Axis Communications AB announced the addition of two security industry veterans to its North American business development team. Stephen Joseph becomes company's first North American business development manager for Banking & Finance, while John Merlino was appointed as business development manager for Government Programs. Additionally, to fortify the business development team and plan for continued future growth, Robert Muehlbauer was promoted to Business Development Programs Manager and John Bartolac to Business Development Segments Manager. The banking and finance industry has one of the lowest convergence rates from analog to digital video surveillance.

Stephen Joseph will leverage more than 30 years of industry experience to drive Axis' educational efforts with banking and finance integrator partners and end-customers to impart the security and operational benefits of migrating from analog CCTV to IP video. John Merlino joins Axis following two decades of active and reserve Military service in the United States Navy and more than twenty years working in the physical and logical security industry, most recently in a global business development role at LENEL Systems International.