Archive for January, 2011

Mood Media Appoints New UK Sales Director

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

John Sheehan has been appointed Sales Director of Mood Media UK, a division of Mood Media Corporation (TSX:MM/ LSE AIM:MM). Mr Sheehan will report to SVP Mood Media Europe, Vanessa Walmsley, and will work closely alongside Claude Nahon, President of Mood Media Europe. He will also work in tandem with the company’s European sales directors. […]

Dmitry Sokolov Joins HP

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dmitry Sokolov, previously at Ingram Micro and one of our regular contributors, has joined HP Canada as a Category Business Manager: Retail Solutions & Thin Clients. We understand that HP’s Retail Solutions category is comprised of Digital Signage, POS and Kiosk products. In his role at HP, Dmitry we believe will likely be focusing on […]

Are We Gonna See These At #ScreenMediaExpo?

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here we see Mark Pigou (left hand side) and Richard Corbett (right hand side) in front of a Mini Cooper equipped with an iTaxiTop… Some folks have seen them already flying around London. Perhaps this means that we are going to see them at #ScreenMediaExpo in May in London? Whilst this is cool the guys […]

Dirk Hülsermann Joins NEC To Champion VUKUNET

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NEC Display Solutions Europe’s newly established DOOH Solutions business unit now has a manager and it’s Dirk Hülsermann (also non-stipendiary OVAB President of course) who up until recently was one of Neo Media Group’s Senior Execs. His new role we believe is to launch VUKUNET in Europe. VUKUNET is NEC’s fledgling ad-serving platform launched last […]

Nick Parker, Trading Director, Kinetic

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Kinetic keeps seemingly shuffling its management team. The company’s latest announcement is the promotion of Nick Parker to the newly created role of Trading Director, EMEA. Reporting to Chief Executive of EMEA, Simon Crisp, and based in London, Parker will work closely with the senior management teams in Kinetic’s 16 offices across the region. The […]

James Abdool Aims To Conquer Kilimanjaro

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This afternoon James Abdool leaves Heathrow and heads to Kilimanjaro arriving tomorrow afternoon. Early Saturday morning he will start his trek and the aim (to climb Kilimanjaro) is to be completed and down sometime on Thursday (that’s 5 nights of camping after anything between 6 and 14 hours of trekking each day). Looks like he […]

Bill Warren Takes CEO Post At Reflect

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Bill Warren has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer at in-store digital media solutions company Reflect, Dallas. Warren was previously president and chief operating officer, a position now taken by Matt Schmitt, Reflect co-founder who will continue to serve on the board of directors. As CEO, Warren will leverage the experience he […]

Minicom To Launch ScreenGate

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Minicom Digital Signage is launching its new solution family ScreenGate at #ISEUROPE next week. The ScreenGate solution family includes ScreenGate Management Gateway – which offers management capability, with Proof-of-Performance technology included – and ScreenGate IP Streaming solution – which offers IP streaming media delivery advantages. Ronni Guggenheim, CEO of MDS told us “With its new […]

Signagelive Android V-Player

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Signagelive is building up momentum for the launch of its virtual player for Android at #ISEUROPE. You can see a video of how it works on the company’s website. Signagelive’s Jason Cremins says, “We aim to offer the widest device support available to our customers and our new signagelive for Android player opens up tremendous […]

Chilin Solutions: Three Become One

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Chilin Solutions is a new business formed by combining Chilin Technology’s commercial LCD display group, Vertigo Digital Displays and Chilin’s commercial e-paper display solutions group. The three businesses have been operating informally together for the past six months, but have now formalized the arrangement under the new company name. The new specialty display business, integrating […]