TAURANGA (16 April 2011) – PINGAR announces today that PINGAR Holdings Limited (NZ) has incorporated a wholly-owned trading subsidiary, PINGAR API Limited in the United Kingdom.
PINGAR is also delighted to confirm the recruitment of Mike Brooksbank as PINGAR Regional Director, UK / EMEA.
After leaving the RAF where he flew jet fighters, Mike has 24 years software industry experience, encompassing sales and general management. From Account Manager to International Channels/Alliances Manager, VP Sales, VP EMEA, EVP Global Sales and Managing Director.
From 2007, Mike was Managing Director UK, Vice President EMEA (North), for Kofax. Mike spent four years as Executive Vice President Global Sales – based in San Francisco at Citadon Inc. Mike has previously held senior management positions at Xchange Inc, Serena Software and Systar Limited.
PINGAR API Limited will provide sales support to PINGAR’s UK re-seller & developer partners.
PINGAR Holdings Limited also owns a 100% interest in Kaimai Research Limited in the UK.
Kaimai Holdings Limited is based at the Technium in the University of Swansea, Wales and is actively engaged in research projects.
The management of Kaimai Holdings Limited are pleased to announce the acceptance for presentation of a research paper by Jonathan Hurlock, a PhD student with Kaimai Research in Swansea University at the ICWSM Conference in Barcelona on the 17th to 21st July 2011.
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, http://www.icwsm.org/2011/index.php, is the world's foremost peer review conferences in this field of research.
This research (http://bit.ly/f10JSl) is part-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) through the European Union's Convergence programme administered by the Welsh Assembly Government, and performed in collaboration with Kaimai Research Limited.