Canal+ Technologies Taps Texan for U.S. CEO Slot; Cable Industry Veteran David Moss Promoted from SVP Sales to Lead North American iTV Expansion.Business Editors CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 Jean-Marc Racine Promoted to New Global Responsibilities and Michael Balduzzi Takes Post as New Head of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales Canal+ Technologies Inc., the North American interactive television software arm of the Vivendi-Universal family of companies, has announced the selection of David Moss David Moss may be:
The appointment strategically confirms the company's commitment to the U.S. marketplace. Francois Carayol, chairman 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. for Canal+ Technologies S.A., with headquarters in Paris, said: "We recognize that as we pursue leadership in providing iTV solutions to North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , we must demonstrate and sustain our dedication to our customers' needs. "Dave's leadership, key relationships and proven business development talents within the cable operator and competitive broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). provider communities are essential to that process. I am confident that his considerable presence and expertise will take us to the next level of success in North America." Moss, a native of Texas, assumes his new position in the Cupertino headquarters immediately after a successful tenure as Canal+ Technologies' senior vice president of sales. His contributions include the first major commercial deployment of interactive television services in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , scheduled for rollout in Sacramento, Calif., by WINfirst before year's end. He also brings significant executive experience to Canal+ Technologies Inc. from previous positions at cable heavyweights such as General Instrument and Motorola Broadband Communication Sector where he held revenue responsibilities for more than $1 billion in sales. Moss has also tapped his successor, Michael Balduzzi. A veteran with more than 20 years' executive sales and marketing experience in the wireline and wireless sectors of the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry, Balduzzi will be tasked with growing the sales and service teams and operator customer base for additional North American business development and expansion. Moss succeeds former CEO Jean-Marc Racine at Canal+ Technologies Inc., who has been promoted to executive vice president, Marketing, at the company's Paris headquarters. In this new position, Racine will lead a global marketing contingent and continue to interface with the company's American subsidiary. His contributions to the establishment and launch of the U.S.-based company are also lauded by Carayol: "Jean-Marc's history in our Paris-based operations and successes in North America make him unique in taking on much broader responsibilities for managing our marketing and branding efforts throughout the world. I am delighted to be working once again more closely with him to grow our iTV business worldwide." About Canal+ Technologies A member of the Vivendi-Universal family of companies, Canal+ Technologies S.A. is a leading international provider of digital and interactive TV software solutions with more than 10.5 million set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. powered by its software. More than 20 digital operators and broadcasters worldwide have deployed its interactive TV middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a MediaHighway, and conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. , MediaGuard. Today, more than 30 tested and/or deployed applications are being used by WINfirst in the United States, CANALSATELLITE in France, ITV Digital in the United Kingdom, Astro Measat and ZeeTV in Asia, and Orbit in the Middle East, to deliver true interactive applications that are changing the perception of what consumers can expect of TV. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Sony, Thomson Multimedia and Sogecable are equity and strategic partners in Canal+ Technologies. The U.S. subsidiary, Canal+ Technologies Inc., has headquarters in Cupertino. For more information, visit www.canalplus-technologies.com. |
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