Ray Cooke, Ex-Hanwha SVP, Joins Dragonfruit AI to Drive Retail Business in North America

Dragonfruit AI, retail's first massively scalable video AI platform, is pleased to announce that Ray Cooke most recently SVP at Hanwha Techwin America – has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development. Dragonfruit's Frontier was custom-built for Retail Loss Prevention/Asset Protection (Video Summaries, ORC Investigations, OSHA Compliance, Slip/Fall, Liquid Spill), Store Operations (Checkout Metrics, Point-of-Sale Analysis with Video Verification) and Marketing/Merchandising (In-store Commerce Funnels). Designed from the ground-up for multi-location retailers, Frontier combines a powerful Base Station leveraging the Apple M1 architecture with advanced cloud intelligence. Starting at just $900/location/year, Frontier provides the flexibility for retailers to start solving their most pressing needs and add on more capabilities as required. In his new role, Cooke will help large-scale retailers use Frontier to derive insights from their video to address pivotal challenges – such as optimizing staffing, detecting unsafe conditions, accelerating investigations, managing store layouts and streamlining operations.