Headwall Appoints Christopher Calling to Board of Directors

BOLTON, MA; June 29, 2018- Headwall has elected Christopher Calling to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Calling brings to Headwall a very strong focus on customer strategy development and the sales & marketing of high performance spectral instrumentation in application areas of high growth and technology adoption.

As one of the original founders of Andor Technology Ltd (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Mr. Calling was instrumental in building and driving Andor’s worldwide annual revenue in excess of $150 million. During this time, he served as President of the Americas and global sales director. He was also responsible for the development and implementation of Andor’s global sales, marketing, and OEM partnership strategies within the spectroscopy and imaging market.

Chris also served as a Board member at Andor for more than 10 years. In addition to sales and marketing leadership, Chris helped drive the company’s M&A activity through multiple acquisitions.

Headwall CEO David Bannon pointed to Calling’s background as valuable in contributing to the Company’s strong outlook going forward: “Across all of our markets, we are seeing an ever-broadening array of applications requiring Headwall’s spectral instrumentation and solutions. Chris has valuable experience in scaling organizations with high rates of growth. I am looking forward to working with him as a Headwall Board member and taking advantage of his 25 years of industry experience to continue delivering on Headwall’s vision.”

Chris Calling stated, “Headwall is an incredibly talented company with exceptional market and application experience. The proven ability to deploy advanced spectral solutions not only for data acquisition but for data exploitation is a clear differentiator for customers that will drive profitable growth. I am very excited to work with the Headwall team.”