28 Aug 2013 07:00
28 August 2013
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blur (Group) Plc
("blur Group" or the "Company")
s-commerce firm blur Group boosts C-Suite Appointees
Dorothy Mead to become Global Head of Digital (Marketing) and
Jon Hogg to become Global Head of Platform
blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com has today announced another set of Global appointees as Dorothy Mead and Jon Hogg become Global Head of Digital (Marketing) and Global Head of Platform respectively.
Reporting directly into CEO Philip Letts, Mead's role will encompass all digital channels including Content Marketing, SEO, PPC and Affiliate Marketing driving customer acquisition.
Also reporting into CEO, Philip Letts, Hogg will be responsible for all front and back end development for the technology company. This includes the company's R&D facility in Exeter and as such he will operate from both Exeter and London.
Manuel Bordes will be promoted to Head of R&D and will be the day-to-day senior manager of the R&D Center in Exeter. Nunzio Avino becomes Front end Architect whilst Clare McSporran becomes London Studio Manager. The team will be joined by Gavan Raine, who joins as Head of Tech Ops.
Within the Global Digital (Marketing) team, Jacky Lok steps up to Insights Manager, Robert Sandall moves up to Content Marketing Manager and will be joined by David Tapp who joins blur Group as Digital Advertising Manager.
blur Group CEO Philip Letts commented, 'Since announcing our most recent C-Suite appointees in Kara Cardinale and Gerry Gross, we have broken through 2,500 projects submitted to the Exchange, surpassing $42,000,000 in total project values. Today's appointments will ensure that the C-Suite managers will be further supported in helping the business grow.'
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About blur (Group) plc at blurgroup.com
blur Group is a technology company reinventing how businesses do commerce at blurgroup.com. Its Global Services Exchange delivers services differently: a new way to buy, manage and pay for core services. Over 30,000 businesses in 141 countries have adopted this s-commerce platform and changed the way they work.
blur Group (BLUR) is a public company headquartered in the UK with offices in the US and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. blur was founded in January 2006 and launched in alpha in 2007 with the full, formal launch of the Global Services Exchange in January 2010. At that time, just over three projects per month were submitted. Now, nearly 150 projects start on the exchange each month. Customers include Danone, Broadridge, Coral, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco. Over the same time, average project value has grown from approximately $1,500 in 2010 to $22,943 in Q2 2013.
Today, over 2,500 projects have been submitted with a combined value of above $42.0 million. These have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 30,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them.