Phillips Connect Welcomes Todd Wazny as Vice President of Channel Sales
Irvine, CA – (Trailer Technician) – Todd Wazny has joined Phillips Connect as vice president of channel sales. He brings more than twenty years of experience in telematics, logistics, and location services to his new position with Phillips Connect.
Wazny’s background includes key positions in strategic planning, enterprise sales, fleet relationship development, and engineering with EROAD, Ltd. and Spireon, Inc. Over his career, he has been instrumental in building partnerships across businesses, resulting in benefits for those companies and their customers. His telematics product knowledge, along with a visionary outlook for what is truly possible for Smart-Trailers, will help Phillips Connect integrate and expand its telematics offerings to encompass bumper-to-bumper solutions that meet the industry’s goal of fully connected tractors and trailers.
“Todd is the perfect fit to help direct us to the future of commercial vehicles,” said Jim Epler, executive vice president. “His forward-thinking and results-oriented persona matches the Phillips Connect philosophy of finding solutions for tomorrow’s challenges – not just what’s in front of us today. We’re very pleased he has joined our team.”
Wazny’s initial focus will be to grow channel sales efforts by encompassing additional partners to expand the availability of Phillips Connect products, and to significantly increase the number of vehicle operators using them. He will also play an important role in developing an evolving strategic plan as the company defines the opportunities for trailer telematics in the future.
Also joining the team is Steve Randall, Phillips Connect’s new director of business intelligence & analytics. Randall worked for Werner Enterprises for more than thirty years, most recently as equipment resource manager.
Phillips Connect continues to increase its workforce to support the company’s current market and its aggressive growth expectations. Over the last few months, in addition to Wazny and Randall, Phillips Connect has filled: (16) skilled engineering positions including software, hardware, test, QA, and firmware engineers along with field and technical product engineers; (12) warehouse/logistics jobs, and multiple marketing and support staff positions. Phillips Connect continues to accept applications for additional open positions as they build a team equipped to meet the future of connected commercial vehicles in the United States and worldwide.
About Phillips Connect
Phillips Connect takes telematics light-years beyond basic GPS tracking by combining the industry’s most advanced connected asset solutions for trailers, chassis, and containers with a variety of sensors, including DoorCheck™, TempCheck™, and CargoCheck™ along with health-monitoring sensors TPMSCheck™, ATIS RegulatorCheck™, BrakeCheck™, Light-OutCheck™, Wheel-EndCheck™, Remote PreCheck™, CargoVision™, SmartLock Door™, SmartLock Gladhand™, and more to real-time GPS tracking. These sensors and others are seamlessly integrated with the Connect1 user interface, giving fleet managers the information they need to turn their assets faster and maximize driver productivity.
Phillips Connect has developed industry IoT sensor connection technology that is being widely deployed in the freight industry. Phillips Connect is truly transforming the industry and continues to do so by keeping drivers and their cargo safe. The products are designed to improve overall safety and security, reduce costs in fleet maintenance and dramatically enhance fleet asset utilization. Phillips Connect is a stand-alone company within the Phillips Technologies Group portfolio of companies. Visit www.phillips-connect.com for more information.