JMR Electronics Appoints Chuck McMakin Vice President of Business Development and Sales

Wed Nov 4, 2009 2:31pm EST
 
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JMR Electronics Appoints Chuck McMakin Vice President of Business Development
and Sales



Company continues market expansion and hires digital entertainment veteran to
take industry-leadership role

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- JMR Electronics, Inc., the leading
value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive
applications, has appointed Chuck McMakin Vice President of Business
Development and Sales. Mr. McMakin, formerly the Vice President of Sales and
Marketing for CommandSoft Inc., adds to the company's executive team as it
continues its growth and expansion in the US and abroad.

Mr. McMakin's responsibilities will include overall sales management,
developing strategic relationships with technology partners, client needs
assessment, and solution set definition and development. "We are delighted to
have Chuck join JMR's executive team," stated Josef Rabinovitz, President and
CEO of JMR Electronics.  "Chuck's vast expertise and understanding of storage
and software technology coupled with his comprehension of the digital post
production market dynamics and extensive experience in developing successful
organizations further strengthens our commitment in establishing our worldwide
presence as a global leader of innovative storage solutions." 

"I look forward to leveraging my technical, sales and product marketing
background in helping to move the company forward," added Mr. McMakin.  "The
digital media related industries are now focusing on how application specific
storage and networking technologies can be integrated to leverage workflow
processes to meet specific business needs. To this end, my initial focus is to
support JMR in the development and cultivation of market and channel
opportunities that will maximize revenue growth and margin expansion for JMR's
storage solutions." 

At CommandSoft, Mr. McMakin oversaw all sales efforts and successfully built
and nurtured a strong reseller channel while simultaneously growing their
direct business volumes in the storage area network (SAN) markets.  As Vice
President of Product Operations at Tsunami Visual Technologies, a manufacturer
of high-end amusement attractions, he consistently exceeded revenue and budget
expectations. During his tenure as Product Marketing Manager at Global VR, Mr.
McMakin managed marketing and strategic planning efforts for all products,
including the launch of Electronic Art's Sports PGA Tour Golf game and the
related tournament network.  His efforts resulted in unit volumes reaching
annual forecasts in just three months.  As Co-Founder and Director of Sales
and Customer Support for silicon valley based HyperWare, Mr. McMakin helped to
secure venture funding and successfully negotiated exclusive licenses to
produce and market out-of-home entertainment products.  While there, he
developed and instituted a channel program involving over 100 domestic and
international distribution partners.


About JMR Electronics, Inc.
JMR is the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for performance,
capacity and availability driven applications in the government, rich media,
VOD, video surveillance and Web 2.0 markets. As a pioneering leader in high
performance RAID storage technologies since 1982, JMR's complete line of
BlueStor PeSANTM DAS, NAS and SAN solutions are ideal for nearly every IT and
video production need.  For more information about JMR or the BlueStor product
line, visit www.jmr.com or contact the company at 818.993.4801, or
ussales@jmr.com.




SOURCE  JMR Electronics, Inc.

Bridget Jackson of Chan & Associates, Inc., +1-714-447-4993, x105,
bridget@chanandassoc.com, for JMR Electronics, Inc.

 

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