Artel Video Systems Promotes Michael D. Riley to Vice President of Marketing.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000 Riley to spearhead worldwide marketing activities, leading strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and business development programs Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. Video Systems, a leading provider of video networking equipment solutions for telecommunications service providers and cable television companies, today announced it has promoted Michael D. Riley to vice president of marketing. With more than three years of marketing and sales experience at Artel, Riley will lead the company's worldwide marketing activities. His responsibilities will include strategic planning, corporate marketing, product marketing and business development. "Mike has a proven track record of developing and successfully executing strategic plans. In his role as senior director of marketing and director of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ) at Artel, he has provided us with the caliber of excellence, focus and enthusiasm required to meet the challenges of an executive on our senior management team," said Hal Charnley, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Artel Video Systems. "I'm looking forward to the positive impact he will make on this company and the marketing organization." Prior to joining Artel, Riley served as vice president and general manager at Premisys Communications, Ltd., where he established a European sales and marketing operation in England and advanced business in the EMEA region. Previously, he held sales and marketing positions at Newbridge Networks Newbridge Networks was an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada company founded by Canadian/Welsh entrepreneur Terry Matthews. It was founded in 1986 to create data and voice networking products after Matthews was forced out of his original company Mitel. Limited, a wide area networking manufacturer, and GEC GEC Gaseous Electronics Conference GEC Gigabit EtherChannel GEC Geriatric Education Center (US government; HRSA) GEC General Electric Co. GEC Google Earth Community (online community) Plessey Telecommunications. Riley holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton In the most recent RAE assessment (2001), it has the only engineering faculty in the country to receive the highest rating (5*) across all disciplines.[3] According to The Times Higher Education Supplement . About Artel Video Systems Artel Video Systems, Inc. manufactures video networking equipment for telecommunications service providers, cable television companies, and broadcasters who need high-quality, video and data delivery along with multi-service networking capabilities to service the rapidly growing enhanced television Enhanced Television (ETV) is a collection of specifications developed under the OpenCable project of CableLabs (Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.) that define an ETV Application consisting of resources (files) adhering to the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) content and broadband market. Artel is the only video networking solutions company that provides both the switching and transmission infrastructure that lets service providers send high quality video with data and telephony to their customers over the same network. Artel is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and operates worldwide through a direct sales force and distributor network. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.com. |
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