New senior vice-president, worldwide sales for Harmonic

George Stromeyer has been appointed as Harmonic’s new senior vice-president of worldwide sales. Leading Harmonic’s global sales network, Stromeyer will develop and implement a strategy for driving additional revenue opportunities within the broadcast, cable, satellite, telco, media and post-production markets.

Patrick Harshman, CEO and president at Harmonic, comments: “George brings a strong track record of leading high-performing sales organisations and driving profitable growth, which are central to accelerating Harmonic’s global growth strategy. George is the third executive to join Harmonic’s senior leadership team from a world-class company in the past year. Strengthening our management team ensures that Harmonic can quickly respond to changing market needs while providing outstanding next-generation video infrastructure solutions.”

Prior to joining Harmonic, Stromeyer most recently headed worldwide sales efforts for Cisco’s information security business. During his career at Cisco, Stromeyer also led the company’s European cable, digital media and IPTV service provider sales division through a strong growth period. Prior to that, he served as the managing director of Scientific Atlanta’s Latin America business.