Digitus Biometrics, an innovator in physical data center security, announced today that James MacDougall has joined the leadership team as Executive Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing.  In his new role, MacDougall will oversee the company's strategic sales, business development, marketing and customer relationship strategies.

According to David Orischak, CEO of Digitus, "Adding James to our executive team is an important step in our ongoing strategy to accelerate growth and acquire greater market share across targeted geographies and sectors.  James joins Digitus with a proven track record of successfully building and growing enterprise-class sales organizations at leading data center services companies.  We're excited to have him on board and harness his expertise and innovative ideas on how we can take our sales and marketing practices to the next level."

MacDougall added, "The market is in need of a company that can economically deliver highly effective physical access security to protect its data…especially in today's cyber-sophisticated and mobile world.  Digitus Biometrics is that company.  I'm thrilled to join their team and help position the organization for long-term sustained growth by focusing on creative solutions and customer relationships."  

MacDougall comes to Digitus with over 15 years of direct and channel sales and marketing leadership within the data center, cloud and network security industries.  He has served as VAZATA's Sales Vice President and Digital Realty's Sales Director over their federal solutions, as well as leading Qwest Communications' enterprise data center sales team to unprecedented growth and helping initiate their evolution into the Cloud.   MacDougall holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland.