Passenger Welcomes Vice President Sales & Business Development Hal Wendel
Passenger Welcomes Vice President Sales & Business Development Hal Wendel
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 20, 2012
Passenger, the leading provider of innovation and insights communities, announces Hal Wendel as Vice President Sales & Business Development. Wendel will oversee Passenger’s sales and business development teams, and work with Passenger’s world-class roster of clients as well as potential clients on providing social brand communities and innovation tools. Wendel will be working out of Passenger’s Los Angeles office.
Bahram Nour-Omid, Passenger’s CEO, states, “Hal is a fantastic addition to the Passenger team. His experience with growing software companies as well as his track record in establishing partnership opportunities and building public online communities is going to greatly contribute to Passenger’s growth. In addition, Hal’s background in sales leadership will help us capitalize on the tremendous opportunities for Passenger’s market-leading solutions. Hal’s experience abroad will also help the company take advantage of growth in Asia and Europe.”
Wendel has managed global teams for Mosaix and Nortel and he also helped build high profile enterprise software start-ups such as Oblix (later sold to Oracle). He established a global OEM partnership with Cisco which helped drive a re-listing on the Nasdaq exchange. He spent several years in Europe managing sales channels for a leading software company and supervised worldwide channels for network products at HP. Hal received an economics degree from the University of Washington and a Sloan Fellowship/MBA from the London Business School.
About Passenger
Passenger innovation communities enable the world’s leading brands to connect, create and communicate with key stakeholders online, on mobile and on social networks. Passenger combines industry-leading technology with expert community management and engagement services to allow your brand to connect in real-time with your community to inform research, product development, and marketing decisions. In addition, all of the data collected from the Passenger platform is warehoused in a single database with robust analytic capabilities, which provides a holistic view of your social brand community, and actionable, member-driven insights. For more information, visit http://www.thinkpassenger.com.
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