Digital Fountain Appoints David Warner as Chief Financial Officer.New CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Brings Extensive Financial Expertise & Growth Experience to Digital Fountain FREMONT, Calif. -- Digital Fountain, Inc., a leading provider of advanced standardized solutions for digital media delivery, today announced the appointment of David Warner as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Warner brings over 20 years of significant financial leadership experience with large and small, public and privately held, high growth technology companies to Digital Fountain, including senior financial positions at MontaVista Software and Sybase. He will assume responsibility for the company's financial operations. This appointment further strengthens the management team as the company moves forward with strategic growth initiatives in its content delivery network (DF Splash), IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , Mobile, and Defense solutions. "David has a proven track record in managing growth for both private and public companies, and we are very excited to add him to our management team," said Charlie Oppenheimer, 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 Digital Fountain. "His diverse financial experience and prior success in helping to manage fast growing software and service companies was paramount in our decision to hire David, especially as we prepare to launch our new video CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. solution in January of 2008." Mr. Warner has more than two decades of financial experience in the software, systems, and technology industries, and a proven track record of building operations for high growth. Most recently he served as the CFO for MontaVista Software, where he raised $104M from leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] and corporate investors such as U.S. Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, Siemens, Sony, Panasonic, NTT DoCoMo and IBM. Prior to MontaVista, Warner was the CFO of The EC Company. Mr. Warner has also held various senior management and financial analyst positions at Electronics for Imaging, Sybase and Tandem Computers. He received his MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. Graduate School of Management, and a BA from the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. . About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain is a leading provider of advanced standardized solutions for digital media delivery, even in the most challenging network environments. Digital Fountain solutions are currently deployed in advanced IPTV, CDN, and mobile delivery applications throughout the world, and have been adopted by leading global standards bodies, including DVB, and 3GPP. Many other standards bodies are currently evaluating DF Raptor as a best practices standard for digital media delivery. Partners and customers include leading global companies such as Cisco Systems, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Northrop Grumman, KDDI, SK Telecom, Sirius Satellite Radio
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