COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – Henrik Ilsby has been appointed senior vice president 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 and manufacturing engineering.