Vicon Accelerates Growth Strategy with Key Leadership Hires

Vicon Industries, Inc. has announced the appointment of Andronicus Turner and Jason Lloyd as regional sales managers. The appointments follow several other key additions to the Vicon team.

Vicon is expanding rapidly to address escalating demand as end-users seek a reliable source of video surveillance and access control technologies fit for today’s highly dynamic environment.

As regional sales manager for California, Nevada and Hawaii, Vicon was pleased to appoint Andronicus Turner. Turner has an extensive career within the industry and a demonstrated ability to nurture strong relationships with system integrators, dealers and end-users. Turner studied International Business at California State University, Northridge and Global Management at the University of Phoenix for Business.

Vicon was also pleased to appoint Jason Lloyd as regional sales manager for Chicago, Northern Illinois, and Wisconsin. Lloyd has more than 20 years of experience and expertise working at the dealer and integrator level. He also brings an extensive technical history to the position, with a degree in Electrical Engineering and roles as Senior Design Engineer and Low Voltage Director.

These appointments follow several other recent key leadership hires. This includes Bob Germain, Vicon’s director of hardware management, and Rakesh Sharma, director of hardware engineering. Recent hires also include Leland Jacobson, who serves Vicon as regional sales manager covering Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas; and Bob Kriegisch, as regional sales manager covering Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.

“We are excited to continue our expansion and welcome Andronicus Turner and Jason Lloyd to the Vicon family,” said Bret McGowan, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing. “Together, they bring vast technical knowledge, passion, and dedication that will lend itself immensely to customers and the team. We look forward to expanding Vicon’s security solutions account base in these regions.

“The growth that Vicon has achieved is a testament to its vision, product excellence, and execution. We are excited that each of these individuals joined the Vicon team and share our mission of driving strategy and execution, with the goal of enabling end-users to scale their security with high-performance and extraordinarily flexible security solutions,” McGowan said.

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