Fast-Growing Smart City Firm Telensa Appoints Sue Thexton as Chief Sales Officer

Company responds to accelerating global demand for its Smart City
applications, as it reports 90% annual revenue growth and profitability

CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Telensa, the global leader in connected street lighting and Smart City
applications, today announced the appointment of Sue Thexton as Chief
Sales Officer (CSO). Sue has a proven track record of growing businesses
internationally, and will take command of Telensa’s global sales
organisation as it ramps to meet accelerating demand for its Smart City
applications.

Sue has previously led significant business growth for several global
software companies, including Macromedia and Adobe. More recently, she
built the team that grew Brightcove’s EMEA and LatAm cloud-based video
business, and launched the global sales strategy for V-Nova, a
privately-held video compression technology company.

“I’m excited to be joining Telensa at such a critical point in its
growth strategy,” said Sue Thexton, Chief Sales Officer at Telensa.
“With a strong foundation as the leader by market share in street
lighting networks and with many innovations in the pipeline, Telensa is
well-placed to capitalise on the huge growth in Smart City projects
worldwide.”

“Sue brings deep commercial and leadership experience in applications,
and I’m delighted she is joining us now, as we build Telensa’s
commercial momentum and expand our range of Smart City applications,”
said Will Gibson, Chief Commercial Officer at Telensa.

“Telensa has a unique formula for delivering Smart City applications
with the scale and affordability that cities need,” said Will Franks,
Chief Executive Officer at Telensa. “Sue will play a key role in
realising our company’s commercial potential.”

Telensa recently
filed its financial year 2017 accounts, which show revenues of £23M
and a profit of £3M. The company’s revenues have grown by 90% since
2016, and are 3x those reported for 2015.

About Telensa

Telensa® makes wireless smart city control applications, including
PLANet®, the world’s most widely deployed smart streetlight solution,
with a global footprint of over one million lights across five
continents. Based on a compelling business case with proven scalability,
Telensa’s solutions provide cities and utilities with a low-cost
platform with open interfaces to add multiple sensor applications over
wide areas.

Fundamental to Telensa’s success is its Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) radio
system, which has the unique combination of low cost, long range, long
battery life and 2-way communication for massive numbers of devices.
Telensa is working alongside other leading vendors within the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to standardise Low
Throughput Networks (LTNs) for wireless IoT.

Telensa solutions are designed and developed in Cambridge UK with
hardware manufactured with Sony UK Tech in Pencoed, Wales.

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