Senior Sales Appointments

News Release

May 20 2013

blur Group strengthens international teams with senior sales appointments

Regional managers hired for US and European teams

blur (Group) plc, the technology company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com, today announced the appointments of Dan Murphy and Sat Ramewal as Head of Sales for the US and EMEA respectively, reporting to Gerry Gross, Global Head of Sales.

Both come to blur Group with impressive pedigrees in the IT and Communications Industry with over 20 years collective experience in senior management positions. Sat was most recently Commercial Director at D&B responsible for a complete turnaround of a declining business unit into one of double digit growth following senior business development roles at Colt and KPNQwest, while Dan, originally from the UK, was most recently Sales Director at Enable Labs in New York.

These appointments further accelerate blur's position as a provider of s-commerce platform solutions to enterprise customers, strengthened by the recent launch of blur 3.0 which provides a unified technology platform for the Global Services Exchange. The appointments spearhead blur's growth of its international sales teams to address the need of enterprise customers to buy services more cost-effectively, in a more streamlined, centralized and efficient fashion.

Commenting on the appointments, Philip Letts, blur Group CEO said "Both Sat and Dan come to blur with experience of platform sales and developing large customers and sales teams. After launching 3.0 in April we're now well on the way to establishing the sales teams who can ensure enterprise adoption and further scale blur's rapid growth. "

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About blur (Group) plc

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. Nearly 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 briefs per month were submitted. Now 100 briefs per month from companies like Broadridge, Coral, eBay, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco are received. Over the same time, average brief value has grown from approximately $1,500 in 2010 to $10,800 in Q1 2013.

Today, more than 1,900 briefs have been submitted with a combined brief value of over $25 million. These briefs have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 26,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them.