Digital Barriers, a provider of intelligent IoVT (Internet of Video Things) solutions, announces four significant additions to its leadership team following its investment by leading private equity investor 3i.
Digital Barriers technology revolutionises live video streaming over cellular, reducing bandwidth by up to 90% while maintaining quality, a game-changer for leading mobile networks worldwide. These new leadership appointments add significant telco, hyperscaler, and IoT experience to the leadership team.
Chief Commercial Officer
Chris Hughes joins as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for accelerating the company’s revenue growth with new and existing partners worldwide.
Chris joins from Google, bringing a successful sales track record that includes leadership roles at Alcatel and HPE, and he has extensive experience with mobile network operators, cloud service providers, and IoT technologies.
Chief Operating Officer
Clive’s experience includes roles with Cisco, Avaya, Unisys, and Nortel, covering unified communications
Clive Sawkins becomes Digital Barriers Chief Operating Officer, overseeing engineering, operations, support, and delivery at this pivotal time for the company.
Clive’s extensive experience includes roles with Cisco, Avaya, Unisys, and Nortel, covering unified communications, video networks, collaboration, outsourcing, cloud architecture, IoT, and digital media.
SVP of Technical Sales & Business Development
Kunal Shukla arrives from Google in the newly created Senior Vice-President of Technical Sales & Business Development role. Kunal will work closely with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to implement new offerings and growth strategies worldwide.
He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise through engagement with leading telcos, enterprises, and cloud providers while at Ericsson, HPE, and Google.
Group HR Director
Elaine takes responsibility for the company’s recruitment, talent management, people engagement
Finally, Elaine Cooper joins as the company’s first Group HR Director. Elaine has an exceptional track record with leadership roles within fast-growth businesses, including Confused.com and Groupon, where the people's agenda was central to success.
Elaine takes responsibility for the company’s recruitment, talent management, people engagement, and ensuring a compelling employee value proposition.
IoVT
Digital Barriers CEO, Zak Doffman, “I am delighted to welcome Chris, Clive, Kunal, and Elaine to the leadership team. After revolutionising live video for flagship defence and security agencies, our new products, developed in partnership with Intel and now launched through Vodafone, AT&T, FirstNet, and others, means we can make our unique IoVT capabilities available to a much wider commercial market.”
Chris Hughes says, “It’s the continued goal of this expanded leadership team to unlock the power of live video over cellular for a loyal customer base around the world and to grow partnerships with world-class organisations like Vodafone, AT&T, JCI, BT, and Fujitsu. It’s an honour for us to become part of this journey.”
- Network / IP
- Biometrics
- Digital video surveillance
- Industrial security
- Commercial security
- Security management
- Security policy
- Security installation
- Security tagging
- Security cameras
- Security camera systems
- Security monitoring system
- Network monitoring
- Video analytics
- Identity management
- Industrial security systems
- Network cameras
- Security software
- Security service
- Industrial surveillance
- Mobile surveillance
- Security communication
- Integration software
- Cyber security
- Mobile communications
- Video Management System
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Corporate Security
- Data Security
- Network Video Recorders
- Incident Management
- Cloud security
- Mobile access
