Stephen L. Diamond Joins Equator Technologies as Marketing Vice President.Business Editors/High Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 Industry veteran Stephen L. Diamond has joined Equator Technologies as Vice President of Marketing, it was announced today by Dr. Avi Dr. Avi is currently working on a few new musical projects which will hopefully be released in the coming months. The "Doctor Avi Show" has been long since taken off the air due to old radio politics. Katz, Equator's 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. . Mr. Diamond will be responsible for worldwide marketing at Equator, as the company ramps from the product development cycle to high-volume, global distribution of the flagship Media Accelerated Processor platform that sets a new world standard for cost-effective image computing. He will work in the company's Campbell, California Campbell (IPA: /ˈkæmbəl/) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] As of 2007 population estimates, Campbell's population is 39,200. office and report directly to Dr. Katz. Most recently, Mr. Diamond was Vice President of Business Development at Tycho Networks, responsible for strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and legal and regulatory affairs Regulatory Affairs (RA), also called Government Affairs, is a profession within regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, energy, and banking. Regulatory Affairs professionals usually have responsibility for the following general areas: Before that, he was Senior Director of Market Development and Strategic Planning at National Semiconductor, responsible for corporate market intelligence, the strategic planning process, key engineering program initiative, and company-wide R&D funding prioritization. In addition, Mr. Diamond is Second Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. , and from 1995 to 1998 was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Micro magazine. "We are absolutely delighted to have Steve join the Equator team, bringing with him more than 30 years of experience and outstanding achievements," said Dr. Katz. "His depth and breadth of experience in digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). , among other key technologies, as well as his background in business development, will serve us well as we continue to forge partnerships with the leading signal and image processing firms and change digital television product design and development from a hardware-centric to a software-centric approach." Previously, Mr. Diamond was president of Picosoft, Inc., a high technology marketing, strategic planning, technology licensing and standards consulting firm. In addition, during in his 30 years in engineering, marketing and management, he has been director of standards at SunSoft; director of component marketing at Sun Microsystems; director of systems and applications at National Semiconductor; general manager of the Microprocessor Division of Synertek/Honeywell, and staff research associate at the University of California, San Francisco . He has also authored over 20 technical papers on computer architecture, memory and microprocessor technology, Digital Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and computer graphics. About Equator Technologies: Equator Technologies (www.equator.com) is the world's leader in programmable media processing platform technology for the rapid design and deployment of digital media and imaging products. The Equator Media Accelerated Processor platform sets a new world standard for cost-effective image computing, and is expected to change digital television (DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ) product design and development from a hardware-centric to a software-centric approach. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA, with offices throughout the world. Formed in 1996, Equator also develops and sells development tools, applications and systems software and reference designs. |
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