November 4, 2008 — Today, ICONICS announced the hiring of a new Western Regional Sales Manager. Mark Fountain has joined ICONICS as Western Regional Sales Manager. Fountain will report to Michael Hiefner, ICONICS’ North American Sales Director and will be responsible for developing and directing the sales efforts of distributors, systems integrators and representatives along with obtaining and developing certain direct end users and OEMs for the region. In his new role, Fountain will be responsible for new business development in ICONICS’ Western Region, which includes California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.
Prior to joining ICONICS, Fountain acquired extensive sales knowledge in a variety of industries. As Senior Account Representative for Inotek Corporation in Dallas, TX, he was responsible for the North Texas territory. While there, he achieved the single largest sale in the company’s history. As a Senior Manager of Global Key Accounts with Intellution, Inc., Fountain was responsible for direct and indirect key accounts worldwide, achieving “Top Gun” and “Salesman of the Year” distinctions.
Fountain’s professional experience has given him the skills necessary to become a valuable addition to the ICONICS team. “Mark Fountain has a track record of key account wins in several different verticals,” said Michael Hiefner, North American Sales Director at ICONICS, “from food and beverage processing to HVAC to high-tech and more. I look forward to working with Mark to further expand ICONICS solutions in numerous applications throughout the Western United States.” ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software marketplace.
Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS’ GENESIS64, GENESIS32 and BizViz products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging information from “the shop floor to the top floor.” ICONICS has provided award-winning industrial automation and Manufacturing Intelligence software for over 21 years, successfully deploying more than 225,000 solutions worldwide.
ICONICS Background Information
Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Offering the industry’s only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32 Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. GENESIS64 takes advantage of 64-bit processors running 64-bit optimized Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Pocket GENESIS for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS’ OPC-To-The-Core framework.
BizViz is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server-based data logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner represented in over 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.