VideoCentric Appoints New Business Development Manager

VideoCentric is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Business Development Manager, Chris Lapthorne. With over 17 years experience in videoconferencing and immersive telepresence, Chris has extensive business development, sales and technical experience and has a wealth of knowledge of video networking infrastructure solutions through his close involvment with manufacturers such as Tandberg, Codian, Polycom and RADVision. "His recent senior position at Nortel as part of their Multimedia Solutions Group and previous 11 years at Logicalis, an award-winning Cisco, IBM and Microsoft partner, makes Chris the ideal person to lead VideoCentric's expansion into 2010" said David Shimell, Sales Director of VideoCentric Ltd. He added "Unified Communications is the focus of strategy for the next five years and our ability to demonstrate, sell and support the world's best video communications solutions coupled with voice and data integration, demands that we have staff of the highest calibre at all levels".

About VideoCentric

VideoCentric is an integrator & reseller of the world’s leading video conferencing and streaming products from RADVision, Codian, Polycom, Tandberg, Emblaze-VCON, Lifesize, SONY & Canon. Headquartered in the Thames Valley, England, with satellite sites in Edinburgh and Ayr Scotland, VideoCentric markets its products and services primarily in the UK but has also formed associations with other Companies worldwide to facilitate the global supply and support of major corporations and system integrators, including those of Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, IBM and Nortel. VideoCentric’s bandwidth services include the supply of ISDN, ADSL, ADSL-Max, SDSL and uncontended leased lines for video and voice over IP, and their other value added services include free demonstrations, long-term rental, short-term hire, installation, maintenance, training, managed multipoint and 24x7 video dial-in support. For more information, visit www.videocentric.co.uk or telephone 0118 9798910 (England/Wales) or 0131 473 2351 (Scotland).