Airgain Announces Appointment of AT&T’s Reed Pangborn as Vice President, Channel Sales North America
December 11 2017 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Pangborn will support Airgain’s growing
wireless business within the automotive, public safety, and M2M
sectors
Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a global leader in wireless
connectivity platforms, today announced the appointment of Reed
Pangborn as Vice President of Channel Sales for North America. With
his accomplished experience in sales leadership and advanced
mobility solutions, Pangborn will spearhead Airgain’s expansion
into the automotive market and strengthen channel sales throughout
North America.
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Reed Pangborn, Airgain's newly appointed
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Pangborn is a seasoned veteran of the telecommunications
industry, bringing over 25 years of industry experience working for
AT&T and its predecessor company McCaw Cellular, as well as
other global leaders like Ericsson. Pangborn’s previous positions
have focused on sales leadership, contract management, sales
operations, advanced mobility solutions, and applications sales. He
has spent most of his career supporting public sector and
healthcare clients, and has notably represented AT&T on the
Smart Cities Council Board in 2013.
During his time at AT&T, the company structured plans with
the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to deploy a
nationwide Band Class 14 network dedicated to public safety
communications. FirstNet plans to work with the industry to develop
mission critical devices and applications, and 35 states have
already adopted into this initiative. A wide variety of specialty
devices will be developed for FirstNet users, and the network
operates within Airgain’s existing IoT and public safety product
set.
“Airgain has achieved tremendous success while operating at the
leading edge of its traditional core market segments,” said
Pangborn. “The company’s recent shift into new connected mobility
markets provides a pivotal opportunity to establish a strong
foothold and further scale the business. With opportunities like
FirstNet and the largely untapped automotive space, I am excited to
execute on the growth strategy and I look forward to contributing
to the connectivity landscape.”
Chuck Myers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Airgain,
said: “Reed has joined us at an exciting time when Airgain is
expanding into faster growing adjacent markets like automotive,
public safety, and the IoT/M2M space. He is a strategic and
accomplished industry leader whose track record and background are
a perfect fit to further our sales efforts and propel us into the
next stage of growth. The opportunities for our solutions are
significant, and I believe Reed will be instrumental in helping
Airgain become an influential leader in the connected mobility and
automotive markets.”
“Airgain’s appointment of Reed Pangborn is another significant
step in the company’s strategy in the connected vehicle market,”
Jacob Suen, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Airgain,
said. “His ability to ramp up a channel-oriented business, and his
vast experience with service providers, is exactly what we need to
accelerate the growth momentum.”
About Airgain, Inc.
Airgain Inc. is a global provider of high-performance wireless
communications platforms. Combining design-led thinking with
testing and development, Airgain works in partnership with the
entire ecosystem, including carriers, chipset suppliers, OEMs, and
ODMs.
Airgain’s key markets include home, automotive, IoT, and
enterprise, and its antenna technologies can be found in set-top
boxes, access points, routers, gateways, media adapters, digital
televisions, vehicles, and Internet of Things (IoT)
devices.
Airgain is headquartered in San
Diego, California, and maintains design and test centers in
the US, UK, and China.
For more information, visit airgain.com, or follow us
on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Airgain and the Airgain logo are registered
trademarks of Airgain, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
Airgain cautions you that statements in this press release
that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking
statements. These statements are based on the company's current
beliefs and expectations. These forward-looking statements include
statements regarding Airgain’s growth strategy and expansion into
the automotive, public safety, and the IoT/M2M markets. The
inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a
representation by Airgain that any of our plans will be
achieved. Actual results may differ from those set forth in this
press release due to the risk and uncertainties inherent in our
business, including, without limitation: the market for our antenna
products is developing and may not develop as we expect; our
products are subject to intense competition, including competition
from the customers to whom we sell, and competitive pressures from
existing and new companies may harm our business, sales, growth
rates and market share; our future success depends on our ability
to develop and successfully introduce new and enhanced products for
the automotive and connected mobility markets that meet the needs
of our customers; we sell to customers who are extremely price
conscious; we rely on a few contract manufacturers to produce and
ship all of our products, a single or limited number of suppliers
for some components of our products and channel partners to sell
and support our products, and the failure to manage our
relationships with these parties successfully could adversely
affect our ability to market and sell our products; if we cannot
protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position
could be harmed or we could incur significant expenses to enforce
our rights; and other risks described in our prior press releases
and in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), including under the heading "Risk Factors"
in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent filings with
the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date
hereof, and we undertake no obligation to revise or update this
press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date
hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their
entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995.
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