2007 News
Sequiam Corporation Appoints Chief Operating Officer to Lead Global Sales and Marketing
10 October 2007
ORLANDO, FL -- 10/10/07 -- Sequiam Corporation (OTCBB: SQUM), a leading provider of innovative consumer lifestyle biometric technologies and services, announced today the addition of Chris Barrow as Chief Operating Officer. Barrow will lead the company's global operations, sales and marketing activities as the company continues to grow and expand into new markets.
"We are extremely happy to be able to add Chris to our executive team. He brings over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing and gives Sequiam a top professional with a strong reputation to lead our sales and marketing teams," said Nick VandenBrekel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Sequiam. "Chris's background of successfully growing technology companies and his broad domestic and international sales and marketing experience will be invaluable as we grow and expand our business."
Chris joins Sequiam with an exceptionally successful track record of building sales organizations and leading sales and marketing initiatives for technology companies. Most recently Barrow was executive vice president of HyperQuality, a Seattle-based technology and services company where he built a sales organization that tripled revenues in less than 2 years. Barrow also served as senior vice president of Reliance, one of India's largest companies where he led a new US-based operating division. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Toronto-based WebHelp, a private technology and services company. While at WebHelp, Barrow was responsible for securing sales growth in excess of $50 million helping the company earn Profit Magazine's "Fastest Growing Company" Award. Earlier in his career Barrow spent timeas vice president of sales and global marketing at Sitel (SWW) and in key executive roles at 3Com (COMS) and Compaq Computer/Hewlett Packard (HPQ).
Chris Barrow said, "With their exclusive ability to deliver low-cost, high-volume biometric products, Sequiam is uniquely positioned to change the way the world interacts with an endless number of consumer devices. They have the opportunity to lead the global marketplace for consumer lifestyle biometrics and I am looking forward to helping to furtherformulate and execute the sales and marketing strategies that will help Sequiam secure that leadership position."
About Sequiam Corporation
Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Sequiam Corporation develops, markets, and supports a portfolio of highly robust proprietary biometrically enabled consumer lifestyle and commercial products and OEM solutions. In addition, Sequiam has invested heavily in research and development to develop unique products and solutions for the biometric industry worldwide. Sequiam's biometric solutions incorporate low-cost, high-volume manufacturing processes targeted at the consumer and commercial market. Sequiam is a global company with offices in Taiwan, China, and South Africa. For more information, please visit http://www.sequiam.com.
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Contact:
Sequiam Corporation
Nick VandenBrekel
407-541-0773
info@sequiam.com
Dan Borders
Borders Consulting Services, LLC
Phone: 407-260-6616
Cell: 407-702-8499