deuromedia strengthens Marketing and Sales

Bernhard Müller the newly appointed Vice President and Rob de Poorter the new Director of Market Development

Merzig, 10th December 2000 - deuromedia, the software provider of ready-to-market send and receive concepts for broad-band transmissions is strengthening its management team.

Bernhard Müller, the new Vice President responsible for Market-ing and Sales, and Rob de Poorter, Director of Market Development, show the way forward: following deuromedia's pioneering work realising the technology for its vi-sion of the 'convergence of normal media', the German company is now expanding its position on the world market.

"We have gained two competent new colleagues in Bernhard Müller and Rob de Poorter, in spite of the skills shortage on the IT employment market," beams Dieter Weber, company founder and CEO, about his new staff.

More experience, more contacts - more expertise

As Vice President, 45 year old Bernhard Müller strengthens the business' Sales and Marketing, having worked in positions of responsibility for fifteen years in the IT industry. In his last position as Director of Professional Services Europe the IT spe-cialist was responsible for redeveloping the service area of NetObjects, California.

Throughout his employment as managing director and sales and marketing director in renowned companies such as SPEA Software AG and Video Seven, Müller was able to achieve multi-million sales growth. His work for Korea Data Systems, ATI Technologies, Canada and CIS Technologies, Taiwan also gave the new Vice Presi-dent many years experience working abroad. All the companies for which he has worked are within the areas of communication technologies and 'new media'.
"We are moving into a market which is new to everyone, so experience and contacts from related industries are extremely important to us," says Dieter Weber.

Rob de Poorter from Holland is taking on the position of Director of Market Devel-opment. The qualified engineer (Eindhoven technical university) regards his chal-lenge at deuromedia as being to develop the market for North and South America.

De Poorter is convinced "that the deuromedia platform will become the most suc-cessful in the Internet broadcast market." He brings valuable experience with him from his previous work at Philips; as head of marketing for new products in PC pe-ripherals he was in close contact with the world of Silicon Valley. Later, de Poorter marketed end-to-end solutions for the broadcast market with digital TV and digital video systems at Philips.

De Poorter also took on a pioneering role in this sector: Philips is today the world leader among operators of networks and service providers - exactly the point where digital TV and the Internet merge.

About deuromedia

deuromedia is removing the barriers between the Internet and television - the international software manufacturer offers a ready-to-market sender and receiver system for broadband transmissions. Deuromedia has adopted an approach that enables the seamless fusion of all types of digital channels. Thanks to products from deuromedia users can customise content for their own individual purposes. In fact deuromedia solutions offer providers of all kinds of data transfer and content the professional platform: point-to-point, point-to-multipoint as well as formats with two-way capability. The Company was established in Merzig, Germany, in 1996 and currently employs 170 staff throughout the world in development, sales and distribution.

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