VIDEOSERVER STRENGTHENS INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO CAPITALIZE ON BOOMING
Videoconferencing Market
BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- VideoServer, Inc.
(Nasdaq:VSVR), the leader in networked conferencing, responded to
booming demand for its networked conferencing products by appointing
three senior managers to help build on its global leadership position.
The new expanded senior management team will be well placed to leverage
new opportunities in the emerging market for Internet and LAN-based
real-time multimedia conferencing systems.
Tim Podd has been appointed European Sales Director, while Karin
Nielsen takes over the newly created post of International Marketing
Manager, and Carole Steel is the new Regional Manager for Southern
Europe, China and the Middle East.
All three are well-known figures from the computer networking industry,
and bring between them over 50 years of valuable expertise selling and
marketing networked solutions. "With real-time conferencing
increasingly being packaged as part of a total networked multimedia
solution, VideoServer needed to bring on board senior managers
experienced in dealing with the resellers and systems integrators in
that market," said Arnold Englander, vice president, marketing at
VideoServer.
Podd joined VideoServer in March of 1996 as Regional Director.
Previously, he was General Manager for Northern Europe at Chipcom, now
part of 3COM, where he was responsible for marketing and selling the
kind of high- performance networking systems that VideoServer's
multimedia conference systems will be integrating with to provide
complete solutions. Before joining Chipcom, Podd was European Business
Manager for BICC Data Networks. "Most people will experience
videoconferencing in some way over the next two years," said Podd.
"From the traditional remote business meeting to a host of emerging
applications such as kiosk terminals in your local bank branch, special
interest conferences over the Internet, or multiplayer games,
VideoServer's technology will sit at the heart of these new
applications."
Karin Nielsen comes from Shiva Corporation, one of the leading
providers of products facilitating remote access to corporate networks,
where she was Senior Product Marketing Manager for the company's
award-winning range of ISDN routers and Internet access products. "I
feel that my experience of the fast growing remote access market, where
vendors need to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs, will be
invaluable within the multimedia networking industry, which is also on
the verge of explosion," said Nielsen.
Carole Steele was previously with GE Information Systems as European
Director of Partner Programs, and brings VideoServer vital experience
in the continued growth of VideoServer, and their new LAN and IP-based
products are ideally suited to this strategy," said Steel.
About VideoServer
VideoServer, Inc. is the leader in networked conferencing,
providing hardware and software networking solutions for multipoint and
multimedia conferences, enabling users to communicate over a variety of
networks and allowing them to interact as a group.
The company's Multimedia Conference Server (MCS) products provide
multipoint conferencing, as well as applications for conference
control, network management and bandwidth management. The company is
extending its technology to offer easy connectivity of existing and new
conferencing solutions, expected to enable wide deployment of real-time
conferencing to the desktop and over corporate networks and the
Internet. VideoServer sells its products to leading suppliers and
integrators of videoconferencing equipment, telephone carriers,
conferencing service providers, network equipment companies, computer
companies and others.
Substantially all traditional videoconferencing vendors OEM or resell
VideoServer's equipment, including PictureTel, Compression Labs,
TANDBERG, British Telecom, GPT Video Systems, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi,
Sony, Panasonic and SAT. Telephone carriers and others providing
conferencing services using the company's products include AT&T, MCI
and Sprint, six of the seven regional Bell operating companies, and
many emerging private service bureaus. Partnerships with computer
companies, including Intel and Compaq, and networking equipment
companies, including Cisco Systems and Siemens/Rolm, position
VideoServer to meet the needs of the evolving conferencing market.
Additional information on VideoServer and its products is available at
videoserver.com .
SOURCE VideoServer, Inc.
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VideoServer, Inc., 617-505-2188 or mcampbell@videoserver.com or Susan
Shelby or Erica Askew of Neva Group, 617-441-4000, ext. 252/254 or
sshelby@neva.com or easkew@neva.com/
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