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New VP for Grass Valley Northern EMEA

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:03

Colin Hay

As part of an overall initiative to strengthen its leadership across Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Grass Valley welcomes industry veteran Colin Hay as its new Vice President for the Northern EMEA region.

Hay brings a wealth of experience as a senior executive with strong credentials in both the media and technology sectors.

In his new role, Hay will develop and implement innovative customer engagement plans across the region, focus on business development, and also manage the various Grass Valley local sales networks. He will be located in the UK, reporting directly to Alan Wright.

“I’m excited about the opportunity to help grow an already thriving business sector at Grass Valley, and implement a number of new programmes that will benefit customers and make the sales and support process simpler yet more comprehensive in scope,” said Hay. “The Grass Valley brand is well established throughout the EMEA region; we plan to capitalise on that strength and bring our file-based, IT-centric technology to help streamline workflows and improve productivity and ROI to a wider variety of professional media organisations.”

Hay previously served as Director Strategic Accounts at UK-based Red Bee Media, where he and his team supervised a number of high-profile accounts (including Disney, Microsoft, Orange, UKTV and Sky) and spearheaded the company’s business development efforts. During this time he significantly grew new business at Red Bee and pioneered a number of new managed production and distribution services for the company.

Prior to that Hay led the online transformation of a well-known European service provider and spent many years in the Telco sector (with brands such as Motorola and O2).

“Colin Hay brings an entrepreneurial approach, based on his years of experience running private technology businesses, that will serve him well in this new role,” said Alan Wright, Senior Vice President of EMEA for Grass Valley. “That means he knows how to get things done in the most efficient way. He makes a fine addition to our team and we welcome his impressive abilities that will benefit customers and make the sales process simpler yet much more comprehensive in scope.”

Hay holds an MBA (Distinction) from Warwick Business School, where he is also an Associate Fellow.

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