“We believe Avi’s leadership skills and successful sales experience in cloud-based offerings will enable us to reach our revenue goals and align resources between our previous separate American branches,” said Michael Schrader, TIS Chief Operating Officer, in the press release.
With the appointment, TIS has combined its Latin American and North American operations. It is also relocating Oren Ilan, its current VP of Global Engineering and who has been with the company for 14 years, to the U.S. to lead professional services for the Americas.
Mileguir’s appointment seems to build on two recent developments at TIS:
- The launch of the eFLOW 5 last year
- A large recent mobile capture sale in Brazil
Regarding eFLOW 5, here’s what Schrader had to say about it when we interviewed him in September: “We changed our architecture from client/server to more of a full Web-based design. Our clients want to grow more and more into branch capture and scanning at the point of origin. In addition, we are sure businesses want to move more of their software into the cloud and SaaS and PaaS models. So, in general, it’s our goal to move all our software to a Web-based architecture and have it cloud ready.” This meshes with Mileguir’s cloud background.
The sale in Brazil was through a partner, Xerox, which will hopefully lead to more Latin American mobile imaging sales, so that meshes with Mileguir’s Latin American sales experience.
Mileguir’s appointment apparently displaces Omri Gelb, who had been managing TIS North American sales, most recently as GM of TIS’ North American division.