Evolv Technology has announced the appointment of Jay Muelhoefer to serve as its new Chief Commercial Officer.

According to the company, Muelhoefer will assume global responsibility for its sales, marketing, alliances, channels and customer success teams to help expand brand awareness, drive revenue growth globally and ensure exceptional customer experiences.

Muelhoefer joins Evolv from Kinaxis, an SaaS-based supply chain management applications provider focused on planning and execution for digital transformation, sustainability and resiliency using AI and advanced analytics, where he has served as Chief Marketing Officer.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Muelhoefer served as Chief Marketing Officer at Intralinks, a global provider of enterprise SaaS solutions for secure content sharing, collaboration and work lifecycle management.

Before that, he spent two years at IBM where he served as Global Executive Director and led global go-to market efforts for Software Defined Data Center initiatives spanning analytics, big data, high performance computing and cloud technologies.

Earlier in his career, Muelhoefer held various executive leadership roles spanning sales, channel, marketing, strategy and general management at Platform Computing (acquired by IBM), PTC and Booz Allen Hamilton. 

New leadership

“We’re excited to welcome Jay to the executive management team,” said Peter George, President and Chief Executive Officer of Evolv Technology.

“Jay has had a highly accomplished 30-year sales and marketing career across the SaaS, AI, big data and analytics markets.

“We believe his experience scaling the global go-to-market functions for category-leading technology companies will be critically important as we prepare for the next stage of our growth.”

“I’m thrilled to be joining Evolv Technology, a leader in AI-based weapons detection security screening,” said Muelhoefer.

“Evolv is leading the creation of a new market category with a rapidly growing customer base across education, healthcare, professional sports, tourist attractions and industrial workplaces.

“Evolv’s focus on innovation, security leadership and exceptional customer experience combined with a very positive culture attracted me to be part of its mission to help make everywhere safer.”