Gra Valley Names Andrew ornton VP, Asia Pacific
08/12/2014
We are very excited to have Andrew join the Grass Valley team, said Steve Ronneberg, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Grass Valley. His rich background in sales management will be an invaluable asset as we look to expand and better serve our customer base. Not only am I confident in his ability to lead our sales initiatives in the Asia Pacific region, but that Andrew's impressive experience will play an integral role in delivering future-ready solutions to our customers.
Thornton joins Grass Valley from Harmonic, where he served for four years as the company's vice president for the Asia Pacific region and took part in in the acquisition of Omneon, where Thornton was previously employed.
Before joining Omneon, Thornton served as the vice president of Asia Pacific operations at Avid Technology, the news and production systems company. He began his career at Sony Broadcast and Professional, where he worked in a variety of sales and management roles during his 10-year post.
It is a great pleasure to join the Grass Valley team and become part of a company that is strongly committed to developing innovative technologies that allow broadcasters of all sizes to succeed, said Thornton. As an established leader in the industry, Grass Valley understands its customers' needs and has the ability to provide complete, end-to-end solutions not only for today, but into the future. I look forward to using my experience to serve the Asia Pacific region for Grass Valley and exceed the company's objectives for continued success.
Thornton is a graduate of Bradford University in the United Kingdom, where he earned an MBA and a BS in Managerial Sciences. He is currently based in the company's Hong Kong office and reports to Steve Ronneberg, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Grass Valley.
For information about Grass Valley solutions and services, please visit grassvalley.com.
About Grass Valley
The new Grass Valley keeps broadcasters, content owners and service providers future-ready as they navigate the changing landscape of television. With the most comprehensive collection of workflow solutions in the industry, Grass Valley delivers end-to-end television production and content distribution workflows that enable the efficiency and flexibility broadcasters need to stay competitive today-while offering technological foresight they need to keep pace with consumers' desires for more content on more devices. Grass Valley, headquartered in Montreal, leverages the collective expertise and depth of the Grass Valley Group and Miranda Technologies, each having been acquired by St. Louis-based Belden Inc. Belden delivers a comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise and broadcast markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed for todays applications, Belden is at the center of the global transformation to a connected world. For more information visitwww.belden.com.
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