A Massachusetts company supplying innovative video communications to businesses around the world relocated to New Hampshire this summer, in part due to accommodate its triple digit growth as it continues to expand its sales around the globe.
BurstPoint Networks, formerly of Westborough, Mass., moved to 11 Continental Blvd. in Merrimack in August. Founded two years ago, it provides scalable and cost effective video streaming, recording and content management solutions for enterprises, educational and government organizations through a variety of applications, including town hall, grand rounds, distance learning, video on demand and digital signage.
We are rapidly expanding our highly skilled engineering staff and the pool of engineering talent that lives in New Hampshire is very attractive as we double our New Hampshire workforce over the next 12 months, said Patrick Clark, president and CEO of BurstPoint. This, combined with the quality of life and business benefits of being in New Hampshire, was an easy decision for us.
When one of those employees happened to see a segment last January that featured interviews with Gov. John Lynch and Christopher Way, interim director of the Division of Economic Development, talking about the NH Advantage on the CBS Morning Show, he wrote to urge Way to get in touch with Clark about moving BurstPoint to NH.
Way assigned state business recruiter Cynthia Harrington to the company and she worked with Clark, who was also making the commute to Massachusetts from Hollis. By the summer, the company moved north of the border. "As we continue our triple digit growth, we plan to hire in New Hampshire and be a New Hampshire company," Clark said.
BurstPoint Networks has just under 20 employees and, in the first few weeks of moving to the Granite State, added a senior engineer and chief financial officer to its Granite State staff. With its relocation to New Hampshire, Governor Lynch said BurstPoint Networks adds to the employment base and technological diversity in a region becoming known for its number of high tech companies, including BAE Systems and Oracle.
BurstPoint Networks is a high tech company that could locate anywhere in the country, but chose to come to New Hampshire," he said. "That's because we have an economic strategy that is working. That strategy includes a low-tax, business-friendly atmosphere and a highly educated and skilled workforce.
The company's client base, which includes the state of Alabama, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, University of Maine, State University of New York, the World Bank and MetLife offices in 47 countries and 85 locations around the U.S., is using BurstPoint Networks for training, to conduct global meetings and for digital signage. Last year, Clark, an Air Force veteran, put the company's technology to work for a cause, inviting military families to a Boston Celtics Basketball game at the TD Garden, which was connected with a military base in Afghanistan. Although thousands of miles apart, loved ones could watch the game in real time together.
"There are so many components that make this a great story," Harrington said. "When we put it all together, we find that everyone benefits from this relocation - valued employees who now work closer to home; a company that sees the advantages of doing business in New Hampshire and the local economy, which is buoyed by a growing company that plans to double its workforce in the next year."
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