SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 17, 2012) - Pure (www.pure.com/us), the world leading maker of music streaming and radio systems, appoints Noam Meppen as Director of Sales, US.

Noam brings over a dozen years of sales and retail marketing experience in both the consumer electronics and home entertainment industries, with positions held at Sony Electronics, Amazon, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Most recently, Noam directed nationwide sales activity for Sony's tablet and eReader businesses, successfully launching Sony's first generation tablet business in the US. Noam has developed successful retail programs and actively managed sales teams at retailers such as Target, Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy.

"I love music and I have found myself listening to talk radio and other content on the Internet for the past decade," said Noam Meppen, Director of Sales, US for Pure. "It will be great making it part of my job to sell hardware that enables others to enjoy it as I do. The way we listen to music is constantly changing and I'm looking forward to establishing Pure's extensive line-up of innovative music streaming and radio systems in the North American market." 

Noam will oversee all sales activities for Pure's expanding range of products and services available in North America.

Meppen holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and MBA from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He will be based in San Diego, CA.

For more information, please visit http://www.pure.com/us/

About Pure
Pure is the world's leading manufacturer of music streaming and radio systems, the number one supplier of digital radios in Europe and Australia, and the creator of the Evoke-1S, the world's most popular and iconic digital radio. Pure leads the way in music streaming and radio systems and cloud services with the Pure Connect portal (http://connect.pure.com/). Pure music streaming and radio systems support all the broadcast standards in the DAB family used across all key markets in Europe and beyond. Designed and engineered in the UK, all of Pure's products are manufactured with the environment in mind and at ethically audited facilities. Pure is a division of Imagination Technologies Group plc. See www.pure.com/us