ACCESS Newswire
13 Jul 2020, 16:49 GMT+10
Snyder's Expertise in Building Strong Partner Programs Fuels Ava's Growth in the Unified Security Sector
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / July 13, 2020 / Ava, a unified security company, today announced former Cisco Senior Vice President, Rick Snyder has joined the company's Board of Directors. Snyder brings more than three decades of leadership experience in sales and building strategic partner programs. At Cisco, Snyder managed the company's vast network of 23,000 partners in the Americas region. As an advisor to Ava, Snyder will help guide and strengthen the company's presence in North America.
'Rick has a history of building strong industry relationships. At this juncture in Ava's lifecycle, building strategic partnerships is vital to our long-term market position and our ability to provide our customers with the best solutions on the market,' said Fredrik Halvorsen, Chairman, and Co-founder, Ava. 'Rick will help advise Ava as to the best route to market via our growing partner channel.'
Snyder joins the Ava Board of Directors from Cisco where he led the company's Americas Partner Sales Organization covering the United States, Canada, and Latin America. During his tenure, Snyder pioneered the development of Cisco's Digital Solution Integrator Program and Partner Experience teams. Both programs were critical to Cisco's success in expanding its route to market through the channel. Prior to Cisco, Snyder served as Vice President of Global Business at Telepresence and President of Tandberg, both acquired by Cisco. Earlier in his career, Snyder was CEO of Polycom's largest value-add distributor, Review Video (now a part of Westcon). Snyder holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from Loyola University in Maryland.
'I'm thrilled to be joining Ava's Board of Directors at this important stage in the company's history,' said Rick Snyder. 'Today, companies and organizations want to be protected against threats that span the physical and cyber domains. Ava's leadership team was brilliant to launch with the mission to fill the gap. It's an honor to be an advisor as Ava strengthens its commercial presence in North America.'
Ava, a unified security company, brings together the industry-leading technologies of Vaion's intelligent video security solutions and Jazz Networks' award-winning cybersecurity solutions. Ava helps organizations across industries address the growing issue of hybrid attacks through a holistic approach that is flexible, simple, and, most of all, comprehensive. By identifying patterns and anomalies that span the physical and cyber domains, Ava is able to exchange data and events between the two platforms to create a truly integrated hybrid security solution.
'Partners are key to Ava's growth in the unified security sector,' said Tormod Ree, CEO, and Co-founder, Ava. 'Rick's depth of experience and breadth of partner relationships will allow us to scale as we continue to transform the security industry and drive growth.'
'I've spent my career growing companies through the building of strategic relationships and I'm excited by the possibilities presented by Ava,' said Snyder.
About Ava
As a global company with offices in New York, London, and Oslo, Ava's vision as a unified security provider is to help organizations monitor, understand, and act on threats in real-time across both cyber and physical domains. The company offers best-in-class insider threat detection cybersecurity solutions and intelligent, end-to-end video security solutions to protect people, assets, and data. Security professionals leverage embedded machine learning to help recognize and investigate patterns, accurately see the whole threat picture, and respond quickly. You can learn more at this link.
Press Contact:
Monica Nascimento
Vaion, an Ava Company
(408) 722-7856
[email protected]
SOURCE: Vaion
Get a daily dose of New Jersey Telegraph news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well.
Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to New Jersey Telegraph.
More InformationPALO ALTO/TEL AVIV: The battle for top AI talent has claimed another high-profile casualty—this time at Safe Superintelligence (SSI),...
FRANKLIN, Tennessee: Hundreds of thousands of Nissan and Infiniti vehicles are being recalled across the United States due to a potential...
REDMOND, Washington: Microsoft is the latest tech giant to announce significant job cuts, as the financial strain of building next-generation...
LONDON UK - U.S. stock markets were closed on Friday for Independence Day. Global Forex Markets Wrap Up Friday with Greeback Comeback...
SANTA CLARA, California: Nvidia came within a whisker of making financial history on July 3, briefly surpassing Apple's all-time market...
SACRAMENTO, California: California's multibillion-dollar farms are facing a growing crisis—not from drought or pests, but from a sudden...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Trump administration has made public a visa decision that would usually be kept private. It did this to send...
MADRID, Spain: Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota and his younger brother, André Silva, have died in a car accident in Spain. Spanish...
LONDON, U.K.: An unrelenting heatwave sweeping across Europe has pushed early summer temperatures to historic highs, triggering deadly...
President Donald Trump's plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from China,...
NEW YORK CITY, New York: Paramount has agreed to pay US$16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump over...
LONDON, U.K.: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won a vote in Parliament this week to move ahead with changes to the country's welfare...