ATEME installs North America chief
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Michelle Clancy
| 07 April 2019

ATEME has hired Ray Fitzgerald as vice president and GM of its North American organisation.

Fitzgerald brings more than 25 years of sales and executive management experience to ATEME. Prior to joining ATEME, Fitzgerald held key leadership roles at Edge Gravity (Ericsson), SeaChange International, ActiveVideo Networks and BigBand Networks.

“I am excited to join ATEME top management team and take responsibility for North American operations,” Fitzgerald said. “ATEME has established itself as the industry leader in HEVC, H264, MPEG2 video compression solutions for the broadcast, MVPD, DTH, IPTV and OTT market segments. My objective, and the goal for the entire organisation, is to continue innovating and delivering excellent execution across the market segments to drive revenue growth and clear market leadership by supporting our customers with world-class compression solutions.”

Michel Artières, cofounder, president and CEO of ATEME, added: “Major content and services providers have standardised ATEME as their reference video delivery provider over the past few years. It’s great to measure the growing notoriety of ATEME on the US market through the quality of the applicants for this position. Ray is a fantastic addition to ATEME’s management team and I can’t wait for moving ATEME to the next stage together.”