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EDI appoints new business development VP

Eberle Design (EDI) has appointed industry veteran Dr Bill Sowell as its vice president of Business Development for both Eberle Design and Reno A&E with responsibilities for managing the company’s sales, marketing and the development of new business opportunities for both organic and external growth worldwide. Dr Sowell has an extensive background in several vehicle detection and traffic data collection technologies and has been involved with intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for more than 24 year
April 4, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
41 Eberle Design (EDI) has appointed industry veteran Dr Bill Sowell as its vice president of Business Development for both Eberle Design and 7435 Reno A&E with responsibilities for managing the company’s sales, marketing and the development of new business opportunities for both organic and external growth worldwide.

Dr Sowell has an extensive background in several vehicle detection and traffic data collection technologies and has been involved with intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for more than 24 years, having held senior management positions with such firms as 73 Iteris, 129 Swarco, 6626 Image Sensing Systems, 1763 Econolite and 101 Peek Traffic. He has sold ITS solutions in more than 78 countries and played a key role in the early adoption of the NTCIP open communications protocol in Chile, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and China.  Most recently, he served on the Board of Directors of the 2015 International Road Federation.

Bill Russell, president and CEO of Eberle Design, said, “Dr Bill Sowell’s joining the EDI team brings a broad range of domestic and international business development, sales and marketing capabilities that increases our level of global strategic focus to achieve our company’s growth initiatives.”

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