{"id":2992,"date":"2014-03-10T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ekinops.com\/news\/news\/ekinops-appoints-thomas-hummel-as-sales-director-for-germany"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:46:07","slug":"ekinops-nomme-thomas-hummel-directeur-des-ventes-pour-lallemagne","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/news\/technologies\/ekinops-appoints-thomas-hummel-as-sales-director-for-germany","title":{"rendered":"EKINOPS nomme Thomas Hummel directeur des ventes pour l\u2019Allemagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EKINOPS has seen strong growth in business since the second half of 2012 with their turnover for 2013 increasing by 79%. This strong sales dynamic is a result of the success of the 10G equipment range and the power ramp-up of their 100G solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In line with the sales and marketing strategies we presented on entry to the Euronext Paris exchange in 2013, and in order to capitalise on our ongoing success, EKINOPS is strengthening their presence in Germany, where the company already has several customers, by opening a new sales representation to serve the German market and those of the surrounding countries: Switzerland, Austria and Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Didier Br\u00e9dy, CEO of Ekinops, adds: <em><strong>\u201cWe are really happy to have Thomas Hummel on board, he will head up sales development for that region. A telecoms engineer, Thomas Hummel has a broad understanding of the telecoms market, which he has worked in for the last 25 years. He has occupied a number of sales management positions in a variety of equipment providers, such as: ECI Telecom, Transmode, Turin Networks and Sorrento Networks. Thomas Hummel has repeatedly proven his worth in the optical network market and will bring his skills in direct sales channels to the company, as well as his experience managing key accounts within the sector.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EKINOPS (NYSE Euronext Paris : FR0011466069 \u2013 EKI), un fournisseur leader de solutions optiques de transport de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, annonce l\u2019ouverture d\u2019une nouvelle repr\u00e9sentation commerciale en Allemagne, dirig\u00e9e par Thomas Hummel, pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment directeur europ\u00e9en des ventes chez Sorrento Networks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2952,"template":"","press-releases-category":[88],"class_list":["post-2992","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press-releases-category-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2992\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"press-releases-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases-category?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}