models, better suit- ed to address the needs of the evolving AV industry.


Kramer


Bambagi has a proven track record of exemplary leader- ship serving in key executive roles at IBM and Digital/Com- paq over the past 18 years. Among the various projects and technologies on which he worked, he also led IBM’s IT transformational experience using cloud technologies and various digital workplace ini- tiatives across EMEA. The appointment heralds an exciting time for both Bam- bagi and Kramer. “I am both proud and honoured to be joining Kramer as their CEO,” declared Bambagi. “For the past 4 decades, Kramer has led the way with advanced AV solutions and the Kramer brand is known and respected worldwide. I have been a long- term admirer of Dr. Joseph Kramer’s dedication, work and vision and look forward to working with the global Kram- er teams to further enhance the company’s evolution and making Kramer even greater.” With a strong history in soft- ware and cloud developments, Bambagi will be instrumental in driving Kramer’s ethos of advanced pro AV solutions utilizing tighter integration, software, and cloud driven


functionality.


He explains: “Bringing software and cloud components further into the pro AV arena is the next step. By allowing remote support and management, we can bring standard uniformity to multisite installations, wherever they are in the world. Hassle-free solu- tions and an outstanding user experience are key and my IBM experience will assist in deliver- ing technology that ‘behaves’ in ways that are wholly familiar to – and expected by – IT depart- ments.”


“The way customers consume IT and AV in an IoT enabled world will have a tremendous impact on our industry. Converging technologies bring a multitude of challenges and opportunities with software-driven solutions, cloud power, and scalability as well as opportunities for new business models, such as AV as a Service (AVaaS). We aim to reinforce Kramer as the ‘go-to’ brand for pro AV re- mote management and cloud ad- vancements. We will, of course, continue to develop our pro AV innovation and support, educate, and collaborate with our loyal customer base which has made Kramer so great for the last 4 decades.”


On announcing the news, Dr. Jo- seph Kramer, Founder, President and Chairman of Kramer, said: “We are incredibly excited to share this fantastic appointment. Itzhak’s decades of experience in sales, service and operation- al management paired with his deep understanding of advanced networking and cloud technol- ogy will be invaluable assets as Kramer meets the continuing challenges of the converging pro AV and IT industries.”


Kramer Electronics has announced the appointment of Itzhak Bambagi as Chief Executive Officer,


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