Tech Sales Expert Mike Taylor Joins Razberi Technologies as VP of Sales

Mike Taylor joins Razberi Technologies as VP of Sales to accelerate its growth in the video surveillance security arena.

Mike Taylor joins Razberi™ Technologies as VP of Sales to accelerate its growth in the video surveillance security arena. He brings more than 20 years of technology sales experience to the role and a breadth of reseller and integrator knowledge.

“I’m excited to be joining Razberi Technologies at this time of growth in the video surveillance industry,” said Taylor. ”Recent news has shown the importance of securing digital and physical infrastructures from hackers, and many companies are demanding a simple and secure solution,” continued Taylor. “Razberi provides simple, secure video surveillance and IoT solutions that are unique and scale as organizations grow.”

Taylor will focus on the build-out of the sales channels that support Razberi solutions across geographies and vertical markets such as energy, finance, city surveillance, government, and more. These verticals increasingly depend on Razberi’s data center, edge, and rugged video surveillance solutions to secure critical assets and support advanced video applications, like AI-based video analytics. The company sells through a growing list of security integrators and value-added resellers.

“The addition of Mike as the VP of Sales gives us one of the industry’s best management teams and shows that Razberi continues to attract top talent to our team,” said Doug Dickerson, CEO of Razberi. “His experience will be invaluable, as the growth in video surveillance and IoT devices have organizations facing security vulnerabilities and manageability challenges they’ve never experienced before. I look forward to working with Mike to help increase the footprint of Razberi with resellers and integrators alike.”

Mike Taylor has held leadership roles in both start-up and large public companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Sales at The Netwatch Group, a global monitoring company providing proactive visual recognition to critical infrastructure and other verticals. Before that, Taylor was Director of Sales at Milestone Systems, a global leading VMS provider.

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