Hoping to make a Mark in Vienna

There’s nothing like a challenge – and that’s what we’ve set our new Business Development Manager before he’s even had a chance to really get his feet under the desk.

Mark Wilkinson’s joined us from Microsoft’s Authorised Refurbisher programme, where he worked as a partner manager in the EMEA market.

Mark’s focus will be on improving relationships with magazine groups and among corporate, catalogue and educational publishers, in Europe as well as in the UK. So, hopefully, one of the first tasks we’ve set him should be right up his street.

He brings with him a solid background of building and developing customer partnerships for a major corporation, in the UK, Europe and beyond and we think Mark’s experience will help us to take our products to new markets and new geographies.

Exciting times ahead!

So, where to start? Well, this week we’ve booked our place at Ifra Expo in Vienna in October. It will be the first time PCS has been back to Europe’s major publishing technology event in around six years and we’re going with plenty to say for ourselves.

We launched our ground-breaking digital content management and publishing system, Knowledge, at one of the UK’s biggest shows, Publishing Expo, in 2010 and we were back there earlier this year, but Ifra Expo is on a much bigger scale.

We’re looking to present Knowledge to a wider market because we feel the time’s right to make a bit of noise in the company of some of the biggest names in the business in Vienna.

We’ll be on Stand A651 at the Reed Messe in Vienna and we’ll be taking bookings for demos very shortly!

We’ll have some interesting and innovative things to show and maybe a couple of surprises up our sleeve – and over the next few weeks we’ll let you know how it’s all coming together.

Logistically, taking the stand and the crew across Europe is in a different ball park to a quick tootle down the M40, so there’s a lot to do in the meantime – and frighteningly, there are only around 50 working days to go until we pack up the van.

You can follow our progress on Twitter - @pcsltd1- and on LinkedIn as well as via the blog.