BlinkPipe appoints Michael Francis to head up Marketing Communications

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. - July 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Following a series of new appointments, Cambridge-based BlinkPipe (http://www.blinkpipe.com/), providers of high quality, big screen telepresence, has appointed Michael Francis as Marketing Communications Manager.  

Michael has over eleven years business-to-business technology marketing experience, including positions held at Vigilant Software, Red Gate Software, Camrivox, Vianet and Accelrys.  He has also spent seven years working in scientific publishing, including The Royal Society of Chemistry and Derwent Publications.

Commenting on his new role, he said: “This is an exciting time to join BlinkPipe.  HD video conferencing for businesses has traditionally been both a user experience nightmare and expensive, until now.

PhoneCamHD offers a different proposition from anything else on the market.  It makes meeting room HD video conferencing as easy as making a telephone call, from only £49 per camera. The combination of high quality, big screen telepresence at a low monthly subscription with no long-term contract is a winning solution for businesses operating across multiple sites.”

Reporting into co-founder, Alex Nanckevill, Michael will also work with the company’s PR agency, KISS Communications to raise the profile of BlinkPipe and communicate its key areas of differentiation.  

Alex explains, “Our commercial focus is sales; both in volume and scalability.  Michael’s remit is to take ownership of blinkpipe.com (http://www.blinkpipe.com/), develop sales collateral for our channel partners and capture testimonials that show how BlinkPipe’s customers are getting value from PhoneCamHD.”

As a start up company, BlinkPipe is running a launch offer on PhoneCamHD for one month in two meeting rooms for less than £100. For details on this offer please click here (http://www.blinkpipe.com/launch-offer/).

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Editor’s Notes

www.blinkpipe.com

Alex Nancekievill and Dave Gwilt set up BlinkPipe at the end of 2010.  Based on East Road in Cambridge, BlinkPipe’s first product PhoneCamHD provides high quality, big screen telepresence accessible to businesses of all sizes.  

PhoneCamHD is easy, reliable and accessible and can be installed in minutes with video call ready straight away.

Key features include:

Ø  PhoneCamHD connects to a conference phone and operates automatically when you dial

Ø  Easy content collaboration: share content easily with WebEx or Vyew. PhoneCamHD handles all the setup so users simply need to join

Ø  720p HD video on a big LCD TV captures superb detail while presenting participants life size

Ø  High specification optics: all glass multi-element zoom lens and face-tracking autofocus providing crisp, vibrant images

Ø  Firewall crossing: PhoneCamHD traverses firewalls automatically enabling users to call outside their company without IT support

Ø  Auto framing works out where the participants are and automatically adjusts tilt and zoom to present the best picture

For further information, photography, interviews, by-lined articles, or reviews of BlinkPipe, please contact:

Laura Brown/Justine Smith

KISS Public Relations

T: + 44 (0) 1223 911 123

E-mail: laura @kisscom.co.uk

justine@kisscom.co.uk