Pelco appoints Clifford S. Holtz of Nortel Networks, as Senior Vice President, Americas Sales |
"The addition of Cliff our management team brings invaluable sales management experience to Pelco. Cliff has a long and successful record of working with leading technology products and independent sales channels that are similar to ours. We look forward to working closely with Cliff to do an even better job of taking Pelco products and services to market," says Meyer.
Prior to joining Pelco, Holtz was President of Enterprise Sales, North America, at Nortel and was responsible for all sales and marketing activity to this customer base. Leading technology-oriented enterprise business units for over 23 years, Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President, Business Markets Group at Qwest Communications, where he led a $5 billion unit and managed an organization of over 5,000 employees.
Earlier in his career, Holtz was at Gateway Corporation, where he led the $5 billion Consumer Division as Senior Vice President, where he managed all aspects of retail sales channels, advertising and product development. While at AT&T Corporation, he was President, Metro Markets, and $4.5 billion business unit.
Holtz earned an M.B.A. in Marketing and Management Information Systems from the University of Chicago and graduated from the State University of New York, Albany. He serves on the board of directors of National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
Mr. Holtz will be relocating to the Fresno/Clovis area from Denver, with his wife Teri. He also has two children who are currently attending college.