--- title: FoodSafe Drains | Viking Kristjansson (2) description: Viking is the Vice President of Sales Engineering & Partner Development at Global Drain Technologies. He graduated with Honors from Red River College in the Civil Engineering C.E.T. program and has over 25 years of professional sales experience and 15 years of design-build and engineering expertise. 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