Former Global Head of Enterprise Products at Samsung brings world class mobile, security and product development experience to blinkx
London, England and San Francisco, CA. — 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.
