Jed Ayres
Heiko Gloge, the founding father and driving force behind IGEL’s rise over the past two decades from an upstart German thin-client manufacturer to a global next-generation edge operating system powerhouse, is stepping aside and handing the global CEO post to Jed Ayres.
Ayres, the hard-charging marketing maestro who Gloge recruited as U.S. CEO four years ago to take IGEL into Silicon Valley and lead the global software offensive, is pledging to take the company from $150 million in sales to more than $1 billion.
Ayres will take over the sole CEO job effective April 1, 2020, with the 58-year-old Gloge remaining as a large non-executive shareholder on the IGEL board of directors. Nicolas Helms, the managing partner of Melchers, the 214-year-old parent of IGEL, will also remain a managing director.
