Pro-Bel Appoints Adrian Scott to Board Position and Senior Marketing Role
Reading, UK – 19th June 2006: Pro-Bel, the premier manufacturer of routing switchers, signal processing, master control, automation and control and monitoring technologies announced today that it has appointed Adrian Scott as Director and Chief Marketing Officer. In this newly created role Adrian will oversee Pro-Bel’s marketing and communications functions worldwide.
Adrian has had a long career in broadcasting and broadcast technology, and has held the positions of VP of Marketing (EMEA) for Avid’s newsroom subsidiary iNews, and Director of Marketing for Autocue. For the last four years he has been running his own company, the Bakewell House Consultancy.
“Pro-Bel has been one of my major clients over the past 18 months or so,” says Scott, “and my experiences with the company have left me with the highest regard for its achievements in the past and potential for the future. This assignment takes our relationship to an entirely new level: I am delighted to be joining Pro-Bel’s Board, and excited about being given the opportunity of participating in the next phase of the company’s ambitious corporate strategy.”
Pro-Bel recently announced its intention to stage an IPO (Initial Public Offering) later in 2006. This follows a successful management buyout from the Chyron Corporation in 2003, and the equally successful acquisition of infrastructure company Vistek in 2005.
Graham Pitman, Pro-Bel’s CEO, adds: “since our MBO we have re-invented Pro-Bel and are focussed on supplying products and services that are relevant to our dynamic market. Adrian has a great record as an evangelist for new technologies and new methods in our industry; I regard Adrian as one of the few people capable of conveying to the market the degree of change that Pro-Bel has embraced; his appointment is an important step in our development.”
About Adrian Scott:
After studying journalism as an overseas scholar at the University of North Carolina, Adrian Scott spent the early part of his career as a journalist in radio and television. It was as one of the founding team at TV-am that he first encountered the BASYS newsroom computer system, and he joined ITN when they acquired the BASYS company to become Head of Sales and Marketing. After a period of rapid growth (which included BASYS’ winning the Queens Award for Export Achievement) BASYS was acquired by Avid Technology where Adrian rose to become VP of Marketing for Avid’s newsroom subsidiary iNews. In 2001 he became Director of Marketing at Autocue, and in 2003 founded the Bakewell House Consultancy to deliver a broad range of services to broadcasters and manufacturers.
Contact Information:
Company contact:
Katharine Guy
Pro-Bel Ltd
Tel: +44 1189 214 294
katharine.guy@pro-bel.com
Press contact:
Jennie Evans
Manor Marketing
Tel: +44 1635 44991
jennie@manormarketing.tv
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www.pro-bel.com/news_and_events/c/Press Information/