IN PROFILE
Brompton Technology’s Business Development Manager, Rob Fowler, Product Manager, Thomas Walker and General Manager, Asia, Elijah Ebo.
BROMPTON TECHNOLOGY Experiencing a meteoric rise since its formation in 2011, Brompton Technology has revolutionised the world of tour-ready LED video processing. Peter Iantorno takes a trip down to the company’s London HQ to meet the team behind the tech.
The Brompton Technology team is a busy one – a very busy one. Since it was formed in 2011, the company has experienced rapid growth that has seen several new product launches as well as an ambitious expansion into China, so the fact that TPi was able to catch the majority of the senior leadership team all together in one room was a minor miracle in itself. Settling down in Brompton’s head office in West London, Managing Director, Richard Mead, brought us up to speed with the company’s origin story. “In order to talk about Brompton Technology, you must first talk about another company: Carallon,” he began. Carallon was set up 15 years ago by a group of engineers who had all worked previously at Flying Pig Systems – now part of ETC-owned High End Systems. “We enjoyed working together
but, for various reasons, we decided to move on, so instead of going our separate ways, we thought ‘why not start again on our own?’” The company started doing contract work for the likes of ETC and Martin Professional, which remain active Carallon customers to this day. “However, fairly quickly we started to come up with our own ideas and we wanted to take them to market,” explained Mead. And in order to keep some separation between Carallon and the products it developed, separate companies and brand names were created. The first of these in 2005 was Pharos Architectural Controls – “which does all the lighting control for things like the London Eye,” Mead commented, and next in 2011 came Brompton Technology. “We’d spent years going onto job sites and having conversations with video technicians, 82
