AVANT Communications Expands Senior Leadership Team, Appoints Industry Veteran Rick Reed

Chicago, Illinois—March 28th, 2018 AVANT Communications today announced that Rick Reed assumed the newly created position of Senior Director of Channel Sales, South-Central Region. Reed joins AVANT with more than 17 years of experience in telecom between AT&T and Informa (Channel Partners), with 5 years of channel experience between AT&T (leading marketing launch efforts at AT&T Partner Exchange) and Channel Partners (leading the Channel Partners brand most recently as the SVP of sales and strategy).

In his new role at AVANT, Reed’s primary focus will be growth of existing partners, new recruitment of channel partners and launching the first of many ‘in-market’ BatteLabs. These BattleLabs will be a hub for the South-Central Region for partners, providers and our partners end user customers. Texas alone has 4 of the largest growing markets in the United States. Rick brings a wealth of experience that will not only benefit AVANT, but most importantly, our partners.