BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Twin Cities-based Video Guidance, a leading visual communications company in the Upper Midwest, is expanding its operations into North Dakota. To manage the growing business in the state, the company is adding staff in Fargo and has named industry veterans Kathy Skramstad as senior account manager and Jon Brademeyer as senior sales engineer.
Video Guidance, which provides video conferencing, telepresence and audio visual technologies and services, is seeing a surge in business opportunities in North Dakota. The company holds the contract for the State of North Dakota’s video conferencing equipment, which includes services with state and local government, K-12 schools, universities and colleges, and public libraries.
In addition to more state government and education opportunities, Video Guidance expects further expansion in the commercial and nonprofit sectors by helping them discover the unlimited applications to visual communications. The firm believes North Dakota is an underserved market.
“From large campuses to rural communities, our customers are very strategic about how they communicate and how they use video,” said Mike Werch, president and CEO of Video Guidance. “Video conferencing, distance learning and telemedicine are just a few of the creative ways our customers are using visual communications to meet their mission-critical business objectives.”
Video Guidance will also open a demo facility in Fargo to showcase the latest visual communication strategies, featuring VG Connect™, a cloud-based, industry-unique integration of video conferencing tools.
Video Guidance hires industry veterans in Fargo
Kathy Skramstad comes to Video Guidance with 18 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industries. She previously served as a strategic account manager in Fargo for CenturyLink, overseeing clients in the state and local government sectors. She also was an account manager for Cisco, managing telephone clients in North Dakota and Minnesota. Skramstad graduated from Minnesota State University - Moorhead with B.S. degrees in both Marketing and Business Administration. She is a member of the Fargo West Rotary Club. Skramstad lives in South Fargo.
Jon Brademeyer has more than 23 years of experience in the technology and communications industries. Prior to joining Video Guidance, he was a senior sales engineer and senior account manager for CenturyLink in Fargo. He was also the IT and telecommunications manager for Great Plains Software in Fargo. Brademeyer graduated from North Dakota State University with a B.S. degree in Business Administration and holds numerous technical certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Avaya, Adtran, Nortel and ShoreTel. He resides in Kindred, N.D., where he serves as team leader for the City of Kindred’s marketing group.
As an independent provider of visual communications, Video Guidance partners with the world's leading audio/visual equipment manufacturers to implement customized strategic communications. The customer-focused company differentiates itself by providing “best of breed” technologies and unlimited applications to help its customers to communicate more effectively.
Founded in 1999, Video Guidance (www.VideoGuidance.com) is privately held and headquartered in Bloomington, Minn. Video Guidance is an independent partner of Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize, and maintains strategic alliances with Conference Plus, On Stream Media Corporation, VQ Communications, VBrick, and Accordent. For five consecutive years, Video Guidance has been named to the "Inc. 5,000" list of the nation's fastest growing private companies, and is one of the top privately held companies in Minnesota and one of the top 150 telecommunications companies in the nation. In addition, Video Guidance has been named by The Business Journal as one of the "50 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies" in the Twin Cities.
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