Impinj Hires Walter Palhetas to Lead Global Sales

Impinj, Inc. announced Walter X. Palhetas has joined the company as SVP of global sales. Palhetas brings nearly two decades of senior management experience in helping high-growth companies scale and transform sales. At Impinj, Palhetas leads the sales team, spanning OEM and solutions-focused channels, to support and create new demand with partners for the Impinj platform.
 
Palhetas most recently held the role of EVP of sales and worldwide marketing and sales operations at Nexsan Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Imation, Inc.), where he led all revenue generation through the channel community, strategic accounts and OEM partnerships worldwide. In this role, he garnered highly strategic OEM partnerships, including a key relationship with Cisco, and was able to accelerate revenue growth, improve productivity and create demand to triple the size of the sales and systems engineering teams.
 
“Walter brings deep experience in leading sales across a range of channels and strategies and has successfully led teams through fast growth trajectories,” said Eric Brodersen, president and COO at Impinj. “Walter’s role and team is critical to harnessing the strong customer demand for Item Intelligence as a key enabler of the Internet of Things.”
 
Palhetas’ experience spans sales, business development and marketing from a breadth of enterprise technology companies including StorageTek (now Oracle StorageTek, a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.), Troika Networks, Inc. (acquired by Qlogic), SUN Microsystems, Pillar Data Systems, Nexsan Technologies and Imation.