Press Release
Move Networks Expands Management Team as Industry Demand for High Quality Online Video Soars
New Hires Include Former Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Walt Disney Internet Group and Sales Executive from Limelight
American Fork, UT — July 26, 2007
Move Networks, the leader in providing continuous long form and live video via the Internet, today announced that it has added 4 senior members to its executive team. Greg Smith has joined as CTO, Douglas Parrish as senior vice president of operations; David Rice as west coast vice president and Kevin Conlan, as east coast vice president.
"Advertisers and broadcasters know that to fully embrace TV over the Internet, they need technologies that provide lower cost, higher quality, scalable solutions," said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. "Helping organizations meet those criteria is Move's mission. These key additions to our executive team will help us build out our publishing platform and meet our goal of changing the way broadcasters build their online revenues and consumers watch long form video online."
The new executives include:
- Douglas Parrish, Senior Vice President of Operations: Parrish joins Move Networks from Disney, where he served as executive vice president and Chief Technology Officer for the Walt Disney Internet Group. In this capacity, Parrish was responsible for overseeing the technology platform, infrastructure, applications, and new product engineering for all of The Walt Disney Company's Internet and wireless properties, including Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, and many others. Previously, he served as CIO of Polaroid Corporation's consumer imaging business and director of Polaroid's worldwide information technology and eBusiness strategy. He has also served as CIO Nestle's US-based, bottled water business - The Perrier Group of America-and Campbell's Soup's Pepperidge Farm Unit. In 2004, was named one of the computer industry's outstanding technology executives by Computerworld magazine as one of their Premier 100 IT Leaders.
- Greg Smith, CTO: Smith has 13 years of technology and product development experience in digital media. Prior to Move, he served as vice president of technologies at All Media Guide, a leading business-to-business provider of entertainment descriptive content and content management technology. Before that, Smith worked at Edgix and PanAmSat,. Smith has led the development of bleeding edge technologies in content distribution, media recognition, and video streaming with deployed technologies in the Globalstar constellation and on PlayStation gaming devices. He holds a BSE degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and graduate certificates in advanced dynamics and control theory from Stanford University.
- David Rice, West Coast Vice President: Based in Los Angeles, Rice brings nearly 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the technology industry to Move. Prior to joining Move, David was vice president of sales and marketing at Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network. Before Limelight, David was a National Sales Manager at Akamai Technologies where, he was instrumental in helping Akamai develop partnerships with hosting, managed services and network technology providers. David also served as general manager of NaviPath, a CMGi infrastructure company focused on the Internet Service Provider market where he secured business with top ISPs in the industry. He also worked as director of PictureTel.
- Kevin Conlan, East Coast Vice President: Before joining Move Networks, Mr. Conlan was a vice president of sales at ExtendMedia, which provides a digital content services platform that enables content rights holders and distributors to quickly create, manage, secure, and monetize content services across broadband, TV and mobile devices. In his career, Conlan has created a number innovative technology and marketing programs, including a bi-coastal content distribution network for HBO studios, and secured a global contract with TV Guide and Lucent Technologies. Prior to ExtendMedia, Conlan held executive sales positions at Network Appliance, EMC/Documentum, Emotion and Novell.
About Move Networks
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of video services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to deliver live and on-demand programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies. Backed by key investors, including Walt Disney Corporation’s Steamboat Ventures, LLC (NYSE: DIS) and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Move Networks, Inc. is a private company.