8 September 2011ATEME Taps IP Video Networking Industry Veteran to Head Americas Operations
Paris, September 8th, 2011 - ATEME, an industry leader in video compression solutions today announced it has appointed industry veteran Andy Lovit as its Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas. Lovit will lead ATEME’s sales and field operations efforts in the Americas as the company continues its rapid expansion of high quality traditional and multi-screen video encoding and transcoding solutions to address the Broadcast, IPTV and Cable TV markets.
“As a seasoned IP video networking system sales executive, Andy brings a deep understanding of our markets and customer requirements,” said Michel Artieres, Chief Executive Officer for ATEME. “We are very happy for Andy to be part of the management team and feel his sales and leadership experience will be invaluable for ATEME as we expand our presence in the America’s”.
“I am excited to join ATEME at a time where multi-screen and adaptive bit-rate video solutions are becoming a key requirement for delivery of content,” commented Andy Lovit. “ATEME’s leadership team, core development competency, and high quality video encoding and transcoding solutions will be the key to expand our presence with both Broadcast and Service Providers in the Americas.”
Lovit brings more than 25 years of sales leadership experience to ATEME. He most recently served as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Bivio Networks, a leader in DPI Cyber Security and Network Control Solutions. Lovit was formerly Senior Vice President of Service Provider Sales for TANDBERG Television, which was acquired by Ericsson. Prior to TANDBERG TV, Lovit was Vice President of Global Sales and Field Operations for SkyStream Networks, a pioneer in IPTV head-end solutions which was acquired by TANDBERG TV.
About ATEME
ATEME is a world leading provider of MPEG-4 / H.264 and MPEG-2 bandwidth efficient compression technology. ATEME encoding solutions are deployed widely for broadcast contribution links, distribution, multi-screen live streaming, OTT and VOD applications. More information is available at www.ateme.com.
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