Scott Schroeder Joins avVenta as General Manager of Costa Rican Operations
NEW YORK, July 28, 2011 – Scott Schroeder joins avVenta Worldwide as General Manager of the company’s Costa Rican Operations. Scott comes to avVenta from 360 Grados SA in Costa Rica, where his primary focus was on the strategic alignment, sales methodologies and regional multi-channel sales architectures for the hardware/software company.
Prior to that he was at ORACLE de Centroamerica as Managing Director for seven countries responsible for operational excellence of 12 lines of business, locally engaged global business units and multi-channel sales strategies serving over 1,300 active customers.
Although Scott is a native Bostonian, he has lived in Costa Rica for over 17 years working for companies that also included Lucent Technologies, Sociedad Agricola Caribana and KPMG Peat Marwick. Prior to ORACLE, he was the Regional Manager for Emerging Markets Latin America at Veritas Software, driving revenue growth of over 150% per year for four consecutive years.
As a trilingual executive fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English, he is responsible for running the day-to-day operations in the avVenta Costa Rican facilities that houses more than 500 employees.
"We are excited to have Scott on board," says Jeff Saunders, COO. "Based upon his years of Costa Rican business experience and skills in the technical field, we believe he will have a powerful impact on the growth of our Costa Rican digital production center and expand upon the advanced skillset of our dedicated professionals who already lead the way in our continued decoupling production strategies."
"I am honored to join such a progressive team as the avVenta group in Costa Rica. I believe that the near-shoring approach is a strong solution in today’s global workplace and it is evident that avVenta clientele will continue to benefit from this near-shoring digital production center and the cost saving benefits it has to offer," says Scott.
About avVenta Worldwide Founded in 2005, avVenta Worldwide is a privately held, global digital agency headquartered in New York City with offices in Charleston, Boston, and Los Angeles with a production "center of excellence" and avVenta University in San Jose, Costa Rica. The company specializes in Digital Production and Interactive Services for marketing operations and digital/interactive marketing strategies for over 130 of the world’s leading brands. For more information, please visit www.avventa.com.
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