RESTON, VA -- 08/14/08 --
Avail Media, the leading provider of profitable
IPTV solutions, today expanded its executive team with the addition of
Brian Matthews as Chief Strategy Officer. Matthews will be responsible for
directing the company's marketing and strategic efforts.
"The addition of Brian to our executive team reflects Avail Media's
continued growth plans and focus on providing world-class services to our
customers," said Ramu Potarazu, Chief Executive Officer of Avail Media.
"His hiring also reflects Avail's desire to expand our company's scope from
a service provider of a traditional television experience to new media
applications."
Matthews brings more than 18 years of leadership, management, and
technology experience to Avail Media, including extensive involvement in
strategy marketing, sales, and business development in the global
technology and telecommunications industries.
Matthews succeeds Diane Smith, President of Strategy and Business Affairs,
who is leaving Avail Media at the end of August to pursue other
entrepreneurial opportunities.
"I'm excited to be joining such a great team, with the right assets, during
this critical inflection point for the digital media industry," said
Matthews. "I look forward to working with the Avail team to extend our
market leadership in delivering managed infrastructure services to existing
and emerging multichannel service providers."
Prior to joining Avail Media, Matthews was vice president of enterprise and
industry solutions marketing for VeriSign, Inc. In his tenure at VeriSign,
Matthews also held a variety of executive leadership roles in both
functional and operational capacities. He led strategy and marketing for
the $400 million Information Services division, was a founding member of
the Corporate Business Development team, and led the innovation group where
he launched a variety of businesses in emerging markets, such as mobile
commerce, VoIP, and content delivery.
Matthews led the business development efforts for Signio, the leading
Internet payment provider, which was acquired by VeriSign in 1999. In
addition, he also spent 10 years at The Chase Manhattan Bank, where he held
senior roles in sales, marketing, and strategic development.
Brian holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from New York
University's Stern School of Business and graduated from The Ohio
University with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting.
About Avail Media
Based in Reston, Virginia, Avail Media is the emerging leader in providing
managed content aggregation services through a fully-integrated, head-end
infrastructure for the profitable deployment of IP video. Avail Media is
the only company today to deliver to its affiliates a combined MPEG-4
linear IPTV, HD Overlay (MPEG-2/4) programming solution, and Video On
Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail Media solution includes a full content
lineup of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all
quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD,
and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been
designed for use by video providers of multiple types -- whether
triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play. For more information, please
visit www.availmedia.com.
Contact:
Cheryl Delgreco
617-723-4004
cdelgreco@msipr.com
