Nextivity has announced that Stephen Kowal has joined its leadership team as chief commercial officer (CCO).
Stephen Kowal is a technology industry veteran who has held strategic roles in sales, channel, and global accounts for nearly 25 years. As CCO at Nextivity, Kowal will be responsible for the company’s customer and partner facing teams, specifically those focused on sales, business development, marketing, product management, customer service, and order management.
“Stephen brings to Nextivity a depth of commercial experience and global reach that matches the richness of our game-changing technology and the expertise of our engineering teams – both of which are the keystones to Cel-Fi’s global success,” says Michiel Lotter, CEO of Nextivity.
“He has also developed loyal relationships with partners and customers, each of which was built on a foundation of excellent service and innovative solutions. This aligns incredibly well with Nextivity’s ethos of solving our customers’ problems through our ground-breaking solutions.”
Most recently, Stephen Kowal was at CommScope where he held progressively senior leadership roles during his 22-year tenure with the company. As the company’s senior vice president of enterprise sales, he led a team of more than 1,000 enterprise sales professionals, driving over $2 billion in revenue across the company’s line of Wi-Fi, DAS, fiber, and copper solutions used in enterprise, telecommunications, cable television, and residential broadband networks.
While in the role of senior vice president of CommScope’s global partner organization, Stephen was responsible for developing the company’s global partner strategy, and leading the team of 100 channel professionals who recruited, developed, and supported a worldwide partner network of 5,000 distributors, integrators, and installation partners.
“Nextivity relies on partners around the world to install its industry-leading Cel-Fi solutions, which provide an exceptional price to performance ratio and can be deployed within short turnaround times,” adds Kowal.
“I look forward to engaging with my extensive network of global partners about this unbeatable combination, particularly as the company unveils its newest Cel-Fi innovations over the coming years.”
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