KITCHENER, Ontario – Might 16, 2016 –Vidyard, the video intelligence platform for enterprise, right now introduced the addition of Darren Suomi as the corporate’s new Senior Vice President of International Gross sales to assist handle the rising demand for video platform options in North America and past.
Suomi beforehand held world gross sales management roles at Hootsuite and SAP and has labored in know-how gross sales for greater than 15 years. At Hootsuite, he served on the chief group that acquired $185 million in enterprise capital funding and helped develop the corporate’s worth from lower than $100 million to greater than $1 billion.
“No different medium can match video’s means to convey a message shortly and successfully,” mentioned Suomi. “On-line video is experiencing explosive progress, and Vidyard goes to guide the business into new markets and new potentialities with its continued innovation in video analytics and video intelligence. I couldn’t be extra excited to assist broaden these new frontiers.”
Reaching greater than 800-percent income progress over the past two years and receiving a $35 million enterprise capital funding lead by Battery Ventures in January, Vidyard is seeing demand for its video intelligence platform broaden all through companies in each B2B and B2C markets. Increasing past the partitions of selling departments, Vidyard is now getting used inside gross sales, assist, company communications and buyer success groups to drive better viewers engagement and observe the true influence of every video asset. Vidyard’s buyer base consists of world leaders resembling Honeywell, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, MongoDB, Sharp and27 of the highest 100 world software program corporations.
The addition of Suomi comes shortly after Vidyard employed former Hootsuite chief income officer Steve Johnson as firm president and COO. Simply as Suomi and Johnson helped Hootsuite dominate the social media administration business, each count on to do the identical for Vidyard within the enterprise video market.
“Including somebody of Darren’s caliber will assist Vidyard maintain its unimaginable progress trajectory,” mentioned Vidyard CEO and co-founder Michael Litt. “His expertise and experience shall be very important as we broaden past North America to Europe and Asia. Our concentrate on buyer success and delivering with objective has made us the chief on this market, and Darren will assist us proceed to spend money on enabling the ability of video throughout world organizations.”
About Vidyard
Vidyard (Twitter: @Vidyard) is the video intelligence platform that helps companies drive extra income by the usage of on-line video. Going past video internet hosting and administration, Vidyard helps companies drive better engagement of their video content material, observe the viewing actions of every particular person viewer, and switch these views into motion. International leaders resembling Honeywell, McKesson, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, MongoDB and Sharp depend on Vidyard to energy their video content material methods and switch viewers into clients.
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