Company achieves double-digit growth; promotes Said Bacho to Chief Revenue Officer and Stuart McGeechan to Chief Operating Officer

Boston, MA – July 20, 2021 – EditShare®, a technology leader that delivers software to enable collaborative media workflows, wrapped up second-quarter 2021 results with 45% growth over the second quarter of the previous year. Significant contributions to growth include an increase in cloud deployments, a key industry win with leading Boston public broadcaster GBH, landmark deals with ministries such as Hillsong and King Jesus, and notable demand for expansion from existing customers such as Edge Hill University. Product workflow investments and partner integration enhancements, with partners such as Adobe and Amazon Web Services, allow for media management solutions that span every step of the operational journey — on-premise, hybrid, and in the cloud. Well positioned for continued growth, EditShare also announces two key leadership appointments with the promotion of Said Bacho to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Stuart McGeechan to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Bacho will lead EditShare’s global sales, pre-sales, and sales operations. McGeechan will continue to define EditShare’s customer success strategy as well as oversee the company’s business platforms and supply chain operations.

“In a business environment of constant change, EditShare remains focused on delivering open solutions with supply chain agility that enables our customers to navigate uncertainty and react with speed and ease to new requirements, whether that’s evolving the tools they use or the way they need to collaborate,” states Conrad Clemson, CEO, EditShare. “With the currents of the pandemic continuing to push media companies towards flexible, open workflows, our innovative solutions and market leadership position EditShare for continued record growth into the second half of 2021. The appointments of Said and Stuart enable us to continue raising our game providing the superior service and continued innovation the industry has come to expect from EditShare. Both are transformational leaders whose track records put customer enablement and empathy alongside growth and innovation.”

Bacho, who joined EditShare in early 2021 as Vice President of Sales – Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), has been influential in reshaping EMEA sales and sales operations, driving record revenues for the region. The promotion to CRO will expand his leadership to EditShare’s global sales team, bringing new go-to-market disciplines, processes, and structure to the worldwide sales organization, enabling the global channel partner and system integrator network, and driving strategic account development across all regions. Bacho comments, “I was drawn to EditShare by its technology and team. I am excited to take on the role of CRO and continue to drive the business forward in double-digit growth delivering an exceptional customer experience from introduction to implementation of their EditShare solution.”

McGeechan, who joined EditShare in 2019, has been responsible for the company’s customer success strategy — transitioning training, support, and professional service teams from a reactive operation to a proactive customer engagement experience. McGeechan will pick up the mantle to create a world-class, data-driven business operations process that spans every aspect of the company. “Empathy for our customers and their storytelling journey is an EditShare core value. Aligned with this value is our objective to further simplify operations so we can quickly meet customer needs on-demand,” states McGeechan. “Working hand-in-hand with the senior leadership team of EditShare, we will continue our business transformation to a data-driven, high-growth software company.”

The appointments of Bacho and McGeechan are effective immediately.

To discuss how EditShare can help your media workflow, please visit: https://editshare.com/get-started/.

About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader that enables collaborative media workflows on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration. With customer and partner success at the heart of EditShare’s core values, our open software solutions and robust APIs improve workflow collaboration and third-party integrations across the entire production chain, ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none. The high-perfrmance software lineup includes media optimized shared storage management, archiving and backup, and media management, all supported with open APIs for extensible integration.

©2021 EditShare LLC. All rights reserved. EditShare® is a registered trademark of EditShare.

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Zazil Media Group
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New workgroup permissions, NDI Support, and third-party integrations enhance workflows for admins and video editors

Boston, MA – July 1, 2021 – EditShare®, a technology leader that delivers software to enable collaborative media workflows for storytellers, announced today a number of key enhancements to its EFS and FLOW solutions. As the intelligent media control and management layer for on-premises and cloud, EditShare solutions enable collaborative media production workflows including storyboarding, review and approval, storage management, archiving and distribution.

FLOW Key Enhancements

EditShare customers can watch the FLOW Q2 update video to learn more about the new features and capabilities.

NDI and H.265 Scan Support

• Support for the growing demand for NDI workflows within FLOW, which is currently in public beta, provides EditShare customers a convenient architecture for distributing video over IP.
• Support for H.265 HEVC compression technology widely used in productions around the world offers EditShare customers outstanding picture quality with very low file sizes.

Group Permissions with Support for Projects, Metadata and Channels

• Quickly create, delete, and edit groups permissions.
• Disable and re-enable entire groups.
• Easily promote and track users’ permissions.
• Extend permissions on a group basis to projects, metadata templates and ingest channels. 

Forced Logout from all FLOW Clients

• Disconnect users from FLOW applications to free up licenses, optimizing use for production resources.

Metadata and Mapping

• Support for import of .mxf/.r3d file samples for mapping configuration. Key for customers using Avid workflows, reveals internal metadata contained within supported media files, allowing quick configuration of metadata-mapping into FLOW custom fields.
• Support for import and mapping of sidecar XML to non-video files, such as still images, enables facilities with large still libraries and other non-video collections to migrate seamlessly to FLOW to be ready for production.

Video Previews Available for Real-time Preview of SDI/NDI

• ‘Live’ monitoring, configuration, and workflow management.
• Support for the preview of live ingest sources in web applications.

Integration with Mobius Vision AI – Facial Recognition

• Saves FLOW users time reviewing and tagging content.
• Comprehensive database includes thousands of celebrities and public figures. 
• Ability to augment the database with a custom collection of faces for detection.

Support for the latest Archiware Release

• Optimized for large file counts in transfer.
• Users can easily archive and restore assets from FLOW tools supporting accurate source path preservation and tape barcode metadata tracking.

EFS Key Enhancements

EFS Control: Advances in our new Web-Based UI with User Groups Support

• View user group membership in the sidebar.
• View and search media spaces to which each group has been assigned.
• Add and remove groups to and from media spaces.
• Support for exporting any table view (e.g., the list of spaces and users) as a CSV file.

Active Directory

• Support for legacy operation of a single group for all active directory accounts.

Audit and Monitor

• View summary of real-time read and write bandwidth data to manage user traffic and prioritize bandwidth for high priority tasks.

EFS Storage Optimization

• Default speed for EFS background operations is 20X faster, making the system more efficient when adding a new storage node.
• Ability to immediately utilize replication goals for new media spaces without rebooting.

“Our commitment to customer success drives our roadmap,” comments Sunil Mudholkar, vice president of product management, EditShare. “This release of EditShare software enhances support for large-scale installations and complex workflows where customers need greater control without losing the nimble flexibility, making EFS and FLOW even easier to use on a day-to-day basis.”

For more information on FLOW, please visit https://editshare.com/products/flow-media-management/.

For more information on EFS, please visit https://editshare.com/products/efs-storage/

About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader that enables collaborative media workflows on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration. With customer and partner success at the heart of EditShare’s core values, our open software solutions and robust APIs improve workflow collaboration and third-party integrations across the entire production chain, ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none. The high-performance software lineup includes media optimized shared storage management, archiving and backup, and media management, all supported with open APIs for extensible integration.

©2021 EditShare LLC. All rights reserved. EditShare® is a registered trademark of EditShare.

Press Contact
Cat Soroush
Zazil Media Group
(e) catherine@zazilmediagroup.com
(p) +1 (631) 880-9534