Pharos Communications expands sales team

Pharos Communications has announced a new addition to its Reading headquarters staff with the appointment of David Barnes as Director of Sales and John Walmsley in Presales Support.
"David Barnes and John Walmsley join us as we introduce the Mediator family of broadcast workflow management systems," said Pharos Commercial Director Roger Heath. "These are far more operator-friendly than any comparable system hitherto introduced to the market. Pharos has evolved an extremely efficient method of analysing the minute-by-minute operational activity within playout centres and broadcast networks. We are using that knowledge to create an evolving range of task-specific user interfaces which are far easier for operators to work with than the GUIs found in traditional MAM systems. David and John will help us roll out that message to the broadcast community."
A Chartered Engineer with a B.Sc. (Honours) degree in Engineering Technology, David Barnes began his career in 1981 as an electronics engineer at Racal-Carlton. He progressed to IBM in 1984, working in senior engineering and project management roles. Then followed six years in sales management for subcontract manufacturing with ADFlex and World Circuit Technology before joining Tandberg Television in July 2000, initially as Senior Account Manager and, from 2004, as Sales Manager. He reports to Commercial Director Roger Heath.
John Walmsley spent six years in BBC Television OB operations before becoming a broadcast engineer with Dhofar Region Television, Oman, in 1975. From 1976 to 1978 he worked as a project engineer at Link Electronics, moving to Ampex in 1978 and later Sony Broadcast. He progressed to Quantel as Principal Engineer, Systems Sales, and subsequently to Tektronix, Drake Automation and Omnibus Systems. He joins Pharos from Television Systems Ltd and reports to Director of Sales David Barnes.
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