Shaked to Oversee Product Strategy and Roadmap
HACKENSACK, NJ- July 9, 2012 -Vidyo Inc., the world’s fastest-growing video conferencing company, today announced that Amir Shaked has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Product Management. In this capacity, Mr. Shaked is responsible for driving the product strategy and management of Vidyo’s entire product portfolio. Mr. Shaked previously held positions as president, CEO and general manager in companies focused on video conferencing, new media, e-commerce, application acceleration and telecommunications applications.
Prior to joining Vidyo Mr. Shaked was with ComQi, a global multi-channel message management company, where he was responsible for the company’s indirect sales and for building an ecosystem of partners to facilitate end-to-end solutions for ComQi in North America.
At Press-sense, an e-commerce and business process automation software company, Mr. Shaked was President of the Americas, responsible for the company’s global OEM relationship with Xerox, delivering 50% of the company’s revenues. Before his tenure at Press-sense, Mr. Shaked was the CEO of DiskSites, an application acceleration company he sold to Expand Networks, and the founder and CEO of CeLight, an optical communications company where he raised $47M from leading investors including Goldman Sachs.
Previously, Mr. Shaked held the position of President of North America at Accord Video Telecommunications where he was instrumental in achieving a 10X ROI for investors, realized when Polycom acquired Accord for $350M in 2001. He led North America from pre-revenue to market leadership in the F500, state, federal and service provider markets, generating 80% of Accord’s sales.
Prior to his tenure at Accord Video Telecom, Mr. Shaked founded the Americas’ Carrier Messaging Division at Comverse Technologies, establishing the company as the market leader in the wireless and fixed network carrier messaging market. Before that, he ran product management for Comverse, delivering products whose lifecycle revenue exceeded $1B.
“As Vidyo continues its rapid growth, Amir’s significant experience will be incredibly valuable to Vidyo as we continue to grow and expand our industry-leading video communications and collaboration technology and product platform,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo’s co-founder and CEO. “Amir’s proven ability to align product strategy to the execution of business goals will play a critical role in Vidyo’s future success and we are excited to welcome him to our ranks.”
Amir has a B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude in math and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
La differenza di Vidyo
La piattaforma di comunicazione e collaborazione Vidyo è basata su software, altamente flessibile e può essere facilmente personalizzata per le esigenze di videoconferenza delle singole aziende e dei mercati verticali. L'architettura brevettata VidyoRouter™ introduce Stratificazione video adattiva™, che ottimizza dinamicamente il video per ogni endpoint sfruttando la tecnologia di compressione H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) e l'IP di Vidyo. L'Adaptive Video Layering elimina l'MCU e offre una resilienza agli errori senza precedenti e un basso tasso di latenza, consentendo così il funzionamento di video naturali, economici e di alta qualità su Internet, reti LTE e 4G. La piattaforma consente agli utenti di sfruttare rapidamente le ultime innovazioni hardware e i nuovi dispositivi di consumo, rendendola particolarmente interessante per i partner. Dal 2005 Vidyo è impegnata nella promozione dell'interoperabilità delle videoconferenze H.264 SVC e SIP in vari organismi di standardizzazione.
Informazioni su Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. è stata pioniera della Personal Telepresence, consentendo videoconferenze multipoint naturali e in HD su tablet, smartphone, PC e Mac, sistemi di sale, gateway, soluzioni di telepresenza e soluzioni di broadcasting accessibili basate su cloud. Con sede centrale negli Stati Uniti e altri 12 uffici internazionali, l'azienda ha più di 225 dipendenti e ha raccolto finora $97M. Per saperne di più vidyo.com, sul Blog o seguire @vidyo on Twitter.
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