JULY 2015
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business elite canada 47
By Cheryl Long
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T
hough Ottawa-based Christie Wal-
ther Communications has been
in business since 1962, the mo-
bile communications company has seen
its greatest evolution occur over the past
three years during the industry’s transition
from analog to digital technology.
It was also in 2012 that Joe Hickey, Vice
President, Sales and Marketing, joined the
company with a mandate to build a new
sales and marketing team just as Christie
Walther began investing heavily in a next
generation digital network. The company-
wide reshaping, including a renewed focus
on its people and infrastructure, helped
the organization accelerate its evolution to
fully digital and IP-based solutions, Hickey
said.
“Five years ago, 17 percent of the sales
that the company made were in the digi-
tal category,” he said. “Over the last two
years, we’ve been above 80 percent of our
sales are digital technology-related.”
