iGotcha gets big high profile in Montreal Gazette October 3, 2011 by Super User The Montreal Gazette, that city’s primary English language daily, has a nice, lengthy business profile piece this morning about iGotcha Media, which has been involved in digital signage and Digital OOH for a bunch of years. The piece talks about how the company got past the sudden death of one of its co-founders, Michael Terni. …
DPAA beefs up board with three new members October 3, 2011 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association has bulked up its board with more than a bit of a who’s-who of the Digital OOH advertising space. The board now has 10 members with the addition of: Michael Bush, CEO of NTN Buzztime; Garry McGuire, CEO of Reach Media Group; and Dominick Porco, CEO of Adspace Networks, Inc. …
Brawn’s volunteer work cited by InfoComm September 28, 2011 by Super User The pro-AV trade association InfoComm International has cited one of the more omnipresent names in this sector – Alan Brawn – for his volunteer efforts. The consultant and educator (he and his son, among many things, do those Digital Signage Experts Group sessions that seem to be part of most sector trade shows) has been …
Spicer leaves VUKUNET; Vartian and HaiVision part ways September 27, 2011 by Super User A pair of well-known and respected industry guys parted ways with their companies at the end of last week and are now sorting out their next moves. Graeme Spicer is no longer with NEC, having spent the last year shuttling back and forth between his Toronto home and NEC’s Chicago offices to build up business …
Four Winds hires execs to grow sales beyond North America September 14, 2011 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has announced plans and hires to expand its business beyond North America. Former Scala exec Robert Koolen is now President of FWi’s international ops and Paul Farrow, who was most recently with HP’s digital signage business unit (wonder why he bailed on that … hmmm) is FWi’s Director for Europe. Koolen …
Nix taking over as Scala’s CEO September 14, 2011 by Super User Tom Nix will be the new CEO of digital signage software vendor Scala when Gerard Bucas steps down from that gig at the end of October. It’s been a quick rise to the top for Nix, who only joined the company last summer. Nix had been the point man in North America for Dynamax and …
Jill Miller joins Immersive Labs September 12, 2011 by Super User Jill Miller, known by many in the sector as the point person for The Digital Signage Group, has signed on with Immersive Labs as EVP Sales and Marketing. TDSG, run by Jill and her husband David, has for years been a reseller and big advocate and educator for the space. They were doing webinars years …
Porter leaving Nanolumens September 8, 2011 by Super User Kyle Porter has quickly become well-known in the space as one of the key customer-facing guys at NanoLumens, but that’s about to change as he leaves the company to co-found a software start-up. He called me the other day to fill me in, and when he said he was leaving to start a software firm, …
Albregts leaves Samsung for AmEx gig July 6, 2011 by Super User I’ve never actually met Doug Albregts, but was impressed with what he had to say a few weeks ago when he was talking about the commercial display panel business and digital signage prospects at the DisplaySearch/InfoComm conference. I figured I’d end up chatting with him at some point, but that’s probably not on (or relevant) …
DSE puts out call for 2012 speaker proposals June 28, 2011 by Super UserIt’s hard to think this far out, but Digital Signage Expo is already furiously getting itself organized for the next gathering of the industry clans in early March 2012 in Lost Wages. The call is now out for speakers, or more accurately, proposals to get microphone time at the educational sessions. Educational Oversight Committees comprised of …
