VisionsConnected and Viju have been acquired by Avedon Capital Partners and are being merged to create a global visual collaboration company specializing in designing, installing, servicing and supporting physical and virtual meeting room environments for global customers with strategic need for videoconferencing, collaboration and audiovisual solutions.
The combined company today already serves corporate and public customers in over 120 countries. It will have its official headquarter in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and will continue to serve their customers from multiple locations throughout EMEA, USA &APAC. A new brand, that reflects the evolution of these two reputable businesses into an integrated global organisation, is expected to be launched in early 2018.
Odd Sverre (OS) Østlie, previously CEO of Viju, will be appointed as CEO, and will continue to focus on an ambitious growth strategy with a strong focus on creating tangible business value for global clients. Raymond Alves, the founder and CEO of VisionsConnected, will be appointed as CSO (Chief Solution Officer), and will spearhead the company’s solutions and services development.
Odd Sverre (OS) Østlie, CEO at Viju, says: “We believe this is a perfect opportunity to join forces with VisionsConnected and create a leading global visual collaboration specialist. For the end user to be effective, they need a trusted partner to bring the world of different technologies together. The combination can now provide our Clients with a seamless ecosystem of personal and shared Video and AV technologies as-a-Service, covering every need from one-to-one and group collaboration, to internal all-hands and external events. With Avedon we have a partner that that understands technology and has deep experience in integrating companies to accelerate growth”.”
“Employees must be able to really enjoy and master the experience of working collaboratively and organisations must be able to realise and measure real improvement from their investment in audiovisual and collaboration technologies,” says Raymond Alves, CEO at Visions Connected. “I look forward to further developing our solutions and services, and continue to drive innovation by enabling effective collaboration between people and organisations
Emily Jeffries-Boezeman, Investment Manager at Avedon Capital Partners, says: “We have been following this market and recognised the opportunity to create a leading global specialist in this dynamic, but still fragmented market. The market grows considerably driven by the increased need for high end video and collaboration technologies and services, delivered globally in a service model. With their outstanding people, talented leaders and shared culture striving for the best customer experience, Viju and VisionsConnected together, form the ideal foundation for our entrance into this industry. We support the combined management team and look forward to making this investment a joint success.
Drake Star Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to the founder and shareholders of VisionsConnected in this transaction.
