LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18,
2015 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx plc ("blinkx" or the "Company"),
today announces the appointment of Mr Sudhi
Herle as Chief Product Officer, joining the Company
Executive team. In this position, Herle will lead the product,
engineering and operations teams across the company.
Based in San Francisco, Herle
brings over 15 years of engineering, product development, mobile,
security and advanced R&D experience, with a track record of
product innovation and delivery. Previously, Herle was Global Head
of Enterprise Products at Samsung, where he was instrumental in
creating the Samsung Knox platform, as well as formulating the
Global Enterprise strategy for Samsung Mobile. Leading up to this
role, he acted as Vice President of Mobile R&D at Samsung and
was key in launching the first Samsung Android devices in the US
market. Prior to Samsung, Herle was head of Engineering as Sipera
(Avaya), a VoIP security startup. Herle holds more than thirty
technology patents and undergraduate and graduate degrees in Math
and Computer Science from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay and
Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA.
"We are delighted to have Sudhi join the Executive team and
bring his years of engineering, R&D, and product leadership to
blinkx," said S. Brian Mukherjee,
CEO of blinkx. "Sudhi is an accomplished technology executive with
an impressive career history in the security and mobile space,
working with some of the leading technology brands in the
world. He is a key hire to fortify our position in an industry
moving toward better audience filtering, targeting, and
segmentation across screens, with mobile as the lynchpin. Our
recent acquisitions continue to bolster our mobile and video
capabilities, positioning us squarely in the two leading growth
vectors of the industry. Sudhi will bring to bear his vast mobile,
technology and product leadership experience to drive innovation
across the Company and maximize our growth potential in these
areas. Sudhi's product and engineering role dovetails
perfectly with the operational and sales alignment already in
progress within the Company — one that we expect will help blinkx
accelerate its mission to lead the cross-screen video movement, at
scale."
About blinkx
blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX) is an Internet media company that
connects consumers and brands through premium content online.
Founded in 2004 in the UK, blinkx pioneered Internet Video Search
using its patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE). This
technology leverages speech recognition, text and image analysis to
deeply understand the meaning and context of video content to
generate improved search relevancy for consumers and a brand safe
environment for advertisers. Through its partnerships with hundreds
of media companies, including NBC, Conde
Nast, Reuters and Bloomberg, blinkx has indexed and search
enabled millions of hours of video content. blinkx powers video
search, discovery or monetization on thousands of online properties
including Lycos, Discovery Networks, Hallmark and Fox Sports.
blinkx is headquartered in San Francisco,
California with 15 offices worldwide. For more information
please visit www.blinkx.com.
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