Sequiam Corporation Appoints Chief Operating Officer to Lead Global Sales and Marketing
Wednesday October 10, 9:00 am ET
ORLANDO, FL--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 10, 2007 -- Sequiam Corporation (OTC BB:SQUM.OB - News), a leading provider of innovative consumer lifestyle biometric technologies and services, announced today the addition of Chris Barrow as Chief Operating Officer. Barrow will lead the company's global operations, sales and marketing activities as the company continues to grow and expand into new markets.
"We are extremely happy to be able to add Chris to our executive team. He brings over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing and gives Sequiam a top professional with a strong reputation to lead our sales and marketing teams," said Nick VandenBrekel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Sequiam. "Chris's background of successfully growing technology companies and his broad domestic and international sales and marketing experience will be invaluable as we grow and expand our business."
Chris joins Sequiam with an exceptionally successful track record of building sales organizations and leading sales and marketing initiatives for technology companies. Most recently Barrow was executive vice president of HyperQuality, a Seattle-based technology and services company where he built a sales organization that tripled revenues in less than 2 years. Barrow also served as senior vice president of Reliance, one of India's largest companies where he led a new US-based operating division. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Toronto-based WebHelp, a private technology and services company. While at WebHelp, Barrow was responsible for securing sales growth in excess of $50 million helping the company earn Profit Magazine's "Fastest Growing Company" Award. Earlier in his career Barrow spent time as vice president of sales and global marketing at Sitel (SWW) and in key executive roles at 3Com (COMS) and Compaq Computer/Hewlett Packard (HPQ).
Chris Barrow said, "With their exclusive ability to deliver low-cost, high-volume biometric products, Sequiam is uniquely positioned to change the way the world interacts with an endless number of consumer devices. They have the opportunity to lead the global marketplace for consumer lifestyle biometrics and I am looking forward to helping to further formulate and execute the sales and marketing strategies that will help Sequiam secure that leadership position."
Source: Sequiam Biometrics, Inc.
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