Ashley Flaska Joins Stampede As Senior VP of Vendor Marketing
Continuing its year of record-breaking growth and expansion, Stampede, North America’s largest value added distributor of ProAV products, systems, education, and support programs, this week took a giant step forward in strengthening its global vendor marketing programs with the appointment of NEC marketing veteran Ashley Flaska to the position of Senior Vice President of Vendor Marketing.
Stampede President & COO Kevin Kelly told us “Stampede is committed to serving as our vendors’ best distribution partner throughout North America and, indeed, the world. The 21st Century ProAV business model requires that manufacturers be able to implement a global marketing strategy in customized, localized versions in major market regions around the world. Ashley’s experience at NEC is going to significantly enhance our partners’ ability to implement their global marketing strategy through Stampede — the distribution partner they already know and rely upon in North America.”
Ashley Flaska is a recognized industry leader in marketing strategy, channel marketing, business development, integrated marketing solutions, operations, process streamlining, and profitability improvement. She comes to Stampede from NEC Display Solutions, where she held a series of increasingly important marketing positions over a 14-year career there. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Marketing for the company’s innovative line of desktop monitors; professional, medical, and large screen displays; projectors; 3-D cinema projectors and software, while being responsible for all marketing, advertising, social media, websites, and trade shows throughout North and South America. She also served as a key team member that helped transform the 115-year-old company from being hardware only to a hardware and solutions-based organization.
Ashley Flaska graduated from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, where she was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in Communications.
“I am tremendously excited to join the Stampede marketing team during this critically important time in the company’s global expansion,” Flaska said today. “Today’s forward-looking manufacturers understand the importance of thinking globally and acting locally when it comes to developing and implementing a marketing strategy that will drive sales and increase margins. I look forward to putting my skills and experience to work for all of our vendor partners.”
We first rumoured this appointment a few weeks back here.
About Stampede
Headquartered in Amherst, New York, Stampede (www.stampedeglobal.com) is the world’s leading value-added distributor of integrated AV/IT technology solutions that help resellers meet the expanding needs of end-user customers in dozens of commercial vertical markets in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, Scandinavia, South Africa, and the United States.
Stampede provides a global network of 17,000 resellers with the broadest range of traditional ProAV solutions from more than 150 manufacturing partners and leads the way in the creation of the new product categories and related training and support programs that are unleashing the business opportunities of the future — Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drone Video Systems, Virtual Reality, IoT, Unified Communications, and low cost Video Conferencing. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Just Lamps, Stampede also offers the world’s largest selection of replacement projector lamps. Stampede annually produces the “Big Book of AV,” a 1,100+ page catalog and companion website (www.BigBookofAV.com) providing hundreds of sales, installation and spec tips for Stampede’s dealers in addition to product details on more than 8,000 SKUs.
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