Topcon Announces Umino as Director of Sales Support
March 11, 2010
LIVERMORE, Calif. – March 10, 2010 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS)
announced that Kai Umino is the new director of TPS sales support. He will
report to Mick Yamazaki, TPS chief operating officer.
Umino joined Topcon
Corporation in 1995 and has spent the past seven years managing sales operations
at Topcon South Asia in Singapore and the Topcon office in Dubai.
Ray
O'Connor, TPS president and CEO, said, “Kai brings with him a wealth of
experience and we welcome him to TPS. Kai’s joining our organization as the
director of sales support will add tremendous global experience to our internal
sales organization as we continue to expand the global reach of TPS."
“I
am very pleased to bring Kai to TPS,” Yamazaki said. “He has extensive
leadership skills in management and 15 years of knowledge and experience in the
positioning business. He will be a key player in our organization.”
Umino
will be responsible for domestic and international sales support groups for TPS.
The group supports five business units – Survey, Construction, Precision
Agriculture, Emerging Business and Telematics. “The importance of the role of
the sales support group increased as we moved to a business unit structure,”
Yamazaki said.
“This structuring has allowed TPS to take advantage of
our strengths in each individual market, and the growth will only continue and
provide new and added challenges and opportunities for sales support to
positively represent TPS.”
Umino is replacing John Fujita who will be
returning to Topcon Corporation headquarters in Tokyo. Fujita has worked for
Topcon for 12 years, first with Topcon America Corporation and then for the last
seven years at TPS in Livermore.
“John headed up the sales support team
and worked with almost all the departments at TPS, supporting a period of
dramatic growth for the company,” Yamazaki said. “We appreciate John’s work at
TPS and extend our continued support after he returns to Japan.”
Umino
began his new role at TPS in Livermore on March 1.
Topcon
Positioning Systems, Inc. (TPS) designs and manufactures precise
positioning products and solutions for the global surveying, construction,
agriculture, civil engineering, mapping and GIS, asset management and mobile
control markets. TPS’ parent company, Topcon Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange –
7732), was founded in 1932.
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