JMR Appoints New EMEA Sales Manager, Prepares to Bring BlueStor to the International Market at IBC 2009

By Prne, Gaea News Network
Sunday, August 9, 2009

CHATSWORTH, California -

- UK-based industry veteran with 20 years of broadcast and data storage expertise to lead JMR’s international sales

JMR Electronics, Inc. (www.jmr.com/), a leading value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, today announced the upcoming global expansion of the company by naming a new EMEA sales manager, Iain Pickthall. JMR is now poised to introduce their BlueStor(TM) line of video storage products (www.jmr.com/storagetechnology.html) to markets in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and will launch their international presence at IBC 2009 (www.ibc.org/) in Amsterdam.

Pickthall’s experience with broadcast and data storage industries spans more than two decades; he has previously worked in both sales and marketing for several start-up companies in addition to market-leading multinational NASDAQ companies. Additionally, he has also worked with key OEM partners in the EMEA region developing sales, integration and customer development.

“We are pleased to have Iain Pickthall join JMR as our EMEA sales director, as our readiness and ability to promote and build the JMR brand internationally will be best served by adding Pickthall’s expertise to our team,” said Josef Rabinovitz, President and CEO of JMR Electronics, Inc. “For more than 25 years, JMR has established itself in the US as a leading storage industry innovator. We have developed several proven and reliable storage technologies for the broadcast and video post-production markets in the last 18 months, and the market timing is right for JMR to create a strong global customer and technology partner base,” he added.

“JMR’s long history of achievements in the data storage space, in addition to the gaining popularity of its BlueStor family of solutions, is an impressive foundation from which my sales and marketing abilities can be of value to the company overseas,” said Pickthall. “I look forward to helping JMR flourish in the EMEA market, and am excited to take part in the company’s formal introduction to the global marketplace during their first visit to IBC this year.”

For EMEA sales inquiries, Pickthall may be reached by phone at +44-7760-768690 or by e-mail at iain.pickthall@jmr.com.

IBC is the leading international forum for the electronic media industry, attracting thousands of exhibitors from more than 130 countries. The 2009 conference and exhibition will take place at RAI Centre in Amsterdam. JMR Electronics, Inc. will be showcasing their BlueStor products in Hall 7, Stand G14 from September 10th through the 15th.

About JMR Electronics, Inc.

JMR is the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for performance, capacity and availability driven applications in the government, rich media, VOD, video surveillance and Web 2.0 markets. As a pioneering leader in high performance RAID storage technologies since 1982, JMR’s complete line of BlueStor PeSAN(TM) DAS (jmr.com/storagetechnology_html/PeSanPcieRaid.html), NAS and SAN solutions are ideal for nearly every IT and video production need. For more information about JMR or the BlueStor product line, visit www.jmr.com or contact the company at +1-818-993-4801, or sales@jmr.com.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Source: JMR Electronics, Inc.

Bridget Jackson of CHAN & ASSOCIATES, INC., +1-714-447-4993, ext. 105, bridget at chanandassoc.com, for JMR Electronics, Inc.

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