Trip Wootten Joins Riedel As U.S. Southeast Regional Sales Manager

Riedel Communications has appointed Trip Wootten regional sales manager for the U.S. Southeast. Reporting to Rich Zabel, vice president of sales, the Americas, Wootten will lead direct and channel sales for a market that includes Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.

With deep expertise in the Southeast region, Wootten brings over a decade of sales, sales support, and sales engineering experience to his new position at Riedel. Most recently, he oversaw a large Southeastern sales territory as regional account manager for Grass Valley, a role he also previously filled for Telestream.

Prior to joining Telestream, Wootten served for more than seven years at Grass Valley in account management, sales management, sales support and inside sales positions. He also previously worked in inside sales for the WH Platts Co. and formerly was an IT support engineer for North Point Community Church.