ATLANTA, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE:
PGI), a global leader in virtual meetings for over 20 years, today
announced that Boland T. Jones, PGi
founder, chairman and CEO, received a Bronze Best in Biz Award for
Executive of the Year and David
Guthrie, Chief Technology Officer, received Gold for
Technology Executive of the Year. These honors mark the third
Executive of the Year award that each honoree has won this
year.
Jones and Guthrie were recognized for their vision and
leadership in repositioning PGi to focus on cloud-based virtual
meeting applications. The 2011 launch of iMeet® and
GlobalMeet®, led by Mr. Jones and spearheaded by Mr.
Guthrie's technical expertise, positioned PGi as a collaboration
software products company, building on its decades of experience as
a global communications services provider.
iMeet is PGi's cloud-based collaboration solution that lets
people meet face-to-face online from anywhere on any device.
iMeet was designed to drive more personal connections in virtual
meetings, and it is commonly used for recruiting interviews, sales
presentations, corporate training, team meetings and
more. GlobalMeet was designed to be the easiest to use, most
intuitive web conferencing product on the market, with a
simple-to-navigate user interface, scalability for up to 125 users
and easy access from the desktop, web, tablets or mobile
devices.
"We are honored by this recognition from so many prominent
analysts and journalists from across the industries of business and
technology," said Mr. Jones. "It has been an exciting year of
innovation and growth for PGi, and we take pride in the
acknowledgment of our continued focus on creating products that
help businesses meet and collaborate in more enjoyable and
productive ways."
Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2012 were determined by an
independent panel of 32 judges from top-tier news, business and
technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets and analyst
firms such as ABC, Businessweek, Computerworld, ECT News Network,
Entrepreneur, eWeek, Examiner, Financial Times, Forbes, FOX News,
Hartford Business Journal, IDG Ventures, IEEE Institute, Inc.,
Insight Media, King Features Syndicate, Lab Reviews, Network World,
The News and Observer, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, South Florida
Business Journal, Tech-Gaming, Techtalk, Upstart Business Journal,
USA Today and ZDNet.
For a full list of gold, silver and bronze winners in Best in
Biz Awards 2012, visit:
http://www.bestinbizawards.com/2012-winners.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. │ PGi
PGi has
been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years. Our
cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual
collaboration using video, voice and file sharing technologies. PGi
solutions are available via desktops, tablets or mobile devices,
helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and
green. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an
established base of more than 35,000 enterprise customers,
including 75% of the Fortune 100™. In the last
five years, we have hosted more than 725 million people from 137
countries in over 165 million meetings. For more information, visit
us at http://www.pgi.com.
About Best in Biz Awards
Best in Biz Awards
recognizes top companies, teams, executives and products for their
business success as judged by independent panels of members of the
press and industry analysts. Best in Biz Awards honors are
conferred in three separate programs during the calendar year: U.S.
and Canada, EMEA, and
International. Any organization from any industry boasting
demonstrated success in the awards program's region can enter any
of the more than 50 company, department or team, executive and
product categories. Entries for Best in Biz Awards 2013 EMEA are
being accepted from all companies based in or operating in
Europe, Middle East and Africa until January
17, 2013. For more information about the entry process and
categories in all three programs, please visit:
http://www.bestinbizawards.com.
Statements made in this press release, other than those
concerning historical information, should be considered
forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties.
Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe
harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or
beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently
available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual
results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere
Global Services, Inc.'s forward-looking statements, including, but
not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures,
including pricing pressures; technological changes and the
development of alternatives to our services; market acceptance of
new cloud-based, virtual meeting services, including our iMeet and
GlobalMeet services; our ability to attract new customers and to
retain and further penetrate our existing customers; risks
associated with challenging global economic conditions; price
increases from our telecommunications service providers; service
interruptions and network downtime; technological obsolescence and
our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network
capacity; concerns regarding the security of transactions; future
write-downs of goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than
anticipated tax liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction
initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of
indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures;
the impact of the sale of our PGiSend business; our ability to
protect our intellectual property rights, including possible
adverse results of litigation or infringement claims; regulatory or
legislative changes, including further government regulations
applicable to traditional telecommunications service providers and
data privacy; risks associated with international operations and
market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign currency
exchange rates; and other factors described from time to time in
our press releases, reports and other filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the "Risk
Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2011. All
forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on
our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this
cautionary statement.
Media Contact:
Kim Casey
404-564-6633
kim.casey@pgi.com
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