Speech Interface Design Strengthens Sales Infrastructure with Strategic Executive Sales Post

PITTSBURGH - Oct. 4, 2013 - PRLog -- Speech Interface Design, a voice technology solutions sales and engineering company headquartered here, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Glessner as executive vice president of sales and marketing.

Gary brings more than 25 years of solution selling experience and leadership to the role, ten of which recently were with Vocollect, now a division of Honeywell, where he was formerly vice president of America’s sales. There, he helped grow the company from $20M to $120M by driving global strategic initiatives to enhance growth and customer satisfaction via a highly proactive value-based customer engagement process, channel program upgrades and new product introductions. Earlier in his career, Gary held sales management and sales roles with both small and large technology companies: Element K, Abaco Mobile, Comark, Hewlett-Packard and General Electric.

“Gary has an impressive track record of driving revenue, profit and market share growth through sales, both direct and channel,” said Ahmed Reza, president, Speech Interface Design. “His in-the-field sales leadership style along with his deep knowledge of the voice solutions business and supply chain industry will enable Speech Interface Design to accelerate and expand our sales efforts moving forward.”

“I am excited to join Speech Interface Design to lead its growth going forward” said Glessner. “The company has long held an excellent reputation for technical excellence and highly satisfied customers.

Gary comes to Speech Interface Design having most recently served as CEO at Inteligistics. He holds a BS in Engineering and a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

About Speech Interface Design:
Speech Interface Design (SID), privately owned and founded in 1993, focuses on progressive and innovative industrial-grade voice-directed technology solutions for distribution, manufacturing and inspection customers within the supply chain. Voice solution experts with more than 100 years of team experience, Speech Interface Design customers depend daily on SID voice solutions to optimize their operations. Leveraging the proven Vocollect Voice technology platform, Speech Interface Design’s solutions voice-direct multiple process workflows across distribution center and manufacturing functions. Speech Interface Design has optimized processes in an extensive range of supply chain and manufacturing industry verticals. To strategically cut operational costs, achieve business initiatives and increase margin, consider re-engineered process with voice-directed workflows. Visit http://www.speech-interface.com to learn more.