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Velosio Appoints Bob Knott as CEO; Joseph Longo as Executive Co-Chairman

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Bob Knott Appointed CEO of Velosio October 31st, 2022

Bob Knott, CEO, Velosio

Bob is a highly respected leader that shares our core values and has a distinguished record of driving growth in the B2B technology sector, // Joseph Longo.


COLUMBUS, Ohio (PRWEB)

Velosio, a leading cloud business applications partner for mid-market and emerging enterprise businesses, announced today that 30-year technology industry leader Bob Knott has been appointed as chief executive officer effective October 31, 2022. Bob will succeed Joseph Longo, who will transition to an executive chairman role, active in the business on a full-time basis.

“Bob is a highly respected leader that shares our core values and has a distinguished record of driving growth in the B2B technology sector, “ said Velosio current CEO, Joseph Longo. “After working with Bob as a board member it became evident that we could accelerate growth by capitalizing on Bob’s success in digital cloud services and benefit from his experience in taking a company of our size and growing it significantly.”

Velosio has a rich history as a business applications partner, recognized for their ability to tailor ERP, CRM and other business applications to the needs of specific industry verticals. Over the last decade, mid-market companies have placed increasingly higher value on data and the digital experience and as a result, digital services represent the fastest-growing segment of Velosio services business.

“Velosio is a powerhouse,” notes Bob Knott, incoming CEO. “Their industry business and technology expertise along with considerable IP, consulting and indirect channel business has positioned the company for explosive growth. I’m excited to be a part of that and looking forward to working alongside Joe and the rest of the Velosio team”.

Bob Knott left his role as principal and national leader at BDO Digital USA in April 2022 and joined the Velosio board of directors some months later. Prior to his two plus years with BDO Digital, Bob served as president of SWC Technology Partners, a company with a similar operating model to Velosio that drove sustained double-digit growth and profitability.

“My focus on day one will be tapping into the expertise this organization already brings around enterprise business applications and tailoring adjacent solutions to improve decision making, automation of business processes and meeting market changes with agility,” Said Knott. “Our focus, as always, is helping our clients grow and succeed.”

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About Velosio

Velosio is a leading business applications partner specializing in cloud services and industry-specific ERP, CRM, data-driven analytics and digital transformation solutions for mid-market and emerging enterprise businesses. As one of the largest Microsoft partners in North America, Velosio supports the entire Microsoft business solutions portfolio, including Dynamics and Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 and Azure. Velosio is the only Microsoft Cloud Distributor that specializes in Dynamics 365, providing licensing and support to hundreds of growing Microsoft partners and over 4,000 clients. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Velosio encourages community involvement and a people-centric culture of over 450 employees throughout North America. https://www.velosio.com

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Stonk Tech Launches Free App Providing Extra Support To Retail Investors

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Making it possible for everyone to trade freely is only the first step in liberating the secondary market, the second comes down to gearing retail traders up with knowledge, a toolbox, and support from veterans. And that’s what we are doing here at Stonk.


IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB)

Stonk Tech Inc., the leading platform that supports and guides retail traders across their investment journey, is excited to announce the launch of the Stonk app.

Stonk was designed with socialization and information sharing at the core of the product, so retail investors can easily access all the collected wisdom from the community, tools, information, and markets free of charge. Co-Founders of Stonk, Mike Wu, Lic Zhou, and Marc Chen know that the institutional trader’s executions are usually powered by a huge support team including, but not limited to an equity researcher, risk analyst, quantitative engineer, and tech support. Most retail investors don’t have any of that, and the imbalance of resources makes this an unfair game for them.

“With the rise of commission-free trading in the past years, access to the secondary market is no longer a roadblock for everyday investors. However, with the inflow of new investors and beginner traders, lack of access to tools, information, and communication became the new problem. Making it possible for everyone to trade freely is only the first step in liberating the secondary market, the second comes down to gearing retail traders up with knowledge, a toolbox, and support from veterans. And that’s what we are doing here at Stonk; let’s trade smarter, together,” stated Co-founder Mike Wu.

Lack of help and support isn’t the only issue; not enough infrastructure, such as tools and access to different markets makes it difficult for retail traders to outperform traditional institutions. Many strategies run by institutions and funds require exposure to many different markets such as equity, bonds, forex, and sometimes even costumed derivatives from market makers at the same time. Access to resources, like a simple option trade scanner, or dark pool orders, could easily cost a retail investor 150$ a month. So, to make this game fairer to everyday investors, the Co-Founders of Stonk liberate the retail investing market and finish what Robinhood has failed to do.

“We thought that the only way a retail investor could get the same amount of help as institutional traders do is through other retail investors. Working together and being each other’s support team is the only way out of this imbalanced match, and that is the reason we made socialization and sharing information the core of our product” expressed Co-founder Lic Zhou.

Stonk is committed to leveling the playing field, by providing retail traders the information they need to compete against legacy investors. No one wants to enter a contest with one arm tied behind their back; the Stonk Tech App ‘unties the arm’ of the retail trading market.

“We provide many professional tools to our users for free because the idea of being charged a few hundred bucks for the data that retail investors have also helped to contribute does not really make sense to me,” declared Co-founder Marc Chen.

Stonk Tech Inc. main features focus on sharing knowledge and support:


  • Social media designed for everyday investors and traders: See and understand other traders and investors’ behavior, why they buy or sell. Connect, interact and ask questions via live streams and subscriptions.

  • Investing and trading Bootcamp with experts in your hand: Free video and live streaming by all types of trading experts, for you to find your role model to become the type of trader or investor that you want to be.

  • Professional trading tools made it easy and free for retail investors: Free dark pool and options flow access, which instantly will help you to save hundreds of dollars. Zero commission for stock and options trading coming soon!

For more information about Stonk Tech Inc. please visit: https://www.stonk.tech/

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About Stonk

Stonk is an innovative brokerage platform for retail traders which combines a social media element with advanced trading tools. With Stonk, beginner investors get access to professional trading features, peer-to-peer community of investors, data with interpretation, and social media platform with video content.

Instagram: @stonktech

Twitter: @Stonk_Tech

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Google’s Cyber World Champion 2022, Gabriel Marcus, on the current challenges and opportunities of industrial cyber security today

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Gabriel Marcus, ethical hacker, Google World Cyber Champion

Gabriel Marcus, Ethical Hacker

The real solution today needs to be a fast offline recovery device, which cannot be attacked and also possess a very fast recovery option.


October 28, 2022, Rehovot, Israel (PRWEB)

Gabriel Marcus, a known cyber architect, and Google’s cyber champion for 2022 discusses industrial cyber security, and the challenges we’re facing today: ICS basically integrates hardware, software, and network connectivity for running and supporting critical infrastructure. I think the challenge today is, on the one hand, identifying and defeating malicious activity, and on the other hand, ensuring a swift recovery from any attack that might occur, preferably ASAP before it causes widespread harm and stalls production, which in many cases creates cost issues.


  • Hi Gabriel, what do you think is the top cyber threat an industrial business face today?

  • ICS basically integrates hardware, software, and network connectivity for running and supporting critical infrastructure. I think the challenge today is, on the one hand, identifying and defeating malicious activity, and on the other hand, ensuring a swift recovery from any attack that might occur, preferably ASAP before it causes widespread harm and stalls production, which in many cases creates cost issues.

  • It is customary to refer to a business continuity plan as a process of firewall protection, detection, and elimination of threats when actually, a BCP should also refer to an incident scenario. What’s your take on that?


I agree. We have to look at the whole cycle, from the possibility of a threat to the moment of going back to normal after an attack. With an increasing rate of attacks on critical infrastructures, every organization should be prepared with a recovery plan. It is no longer a question of “if” but a question of “when”.

  • The major vulnerability in Critical infrastructure is downtime. We don’t defend today; we contain and recover. There is no other possibility. Can you give us a quick review as to what OT organizations are using now for recovery?


Up until a couple of years, many OT companies have been using, and some still are, manual or semi-automatic backup solutions (Ghost, Acronis, NetApp). These are good solutions for backup, but it leaves you with two main problems:

Attackers are aware of these systems, and they also target them by diverting ransomware payloads to backup protocols over the network. Recovery from a ransomware attack, using these solutions can take days, depending on the size of the data affected. The real solution today needs to be a fast offline recovery device, which cannot be attacked and also possess a very fast recovery option.

  • How essential, do you think it is, for an ICS & OT organization to use OT-focused solutions vs IT-focused solutions?


In the IT world, where data is the main concern, the efforts revolve around protecting the information, to the extent of restoring a file of a previous minute. In OT, the major concern is operational continuity so efforts revolve around reducing downtime. So, I assume, the answer depends on the organization and its ability or willingness to withstand downtime and risk ransomware attacks. In addition, you cannot be everywhere all the time, so automatic solutions are a must.

  • What do you think separated Salvador’s technologies’ solution from others?


Well, I haven’t been able to hack it, for starters! I should mention the solution basically consists of a cyber Recovery Unit (CRU), agent software, and a monitoring system. The CRU, which contains 3 NMVe disks for backup, is based on patented air-gapped technology, and it is air-tight proof against any infrastructure and application attacks. Salvador Technologies have the unique ability to recover your system in record time. The solution decreases immensely the cost of a ransomware attack in any type of environment. Unique software and hardware, developed only in labs, make it very difficult for reverse-engineering their product and creating vulnerabilities or zero-day attacks.

  • Finally, how do you see industrial cyber security in 3 years?


It is ever-changing; it will progress much faster than it does today. The world advances so fast, we will be traveling into a period in which OT is a key for infrastructure development and production. We will have faster computers and better abilities, a lot more knowledge, and an understanding of how cyber warfare is conducted. It started in Europe this year, and it is waged all over the Globe, but it will become a much more serious focus in the upcoming years.

Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) has become a vast industry and will keep evolving and becoming more impactful and dangerous. We will need to shift with the threat, faster, and more agile. It’s an ever-changing landscape.

Gabriel has practiced cyber for 25 years and has OSCP certification and can perform PT in both application and infrastructure vectors. He currently works as a Cyber Application Architect and DevSecOps specialist.

Expert in Cyber and Information Security specializes in social engineering and offensive security, both application and infrastructure. CTF specialistת won the Google world championship in 2022.

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DryvIQ Fuels Growth Stage – Promoting Sean Nathaniel to Chief Executive Officer

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DryvIQ Fuels Growth Stage - Promoting Sean Nathaniel to Chief Executive Officer

“I am thrilled to be a part of this industry-defining moment and to lead the company toward accomplishing our mission; where all enterprise data – is detected, classified and protected.”


ANN ARBOR, Mich. (PRWEB)

DryvIQ (formerly SkySync), the leading unstructured data protection platform company, today announced it has promoted Sean Nathaniel to CEO. Nathaniel, who joined DryvIQ in February 2022 as Chief Operating Officer, is succeeding Mark Brazeau who becomes the company’s Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer.

“Mark is a tremendous force in re-imagining the unstructured data management space – building DryvIQ’s technology into today’s industry-leading position. We are deeply grateful and excited to have Mark expand his strategic role, applying his vision to our long-term initiatives,” said Kevin Terrasi, Board-member, investor, and partner at Plymouth Growth. “As we move full-throttle into the high-growth phase of this organization we are delighted to have Sean step into the CEO role, bringing his extensive experience of scaling businesses, delivering enterprise class solutions to market and developing long-lasting client relationships.”

As CEO, Nathaniel will be responsible for accelerating growth and scale of the company, and overall operations – driving its vision of empowering enterprises to safeguard the holy grail of enterprise security, unstructured data.

“Sean’s deep experience scaling organizations and providing enterprise clients with high-impact technology solutions to complex data challenges makes him the ideal leader to elevate DryvIQ to the next level,” said Mark Brazeau, Founder and Board Chairman of DryvIQ. “I’m ecstatic to work hand-in-hand with him in this next phase of high-growth.

“I joined DryvIQ earlier this year because I could see the transformative strategy and proven, scalable platform to one of the most important data risk challenges of our time – comprehensively protecting company sensitive information,” said Nathaniel, CEO of DryvIQ. “I am thrilled to be a part of this industry-defining moment and to lead the company toward accomplishing our mission; where all enterprise data – is detected, classified and protected.”

Nathaniel joined DryvIQ as a highly successful executive with deep operating and scaling experience in high-growth software organizations. Having served in roles in both public and private companies, he has demonstrated measurable results – growing software organizations to well over $300m in annual revenues. Prior to joining DryvIQ, Nathaniel most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer for CS DISCO (NYSE: LAW), and prior to that as Chief Technology Officer for Upland Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: UPLD).

About DryvIQ:

With over 1,100+ customers, DryvIQ helps the largest organizations in the world safeguard their enterprise data, reduce corporate risk, and enforce compliance. DryvIQ represents the next generation of enterprise data protection platforms, leveraging modern advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver a unified experience for identifying, organizing, and managing the risk in unstructured data – no matter where it’s located. For more information, contact us.

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Spyderbat Raises Series A to Deliver Runtime Security throughout Cloud Native Software Development Environments

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Spyderbat’s platform offers early cloud-native intrusion prevention, which is critical for enterprises in today’s complex and high-threat environment,


AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)

Spyderbat, a cloud native runtime security company, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by NTTVC with participation from LiveOak Venture Partners, Benhamou Global Ventures and John McHale to fuel product development and go-to-market activities.

The Enterprise shift-left trend toward a more embedded approach to security in the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline requires new innovation. While organizations adopt strategies to reduce exploitable vulnerabilities in cloud native environments, it has proven insufficient to defend against breaches. The rate of change enabled by cloud provisioning and microservice architectures increase the probability of misconfigurations and missed known and unknown vulnerabilities. Additionally, the dependencies on third-party components increase the probability of supply chain compromises and zero-day attacks. Spyderbat addresses these needs with capabilities that integrate runtime security throughout the lifecycle.

CEO Marc Willebeek-LeMair and CTO Brian Smith, co-founders of Spyderbat, are no strangers to intrusion prevention systems (IPS). As the original founders of TippingPoint, Willebeek-LeMair and Smith invented the network IPS in the early 2000s.

“As we grew closer to understanding the fundamental security concerns in cloud native environments, we recognized the need for a brand-new approach,” states Willebeek-LeMair. “Traditional detection methods, along with the rate of change found in cloud native environments, create inaccurate findings that require teams to investigate each with limited data. This leads to high volumes of interrupt-driven efforts that are inconclusive. DevOps and Platform Engineering teams need an accurate understanding of what is happening before automation can occur and a broader protection solution.”

The Spyderbat SaaS platform boasts three critical capabilities for detecting and blocking intrusions attacking known and unknown vulnerabilities:


  • Runtime Visibility -Spyderbat generates live detailed mapping and historic contextual visibility across Kubernetes, container and VM environments to enable DevOps and Platform Engineering teams’ immediate visibility to the root cause of security and operational issues.

  • Runtime Delta – Armed with the ability to capture runtime activities with causal context, Spyderbat’s Runtime Delta enables development teams to rapidly and securely iterate within guard rails, using an automated understanding of runtime behavior differences between builds and environments.

  • Runtime Intrusion Prevention – Spyderbat provides the industry’s broadest form of protection that blocks attacks against cloud-native workloads throughout the software development lifecycle, including supply-chain attacks, compromised credentials, ransomware, and cryptojacking.

In addition to the platform’s core capabilities, Spyderbat Labs produces continuous actionable intelligence updates to the Spyderbat platform by performing threat research for cloud native environments. Spyderbat Labs creates Shields to stop attacks against known vulnerabilities, packaged baseline policies to built-in Linux and Kubernetes services, and Attack Detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

“Spyderbat opens the doors to a new level of security and operational awareness,” states Aldo Gonzalez, CTO at Client Support Software. “It identifies previous unknowns that require my attention, allowing me to easily see the whole picture and take action.”

“It is not about detecting individual activities that may or may not indicate a compromise,” adds Smith. “What separates Spyderbat is a complete understanding of runtime activities to recognize new workload behaviors or connect threat indicators to each other and their root cause. This context enables early detection and accuracy, with a thorough understanding of the intrusion that enables automation to block it.”

“Spyderbat’s platform offers early cloud-native intrusion prevention, which is critical for enterprises in today’s complex and high-threat environment,” said Fay Hazaveh Costa, Partner at NTTVC. “We are looking forward to supporting the Spyderbat team and helping to fuel their next phase of growth.”

In addition to its core offering, Spyderbat separately announced today its Open-Source program.

Spyderbat is exhibiting at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon October 26th through October 28th. Learn more about Spyderbat’s solution for cloud native runtime security by visiting their booth #SU45.

About Spyderbat

Spyderbat delivers cloud native runtime security to customers with unprecedented precision in intrusion prevention and mitigation. Founded in 2019 on the recognition that the manual processes of traditional security operations are completely ineffective in rapidly changing cloud environments, Spyderbat is making threat prevention and security operation automation available with a platform for early, accurate, and thorough recognition of attacks. To learn more about Spyderbat’s solutions, open-source projects, career opportunities, or to begin using Spyderbat’s free tier, visit http://www.spyderbat.com.

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VHS Learning Reveals New Commitment to CSforALL Movement

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We believe all students should have access to computer science education, regardless of their geographic location or economic circumstances. It is our honor to be part of the movement to help ensure high school students have equitable access to great CS courses.


BOSTON (PRWEB)

At the 2022 CSforALL Summit, VHS Learning announced its plans to further expand student access to computer science education. The nonprofit revealed that it will offer free online computer science courses to fifty high school students in rural or underserved high schools. The nonprofit has also created a new beginner’s course on Python, one of the fastest growing computer programming languages.

A total of 180 organizations, up from 136 last year, disclosed commitments during the CSforALL summit, which took place October 19-21, 2022, in Memphis, Tennessee. CSforALL commitments are new, specific, and measurable actions aimed at advancing the goal of rigorous and inclusive computer science education for all U.S. youth. The commitments grow support and momentum for a sustainable K-12 computer science education system in and out of school. VHS Learning has been making annual commitments since the inception of the national CSforALL movement.

In addition to free enrollment in VHS Learning online computer science courses, sponsored students will receive all necessary course materials, and a student orientation. All VHS Learning’s computer science courses are led by teachers certified in their subject area.

Computer science courses in VHS Learning’s high school course catalog include:

  • AP® Computer Science A

  • AP® Computer Science Principles

  • Architectural CAD

  • Creative Programming with Scratch

  • Cybersecurity

  • Introduction to Computer Science Principles

  • Java Programming

  • Python Programming

  • Video Game Design

  • Web Design

Python Programming is a new addition to the VHS Learning course catalog. Students will explore two integrated development environments (IDEs), Replit and EarSketch, as they learn fundamental Python programming concepts, principles, and skills. As a final project, students will use their newly-acquired skills to develop a custom application in an area of interest.

“As with all VHS Learning computer science courses, our new Python Programming course uses engaging and creative activities to make learning fun,” said Carol DeFuria, President & CEO of VHS Learning. “This course and our sponsorship of student enrollments are the latest in our nonprofit’s annual commitment to the CSforALL movement. We believe all students should have access to computer science education, regardless of their geographic location or economic circumstances. It is our honor to be part of the movement to help ensure high school students have equitable access to great CS courses.”

About VHS Learning

VHS Learning is a nonprofit organization with over 26 years of experience providing world-class online programs to students and schools everywhere. Offering more than 300 unique online courses for high school credit, including 26 AP® courses, credit recovery, and enrichment courses, VHS Learning is accredited by Middle States Association Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS), Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACS WASC), and Cognia. Courses are approved for initial eligibility by NCAA. For more information about VHS Learning please visit https://www.vhslearning.org/ and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning.

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Spend Matters recognizes low-code based Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud in its “50 to Watch” List

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This recognition further validates our commitment to evolve and offer simple and innovative procurement solutions.


WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB)

Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud, a flexible source-to-pay software solution provider today announced its recognition on the Spend Matters “50 to Watch” 2022 list. The list highlights innovative procurement and supply chain solutions that demonstrate fast-paced growth and momentum.

Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud enables businesses of all sizes to streamline their procurement processes by embracing the low-code/no-code paradigm. Its modules include eProcurement, Punchout Catalogs, AP Automation, Supplier Portal, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Expense Management, and Custom Integrations.

The Spend Matters “50 to Watch” list recognizes the fast-rising companies in the procurement and supply chain market. Vendors listed are independently selected by the analyst team over multiple rounds of debate, focusing on factors such as growth, innovation, tech capabilities, and solution delivery.

“Kissflow Procurement Cloud covers all P2P functionalities, from purchasing requisition, purchase orders and receiving to invoice reception and approval,” said Xavier Olivera, Lead Analyst & Editor, Spend Matters. “In addition to core P2P functionalities, KPC offers capabilities around vendor management, contract approvals, data analytics and systems integrations. KPC offers a combination of P2P cloud-based software enhanced with a platform-as-a-service model that allows the integration of third-party apps.”

“We are delighted to be part of Spend Matters’ 2022 “50 to Watch” list. The procurement landscape has been going through a massive transformation, induced by the pandemic. Procurement experts are facing the heat in adapting to the growing digital business demands. They want flexible solutions which can be customized to their specific needs. This recognition further validates our commitment to evolve and offer simple and innovative procurement solutions,” said Prasanna Rajendran, Head of Business, Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud.

Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud is the first stand-alone application built on the Kissflow low-code/no-code work platform.

About Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud

Kissflow’s Procurement Cloud is a cloud-based flexible source-to-pay software that enables businesses of all sizes to streamline their procurement processes. Its modules include procure-to-pay, supplier management, purchase invoicing, analytics, and integrations, all in one unified platform.

KPC’s USP is an end-to-end P2P cloud-based software that can be completely customized to fit business needs. Served as a platform-as-a-service model, the product can be best utilized by integrating it with third-party applications. Learn more about the procurement cloud offering, please visit https://kissflow.com/procurement/.

About Spend Matters

Spend Matters is the leading solution intelligence source for procurement and supply chain professionals. Combining deep technology analysis and tailored advisory services with daily news coverage and subscription research, Spend Matters is trusted by CPOs, consultants, investors and solution providers alike as their procurement technology intelligence partner.

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Cristaux International Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary This Month

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Custom Awards by Cristaux

The Cristaux team spent ten years refining its craft in a niche space, carving out a place for modern and substantial recognition. In the last five years, Cristaux has transformed into a solutions mastermind.


CHICAGO (PRWEB)

This month, Cristaux International, a global leader in custom awards manufacturing and innovator of recognition program fulfillment, celebrated its fifteenth business anniversary. After starting the business from the founder’s parents’ basement, Cristaux has since pushed the envelope with revolutionary ideas and continues to grow its capabilities.

Of the company’s recent turning point, Cristaux Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Andre Janus said, “We were one of the pioneers to offer custom awards and recognition. I’m very proud to see that after 15 years, Cristaux works with brand-oriented and cutting-edge organizations, helping manifest stories of accomplishment. It’s about to get a lot more fun as we expand operations to service client needs throughout Europe and the Middle East.”

The Cristaux team spent ten years refining its craft in a niche space, carving out a place for modern and substantial recognition. In the last five years, Cristaux has transformed into a solutions mastermind. Whether working with the Smithsonian Institution or Anheuser-Busch, Cristaux melds creative manufacturing with global fulfillment to realize thousand-piece programs around the world.

The company plans to be operationally ready in Europe by mid-2023. Stateside, Cristaux continues to expand its roots and bandwidth in the largest industrial park of North America. With plans to double its square footage in Chicago, Cristaux is also expanding its inventory allocation, dedicated departments, ultramodern machinery, and more to support its ever-growing clientele.

About Cristaux International: Cristaux International is an elite manufacturing company that specializes in creative design for custom awards and recognition solutions like drop shipping and inventory management. Founded in 2007, Cristaux has evolved its offerings to support its clients including the James Beard Foundation and World Poker Tour. Cristaux was voted one of the 101 top Illinois product design companies of 2021 by BestStartup.us. Also, Cristaux was named one of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Illinois.

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Pakistan Air Force Chooses MAK Technologies to Provide MAK ONE Software for Composite Simulation Centre’s Synthetic Battlefield Environment

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MAK ONE: One World Multi-Domain Simulation Environment

MAK ONE: One World Multi-Domain Simulation Environment


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB)

MAK Technologies (MAK), a company of ST Engineering North America, today announced that the MAK ONE suite of simulation software, including VR-Forces, has been selected for use in Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) simulators for tactical training. VR-Forces will provide the Computer-Generated Forces (CGF) platform to generate Air, Land, Surface, and Sub-surface forces in PAF’s Project Vision’s large-scale synthetic battlefield environment, as part of its Composite Simulation Centre.

The Operations Research, Modelling and Simulations Department of Project Vision is responsible for the development of virtual and constructive simulators, including simulators for PAF fighter aircraft, surface to air missiles, radars, Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) systems, Command & Control (C2) systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), and Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems. These simulators are fully interoperable over DIS protocol.

The Composite Simulation Centre is Project Vision’s most recent effort to integrate these simulators and build a large-scale battlefield simulation environment. VR-Forces provides the tools for scenario generation in the simulated battlefield environment and is extendible through software development kits for customization and further development of user-required features.

MAK ONE’s modular, open-systems architecture also allows flexibility in system design that will enable PAF to build on top of the MAK software to meet future or evolving requirements.

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ST Engineering North America is the U.S. headquarters of ST Engineering, a global technology, defense and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defense and public security segments. Based in Alexandria, VA, it has major operations across 16 cities in 12 states and employs about 5,000 people providing innovative products and solutions to commercial and government customers across diverse market segments.

MAK Technologies builds solutions to your unique training challenges, built upon the strength and flexibility of the MAK ONE simulation platform. We have been delivering military simulation and training technology for more than 30 years, and the MAK ONE platform is the core of training simulations for the US Department of Defense and customers worldwide. Our end-user training systems are portable, easy to use and maintain, visually appealing, and able to meet individual and collective training requirements – including multi-domain operations. MAK Technologies is a company of ST Engineering North America. Please visit http://www.mak.com for more information.

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PingPod 24/7 Ping Pong Concept Plans Nationwide Expansion with SiteSeer Pro

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PingPod signs up for SiteSeer Pro

Being able to overlay our specific metrics and factors that we believe make for a great PingPod location is very useful and will help us focus our time on locations that would be a success.


BOISE, Idaho (PRWEB)

SiteSeer Technologies, creator of SiteSeer Professional site selection software and Void Analysis Pro is pleased to welcome a new client, PingPod. PingPod is a fully automated, 24/7 ping pong concept where casual and competitive players alike can reserve table tennis “pods” through PingPod’s proprietary app and play for 30-minute increments.

PingPod launched in 2020 in New York City on the Lower East Side and has since added four other NYC locations (West 37th, Williamsburg, Astoria, and the Upper East Side), a Chatham, NJ, location, and a Philadelphia, PA, location. Numerous additional locations are slated to open in New Jersey, Miami, Boston and beyond. Since opening, PingPod has registered more than 28,000 people to play, with locations logging more than 100,000 hours of play.

PingPod will use SiteSeer Professional’s suite of analytics tools, including its hot spots, site scorecards, maps and customer analytics. David Silberman, PingPod founder and CFO of the company, says these tools will help the company expand across the United States in the coming years to new markets that are excited about the PingPod concept.

“What impressed us most about SiteSeer during our research for a site selection software was the breadth and versatility of the platform,” Silberman says. “Using SiteSeer with its multiple data sources, we can learn so much about a given geographic area through one central source. Being able to overlay our specific metrics and factors that we believe make for a great PingPod location is very useful and will help us focus our time on locations that would be a success. This will help us grow thoughtfully and bring PingPod to many new cities and neighborhoods.”

In March 2022, PingPod announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Heritage (with KittyHawk Ventures and Draper Gain Family Office also participating in the round).

Sam Lowder, VP of business development for SiteSeer Technologies, says that SiteSeer is excited to support PingPod in its growth story. “PingPod is a tech-forward business model,” he says. “They recognize that a tool like SiteSeer can help them identify which markets to pursue based on their essential criteria and thoroughly evaluate sites using demographic and other data sources. We look forward to seeing this company bring its fun, innovative concept to cities around the U.S.”

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ABOUT SITESEER TECHNOLOGIES

SiteSeer Technologies, LLC, provides a suite of software, professional services, consulting and support for site selection and market analysis. Its flagship Software-as-a-Service, SiteSeer Professional, is a web-based analytics platform that helps businesses make data-driven location decisions with features and tools that include mapping, trade area analysis, demographics, customer analytics, custom reporting, analytics, model building, hot spots, site scorecards and predictive modeling tools. The SiteSeer Professional product suite also includes a real estate analytics tool (Void Analysis Pro with Retail match and Match Score) and a territory management tool (Automated Territory Optimization Model (ATOM)). Learn more at http://www.siteseer.com.

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