NanoLumens® Promotes Almir DeCarvalho to Position Of Vice President, Strategic Accounts

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to building a strong international base of loyal repeat customers, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor LED visual display solutions, today announced the promotion of Almir DeCarvalho from the position of Vice President of International Sales to Vice President of Strategic Accounts, with global responsibility for identifying and forming relationships with targeted strategic accounts across all vertical markets. 

According to NanoLumens Vice President of Global Sales Rick Bortles, DeCarvalho has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to identify, nurture and expand relationships with major accounts around the world.  “Now, with more and more of our international sales being channeled through distributors, we can free up Almir to focus on specific targeted accounts around the world in every vertical market we serve.  I believe his experience, talents, and dedication will serve him well in this new position.”

While serving as Vice President of International Sales, the International division has been the fastest growing division within NanoLumens, experiencing over 100% growth year over year for the past three years consecutively.  NanoLumens has established a global footprint in Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, China, and the EMEA region.

“My objective for the Strategic Accounts division in 2015 is to continue to provide our partners with NanoLumens’ uniquely customizable digital visualization capabilities specific to the markets that they are targeting,” DeCarvalho said today.   “We will challenge our partners to push the creative envelope, changing the competitive landscape in their prospective markets.  We pride ourselves in giving our partners the ability to sit in front of their customer and never have to say no, as far as creative designs goes.”

Before joining NanoLumens in 2011, Almir DeCarvalho served as Director of Sales at Adaptive Micro Systems LLC.  Prior to this he held several positions in worldwide corporate sales over a 12-year period at FedEx Corporate Services.  Almir studied at the University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

NanoLumens® Completes $13.3-Million Round of New Financing

NanoLumens®, the world’s leader for visualization solutions in any size, shape or curvature, today announced it has secured $13.3-million in new financing from an offering of debt and securities. Euro Pacific Canada Inc. (www.europac.ca) served as the exclusive agent for the offering.  The $5-million debt component of the financing was provided by Wellington Financial LP (www.wellingtonfund.com). 

According to NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope, the new round of funding will be used to accelerate the company’s strategic business and technology development programs. “The next chapter for our global strategy is about to unfold” he said today.  “Working closely with leading global companies, NanoLumens is expanding its visualization platform to incorporate nearly limitless opportunities that join together large-format visualization solutions with native apps, professional services and mobile tech platforms.  Our end result will be an interactive universe of display solutions that not only engage customers, but also simultaneously deliver information and compel commerce.

“What’s more,” Cope continued, “we are going to do this with technology that was born in Canada, is manufactured in America, and is shipping to customers around the world.”

According to Euro Pacific Canada Managing Director Adam Adamou, “Euro Pacific -is committed to repopulating the Canadian public markets with the very best young technology companies in the world.  NanoLumens is a pre-eminent leader in the emerging market of providing customer specific visualization solutions that help marketers to better engage with their customers wherever those customers happen to be.” 

“We are excited to partner with this dynamic tech visionary.  NanoLumens stands at the forefront of creating the future of customer engagement through visualization solutions that can be designed, engineered and manufactured in any shape, size or curvature that clients require.  With an impressive list of customers and tremendous growth over the last three years, NanoLumens is a perfect fit for our growth capital,” said Mark McQueen, President & CEO of Wellington Financial.

NanoLumens’ current clients include a broad range of marketers covering the fields of broadcast, casinos, control rooms, convention centers, DOOH, higher education, hospitality, retail, stadiums, and transportation including AIG, Bally’s, CBS Outdoor, CCTV, CNN, Charles Schwab, Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Estee Lauder, ESPN, GTE Financial, Holt-Renfrew, Invesco, Macy’s, Nike, Terra, Turner, Universal Studios Florida, Uniqlo, and the new World Trade Center Freedom Tower, among many others. 

NanoLumens® to Debut Breakthrough LED Display Solution at ISE 2015

Company to debut world’s first front installable and front serviceable NanoSlim Engage 2.5MM LED display and showcase its NanoSlim, NanoCurve, and NanoFlex solutions.

NanoLumens®, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of LED visual display solutions, will formally make its EMEA market debut at ISE 2015 with the introduction and demonstration of the world’s first front installable, front serviceable 2.5MM LED display at Stand #11-M38 — the NanoSlim Engage.  At the same time, the company will showcase its complete line-up of NanoSlim, NanoCurve, and NanoWrap LED display solutions for prospective European customers.

“We’ve chosen ISE 2015 to introduce our next great advancement in LED display technology and we did so for a very important reason,” explained David DaCosta, NanoLumens’ Vice President of EMEA.  “The European market is a major priority for us in 2015.  Last year, we opened our first UK sales office.  This year we are exhibiting at ISE for the first time, and we are bringing with us the next generation of our product development — NanoSlim Engage.”

NanoSlim Engage is designed to allow customers to engage their audiences up close and personal.  The new high resolution, large-scale visualization solution from the industry leader in indoor LED displays comes backed by an unprecedented corner-to-corner six-year warranty and is designed to serve as the ideal display solution for board rooms, command and control centers, and other areas where clear and up-close viewing is required.  It is also the first LED display solution able to be both front installed and front serviced.

NanoLumens’ formal European market debut at ISE 2015 comes at a time of record- breaking growth for the pioneering Georgia-based company.  Its current clients include a broad range of marketers covering the fields of broadcast, casinos, control rooms, convention centers, DOOH, higher education, hospitality, retail, stadiums, and transportation including AIG, Bally’s, CBS Outdoor, CCTV, Charles Schwab, Delta Airlines, Estee Lauder, GTE Financial, Holt-Renfrew, Invesco, Macy’s, Universal Studios Florida, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Uniqlo, and the new World Trade Center Freedom Tower, among many others. 

“Supported by a base of strong and loyal customers who are making deep investments in our vision, we expect the company to continue to grow at a torrid rate,” NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope emphasized today.  “Four years after introducing our first commercial product in 2011, we are poised to create scalable visual solutions that result in immersive consumer experiences that businesses need and consumers crave in our increasingly mobile, interconnected world.”

Cope said that the company’s strategic partnership with the technology contract manufacturer PartnerTech AB will enable it to continue to scale production as demand for solutions grows.  “Because PartnerTech AB operates 13 facilities in six countries, we will be able ship as scheduled,” he emphasized.

NanoLumens displays are extremely slim, ultra-lightweight, energy efficient, and feature a bright, seamless, high resolution picture quality that can be viewed from any angle throughout the display horizon without color shift or image distortion. The company’s patented display technology and highly innovative products promise to transform the way companies engage their audiences in every type of higher education, retail, hospitality, stadium, arena, casino, transportation and public event environment.

All NanoLumens displays accept input from nearly any device or content management system. There is no need for special software, hardware or special personnel to display content beautifully.  With a profile of only a few inches, NanoSlim displays can be installed on virtually any surface without being obtrusive, adding the ‘WOW’ factor to any environment without taking up precious space. NanoLumens’ patented display technology is optimized for indoor use, operating with virtually zero heat or noise while producing bright, rich, consistent color as well as superior off-axis viewing with no color shift or image distortion throughout the display horizon.

NanoLumens® Partners With Emerald Expositions and Pixelfire to Create Spectacular Entrance to GlobalShop 2015

Underscoring the role interactive display technology is playing in shaping the future of retail design, Emerald Expositions, producers of the annual GlobalShop Show, is partnering with NanoLumens® (www.nanolumens.com), the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor LED visual display solutions, to create a spectacular interactive entrance to GlobalShop 2015, which runs from March 24—26, 2015 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

In selecting NanoLumens to create this new entranceway, Doug Hope, Vice President of Content at Emerald Expositions, said, “Because GlobalShop is the largest retail design trade show in the nation, we are always looking for ways to make a relatable design statement to the retail industry. In the newly expanded Mandalay Bay Convention Center, we have the additional challenge of scale in that most entrance units used by trade shows are dwarfed by the size of the Center.

“Compounding this is the rapidly accelerating fusion of digital and physical in the retail industry.  As a result, it became very clear to us that what we needed to do in 2015 was to create a large-scale digital project that is able to create an unmistakable entrance destination. With NanoLumens, GlobalShop is able to achieve all of the elements with one company’s product.  An added benefit to the NanoLumens solution is that the substrate is lightweight enough so that it can be rigged in the overhead structures of Mandalay Bay without any modifications,” Hope emphasized. 

According to NanoLumens Vice President of Marketing & Business Development Nate Remmes, NanoLumens is pulling out all of the stops to create an entranceway that will stop show attendees in their tracks and engage them in a way they have never experienced before.  “We’re working with Pixelfire to create a 21st century visual experience that showcases how the latest web and native app technologies deliver multi-screen solutions that meet the growing demands of today's online, mobile and social consumers.”

According to Pixelfire President Steve Bumstead, “Pixelfire is renowned for creating stunning, out-of-the-box digital content that takes advantage of the very latest in display technology.  NanoLumens’ technology is the very best out there and we really looking forward to showcasing how our creative thinking can push the envelope in creating an immersive digital experience that is unique to GlobalShop and the retail channel of the 21st century.”

Emerald Expositions is a leading operator of large business-to-business trade shows in the United States, producing more than 85 trade shows and conference events per year, connecting over 525,000 buyers and sellers across ten diversified end-markets, including gift, home and general merchandise; sports; hospitality and retail design; jewelry, luxury, and antiques; e-commerce; photography; decorated apparel; building; healthcare; and military. Emerald is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, CA. The company’s shows are typically the most prominent and important for exhibitors and attendees within their various industries. GlobalShop is the world's largest annual event for retail design and shopper marketing. It's the only show in the world where retail professionals can find the largest, most comprehensive array of store fixture companies and more in-store solutions than any live event in the nation.

NanoLumens Steps Up To Help Gary Sinise Foundation Equip Local Georgia Wounded Warrior's New Home

If there’s one thing that NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope values more than anything else, it is service.  Before he became a hard-charging successful tech industry CEO, Cope served for more than 20 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in a career that concluded with him serving as Special Operations Advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Desert Storm campaign in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. 

So, it should come as no surprise that, when he heard about the Gary Sinise Foundation’s efforts to build a home in Columbus, Georgia for wounded warrior Mike Schlitz, he knew he had to do something about it.  “I was approached by Joel Berrettini of IT and Media Solutions to see if I could help open up some doors at the major hardware manufacturers we work with,” Cope explained.  “I knew I had to do something because the new home wouldn’t be complete without some HD television displays.” 

NanoLumens donated three LED HD displays for Mike Schlitz’s new home, which was formally dedicated on October 31st. 

“I can’t thank Rick Cope and NanoLumens enough for helping to complete this very important project,” said Berrettini.  “All of us, as Americans, have an obligation to help give something back to the men and women of our Armed Forces who have sacrificed so much to ensure our freedom and way of life.  I know that everyone at the Gary Sinise Foundation appreciates what NanoLumens did.  They stepped up when we needed their help the most.”