Consult Red appoints new commercial leader for North America

Technology innovation partner recruits Michael Elkouby, an experienced business development executive in the technology industry, to drive growth in the region

Leading technology innovator and engineering services provider, Consult Red, announces the appointment of the new VP of Sales for North America, Michael Elkouby from 1 September 2022.

Michael Elkouby

Michael Elkouby

Targeting growth in the North American region
Michael will be responsible for contributing to Consult Red’s overall success, growing and developing the company’s media, connectivity and cloud customer base in the USA and Canada. Consult Red is proud to already work with leading operators in the region including Comcast and DIRECTV. Michael will report to the Chief Commercial Officer.

A record of success and development
Michael has over 15 years of sales and business development experience working in complex customer environments. Before joining Consult Red, Michael held senior sales and marketing positions with Google, Ericsson and Dell. He holds an MBA from Concordia University and Leadership Management qualification from Harvard Business School.

Michael Elkouby, VP Sales for North America, said:
“I’m pleased to have joined Consult Red, a company strongly positioned to change and disrupt the North American professional IT services industry, with a pivotal role directly influencing the future of this organization.

I’m a sales growth hacker, with a passion for growing businesses via new market penetration and partnership development.”

Steve Donachie, Consult Red Chief Commercial Officer, said:
“We’re delighted to welcome Michael to the team. Michael’s extensive business development and strategic partnerships experience, for leading technology organizations, will take us forward as we pursue continued growth in the North America region.”

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About Consult Red
Consult Red is an employee-owned technology innovation partner that works with many of the world’s leading media and connectivity brands, supporting them throughout the development journey.

Our 300-strong expert engineering team, based in the UK, USA and Poland, have a proven track record in hardware design, embedded software development and embedded systems integration.

Consult Red applies its connected and embedded expertise as a market leader in technology to the media sector. Connected devices and systems developed by Consult Red are currently in more than 30 million homes worldwide.

In the last five years, Consult Red has built one of the largest RDK teams in Europe – this unparalleled experience and capability is a tremendous advantage to operators seeking to deploy RDK.

For more information, please visit http://consult.red/ and follow us on LinkedIn.

PM-KISAN Scheme Transaction

Under the PM-KISAN Scheme benefits are transferred in three, four-monthly periods. In every four months period, Rs. 2000/- is transferred to eligible farmers families. Therefore, benefits of Rs. 6000/- is transferred annually.

Under PM-KISAN Scheme the benefits are not transferrable every month. The benefits are transferred in three installments. The cumulative number of PM-KISAN Scheme transactions which have failed since its launch till June, 2021 is 40,16,867. The number of total transaction made under PM-KISAN Scheme till 30th June, 2021 is 68,76,32,104 of which the total number of failed transaction is less than 1%.

Various reasons have been identified by the Union Government for the transactions failure under PM-KISAN Scheme such as Account closed/Transferred, Invalid IFSC, Account Inactive, Account Dormant, Amount exceeds limit set on Account by Bank for Credit/Debit per transaction, Account Holder Expired, Account Blocked or Frozen, Inactive Aadhar, Network failure etc. 

To tackle the issues of transaction failures and process the payment to such registered farmers’ families, a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) has been developed and issued to States/UTs for necessary action at their end.  In cases where the corrective measures are to be taken by States/UTs, such transaction failure records are opened to respective State/UT for correction under the “Correction Module” tab of PM-KISAN portal. Thereafter, all the transaction failure records are reprocessed for the payment of the respective installment under PM-KISAN Scheme.

Total number of transactions under PM-KSIAN Scheme since its launch till 30th June, 2021

State

Number of transactions

ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

124970

ANDHRA PRADESH

36053705

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

527335

ASSAM

14263427

BIHAR

45903106

CHANDIGARH

3005

CHHATTISGARH

16587723

DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI

25043

DAMAN AND DIU

8929

DELHI

94246

GOA

60981

GUJARAT

39973146

HARYANA

13077190

HIMACHAL PRADESH

6749983

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

7667707

JHARKHAND

11857415

KARNATAKA

35090495

KERALA

24653147

LADAKH

97640

LAKSHADWEEP

6211

MADHYA PRADESH

49755906

MAHARASHTRA

69473946

MANIPUR

1943834

MEGHALAYA

944302

MIZORAM

731182

NAGALAND

1273941

ODISHA

20409732

PUDUCHERRY

76861

PUNJAB

15152138

RAJASTHAN

45503740

SIKKIM

44835

TAMIL NADU

29549489

TELANGANA

27302026

THE DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI AND DAMAN AND DIU

57705

TRIPURA

1582321

UTTAR PRADESH

163576770

UTTARAKHAND

6020012

WEST BENGAL

1407960

Grand Total

68,76,32,104

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha today.

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