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November 2010
PepperDash Presents at MIT Enterprise Forum
PepperDash was featured at the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Startup Clinic November 10, 2010. The MIT Enterprise Forum builds connections between technologists and communities they serve. Startup Clinics attracts a diverse selection of investors, entrepreneurs and academicians. PepperDash was selected following its success at the Cleantech Open, along with another finalist, WIGO. Both companies presented to an industry panel, whose members then led lively discussions with breakout groups.PepperDash Study Underway at Wharton
PepperDash launched a study on November 5, 2010 at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, to measure the effectiveness of using occupancy patterns as the basis of intelligent energy management. Occupancy pattern recognition and is a core feature of the PepperDash Sentegy software suite, which is designed to predictively tailor energy consumption to actual building usage. A longtime control programming client of PepperDash, The Wharton School has graciously agreed to provide test facilities for the study, and looks forward to reaping the benefits of its success.PepperDash Featured at Conference on Clean Energy
PepperDash was invited to present at the Massachusetts Conference on Clean Energy November 3-4, 2010. Sponsored by the Mass. Technology Transfer Center, the Mass. Hydrogen Coalition and the Mass. Clean Energy Center, the Sixth Conference on Clean Energy brought together leading companies, investors and panels to explore the cutting edge of cleantech in the northeast. Showing its new Sentegy® intelligent energy efficiency concept, PepperDash was selected as one of more than two dozen companies showcasing next-gen clean energy technology. October 2010
PepperDash a Cleantech Open Regional Finalist
PepperDash was selected as one of six Northeast Regional Finalists in the Cleantech Open October 6, 2010. Competition was intense, as the semi-finalist field was narrowed from 16 to six, as PepperDash made it through another round of intense competition with its Sentegy® intelligent energy management product. The Cleantech Open is the largest business plan competition in the country.PepperDash Arrives in Windy City
PepperDash has expanded again, opening its fourth regional office in Chicago, IL, as of October 1, 2010! We are very excited to expand into the Chicago area. PepperDash veteran Zachary Paisley will be anchoring the region: “Chicago is a great city. I really enjoy living here, and I look forward to working with our partners and clients in the neighborhood.” August 2010
NY City Hall gets ProAV Award
PepperDash's N.Y. City Hall Situation Room project was awarded "2010 Best Government AV Project (State & Local)" for 2010 by ProAV Magazine! The Situation Room provides the Mayor and high-level New York City emergency managers a fully integrated overview of rapidly developing emergencies. Designed by Shen Milsom Wilke, integrated by AVI-SPL and programmed by PepperDash, it is located in a two-century-old structure, and includes hundreds of video feeds, secure video conferencing and federal inter-agency communication, 15 equipment racks, a variety of displays and a video wall with annotation. The room has been used on recent emergencies such as the Time Square terrorist bomb and Captain Sullenberger's emergency landing in the Hudson River. View the ProAV slide show by clicking on the photo:Inc.5000 Three Straight Years!
We did it again! For the third year running, PepperDash has made it to the Inc.5000 list of the fastest growing companies in the USA, ranked 2351st. Check us out! In addition to the national list, we are extremely proud to be placed on the Boston metro list, too. THANK YOU to all our clients for choosing PepperDash, and THANK YOU to all the hardworking people at our company that make you stay with us. July 2010
PepperDash Gives Away an iPad
Congratulations to David Diamond, of Diamond Sound Productions, Lynchburg, VA, winner of our InfoComm10 Apple iPad give-away. Folks who came to see our kiosk in the Crestron GUI Gallery at InfoComm10 were invited to drop off their business card for a chance to win a new iPad. Visitors were also treated to a fantastic new layout this year, complements of Crestron and InfoComm. The new corral-style layout featured vast space, tons of seating and demos from 18 of the industry's best independent programming companies. Thanks for coming by to see us!PepperDash a CleanTech Open Semi-finalist
We were delighted to hear that PepperDash had advanced as a regional semi-finalist in the 2010 Cleantech Open Business Competition. Winnowed from more than 60 entries, PepperDash is one of 16 Northeast semi-finalists who will compete for three slots in the national finals in November. PepperDash is competing with an energy management software product that’s driven by an intelligent, automated analysis of occupancy patterns. The CleanTech Open competition includes extensive mentoring and education for participants, exposure to potential partners and investors, as well as a chance to win cash and professional services from competition sponsors. The PepperDash mentor team includes executives from Deloitte, Mintz Levin and Autocad. June 2010
PepperDash now an Autonomic Dealer
PepperDash has become a dealer for Autonomic Controls, Inc. which engineers digital media solutions, including award winning modules for controlling Apple-TV media servers, Windows Media Center, iTunes, Pandora, and Sirius XM internet radio. According to PepperDash President/CEO, Howard Nunes, "This approach enables us to resell well-designed and market-vetted productized code, without having to go through the designing and vetting process ourselves.It's much more efficient for us to partner with them than to reinvent the wheel. We can pass the benefits of that efficiency along to our clients." PepperDash will be an Autonomic dealer effective, June 1, 2010.Nunes on STEP Panel at InfoComm
A draft sustainability rating system for AV and electronic systems, under wraps until today, will be unveiled at InfoComm 2010. The Sustainable Technology Environments Performance (STEP) rating system is the product of work done by the InfoComm AV Sustainability Task Force, of which PepperDash President/CEO Howard Nunes is a member. The current draft framework of the STEP rating system will be revealed at an open session Friday, June 11, 10:30 - noon in Las Vegas Convention Center room N252. Nunes will be on the presentation panel, representing the perspective of the programming community. May 2010
PepperDash 19th on 2010 Inner City 100
For the second consecutive year, PepperDash made it into the top 20 of the Inner City 100. Published by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010 Inner City 100 is a list of the fastest-growing inner-city U.S. companies. Founded by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful urban companies as role models for entrepreneurship, innovative business practices and job creation in America’s cities. The rankings for each company were announced at the Inner City 100 Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 in Boston, MA. Winners attended a two-day event featuring seminars for Inner City 100 CEO's at Harvard Business School, a reception at the Boston Public Library and an Awards Gala that drew more than 800 guests.Katie Couric Tours NYC Situation Room
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently demonstrated the City Hall Situation Room for CBS’s Katie Couric. The Situation Room control system was programmed by PepperDash and featured in a recent Crestron case study. Ms. Couric was interviewing the Mayor in connection with a recent bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square, just a few blocks from PepperDash’s New York address. This video shows how the situation room would be used in an emergency situation, and includes a brief demonstration of their Crestron DTT touch panel control interface.View it here. April 2010
PepperDash Profiled in Globe
Boston’s biggest newspaper, The Boston Globe, today profiled PepperDash and four other Massachusetts companies named to the 2010 Inner City 100 list. Compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), founded by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, the list includes the 100 fastest growing companies who are headquartered in urban areas. This is the second year in a row that PepperDash has been named to the list. “Once again, I was thrilled to hear that PepperDash made it onto the InnerCity100,” said PepperDash President/CEO, Howard Nunes. The ICIC is doing a great job promoting the advantages of building a company in urban areas. To make the list during such a brutal economic downturn is a testament to the great team we have here at PepperDash. This recognition belongs to them!” Actual rankings will be announced at the Awards Gala on May 5th. Read “Success in the City” here.Nunes at InfoComm 100
PepperDash President/CEO Howard Nunes has attended the second annual InfoComm 100 in Chantilly, VA. The InfoComm 100 is an executive-level, three-day invitation-only meeting of 100 leaders from all sectors of the Audio/Video industry. This annual gathering focuses discussion on the current state of the market, future prospects, emerging technologies, challenges and opportunities. Nunes also attended the inaugural InfoComm100 in 2009.PepperDash Adds DM Cert
Congratulations to PepperDash Control Programmer Zachary Paisley, who has graduated from Crestron’s inaugural Digital Media Certified Engineer (DMC-E) class! As a DMC-E, Zach is fully equipped to design, support and commission a Crestron Digital Media project. Does your next project involve Crestron Digital Media? The Digital Age is here and PepperDash is ready! Give us a call!Nunes Chairs New CAIP Advisory Board
PepperDash President/CEO Howard Nunes has been named Chair of the newly-created CAIP Advisory Board. Crestron recently established the Crestron Authorized Independent Programmer (CAIP) Advisory Board in an effort to continually improve its relationship with the independent programming community – one of Crestron’s most valuable assets, and to better involve CAIPs in new technology opportunities. “We’re in a time of major economic and technological change, which has created considerable stress in our industry,” said Nunes “It was a brilliant move on Crestron’s part to create this forum for discussion, and I am delighted to be part of it.” Joining Nunes in the group are representatives from eight other CAIP firms, as well as two Crestron employees.PepperDash in ProAV on Green AV
ProAV magazine's latest foray into the Green AV debate, From The Ground Up, features several quotes from PepperDash President/CEO, Howard Nunes. In the debate over how Green AV is defined, PepperDash takes a holistic view, looking at AV systems in the context of building-wide energy management. Efficient rack-level energy management is important, but it each rack is just one piece of the larger puzzle. Centralized AV room monitoring and management is the next step, followed by overall integrated building technologies. March 2010
Piling on the Silver
PepperDash lands another medal with programmer Justin Gordon’s recent completion of Crestron Master Programming training. Justin is now a Crestron Silver Level Master Certified Programmer, a highly recognized achievement. Justin’s accomplishment reflects PepperDash’s longstanding commitment to training and improvement. Congratulations, Justin! February 2010
NYC Situation Room Case Study Out
Crestron recently published a case study on the New York City Hall Situation and Command Center. This high tech communications center features 15 racks of equipment and an extensive Crestron control system programmed by PepperDash. During emergencies, the Mayor and his staff can connect with the White House or the Department of Homeland Security via a highly secure IP-based video conferencing or route a number of real-time video feeds from over 200 sources. Find out more about this challenging project here.PepperDash Breaks 1500
Since the inception of the company in 2001, PepperDash has successfully completed over 1500 projects. Is there a correlation between our Quality of Service and over 1500 projects? You bet! All those projects add up to loads of experience, and experience counts when you have a project you want done right. Hard work and dedication sure go a long way, too. Thanks to all our clients who helped us reach this milestone. We’re looking forward to serving you for the next 1500!The Results Are In!
As many of you know, we send our clients post-project surveys to find out exactly how we did on the job. These surveys are a big help in knowing what we are doing right and what we need to correct. First and foremost, a big THANK YOU for all who took the time to fill them out. We know when one project ends, there’s not a whole lot of time before another begins. Sometimes, the last thing you want to do is revisit the project. So, thanks again!We are proud and grateful that you have rated us “a top performer” better than 90% of the time in four key categories:
Overall Quality of Service: 92
Dedication to Getting the Job Done: 93
Communication: 91
Knowledge of AV and Control Technology: 90
Thanks and congratulations to the PepperDash team!
PepperDash Adds Second Silver
With the completion of Master Programming training, PepperDash's VP/CTO Sumanth Rayancha becomes our second Crestron Silver Certified Master Programmer. Sumanth, who works out of our New York location, joins Mark Lambert, one of our Reston, VA, programmers in this coveted recognition of training achievement. Congratulations!
