American Innovations Field Data Division Announces New VP of Sales and Marketing
AUSTIN, TX, February 5, 2010 – American Innovations’ Field Data Division (FDD), a leading provider of products and services for pipeline industries, announced the addition of Ed Kruft as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Ed will be responsible for leading all aspects of the sales and marketing organization, with a focus on expanding the company’s business into new markets.
Prior to joining American Innovations, Kruft was a Business Development Manager at Texas Instruments (TI), where he spearheaded sales and marketing efforts to grow the company’s business in the industrial market. Previously, Kruft worked at National Instruments (NI) for over fifteen years in various sales, marketing, and engineering leadership roles, and was most recently in charge of product strategy for NI’s high performance instrumentation products, generating revenue growth of 30% per year during his eight year tenure in this role.
“We are pleased to welcome Ed to the AI team. His proven track record of driving revenue growth for hardware and software products in a broad range of industrial markets at NI and TI strengthens American Innovation’s strategy to expand into new markets,” said Ken Cowan, President of the Company’s Field Data Division. “In addition, I’m confident that his strategic marketing experience will help drive the development of industry leading products to solve the current and future challenges of AI customers.”
"I am excited to join the American Innovations team at a time of great opportunity,” said Kruft. “There is a growing demand for asset management across a number of different industries. I look forward to understanding the needs of these diverse applications and being part of the team to create innovative, customer driven solutions."
Kruft assumed responsibilities at AI on February 1st, and can be reached in his office at 512-249-3408 or by email.
About American Innovations: Based in Austin, Texas, American Innovations is a fast growing provider of products and services for the oil & gas and water pipeline industries, including web-based remote monitoring & equipment control, total survey solutions for corrosion monitoring, automatic meter reading, alarm point monitoring and integrity management. AI product lines include: Bullhorn® Remote Monitoring, MicroMax® Interrupters, CP Loggers, Allegro® Field Computers, Pipeline Compliance System (PCS) and Risk Intelligence™ Platform and Solutions. AI also offers cathodic protection services via Bass Engineering.
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