Avigilon: Global Expansion of Sales Team

Avigilon announced that it has promoted key executives within the organization and hired three new sales executives to effectively address the growing demand for the company's award-winning HD surveillance solution around the world.

"With a 300 percent growth rate year over year since 2007, we continue to demonstrate our unrelenting commitment to excellence," said Alexander Fernandes, president and CEO at Avigilon. "By adding experienced and highly respected professionals and promoting high- performance individuals from within the company, we will remain well-positioned to handle the fast-pace growth we expect in 2011 and beyond."

Kaj Långström has been appointed the regional sales director for the Nordic countries and the Baltics, responsible for driving sales and supporting Avigilon customers and partners in the region. Before joining Avigilon, Kaj was a sales manager at Mirasys, Ltd., a European provider of IP video and audio surveillance solutions, where he grew sales on average of 20 percent annually in Scandinavia, Benelux, and the Baltics. While there, Kaj was responsible for sales to more than 500 bank branches, 8,000 cameras to the biggest retail chain in Norway, and more than 3,000 cameras to the telecommunications industry in Benelux. Previously, Kaj was an account manager at Dell Inc. in Finland, where he sold complete IT solutions for the small and mid-sized market.