Roland Avango

In 2006 my title was changed to Product Manager Information Capture Hardware, EMEA, which better matched my current tasks. In 2008 Dicom changed name to Kofax.

I was the main contact point between suppliers all over the world and Dicom’s subsidiaries in Europe, Middle East and Africa, taking care of all issues needing central support like agreement negotiations, forecasting, stock planning, campaigns, tech support and service issues, etc. I also produced material for central marketing and sales support, collected, complied and presented market information and results, kept home pages and internal data bases updated, and arranged

As Area Sales Manager I was responsible for distributors, OEM and key customers in Scandinavia, Finland, Iceland and Poland. In 1992 I also started up the distribution in the Baltic States. In 1993 I was made responsible for sales and marketing of Fujitsu’s high speed scanners and then built the distribution network. The scanner sales increased yearly in average 24% in 1993-2002 to 5 Mill USD (then 53 Mill SEK) with very good margin and 70% market share. Following the success I was made re

In the end of 1989 TH:s Elektronik was acquired by Gadelius Elektronik and the data groups in the companies merged. In Gadelius my tasks included product management, service group manager, OEM sales and technical support for advanced electronic products.

In 1980-1986 I studied at university and worked part time at TH:s Elektronik electronics support. A design group started up and I designed a radar simulator for training of airport operators ordered by Ericsson Radio Systems for airports in China and Sweden. After school a colleague and I were offered to develop a data group. My tasks were product management, sales, marketing and logistics. The group grew to 7 persons with good turnover and profit until the company was acquired by Gadelius Elektronik.

After practice during school in I was offered a job as prototype builder and tester of tailor made industrial electronics. After a couple of years I advanced to design engineer and project leader in charge of various numbers of staffs and subcontractors. During this time I developed many unique electronic devices and often performed customer trainings in Swedish and English.