LONDON, Dec. 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Inceptor, Inc., a leading provider of PPC search engine internet marketing technology, today named Jon Lawford director of new business development for the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Lawford's appointment coincides with of the opening of Inceptor's new sales and marketing office in London.
Lawford will be responsible for developing partnerships with major media planning and buying agencies in the United Kingdom and Europe to promote Inceptor's BidCenter(tm), the leading platform for automating, managing and optimising pay per click search advertising.
"Jon has a tremendous amount of experience working with agencies in London and across Europe," said Michael Sack, Inceptor's Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the London branch office. "He understands the complexities and challenges of search engine marketing, skills that will enable him to show media planning and buying agencies how BidCenter can help them improve the performance of their client's PPC search campaigns whilst reducing the effort it takes to manage this activity."
Prior to joining Inceptor, Lawford served as Head of Business Development for Position Technologies where he developed relationships with major media planning and buying agencies such as Universal McCann, Carat International, Difiniti, Wheel, i-level, Unique-Digital, Green Cathedral, Netbooster, and Quantum. Previously, Lawford held similar positions with Decide Interactive and Web Optimiser, Ltd., two well-known search engine marketing UK companies. In total, Lawford has over five years direct experience in the search engine marketing industry.
"I am extremely excited about the opportunity to work with Inceptor," said Lawford. "BidCenter is the most powerful and feature-rich bid management platform I have seen to date. In my experience working with several major media planning and buying agencies, they need a tool like BidCenter to help increase efficiency and automate the bidding process. I look forward to introducing BidCenter to this market over the coming months."
BidCenter is a bid management tool that enables media planning and buying agencies to manage multiple clients across multiple search engines from a single console. In addition to the centralised management features, BidCenter's unique and proprietary Portfolio Optimizer enables marketers to create portfolios of keywords, assign performance-based goals and then BidCenter automatically determines the best bidding strategy in order to achieve the desired goals.
Lawford will work out of Inceptor's new base of operations in central London. The new offices are located at The Golden Cross House, 8 Duncannon Street in London. In addition to Lawford, Inceptor will staff this office with customer support personnel who will assist media planning and buying agencies with the implementation of BidCenter and be on-call for questions and general support.
About Inceptor
Inceptor is a leading search engine marketing company founded in 1999. The privately held firm developed BidCenter, the industry's first portfolio-based self-service PPC bid management system that automates the complex keyword bidding process. BidCenter's patent-pending pay-per-click bid management technology employs optimisation techniques similar to those that professional money managers use to optimise mutual funds. With offices in the Boston area and London, Inceptor has 45 employees and more than 5,500 customers including Home Shopping Network, Lawyers.com, CVS.com, Christianbook.com, and UPromise. More information can be found at www.inceptor.com.