20 Aug 2013 07:00
20 August 2013
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blur (Group) Plc
("blur Group" or the "Company")
blur Group Announces Three New Senior Management Roles to support the global growth of the Exchange
Roles of Chief Commercial Officer, General Manager for EMEA and Chief Community Officer to be created by the international technology company
blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com, has today announced a restructuring of the organisation to strengthen its operational team across all regions, supporting the global growth of the Exchange. Gerry Gross moves to Chief Commercial Officer, Sat Ramewal to EMEA General Manager and Kara Cardinale to Chief Community Officer. Each Head of Division will report into Philip Letts, CEO.
As Chief Commercial Officer, Gerry Gross will have responsibility for managing all corporate sales, Exchange Support across the globe and a newly created regional MarComms function.
Kara Cardinale is set to become blur Group's Chief Community Officer, with responsibility for Customer Experience, Community Management, HR, Talent Recruitment and payment functions.
Sat Ramewal, former EMEA Business Development Director, is to become the EMEA General Manager. The new role will include managing all Corporate Sales, Exchange Support and MarComms across the EMEA section.
Philip Letts, CEO, commented, "We have achieved $42 million in terms of total value of projects submitted to the Exchange. As the business continues to expand, we need to ensure that we are supporting our middle level teams who are responsible for educating companies to our philosophy and supporting our customers all around the globe. We believe that these appointments will help us do so."
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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, nearly 2,500 projects have been submitted with a combined value of over $42 million. These have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with close to 30,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them.