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AVI Systems Names Joel Lehman as Chief Operating Officer

Written by Kelly Perkins | Jan 30, 2017 4:00:28 AM

AVI is pleased to announce the appointment of Joel Lehman as COO. Lehman will be responsible for developing and delivering an outstanding customer experience through operational excellence.

“To make buying an exceptional customer experience at AVI (one of AVI’s vision statements), it’s important we approach every element of operations with the customer as our number one focus,” explained Jeff Stoebner, CEO and President. “The appointment of Joel as COO really helps drive AVI’s operational excellence, both at the national and local level.”

Lehman joins AVI with a wealth of related industry experience, most recently as vice president of global services, compression technologies and services at Ingersoll Rand.

While at Ingersoll Rand, Lehman also held positions as vice president, enterprise product management and sales excellence, president of climate solutions and global services, and vice president of global controls and smart products.

Prior to Ingersoll Rand, Lehman served for 23 years in the systems and services division at Johnson Controls. He worked in roles ranging from field sales and operations roles to North American leadership roles.

Most notably, Lehman was a key leader in developing both the Building Wide Systems Integration, and Security and Fire Integration businesses within Building Efficiency.

“AVI is a solid company with great people,” Joel Lehman said. “I’m excited to leverage AVI’s mission, values and vision to develop and deliver an exceptional customer experience – from development, design and integration, all the way through service and support."

"We’ll continue to make our customers top priority as we grow and expand AVI’s relevancy, reach and readiness into the future.”