Netgem Opens Offices in London, Milan and Madrid.Business Editors NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001 In the framework of its international development strategy, Netgem is opening offices in London (UK) and Milan (Italy) and reinforce its subsidiary in Madrid (Spain). "The opening of offices simultaneously in the United Kingdom and Italy, and the reinforcement of our subsidiary in Spain, will boost Netgem's presence in three of the most dynamic markets for interactive television. Netgem will continue building its local presence in each market where it competes in its efforts to better serve its customers and to develop an early presence in potential high growth markets," states Nicolas Swetchine, General Manager for International Operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. . Keith Armour is heading Netgem's London office. He has over 16 years of experience, mostly in the UK television industry. He has held senior management and marketing positions with Grundig, Societe Europeenne des Satellites (S.E.S.) and British Sky Broadcasting British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. . Massimo Michelucci is heading Netgem's Milan office. He has 15 years of experience in the Italian IT industry. He has held senior marketing positions at JD Edwards, the Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Emmanuel Biscay is heading Netgem's Madrid subsidiary. He has 15 years of international experience in media markets, including 7 years in Spain. He held senior marketing positions at Prisa, Groupe Expansion (today part of Vivendi) and EMAP EMAP Emergency Management Accreditation Program EMAP Electronic Materials and Packaging EMAP Electronic Mapping EMAP Environmental Mapping and Assessment Program EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Programme . Netgem is a leading provider of interactive TV technologies based on open, DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. and Internet standards. Netgem licenses its interactive TV software platform to analog and digital network operators (terrestrial, cable, satellite operators, telcos and Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. ) and consumer electronic manufacturers (television, set-top-box ...). Netgem technology enables interactive shopping and advertising, web and mail access, video and audio on demand... Netgem offers a complementary catalogue of applications and a comprehensive range of professional services and reference designs. Netgem also supplies a range of turnkey interactive products enabling time to market deployments. www.netgem.com |
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