{"id":2354,"date":"2018-10-17T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:41:23","slug":"event-software-company-aventri-acquires-itn-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"Event Software Company Aventri Acquires ITN International"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORWALK, Conn. NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/span><\/a><\/span>\/AETOSWire<\/span><\/a><\/span>)– Leading event management software company\u00a0Aventri<\/span><\/a>\u00a0announced the acquisition of\u00a0ITN International<\/span><\/a>, the industry leader in NFC, mobile and cloud-based technology. With the acquisition of ITN, Aventri will broaden its technology and service offerings, expanding its global reach and the events that they support.<\/span><\/p>\n

Servicing annually 125 events, 10,000 exhibitors and 1.5 million attendees, ITN serves event producers by combining technology with personalized professional services to optimize events. A look at their product set includes:<\/span><\/p>\n

Online registration system with speaker management, agenda builder, session scheduling, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Onsite services include NFC badges, check-in stations, lead retrieval, apps, RFID scanning and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Data visualization tools with advanced reporting and analytics around registration, badge activity and scans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisition of ITN as a global provider of cloud-based event management solutions is a major growth opportunity for Aventri,\u201d says Oni Chukwu, CEO of Aventri. \u201cAventri will significantly extend the mission-critical technology solutions it offers enterprise customers which they need to execute exceptional, profitable events worldwide. We\u2019re thrilled to be having an extremely talented and innovative group from ITN joining the team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the fourth acquisition Aventri has made in the past three years, following their recent rebrand and the majority investment by private equity firm HGGC. ITN will bring Aventri\u2019s total number of employees to 375+ and add five new global offices.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHGGC chose to invest in\u00a0Aventri because we believed in their team and dedication to offering the market a data-driven platform to grow an organization\u2019s revenue around events,\u201d said Steve Young, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HGGC. \u201cThe decision to bring ITN into the fold will only accelerate Aventri\u2019s growth over the competition with more innovation to gather data and drive event growth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the acquisition, current CEO Ivan Lazarev will join the Aventri executive team as the Group Head of Onsite Services. ITN\u2019s executive team members, COO Spencer Segura, CTO Chris Macleod and CRO Mike Sorgani, will also join Aventri in senior management roles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFinding Aventri was the perfect fit, not only because of their investors, but also because of their desire to provide an end-to-end, top of the line solution for event data management,\u201d said Lazarev. \u201cWe could not be more excited to join forces with Aventri and HGGC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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*Source: AETOSWire<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NORWALK, Conn. NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE\/AETOSWire)– Leading event management software company\u00a0Aventri\u00a0announced the acquisition of\u00a0ITN International, the industry leader in NFC, mobile and cloud-based technology. With the acquisition of ITN, Aventri will broaden its technology and service offerings, expanding its global reach and the events that they support. Servicing annually 125 events, 10,000 exhibitors and 1.5 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1734,1733,1735],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-aventri","tag-event-software","tag-itn-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}