DZSI - DZS Appoints Scott St. John as Chief Customer Officer | Benzinga
DALLAS, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DZS (NASDAQ:DZSI), a global leader of broadband networking and AI-driven cloud software solutions, today announced it has appointed Scott St. John as Chief Customer Officer, reporting directly to CEO Charlie Vogt.
Mr. St. John will be responsible for leading global sales for DZS and will be focused on driving accelerated revenue growth across the Americas and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) regions. Communication service providers (CSPs) in these regions continue to undergo a multi-year broadband networking upgrade cycle with a shift towards open and software defined networking, supported by "broadband everywhere" initiatives led by multiple government-funded stimulus projects and private investments that are taking place around the world. DZS' enhanced broadband networking and AI-driven cloud software portfolios are ideally suited to address this opportunity following three years of targeted innovation and three strategic acquisitions that have created a truly differentiated network edge focused portfolio ready to position CSPs for services agility and future success.
"Scott was instrumental in leading ADVA's significant sales growth during his more than five-year tenure leading up to the ADVA/Adtran merger," said Mr. Vogt." DZS will benefit from Scott's experience and 20-plus years of sales leadership knowledge and trusted relationships with service providers and channel partners across the Americas, EMEA and ANZ, complementing the momentum we have created over the past two years. The timing of Scott's arrival aligns well with our recently released and differentiated 50G-ready OLT platforms, optical edge ROADM, home broadband and cloud software solutions. We are active in numerous service provider optical transport, fiber access, network assurance, orchestration, and home broadband software management projects and I am confident that Scott will accelerate our team's ability to convert these technology and solution trials into our next wave of ...