The Red Herring editorial team have selected Virtual Instruments as a Finalist for the 2011 Red Herring 100 Global and North America Award. This is a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region. Erevena are assisting Virtual Instruments with the continued build out of the EMEA organisation.

http://www.events.redherring.com/RHG/2011/finalists.html

http://www.events.redherring.com/RHNA/2011/finalists.html

IntraLinks Inc. a leading provider of critical information exchange solutions has appointed Ian Turner as UK Country Manager. Ian joins Intralinks from Kofax where he held the position of Director of Software and Solution Sales for UK and Ireland. He was previously at Nuance as General Manager for Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Tesco have acquired an 80% stake in blinkBox, a leading UK movie streaming service. Erevena assisted blinkBox with the hiring of their CTO.

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/tesco-acquires-majority-of-blinkbox-to-take-internet-on-tv-mainstream/

Greg Tait has been appointed as a Partner at Erevena, Greg joins Erevena from AEA, where he was Global Head of Talent Management, before that Greg was a founder at Mars Partnership, and a Partner at Hannover Matrix.

Mathew Hanson joins Erevena as a Senior Associate, Mathew was a Senior Consultant at Research Europe, and has worked with Search firms PSD and Harvey Nash.

“We are delighted to with the appointments of Greg and Mathew, we are committed to build our Professional Services and Outsourcing team and are extremely pleased to have attracted people of Greg and Mathew’s calibre to join our team.” Daniel Hyde

CloudPay, providers of multi-national Saas-based payroll solutions have appointed Tim O’Donoghue as CTO. Tim joins CloudPay from Sungard where he held the position of CTO.  Previously Tim was Head of Engineering International for Yahoo! and Head of Development at Misys.