Tech R&D innovator, Consult Red, opens three new offices and grows team by 45% in Poland

2 years ago

Positioning Poland as a strategic delivery location for its Media, Telco & IoT Global client base

This expansion is another chapter of growth for the company, driven by increasing demand for Smart connected products

Consult Red, an employee-owned tech R&D innovator, has expanded its presence in Poland to four locations as it establishes the region as a strategic delivery location to service its growing global client base.

Already established in Wroclaw, Consult Red will now have teams based in the Sheraton Plaza in Warsaw, Katowice Business Park and Stanisława Wyspiańskiego in Zielona Góra.

A growing team

Recently chosen by Netflix to join its new scaling program ‘Da Vinci’, Consult Red is a leader in software and hardware innovation of Media, Telco and IoT platforms for enterprise customers. The company now has 190 people in Poland, an increase of 45% in 12 months and continues to actively recruit in Poland.

Raghu Venkatesam, CEO, said:

"I am excited to announce our expansion in Poland in three additional locations, which enables us to recruit the best talent across Poland to continue providing value added services to our clients.

“Our deep experience in R&D, embedded hardware design, software engineering, project management and network engineering, enables our global clients to scale their IoT offerings quickly and securely.

“It means that our teams, and people joining Consult Red, are at the forefront of innovation in technology R&D and can work on a broad range of different projects and clients including Edge Computing, AI and Security.”

Sustained growth

Consult Red's growing team, and presence in Poland comes on the back of strong, sustained growth in 2021 revenue growth doubled, and the number of people in its team across the UK, Poland and the US increased by 25%.

In 2022 Consult Red anticipates further strong growth and is looking to increase team size by over a third. Recently the company appointed Raghu Venkatesam as CEO. It seeks to leverage its track record of deep engineering and R&D to deliver cutting-edge, connected devices and systems across industries.

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Notes to Editors

About Consult Red

Consult Red is an employee-owned company that works with many of the world's leading media and connectivity brands. It employs around 300 people in its offices in the UK, US and Poland.

Consult Red applies its long track record in connected and embedded expertise to meet market demand for IoT smart devices, expanding the business outside of media and delivering more services to different sectors. Connected devices and systems developed by Consult Red are currently in more than 30 million homes worldwide.

Employee ownership

In May 2021, ownership of the company was transferred to the employees, protecting the company's values and putting it in pole position to attract and retain the industry's best talent and create win-win relationships with its customers.

Recent leadership appointments:

In 2020, Karen Bach, an experienced Chairman and non-executive director in the technology and media industry, joined as Consult Red Chairman.

In 2021 Consult Red made two more key appointments,

· Paul Stevenson as CFO and

· Steve Donachie as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

In February 2022, Consult Red appointed Raghu Venkatesam as CEO

About Consult Red

We’re a technology consulting company helping clients deliver connected devices and systems, supporting them through the entire development journey. We apply our cutting-edge experience in product development, hardware, embedded and cloud technology to help companies in all sectors to deliver connected devices and systems. We work with clients to take an idea from concept through to complete product development – in short, we make their products ‘smart’ and turn their digital ambition into a reality. Clients value our deep product design, development and systems integration experience to help them drive innovation and deliver new products to market. For two decades, we’ve been innovation partners to some of the world’s leading media brands, helping them to be at the forefront of technology in the home.

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