l-r, John Costa and Mark Penry
ZeeVee, the manufacturer of video and signal distribution technology, has hired John Costa and Mark Penry for its North America sales organization. Both join ZeeVee with a strong background in emerging technologies with a focus on IP networked video solutions.
Costa comes to ZeeVee with a combination of technical capability and sales expertise. Over the past 18 years, he has helped organizations in the enterprise, higher education, state and local government, and healthcare/medical verticals to leverage video over IP. His success of high growth sales with channel partners includes his time with Haivision, Discover Video, and Sonic Foundry.
Penry is a veteran of the video distribution and streaming industry with nearly 20 years of experience working for manufacturers, including VBrick, HaiVision, LifeSize, and Discover Video.
During his tenure at VBrick, Penry was instrumental in rapidly building revenue using a consultative approach and developing channels partners. An award winning salesperson at VBrick and Discover Video, Penry brings an in depth understanding of how to help corporate and educational customers overcome their challenges when deploying video on their networks.
“We are pleased to have John and Mark join our sales team,” stated Joseph Chordas, vice president North America sales. “Our customers will benefit from their vast experience in video over IP solutions. Their superior customer centric attitude – helping define solutions that are in line with their unique requirements while scalable, easy to set up, manage, and are cost effective.”
Costa will manage the south central/southwest territory, while Penry will manage the north central territory. They will work with distributors, pro av and network integrators, consultants, as well as end users, to sell ZeeVee’s award winning AV over RF and IP solutions into its key vertical markets including corporate, education, government, healthcare, hospitality and entertainment.
