Nautel Adds Gerardo Vargas to Sales Team; Announces Sales Management Promotions
Vargas to lead Latin American sales; Chuck Kelly and Wendell Lonergan receive new appointments in sales management. April 1, 2008 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hackett’s Cove, Nova Scotia – Nautel Limited has announced the appointment of Gerardo Vargas to head the company’s Latin America sales efforts. With broad professional experience and twenty years in the broadcast industry, Vargas joins Nautel with extensive skills in international and domestic sales and marketing. He comes from AEQ where he worked as a manager for many years, successfully establishing their business in United States and in Latin America. Vargas also worked for five years for CRL, the audio processing company, as international sales manager during which he established the company's distribution worldwide. He obtained his MBA with emphasis in international business, at the prestigious Thunderbird Business School in Glendale, AZ, and he also has a post-graduate degree from the University of Costa Rica. In a separate announcement, Nautel named Chuck Kelly Director of Sales. Kelly, who joined Nautel in October 2006 as International Sales Manager, will now oversee all domestic and international sales and will manage Nautel’s fast growing sales organization. Kelly is a 35 year veteran of the Radio industry and has worked in sales management for over 26 years. He is a two term past president of the SBE and serves on the SBE International Committee. Also receiving a promotion was Wendell Lonergan, a long time Nautel staffer. Lonergan has been named Sales Manager – Europe. He was a member of Nautel’s engineering team for 25 years and has been Technical Sales and Marketing manager at the company for the past 5 years. Lonergan is an SBE founding member and has extensive experience spanning design, deployment and marketing of Nautel products. “We’re very pleased to add Gerardo Vargas to our team,” said Peter Conlon, Nautel President and CEO. “His strength in the Latin American market will be an asset to our company and customers. We’re also excited about the new roles being filled by Chuck Kelly and Wendell Lonergan. Both of them have a strong, proven track record and will continue to help make Nautel the transmitter brand of choice among customers worldwide.” About Nautel Nautel is a global leader in the design, manufacture, sales and support of high power Radio Frequency (“RF”) products for AM and FM broadcast, navigation, industrial and space-based applications. With a long history of creating highly innovative products, Nautel continues to lead the way in providing valuable new solutions for the digital radio broadcast revolution. Thousands of customers in more than 170 countries have discovered that Nautel delivers world class RF solutions - systems that meet stringent quality standards at its ISO-registered manufacturing facilities. # # # For more information please contact: John Whyte
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