"Our business strategy in this fast-growth market includes hiring and keeping the best talent for developing our software, managing our processes and supporting our global channel of partners. Employing and promoting high-octane individuals with proven track records acts like boosters on the rocket," says Lars Thinggaard, President & CEO, Milestone Systems.

Amongst the numerous appointments and promotions is Lars Gudbrandsson, who has joined Milestone Systems as Head of Product Management, coming from 13 years with Nokia in such positions as Global Product Management Leader, Head of Premium Product Management, and Director Sales & Product Management. Lars holds an Electronics Engineering Degree and a Certificate in General Management from the Kellogg School of Management.

Martin Friis-Mikkelsen is Milestone Solution Partner Program Manager, bringing a decade of management experience in IT and client services deployment from Unisys, Dell and Intel. He holds an Executive MBA and a Masters in Management of Technology from Denmark Technological Institute and attended Copenhagen Engineering Teknikum.

Lawrence de Guzman is now Director of Distribution, Key Accounts and Vertical Sales, based out of headquarters. Jens Johansson is Milestone’s new Sales Manager, Transport and Henrik Sydbo Hansen is Sales Manager, Retail. They have previously been with Axis Communications.

David King has been hired as City Surveillance/Critical Infrastructure Sales Manager in North America. He comes to Milestone from AMAG Technology, with prior employment at Onssi and Anixter. Mike Tice is now the North Central Territory Manager covering sales for Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, bringing strong industry expertise from prior positions at Pivot3 and Genetec. Tim Taylor is Territory Manager for the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Indiana and Ohio); he previously held positions at Pivot3 and Verint. Emmett Rooney is New England & Upstate New York Territory Manager, having been at Pelco, Paxton Access Control and ADT Security Services. He has an associate degree in law enforcement.

At Milestone Systems in the UK, Peter Currie is the Southern Area Sales Manager. He has a 20-year career in the industry working for both integrators and manufacturers: Vigilant Technology, Videotec, Petards Ltd and Shorrock Security Systems. Andrew Start is Central Area Sales Manager in the UK with knowledge from the IT industry in sales of wireless and fiber optic technology, as well as from selling Bosch surveillance products to IT resellers and working with Anixter.

Gianluca Mauriello began the new year as Area Sales Manager (Central-South) for Milestone Systems Italy, bringing extensive sales and channel experience: he was a Sales Manager for Promise Technology Europe and Area Sales Manager for national telco Policom, after 15 years in the distribution business with CDC, TCS, Vegstor and Elmat.
Heiko Suwalski has been hired from Videor to start April 1st as the new Milestone Regional Sales Manager North in Germany, working out of Berlin.

Based out of Milestone Systems Dubai, Tamara Abdallah is Sales Engineer with a Master of Computer Science from the American University of Beirut. She has been with Ericsson as an Integration Engineer. Antony Joseph is Sales Engineer with a Master of Computing from University of Western Sydney and Master of Information from University of New England + CCNA. He worked as a network engineer with TPG Network Australia and latest from Zahra Technology. Maria Corazon Samiento is Support Engineer, with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from AMA Computer University; she has worked as Sr. Technical Support for Telstra Bigpond and D-Link.

Troels Kristian Kruckow has joined Milestone Systems as Business Analyst. He held this and Business Controller positions with Convatec, Unomedial and Maersk Medical, after graduating with a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration.