VDS is a team of industry Subject Matter Experts supporting the needs of Manufacturers and Value Added Resellers throughout the Americas. We support the requirements of multiple market verticals and staff a team that can support the most demanding customer requirements. We are service driven and customer focused!
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Amy Wade, Vice President

With over 18 years of sales, operations, and customer service experience, Amy has a successful track record establishing customer relationships and vendor partnerships in various niche markets. Amy is the executive leader of VDS, and has previously held sales and management positions at Amherst Technologies, Avnet Embedded Solutions, and GreenPages.

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Mike Rousseau, Director of Technical Services

Mike is a Media & Entertainment industry veteran with over 20 years of experience. Mike is the technical leader for VDS handling engineering, services, and workflow solutions for our ISV and OEM Partners.  He has served in other leadership roles at Avid Technology, Pinnacle and Facilis Technology.  Mike holds a BA in Communications from Worcester State University.

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Chuck Davidson, Sales Director

Chuck is a seasoned technical and consultative sales professional with 20 years of experience selling hardware and software solutions into the Broadcast Media & Entertainment industry.  Experienced channel sales director with a history of recruitment, development, training and managing channel partners. Before VDS Chuck held sales leadership roles at Chyron Hego, GrassValley, and Avid Technology.

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Jeff Krueger, Business Development Manager 

Jeff has over 25 years of experience in the Media & Entertainment industry both in video and print. He effectively established a worldwide partner channel network with award winning sales growth strategies. Jeff has previously held leadership roles at StorageDNA, Avid Technology and Agfa Compugraphic. Jeff graduated from the University of Texas.

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Herb Ricco, Channel Sales Account Manager

With over 15 years of sales experience, Herb is a trusted professional amongst the vast network of Post Production Dealer Channel and manufactures in the Media & Entertainment industry. Before joining the VDS sales team, Herb served as key account manager at Broadfield Distributing for 13 years. Herb has a degree in Music Education, is an avid Drummer, and our resident Pro Audio Expert.

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Casey Carpentiere, Technical Solutions Manager

With 20 years of technical experience in the Media & Entertainment industry as well as traditional Enterprise IT environments, Casey specializes in high touch configurations and manages VDS’ configuration center. Casey has previously held technical support, marketing, and business development positions at Amherst Technologies, PC Connection, and Gov Connection representing manufactures such as IBM, AMD, Toshiba, and Dell. 

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Nat Kuscher, Inside Channel Sales Account Manager 

Nat is a valued sales professional with 20 years of experience selling hardware and software solutions in the media entertainment industry and secure telecommunications fields. Previous to joining VDS, Nat held sales and buyer positions at Amherst Technologies, Ipswitch, and Sonus Networks.

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Tracey Hall, Sales Operations Administrator

With over than 10 years of sales support experience, Tracey brings her customer service success to the operations side of VDS by providing clients with up to the minute order information and resolution to customer service issues. Tracey has strong relationships with key manufacturers and vendors to drive the success of VDS as a value-added distributor. Tracey has previously held sales support positions at Amherst Technologies, PC Connection and Brookstone.

 


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Meet Versatile, our parent company.  With deep IT knowledge across a broad range of industries, Versatile provides innovative and customized technology solutions tailored to your unique business goals and objectives.  Versatile supports the VDS team with professional and managed services, operations, finance and warehouse teams who make up the backbone of our organization.