SAN DIEGO -- Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanceddigital video solutions, today announced the appointment of two key executives– Doug Means as chiefoperating officer and Dr. Tibet Mimaroglu as vice president of engineering. Imagine has raised thevideo quality bar in the cable industry with its leading-edge HD encoding technology. With these newhires the company intends to build on that strength by leveraging their expertise in video processingsolutions for IPTV and HD video on demand.

Means comes to Imagine from Motorola where he spent 14 years as a top executive, most recentlyVP/GM of their IPTV video solutions business unit. In his new role, Means brings a wealth of industryexperience to Imagine and has a reputation for being an effective and strong leader. He is wellknown by Imagine’s customers and highly respected in the US cable, satellite and IPTV markets, aswell in high growth international markets including Europe and Asia.

“We are pleased to have Doug join the Imagine team,” said Jamie Howard, President and CEO ofImagine. “He has an outstanding track record of building and scaling sales organizations’ impressivegrowth. With his dedication and proven leadership abilities he is the perfect fit for Imagine in thisstage of our development.”

Dr. Mimaroglu is a leading innovator in video processing solutions. He joins Imagine with 29 years ofsolid experience in product development and engineering management. Dr. Mimaroglu was mostrecently CTO and EVP, Engineering of Beko/Grundig Elektronik, the number two consumerelectronics company in Europe with $1.5B annual revenues in TV, set top boxes and other CEproducts. Dr. Mimaroglu led the multinational engineering team across four global locations.

“Tibet is highly talented with invaluable experience in H.264/Advanced Video Coding technology andis completely aligned with Imagine’s PersonalizedTV® strategy,” said Ron Gutman, Imagine chieftechnology officer and co-founder. “His broad industry knowledge and ability to successfully leadproduct development from inception to the marketplace is key to Imagine’s growth and we welcomehim to our organization.”

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