Pritpal Rehal is a Leeds-born entrepreneur, owner of digital signage solutions business SplashBY and the creator of Post a Picture, an image-based digital signage platform.
SplashBY shows businesses how they can use digital signage to effectively promote their products and services. Aimed specifically at small, independent businesses, charities, the creative art sector and event organisers, SplashBY has adapted technology used by large companies so that startups and smaller enterprises can easily change their promotional displays, just by uploading a new image to their TV screen, monitor or tablet device.
Pritpal's journey
Having spent much of his working life in IT Support and systems development, first at Leeds University and then at the University of York, Pritpal Rehal knew there was something missing. He had always had a creative spark inside that had been left unfulfilled - and it was this desire to combine his innovative, technical skills with his creativity that led to SplashBY.
“I worked on many innovative projects as a technology lead in my role as Senior Systems Administrator at the University of York. I had hoped to introduce digital signage in various areas of the university but another solution was chosen instead which I understood, but found frustrating. So, when the IT department was restructured, I took a redundancy package. I felt that the digital signage idea could be developed and improved, so I set up SplashBY.”
“It soon became apparent that lots of people didn’t want to know about the technology behind the platform itself. They just wanted to know how they could update any digital signage devices they had, quickly and simply in just a few clicks. That’s when I came up with my second offering – Post a Picture – which wasn’t in my original plan at all.
"It evolved from conversations I had networking with local businesses. They were happy to use social media, so that’s how this works. They simply snap a photo on their phone and upload it to their digital signage screen or tablet, no difficult tech required!”