Henrik Ilsby Rejoins JAI to Lead Sales & Marketing

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, April 23, 2009 – Henrik Ilsby, 51, has been appointed senior VP for global sales and marketing at JAI, a worldwide provider of camera solutions for industrial, scientific, medical, defense, traffic, and other applications. Ilsby will be based in JAI’s Copenhagen office and will drive the company’s sales and marketing activities through regional sales and marketing teams in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. 

Ilsby is well known within the automated imaging community having spent 13 years with JAI, starting in 1994 as director of sales, and quickly rising to vice president, then senior vice president for worldwide sales of JAI’s camera business. His prior industry involvement included not only significantly growing JAI’s CCD camera business, but also serving as a board member of the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). In 2007, he left JAI to start his own business consulting company, which for the past two years has been providing advice and assistance to other companies seeking to grow their market shares within the automated imaging industry. 

Ilsby received a B.Sc. degree in 1983 from Copenhagen Technical University where he studied electronic & manufacturing engineering. Prior to JAI, he spent five years in program management and as a sales director at Nea-Lindberg A/S, a Danish technology company specializing in video display technology and IR cameras.

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About the JAI Group:
JAI is a manufacturer of high quality, industrial-grade cameras for the machine vision, transportation, military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and scientific markets. Camera offerings include both monochrome and color, triggered and continuous capture, and a wide variety of physical interfaces including Camera Link™ and the GigE Vision Gigabit Ethernet standard.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, JAI has subsidiaries in Japan, the US, the UK and Germany. The JAI Group has annual sales of more than USD 50M and employs 220 people worldwide.

JAI has two primary businesses:  Camera Solutions and Traffic Solutions. Camera Solutions is a component supplier that designs, manufactures and markets CCD and CMOS camera solutions primarily for the ITS, medical and industrial machine vision markets. JAI cameras help improve customer businesses in a variety of ways, whether by improving quality and accuracy, lowering costs, increasing yields, or simply enabling better service.

The Traffic Solutions business unit is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialized traffic systems. Solutions are based on JAI-developed hardware and software, which is often integrated with third-party products.