Accela Communications Expands AccelaCast Production Team With 3 New Hires

New hires brought on board to meet demand of new business in web video and multimedia, particularly in Healthcare communications and education programming

SOUTHBOROUGH, MA – January 21, 2009 Accela Communications, Inc., a leader in interactive multimedia communications, is pleased to announce the hire of three new personnel to join their growing professional services team. This latest round of hiring will support impressive growth in AccelaCast online video and multimedia productions services, particularly in the area of Healthcare communications and education.

KAREN McKEEN, is an award winning producer and director with experience in a wide variety of educational, medical, promotional and documentary specials for broadcast, and corporations. Karen is well known for using her documentary filmmaking experience to create compelling programs for corporate and educational presentations that are engaging and thought provoking. With 5 years experience as a producer, director and project manager at Health Dialog, Inc, she has an exceptional background in producing medical treatments, scripts, and medical animations. Known as a strong communicator and team leader, Karen’s brings a wealth of savvy in all aspects of interactive video production.

LAURA SATTA has an extensive track record of innovation and creativity in her productions, with demonstrated success in creating custom high-end video and audio production services for businesses and organizations like New England Cable News (NECN). In her prior role at NECN, she was credited with increasing productivity and placing the station at the forefront of multimedia convergence by building partnerships with other news outlets. Laura’s experience and skill in creating cross-promotional multimedia products with clients and business partners will be an asset to the clients she works with.

RACHEL SMITH has over 9 years of experience in the multimedia production industry, acting as a creative producer and project manager for award-winning corporate and educational video presentations. With numerous credits, grants and awards under her belt, her diverse experience includes museum exhibitions, documentary films, marketing videos, event production, TV commercials and websites. Rachel’s leadership, project management and communications skills have enabled her to work with several high level clients successfully managing project budgets of close to a half million dollars. Her Fine Arts background combined with exceptional production management skills have translated into highly successful multimedia programming.

“Our clients, particularly in the Healthcare communications area, are increasingly interested in using our interactive technology and services to build programs in a sequential learning format that helps identify learning gaps, and improve outcomes measurement,” said Bill Reinstein President and CEO of Accela Communications. “The new additions to our team will help us continue to meet and exceed these growing needs and to offer the highest quality services, people and thinking in on-demand rich media programming.”  

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About Accela Communications

Accela Communications creates opportunities for market and audience engagement with our AccelaCast™ rich-media platform and our AccelaWorks™ data acquisition, measurement, classification and delivery system.  The company generates actionable results for customers like Boston Scientific, EMC, Eli Lilly, the Federal Reserve , HP, MC Communications, Merck, Pfizer, SAP, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Wyeth.  For more information, visit www.accelacommunications.com.

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