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Epson America, Long Beach, California

Gold Stevie Award Winner 2012, Click to Enter The 2014 American Business Awards

Company: Epson America, Long Beach, California
Entry Submitted By: Walt & Company Communications
Company Description: Epson America is a global imaging and innovation leader whose product lineup ranges from inkjet printers and 3LCD projectors to sensors and other microdevices. Dedicated to exceeding the vision of its customers worldwide, Epson delivers customer value based on compact, energy-saving, and high-precision technologies in markets spanning enterprise and the home to commerce and industry.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: New Product or Service of the Year - Hardware - Peripheral

Nomination Title: Epson America’s BrightLink Pro

1. Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 525 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and performance to date:

Epson America’s BrightLink Pro is an interactive meeting room productivity tool designed to entice collaboration and the creative flow of ideas while increasing organizational innovation and efficiency. The BrightLink Pro seamlessly turns a traditional whiteboard, wall or nearly any flat surface into a new digital surface for an instant meeting. As a standalone appliance, the BrightLink Pro has the ability to operate on its own – no PC or special software required. Users can annotate on existing content and instantly capture newly created content by saving, printing or e-mailing through the network. With instant collaboration, team members can quickly gather, discuss plans and updates with other colleagues in another location.

Users can simply turn the projector on and start writing with the interactive pen. Images can be inserted from a USB drive or from drives on the network. Users can also pull up a presentation, image or word document from the network or USB drive, and make notes or edits directly on the projected content. When the meeting is done, users can print, save or email the file to the rest of the team, maximizing productivity and efficiency.

BrightLink Pro also offers a variety of features to boost collaboration, including video conferencing and whiteboard sharing, which allows users to connect up to 16 devices to the BrightLink Pro to view and annotate, without a PC. To further distinguish the BrightLink Pro, this collaboration tool comes equipped with a Control Pad, which acts as a convenient USB hub, an extension to USB ports or as a remote control unit. To further boost collaboration, meeting participants can use the Control Pad to connect to USB thumb drive, a PC or printer, enhancing the ease-of-use and efficiency for conference rooms.

And for mobile users, Epson designed the BrightLink Pro as a solution for BYOD: Bring Your Own Device. Leveraging the free Epson iProjection app, users can bring their own iOS Apple devices running iOS4.2 or later and most Android devices running Android 2.3 or later to project, annotate, capture, and share on BrightLink Pro.

The BrightLink Pro is also equipped with advanced Epson technology and 3LCD 3-chip technology for amazing color, incredible detail and solid reliability. The BrightLink Pro offers high definition WXGA widescreen resolution and up to 3,300 lumens of color brightness and 3,300 lumens of white brightness, ensuring brilliant images with true-to-life color making any presentation vibrant and engaging. 3LCD’s 3-chip architecture dedicates an entire chip to process each primary color - red, green, and blue, continuously. Unlike single-chip technology that delivers color sequentially, this produces full-time color. The result is vibrant, realistic images and video all delivered with 3LCD's true-to-life color.

In addition, BrightLink Pro comes with a two-year limited warranty that includes two elite technical support services – Epson PrivateLine® phone support with direct access to an expedited support telephone line and a two-year Road Service projector replacement program that includes projector exchange in one business day with paid shipping.

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2. Provide a brief (up to 125 words) biography about the leader(s) of the team that developed this nominated product or service:

Sean Gunduz is the senior product manager for high lumen and corporate projection solutions at Epson America and was instrumental in bringing the BrightLink Pro – the first-of-its kind meeting room productivity tool – to market. Sean brings more than more than 17 years of multinational experience in business development, account and product management, as well as product marketing to his role at Epson, and his knowledgeable experience across a range of markets and leadership capabilities has contributed to several technological advancements throughout his career.