PPDS adds Frank Trossen to the global client management program

This international sales specialist has extensive knowledge and experience in the AV sector, and has held senior management and management functions at Tripleplay/Onelan, NEC and Promethean over a career of 20 years. Now, will assume the position of International Key Account Director in the company.

PPDS has announced the appointment of Frank Trossen, AV account management specialist, for the position of Director of International Accounts (International Key Account Director), focused on the corporate vertical market.

With a professional career in the audiovisual sector of more than 20 years, Trossen has held leadership and management positions in some of the main brands in the sector., como NEC Display Solutions (channel sales director), Onelan/Tripleplay (sales director) y Promethean (sales director), playing a fundamental role in its growth and international expansion.

Under the orders of Franck Racapé, EMEA Vice President, and working from the manufacturer's headquarters in Amsterdam, Trossen has extensive experience in channel and partner management, as well as account management, specializing in collaboration solutions in the field of digital signage, videowalls, Led screens and professional Philips televisions, and focusing mainly, although not exclusively, in corporate areas, retail and educational.

His areas of experience include international sales, strategic planning, routes to market, channel strategy, channel sales, selling solutions, international business, distribution sales, partner sales, account management and professional services.

“Joining a company during a pandemic is not ideal, but the PPDS team has been incredibly welcoming, and we have been able to take a turn creating great opportunities with clients from all over the world”, comments Trossen.

Worldwide coverage. Local support

Trossen joins a team of four experts as part of the new and exclusive international account management program (IKAM). The team has been explicitly created to provide seamless project execution and single point of contact support to clients with a multinational presence in multiple locations around the world., including trading and pricing structure, product range, warranty and services, as well as a global ecosystem of innovative solutions.

This team supports the approach that PPDS has launched, along with a new brand image and strategic pillars, to offer a sustainable global approach to total solutions, and joins existing PPDS regional teams around the world, further strengthening the company's global coverage with local support.

Franck Racapé, vice president of EMEA, comment: “2020 It has been a decisive year for PPDS, since we have established ourselves as a premium brand and a technology and solutions partner of choice for companies in a wide variety of vertical sectors., ranging from retail to hospitality, passing through education and health, inter alia. Not only are we bringing to market some truly innovative products and, in fact, breakers, but we are also attracting the best in the business when it comes to staff. Frank fits this idea perfectly”.

Trossen and his team, who are currently working from home due to pandemic restrictions, are supervising a large number of international projects, including those in EMEA, North and South America and APAC, in the corporate sectors, retail and educational, inter alia.

“During the last ten years, more or less, I have seen PPDS grow from a new entrant to a leading and disruptive solutions provider.. Their ability to provide truly innovative and high-level solutions is enviable.,both hardware and software, that truly meet the needs of the market at the time when they need them most. Since my first day in the company, It has been a hive of activity., with an incredible rotation of new products entering the market. Philips T-Line for education, C-Line and B-Line for companies, the new Philips Led screen of the series 7000 and the latest range of MediaSuite pro televisions, to name a few”, Trossen adds..