The Ivanti Rapid Platform will help validate multiple hardware platforms, providing the right solution for the right device
SINGAPORE, July 14, 2020 — Ivanti Wavelink announced its partnership with Manhattan Associates, in support of Windows to Android migrations. Using Ivanti® Rapid Platform™, customers in warehousing, transport & logistics, and retail who use Manhattan Associates solutions, can now experience an easy-to-use migration from Windows to Android systems. Further, this solution allows organisations to also eliminate the risk typically associated with new platform migration.
“We are proud to be on board with Manhattan Associates and support them in their migration journey in the Southeast Asia region,” said Simon Storey, Area Vice President APAC at Ivanti Wavelink. “With Ivanti Rapid delivery platform, we are helping our customers easily migrate their apps to Android or Windows 10 and enhance their user experience by modernising, voice-enabling and managing assets.”
Designed to speed modernisation within the supply chain, the platform delivers several enhancements for optimising and simplifying the migration of applications across devices and operating systems.
Additional benefits and features of the platform include:
Voice enabled applications – Speeds up operations by adding voice to existing apps and increases safety by being truly hands free
Rapid migration and modernisation – Allows migration and modernisation in minutes, enhancing existing apps with new HTML screens and extending the life of the application
Validation – Validates against multiple hardware platforms giving maximum flexibility for the right device with the right solution
Support with new User interface – Decreases training time with a modern User Interface (UI)
Value Adds – Adds operational efficiencies such as voice picking, voice directed cross docking and releasing the hands for single items picks
“At Manhattan Associates, we are committed to provide both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability for our customers through our leading edge solutions and unmatched experience,” said Daniel Osborne, Marketing Director, APAC at Manhattan Associates. “With this in mind, teaming up with Ivanti will further support us in providing our customers a seamless experience with easily deployed systems.”
He added, “As a provider of leading-edge WMS and on-premises solutions, we constantly work towards minimising the risks and dependence on IT resources for our customers. Ivanti® Rapid Platform will benefit our customers to speed up their operations through rapid migration and modernisation, support with new UI, increasing productivity and accuracy.”
About Manhattan Associates Manhattan Associates is a technology leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce. We unite information across the enterprise, converging front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution. Our software, platform technology and unmatched experience help drive both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability for our customers. Manhattan Associates designs, builds and delivers leading edge cloud and on-premises solutions so that across the store, through your network or from your fulfilment center, you are ready to reap the rewards of the omnichannel marketplace. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.
Ivanti Wavelink The Ivanti Wavelink business unit helps organisations leverage modern technology in the warehouse and across the supply chain to improve delivery without modifying backend systems. The company also unifies IT and Security Operations to better manage and secure the digital workplace. From PCs to mobile devices, VDI and the data center, Ivanti discovers IT assets on-premises and in the cloud, improves IT service delivery, and reduces risk with insights and automation. Ivanti is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has offices all over the world. For more information, visit www.ivanti.com/wavelink and follow @GoIvanti.
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 14, 2020 — ThroughPut Inc., the Industrial AI company that manages operational bottlenecks across supply chains to increase output and cash-on-hand when it really matters, today announced it has been named a finalist of the Microsoft-for-Startups 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. ThroughPut is honored to be recognized among a global field of top Microsoft Partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
On being selected as a finalist for this recognition, Mr. Ali Raza, ThroughPut’s founding CEO said, “The opportunity to leverage ThroughPut’s AI software to help companies to monetize their diverse industrial data at scale on the world’s biggest enterprise data pipeline, aggregation and compute platform with Microsoft and Azure, is something we are grateful for every day. To be further recognized for our contributions to free-up working capital from COVID-impacted global supply chains across the far reaches of the Microsoft Enterprise platform further inspires our team of Digital Industrialists to keep persevering towards our vision of the future of efficient industrial business of greater output, less waste and increased free-cash-flow. We would like to especially thank Microsoft-for-Startups, the global Azure Team, and the entire extended Microsoft ecosystem for supporting our mission to enable data-driven leaders to continuously improve their operations, supply chains and their workforce’s improved capabilities in this new digital age.”
Seth Page, COO of ThroughPut added, “We are excited to be selected as one of the frontrunners for this prestigious award. At ThroughPut, we are laser focused on enabling our clients to maintain operational throughput to address the highest level of customer demand with their existing resources and data systems in any market condition. The Microsoft Partner Ecosystem and the Azure Marketplace have together accelerated our efforts to reach global customers, with exceptional Go-To-Market guidance and Geo-Expansion support.”
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year. Awards were classified in several categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,300 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. ThroughPut Inc. was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Microsoft-for-Startups.
“It is an honor to recognize the winners and finalists of the 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president, One Commercial Partner, Microsoft. “These partners go above and beyond, delivering timely solutions that solve the complex challenges that businesses around the world face – from communicating and collaborating virtually to helping customers realize their full potential with Azure cloud services, and beyond. I am proud to honor and congratulate each winner and finalist.”
About ThroughPut Inc. ThroughPut Inc. is an Industrial AI company that manages operational bottlenecks across supply chains to increase output & cash-on-hand when it really matters. ThroughPut’s supply chain AI products, ELI and ELITE, includes the Bottleneck Management System (BMS) that utilizes existing enterprise databases, such as ERP, MES, IMS, TMS, WMS, PLC, EAM, POS, CRM, SCADA, and other data systems, to solve the bottleneck problem across global supply chains that lead to waste, inefficiency and reduced cash-flow. ThroughPut’s systems are designed by Fortune 500 geo-market logistics leaders and Silicon Valley AI, Advanced Analytics and industry domain experts with deep applied hands-on experience in the field. ThroughPut’s ELI software thinks like an operations manager and automatically provides domain expertise, insights, and recommendations in real-time, which contemporary static business intelligence and analytics tools do not effectively capture nor remediate. ThroughPut’s dynamic insights include real-time resource allocation recommendations, granular root causes, and operational process stability analysis. ELI enables process improvement experts and operations managers to reduce cycle times and operational unpredictability across some of the most advanced process industries, including automotive, manufacturing, food & agriculture, oil & gas, transportation & aviation, aerospace & defense, chemical processing, energy, and many others.
Partners recognized for innovative solutions and making more possible for customers worldwide
REDMOND, Washington, July 14, 2020 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the winners and finalists of the 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize Microsoft partners demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Award winners and finalists from around the world will be recognized at the first-ever digital Microsoft Inspire, July 21-22, 2020.
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This year, Microsoft acknowledged partners in 49 categories celebrating each of the solution areas, industries and sectors globally in which Microsoft technologies are used. Microsoft introduced ten new categories this year, including the first-ever Community Response Award, which recognizes partners that have made a great difference, providing innovative and unique services or solutions to help solve problems for our customers and community during these unprecedented times.
The finalists and winners for all Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards were selected from more than 3,300 nominations collected from more than 100 different countries worldwide based on their commitment to customers, their solution’s impact on the market and exemplary use of Microsoft technologies.
“It is an honor to recognize the winners and finalists of the Microsoft 2020 Partner of the Year Awards,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president, One Commercial Partner, Microsoft. “These partners go above and beyond, delivering timely solutions that solve the complex challenges that businesses around the world face — from communicating and collaborating virtually to helping customers realize their full potential with Azure cloud services, and beyond. I am proud to honor and congratulate each winner and finalist.”
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
About Microsoft Inspire
Microsoft Inspire provides Microsoft’s partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Microsoft Inspire provides partners with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology. More information can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire.
PARIS, July 13, 2020 — Behind the closed-doors of the glitzy Bellagraph Nova Group office inside 10 Place Vendôme, Paris, a series of stimulating, intellectual discussions and negotiations have been taking place over the last few months, some of these exhilarating discussions will go down in history as one of those defining moments that will forge the destiny of a multibillion global company and potentially even the new digital world.
The New Social Technology Revolution – Panel Discussion With Bellagraph Nova Group Founders And Barack Obama On Their Ambitious Quest To Seize The Opportunity Of A Lifetime In The Post Pandemic World.
Headquartered in Paris, France, the Bellagraph Nova Group (BN Group), the conglomerate overseeing 31 business entities, across 100 countries, is the world’s fastest growing 360˚ lifestyle platform. Founded by the trailblazing trio, Ms. Evangeline Shen, Mr. Nelson Loh and Terence Loh, the Bellagraph Nova Group since its inception, has taken the world by storm, making strategic chess moves that even the greatest Grandmasters will be proud of.
One such brave move was the decision of the trio to embark on their landmark merger in the midst of the global pandemic crisis. The audacity to even fathom such a strategic thought by itself, is already no mean feat and the ability to pull it off was nothing short of a miracle move.
Below is an excerpt of some of the interview questions, discussed over the last few months behind closed doors, while the world was battling the Covid 19 crisis.
Question 1) Following the multi-billion dollar landmark merger between DORR Group and the Bellagraph Group of Companies and setting the new global HQ office at Paris, what is the rationale behind this brave decision in the midst of the worst pandemic crisis in human history and what inspired the founders of BN Group to embark on such ambitious, expansionary plans that the Group has been making over the last few months.
If one were to look back into the sands of time, all the previous pandemics in human history have massively reshaped our society, reformed religious existence, altered values of mankind and changed social behavior patterns globally. Starting from the 14th century, the Black Death rapidly spread across Europe until 1771 and killed over 75 million people. The pandemic immediately heralded changes in both the social and political systems and directly led to the collapse of feudalism.
According to Boccaccio in “The Decameron”, the Black Death led to monumental changes in social structure and religious form, which ended the Catholic Reign and resulted in an integration of various religions throughout Europe. Furthermore, this pandemic brought about massive wealth erosion in Europe and laid the foundation for the birth of laissez faire capitalism as well as catalyzed the industrial revolution in the 18th century.
In 1918, the Spanish flu quickly spread throughout Europe and eventually the world. According to scholars, over 1.8 billion people were infected worldwide. While this plague did not directly reshape social structures, the Spanish Flu did have a profound impact by ending World War I. The Spanish Flu outbreak also spawned the feminist movement due to a decline in labor force and the redistribution of wealth, thereby leading to the 19th amendment in the US Constitution and other historical human rights movements. From this perspective, the Spanish Flu was the ultimate factor advancing mankind towards modern civilization as well as promoting focus on women empowerment.
Will the Coronavirus disease cause more impact than the Spanish Flu or even the Black Death? As history has taught us, the effects of these global phenomenons can occur years, decades and centuries after a global changing event. Given human’s finite lifespan, one can never truly foresee the after-effects of any global pandemic.
Only time will tell the full impact and after-effects in the post Covid world. However, we have already witnessed how the Coronavirus disease has massively altered human behavior patterns, most notably shifting multiple forms of social interaction from offline to online (O2O) and this O2O transition will only accelerate going forward and drive human behavior across all facets of our lives. We at the BN Group call it “the new social technology revolution”.
As countries around the world are adopting aggressive expansionary financial policies, it will bring about global asset appreciation and new investment opportunities. Geopolitics will have contracted significantly and lead to more regionally based operations for multinational companies. Looking further ahead, just as the Black Death and the Spanish Flu has advanced modernization, the Coronavirus will also lead mankind to thrive and to advance faster across all aspects, such as technology and human civilization. This means it will also catalyze human rights movements, such as the movement regarding George Floyd in the United States. Along the same vein, it will also result in movements such as women empowerment movements, LGBT movements, religious harmony movements to promote social reform. And it will catalyze technical revolution on the same basis.
To summarize, each of these historical pandemics will firstly always result in global regionalization. It is challenging to all global enterprises, including the Bellagraph Nova Group, to respond to such challenges, we are establishing more local presence by setting up more regional offices in our respective target markets. The recent merger of the Bellagraph Nova Group, who has a strong presence in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, has allowed this new conglomerate to already enjoy improved operational efficiencies throughout its expansive network around the world.
Secondly, these global events have corresponded to more emphasis and focus on humanity and human rights in addition to technological advancement. Europe has always been the frontier of such advancement and human rights movement, hence the BN Group has chosen Paris as its new global headquarters. Our decision to move back to Paris is inevitable. It is as if we are answering our call to destiny and retracing the path of history.
Question 2) Many businesses have complained that this devastating crisis is detrimental to everyone globally and some call it the Black Swan Event. To what extent has the pandemic affected the original launch plan of the Group? What has been done to make up for it?
We strongly believe that this pandemic is no different from any other global crisis, it would only impact businesses that are weak, that are problematic, that are not willing to disrupt themselves. And for us, the BN Group, it is not a challenge, but an opportunity.
When the pandemic started, as countries around the world began to close their borders and limit travel, we quickly realized that major countries in Europe and America would restore their positioning as regional centers, and it would be essential to set up a local headquarter in each respective region. Therefore, we accelerated the merger of the Bellagraph Nova Group and immediately decided to move our new headquarters to Paris given it is in the heart of Europe. This has allowed us to seize opportunities in expansion and to further our investments, as global financial institutions embark on unprecedented aggressive expansionary fiscal and monetary policy stimulus strategies.
The New Social Technology Revolution – Panel Discussion With Bellagraph Nova Group Founders And Barack Obama On Their Ambitious Quest To Seize The Opportunity Of A Lifetime In The Post Pandemic World.
Question 3) We understand that Ms. Evangeline Shen, Mr. Nelson Loh and Mr. Terence Loh or better known as the successful trailblazing trio have been actively engaged in merger talks since early 2019 and despite in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic crisis, the three of you have still decided to complete the merger. Can you elaborate more on this? How was this achieved during the pandemic especially when we have witnessed several landmark deals being cancelled as a result of Covid 19 (for example the pending LVMH acquisition of Tiffany running into problems)?
The past eighteen months have posed many challenges for us to close the deal. There is the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, as well as several geopolitical issues around the world. At the same time, the world seemed to take a heavier hit and started to crumble when Covid 19 hit the global economy. These challenges are unprecedented and may appear insurmountable to those entrepreneurs and global leaders who are weak, who are narrow minded and who have limited vision. But we believed deep in our hearts and minds, that looking back at history, not only is this Covid 19 pandemic not unprecedented, today’s crisis is insignificant compared to what happened during 1914 to 1945.
Mankind has overcome much worse. During the 20th century, there was World War I, and then followed by the decade long Great Depression era, and then soon afterwards World War II befell. The world economy was in a much worse state than now, but it was during such crisis, that the United States became the world’s most powerful country, and its economy kept growing until today.
The three co-founders of the Bellagraph Nova Group have this strong belief, that the Coronavirus situation should not be construed as another challenging crisis. It is in fact the opportunity of a lifetime for the BN Group. For a company like us, which has deep experience and capabilities in social media and social networks and coupled with the fact that our company not only possesses state-of-the-art technological innovation, we also strongly value human rights. We are proud that the group focuses on advancing human civilization as our key initiatives, and today’s global platform provides the best opportunity ever to promote our values and beliefs. This is where our strength lies.
It is not just talk, but all about the actions we take, demonstrating our beliefs and values. The Bellagraph Nova Group appointed the only female amongst the three co-founders, Ms Evangeline Shen as the Group’s chairman, engaged former LVMH group executive Nereides de Bourbon as global marketing and investor relations director, who is a member of the LGBT committee. The Group also appointed Monica Bellucci, the global renowned Hollywood celebrity, on the board as a non-executive Director focusing on sustainability and the group’s charity foundation effort.
In addition, the company has also acquired former L’Oreal Group’s network spokesperson Badara Ndiaye as the company’s brand planning and product spokesperson. The BN Group is providing a prime example, by providing opportunities equally to the most talented individuals regardless of their gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation. This has demonstrated our initiatives of truly promoting humanity and advancing civilization. It is not only our vision, but also our responsibility as a leading global enterprise to be a role model for all the other enterprises.
Question 4) In order to still be able to expand and launch new projects during times like this, one probably has to have very deep pockets. And to continue to go ahead with business expansion, you need to be able to afford to “bleed” during this long-lasting global crisis period. Do you agree? Why or why not?
With a total of 31 major subsidiaries, operating in more than 100 countries and employing over 23,000 employees worldwide, the Bellagraph Nova Group is an established global conglomerate. Not only does the company have sufficient capital to deploy, it also has strong presence in human resources and operational infrastructure, especially in Europe and the US. It is not only funds that are required to plan for business expansion nowadays but more importantly one also requires courage and visionary strategies.
Our BN group already possesses very well-organized infrastructure in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. The BN Group has adapted quickly to maintain a highly profitable business model across all its entities while still being able to either enhance the valuation for its respective holdings. Not surprisingly, the successful track record of the BN Group has not gone unnoticed and has caught the eye and impressed global investors around the world from the Middle East to the United States.
Through one of the BN Group’s entities, Bellagraph Jewelry’s client relationship management, the King of Saudi Arabia, the King of Qatar, and Queen Mother of Qatar have expressed their interest on investment opportunities and collaborations. Through our extensive work with the Obama Foundation charitable initiatives as well as ongoing effort to promote human rights, we have attracted several global companies such as the likes of Citibank, JP Morgan, and other established Global Fortune 500 companies to partner with the BN Group.
Our BN group has unparalleled resources globally in this new digital economy. One of the BN Group’s key strengths is its ability to brand and market its vision and business successes digitally across social media worldwide. Based in North America, the Bellagraph Media production team garners over 20 million hits every seven days. This viewership exposure is comparable to video playback analytics similar to the likes of Apple during the release of its latest iPhone model. Such capability is vital to this era we call the “new social technology revolution” and this is the basis of our incredible success.
ABOUT BELLAGRAPH NOVA GROUP
Sustainability, diversity and ethics, constitute the cornerstone of BN Group’s model and compliance policy for its executives, employees and stakeholders. Our emblem is the butterfly, the symbol par excellence of endurance and perennial metamorphosis.
The Group is headquartered in the famous 10 Place Vendôme in Paris, France. With 31 entities in over 100 countries, the combined US$12 billion revenue Bellagraph Nova Group is the world’s fastest growing 360° lifestyle platform.
SHANGHAI, July 13, 2020 — O’Ratings, a third party monitor, released the data of Chinese mid-year shopping festival on July 1st. It showed that live-stream shopping hit another new record in China, contributing 24.2 billion RMB (449.5 million US$) sales during the recent mid-year shopping campaign. Live streaming is becoming a staple of e-commerce product promotion.
Live stream shopping has been developed since 2016 by e-commerce platforms in China and set off an upsurge in 2018 when popular live-streamers could sell more than 300 million RMB (43 million US$) a year and their online viewers could reach 10 million at one time. During the pandemic, bridging the gap between the source of goods and consumers, the Chinese government encouraged people to use live-streaming to sell unsalable products caused by massive lockdowns and upgraded the live-stream shopping industry. Now live stream is indispensable for product marketing in China.
O’Ratings monitored 806,000 live streaming chat rooms across different platforms on June 18th, China’s mid-year shopping festival, and it showed that the amount of sales was over 3.5 billion RMB (500.6 million US$) and 412 million viewers watched live streams on that day. Taking the sales since the very beginning of 618 shopping campaign into account, the total sales was 24.2 billion RMB (3.4 billion US$). The top 3 best-selling categories on Taobao were jewelry, clothes and food, and the top 3 on Douyin (Chinese TikTok) were food, mother and baby products and cosmetics.
Five indexes O’Ratings are monitoring
Live-streaming ratings
Peak Viewers
Market share
Sales index
Engagement index
Key findings of O’Ratings’ monitoring data
Many brands pay celebrities a lot for product promotion, but professional live-streamers’ performance is much better than celebrities’. O’Ratings picks 30 popular live-streamers and 30 celebrities, and analyzes their 10 week live-streaming performance. It shows that professional live-streamers’ sales index was 8 times of celebrities’.
Timing is very important when retailers choose live-streamers to sell products. After calculation, it finds that every product is sold at a fixed frequency. Those fast-consuming products have a higher frequency than durable ones. For example, snacks’ frequency is one day, while cellphone’s is 55 days. Because if a live-streamer sells cellphones today, the fans do not need to buy another phone for some time. When retailers promote their products by live stream, they should notice the time period of product and whether the live-streamer has sold the same kind of product recently.
Non-standard product, like jade and pets, have great potential in live-streaming. With the live stream market taking shape, popular live-streamers who are preferred by retailers, occupy most of the market share. But they can not substitute live-streamers who sell unique products. For example, a baker streams how he makes a cake and sells it.
About O’Ratings
O’Ratings is a third party live-stream monitor. O’Ratings records live stream data across different platforms, analyzes the latest trend and provides insights of live stream industry.
SINGAPORE, July 13, 2020 — Vela Diagnostics announced today that an automated version of its COVID-19 detection test, the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test v2.0, has received the CE mark for in vitro diagnostic use as well as Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Authority in Singapore.
The ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test v2.0 is a probe-based reverse transcription PCR Test that detects SARS-CoV-2 by targeting conserved regions of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, specifically the ORF1a and N genes. The automated test is optimized for a workflow consisting of the Sentosa™ SX101 instrument, in conjunction with the Sentosa™ SA201 instrument or the ABI 7500 Fast Dx. The automated workflow enables high throughput testing with significantly reduced hands-on time. Up to 48 tests, including controls, can be performed in a single run. “Receiving CE certification and Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Authority in Singapore for our automated test facilitates efficient testing of SARS-CoV-2 in patients suspected of COVID-19 in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, where there is an urgent need to identify individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 for effective management of the global pandemic,” said Managing Director, Andreas Goertz.
In April this year, an earlier version of the test, the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test, also received the CE mark and Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Authority in Singapore.
About Vela Diagnostics
Vela Diagnostics is a leading provider for integrated IVD system solutions, from sample to result. VELA’s test solutions utilize the automated Sentosa™ platform, providing the unique ability to leverage one system for NGS and PCR testing in infectious disease and oncology.
All Sentosa™ products listed above are by Vela Diagnostics. For more information, visit www.veladx.com.
The leading facial recognition firm launches new video analytics to enhance security and safety in the new post-pandemic era
BARCELONA, Spain, July 13, 2020 — Herta, the Barcelona based facial recognition company, has recently launched a new range of solutions that will help businesses and industries adapt to the new normality.
Herta’s technology is characterized by having the best reputation, with real and large-scale security projects worldwide. By expanding their product range, the company aims to reinforce their mission: increase the world’s safety by building user-friendly computer vision solutions. With these new applications, Herta will surely help organizations comply with the new COVID-19 safety regulations as well as covering the needs that arise in this new normality.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, July 13, 2020 — On 2 July 2020, at The MOONLAB Co-working space, the four-month journey of the VIISA Acceleration Program Batch 7 reached the signature “Investment Day” milestone.With the aim of showcasing graduating startups to investors all over the world despite the COVID-19 situation, for the first time, VIISA organized the Investment Day in a hybrid manner.The Investment Day welcomed more than 100 active investors, corporations, and startup community builders to both the on-site location, as well as to an exclusive virtual event via a conference call.
VIISA Acceleration Program Batch 7 graduated
In the welcome note, Mr Hieu Vo, VIISA’s Board Member and Program Director, re-emphasized much need of technology evolvment in the context of the pandemic has turned the entire world upside down with lots of business giants being failed. Startups strive everyday to give the answer and solution to economy entities to ride through hardship and thrive in new normal period. 6 startups pitched at VIISA’s Investment Day includes: iSpeaking, VDES, TripHunter, Ask Locals, Medigo and Gring with focus on education, technology solution, travel, medical and employee training respectively.
For the main part of the event, Ask Locals, Medigo and Gring, three startups from the VIISA Acceleration Program Batch 7, took the stage. Despite the circumstances created by COVID-19, VIISA and the founders still managed to follow the agenda set out at the beginning of the batch. Batch 7 startups have gone through seven intensive online business management training sessions, 80 hours of working with the mentors, entrepreneurs-in-residence and VIISA’s executive team.Prior to the Investment Day, the companies were also given the chance to trial pitch their business to reputable investors to gain valuable feedback from 11 investors in 1-on-1 sessions.Finally, as always, they enjoyed VIISA partners’ world-class services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Payoo, MOONLAB Co-working space, etc.The promising startups will have a chance to get follow-on funding of up to US$200,000 from the VIISA Investment Track if they manage to secure a new round of funding from other investors.
“I believe that VIISA has helped us a lot in terms of building a clear and sustainable business and financial model.The VIISA team has also brought us so many opportunities from their network of partners.Another necessary thing is that VIISA has shown us the importance of choosing what to focus on to make the business grow faster with our limited resources.And this is important for us to know the right direction to go and to put our effort in during this time,” said Le Huu Ha, founder of Medigo.
Mr. Duc Tran, Board Member and CEO of VIISA, delivered the closing speech of the Investment Day 7 and also called for startups to apply to Accelerator Program Batch 8 at VIISA at the website www.viisa.vn/apply-batch-8.
About VIISA:
Established in January 2017 by FPT Ventures and Dragon Capital, VIISA is an acceleration program and seed-stage fund that invests to build global-ready startups from Vietnam.After six batches, there have been 32 graduates, with some highlighted names such as UrBox, WisePass, VDes, BoxShop, EcomEasy, and TripHunter, which have created more than 400 jobs and raised a total committed US$5 million from other investors.
E-commerce tech company continues to invest in strengthening the executive team with appointment of newCFO,Michael Gordon, Deputy CFO, Laura Mineo and Chief People Officer, Lisa Craven
NEW YORK, July 13, 2020 —Rokt, the global leader in e-commerce marketing technology, today announced that their vision to make e-commerce smarter, faster and better is further strengthened with the appointment of former Greenlit Brands executive, Michael Gordon, Goldman-Sachs alumni, Laura Mineo and leadership executive, Lisa Craven in the roles of Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and Chief People Officer respectively. Gordon and Mineo will oversee the finance and legal operations of the business, working closely with CEO, Bruce Buchanan and the board of directors to manage the continuing acceleration of global growth. Craven will oversee people operations, learning & development and recruitment, signaling Rokt’s ongoing commitment to investment in its 225+ group of employees.
Rokt welcomes former Greenlit Brands executive, Michael Gordon, Goldman-Sachs alumni, Laura Mineo and leadership executive, Lisa Craven in the roles of Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and Chief People Officer respectively.
Gordon, who was previously Group CFO and MD of Group Services for Greenlit Brands Pty Limited in Australia & New Zealand, was instrumental in guiding the business from a turnover of USD$170m to a USD$1.65 billion vertically integrated retailer including the brands Freedom, Snooze, Fantastic, Plush, OMF, Best & Less and Harris Scarfe.
Mineo joins the Rokt team from Goldman Sachs in New York, where she most recently served as Executive Director, Firmwide Strategy. Mineo brings invaluable experience across mergers and acquisitions and capital markets across multiple industries and geographies. Mineo will take on the role of SVP Strategy in addition to her role as Deputy CFO.
Craven, who was previously consulting for Rokt, has an extensive career in leadership development, organizational design, people and culture initiatives, diversity & inclusion and human resources. Previously Global Chief People Officer at Sizmek, Craven has also served as a lecturer at Macquarie University, Janice Newman Institute and Drew University. Craven brings experience leading large-scale global teams in organizational effectiveness, and will use this to help drive a culture that attracts, and retains the best, and brightest talent.
“We are delighted to welcome Michael, Laura and Lisa to the Rokt executive team” said Rokt CEO, Bruce Buchanan. “In Michael & Laura, we are incredibly lucky to have two individuals with such strong expertise and a deep understanding of financial operations join at a pivotal time for the company. As we now target the next growth arc from ARR$100m to $1b, Gordon and Mineo’s global experience and knowledge of both private and publicly listed businesses will enable us to double down on our preparedness for scalability and the financial events we will consider on our trajectory.
Buchanan continued, “As a people first organization, Lisa is one of our most pivotal hires. Her expertise in organizational effectiveness and leadership development will be crucial in further deepening our people first culture, and helping us scale as we grow our business and look to continue to accelerate our recruitment across the globe.
“Rokt has quickly cemented their position as the leading technology company in e-commerce marketing and is poised to have even more significant global impact through continued innovation in research and development.” said Gordon. “I am excited to be joining such an inspirational business and look forward to working alongside the executive team to help drive this company through to the next stage of growth.”
“In what has been such an unprecedented year, it’s exciting to see a company such as Rokt thriving and innovating to keep up with, and exceed their clients’ needs.” commented Mineo. “During times of agility, financial rigor and strategic direction is more important than ever. I’m excited to come on board and help take this company to new heights of success.”
“Having spent some time recently with Bruce, and the wider executive team at Rokt I was delighted at having the opportunity to join the team in a full time capacity.” added Craven. “Rokt has embraced the people first mentality, pushing forward initiatives to ensure their values and culture are at the heart of every decision they make. I look forward to coming on board to amplify Rokt’s already significant investment in its greatest asset – it’s people.”
Rokt, who recently closed US$48m in their Series C investment round, has transformed e-commerce in over 11 countries by identifying that when customers are buying online as a consumer or on behalf of a business, they increasingly expect more personalized and relevant experiences. Rokt’s proprietary technology, machine learning and AI makes e-commerce smarter, faster and better. By unlocking the hidden potential in every single Transaction Moment™, Rokt enables clients to stay ahead of their competition, and deliver a more relevant customer experience. Rokt currently solves complex e-commerce challenges for global clients including Live Nation, Staples, Groupon, GoDaddy, Expedia and Wells Fargo.
For more information on Rokt, please visit rokt.com.
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Company is sponsoring its second SNMMI Annual Meeting.
HOUSTON, July 11, 2020 — United Imaging, a global leader in advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment, continues to set a new standard in molecular imaging and redefine nuclear medicine. The company has begun unveiling new technology that showcases more of its all-digital platform and its significant commitment to U.S. market growth. United Imaging will host a virtual booth at the 2020 SNMMI Annual Meeting and will meet with customers in that environment and through its own virtual meeting technology.
“United Imaging is taking a unique look at this industry,” said Jeffrey M. Bundy, Ph.D., CEO, United Imaging Healthcare Solutions in the U.S. “We built a company that from the ground up is designed for modern solutions, to address needs American healthcare providers wanted addressed. In just one short year since the last SNMMI meeting, we’ve moved fast. I think when people chat with us this year, although there is no in-person conference to physically see and touch our booth, they’ll learn that we’ve done exactly what we set out to do.”
For SNMMI, United Imaging announced that HYPER Iterative functionality is FDA cleared for its uMI 550 digital positron emission tomography (PET) / computed tomography (CT) scanner. This solidifies the company’s commitment to address the needs of the American patient. HYPER Iterative can achieve high image contrast and quantification accuracy while giving users the flexibility to reduce scan times and improve patient comfort.
In addition, United Imaging was the first in the U.S. to launch a mobile digital PET/CT unit, which will dramatically improve patient access to state-of-the-art imaging tests, including digital technology that was only available previously in fixed locations, and predominantly in large institutions or academic settings. The uMI 550 mobile scanner will hit the road to perform clinical scans this summer.
“This first-ever mobile digital PET/CT unit dramatically changes the game and makes research-level technology accessible to more people,” said Cheri Gottke, vice president of United Imaging’s molecular imaging portfolio in the U.S. “United Imaging has been leading in terms of achieving access, making this valuable — now mobile — digital PET/CT technology available to providers and patients in urban, suburban, and rural regions alike.”
Artificial intelligence (AI) remains the focus of substantial investment by the company. United Imaging also has announced the introduction of uAI technologies into key radiology systems with HYPER Deep Learning Reconstruction* in the routine PET/CT workflow of its uMI 550 and uMI 780 digital PET/CT systems to enhance image quality.
United Imaging also announced that more than 3,500 clinical patients have been scanned on its uEXPLORER® total-body PET/CT system. The average patient clinical total-body scan time is 1-3 minutes.
United Imaging developed uEXPLORER in partnership with the EXPLORER Consortium led by Simon Cherry, Ph.D., and Ramsey Badawi, Ph.D., from the University of California, Davis. The two were recently honored for that achievement with a 2020 Innovator of the Year Award from their university. uEXPLORER also received a Gold Award and a Silver Award in the 2020 American Business Awards.
“The core uEXPLORER technology is actually embedded in every product in our MI portfolio,” said Gottke. “Also, the MI portfolio — and in fact all of our modalities — features what we call our ‘all-in’ approach, meaning that our systems ship with every feature already included, so customers can simply implement them as their needs change.”
Learn more about United Imaging’s presence at SNMMI here.
* Pending 510(k), not available for sale in the United States.
ABOUT UNITED IMAGING
At United Imaging, we develop and produce advanced medical products, digital healthcare solutions, and intelligent solutions that cover the entire process of imaging diagnosis and treatment. Founded in 2011, our company has subsidiaries and R&D centers across the world. Our U.S. R&D facility opened in 2013 in Houston and was further established as the U.S. headquarters in 2018 with our service team and commercial organization in place. With a cutting-edge digital portfolio and a mission of broader access to healthcare for all, we help drive industry progress and bold change.
