Vocollect Appoints Director of Marketing for EMEA

Vocollect, the world leader in Voice-Directed Work, today announced the appointment of Raf Jezierski as director of marketing for Vocollect EMEA.  Raf Jezierski will oversee all EMEA Marketing activities. He will report to Greg Tanner, managing director for Vocollect Europe, and will be based in Vocollect's European headquarters in Buckinghamshire, England.

"Raf's wealth of experience and expertise in commercial and product marketing will be a great asset to our global marketing team," said Greg Tanner.  "He will play a key role in the strategic development of the company, continuing to enhance our marketing capability as we build upon the excellent growth that Vocollect's voice business has seen since we established our EMEA operations four years ago. In particular, Raf will help drive our further geographic expansion as we extend Vocollect's leadership into new markets.''

Prior to joining Vocollect, Raf Jezierski had been running his own consulting business. Before this, he held the position of vice president of business development for Psion Teklogix.  He was promoted to this position after playing a key role in the merger of the two companies in his previous roles as the head of marketing and business development for Psion and then director of mobile computing for Psion Teklogix International. Raf Jezierski has also held senior marketing positions at Logica, Cable & Wireless and General Electric.

''There is a tremendous market opportunity for Voice-Directed Work solutions and I am delighted to be joining Vocollect,'' said Raf Jezierski. "I'm looking forward to helping the company achieve its ambitious marketing objectives and playing a significant role in the future success of the business."

Vocollect's Voice-Directed Distribution improves warehouse and distribution centre performance by applying the latest in text-to-speech, speech recognition and wireless wearable computing technologies, to facilitate one-to-one communication between workers and their warehouse management system (WMS). Vocollect's Voice-Directed Distribution systems are used for a variety of warehouse applications ranging from order selection, flow-through, cycle counting, put-away, put-to-store, replenishment, transfers, receiving and line loading. At present, they are deployed across a broad range of industries from grocery and retail, to pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing and third party logistics, helping streamline operations, boost productivity, improve accuracy and safety and lower operating costs.