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Analogue to Digital

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As Principal Consultant at Tellus Solutions, Andrew O’Dua spends most of his time supporting businesses in achieving growth. But for the rest of the time, Andrew O’Dua acts as a Business Angel – investing in a wide range of up and coming businesses. Here’s the latest news from one of them:

Living in the UK, there are a number of everyday technologies which we take for granted, with digital TV being one of them. Since the introduction of the international treaty, all countries are required to switch to digital TV (DSO) from analogue. Most developing nations don’t have the technical or operating capability to achieve this, which is why Inview (a UK company based near Manchester) has put a team together that developed Freeview in the UK and is exporting this know-how and technology to achieve DSO across the World. Countries including the Philippines and Mexico are involved in the switchover, however the most notable area in which Inview has a presence is in Nigeria, where the Government has contracted Inview to build and operate the Freeview and Freesat versions for the Nigerian digital television switchover.

This type of global investment will not only provide viewers with up to 30 free channels to watch, but will create a huge economic benefit for Nigeria. Moving to digital TV offers substantial benefits to the country including expanding the digital economy through the growth of TV advertising and content production, as well as allowing the Government to sell the freed-up analogue spectrum to mobile phone operators for 3G and 4G signals.

As being of Nigerian parentage, our Principal Consultant Andrew O’Dua is hugely supportive of the investment scheme, “Government Enterprise Investment Schemes such as this, is not just about providing more channels for viewers to watch, but the economic benefits for Nigeria will be huge. It’s exciting to be a part of the development of this kind of technology in Nigeria, especially as it is coming from a local company which will now be exporting this model on a worldwide scale.”

For more information on Inview and what their plans are, visit their website: www.inview.tv

 

Tellus Solutions Continues to Grow

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Tellus Solutions Strengthens Team with New Marketing Support

Business support and investment company Tellus Solutions has brought Gabrielle Chesterman on-board to bolster its marketing and communications team. The new role of Project Manager will see Gabrielle reporting to Andrew O’Dua, Founder and Principal Consultant at Tellus Solutions.

Andrew O’Dua, commented: “Gabrielle will lead Tellus Solutions as we continue to promote ourselves to businesses in a wide range of sectors. Continuing to grow our team as we expand into new markets is very much part of our strategy for 2017 and having Gabrielle join us is a great start to the year!”

The new hire follows the business’ recent move to bigger premises in Alderley Edge, following a shift in focus from bioscience to broader markets. Speaking about the new position Gabrielle said: “It’s great to be kicking off the New Year with a new job, and at such an exciting time for Tellus Solutions. Andrew O’Dua and the team have already made me feel welcome, and I look forward to leading them in the change of direction during 2017.”

For further information and to keep up-to-date on more news and vacancies please visit www.tellus-solutions.co.uk .

Game on with Desk Dragons

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As Principal Consultant at Tellus Solutions, Andrew O’Dua spends most of his time supporting businesses in achieving growth. But for the rest of the time, Andrew O’Dua acts as a Business Angel – investing in a wide range of up and coming businesses. Here’s the latest news from one of them:

Technology is one of our favourite things here at Tellus Solutions, so when the opportunity arises to be part of an up and coming tech company, especially in our local area – we get very excited. Desk Dragons Interactive is a Manchester based game development studio founded in 2015 by a collection of passionate and experienced game developers.

Their work takes them all over the world, where last April they were able to travel over to San Francisco to attend Game Developers Conference 2016.  A team from Desk Dragons also took part in Jamchester, the UK’s largest game jam, and won the ‘Totally Unreal Award’, competing against over 60 teams from around Europe.

Desk Dragons are also setting up their first dedicated studio in Springfield’s, Manchester, to complete development of their first product and to create high quality and innovative content for current virtual reality and future mixed reality platforms.

Principal Consultant Andrew O’Dua is excited to see what happens next with Desk Dragons, “Being a part of a digital start-up company like Desk Dragons opens my eyes to the real talent we have right here on our door step. It’s a thrilling industry to be in, and I can’t wait to see how Desk Dragons grow and progress over the coming years.”

For more information on Desk Dragons, visit their website www.deskdragons.com