Vobile Appoints Mike Witte Vice President of Sales

Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:01am EST
 
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Digital Media Veteran to Lead Global Sales Efforts

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Vobile, a leading provider of
video content identification and management services, today announced the
appointment of Mike Witte as Vice President of Sales. At Vobile, Witte will be
responsible for managing all current sales activities and leading the efforts
to identify new revenue opportunities in the rapidly evolving digital content
identification software and services market.
    Witte has more than twenty years of experience in technology, including
senior management roles at ecommerce, content-management and Internet
companies. His experience and expertise include sales and marketing, product
development, business strategy and general management.
    "We are excited to welcome Mike to join as a key member of our management
team at a time when we are experiencing tremendous demand for our video
content identification solutions in the marketplace," said Yangbin Wang,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vobile. "His depth of highly relevant
industry knowledge and outstanding track record in sales made him a perfect
fit to lead rapid revenue growth at Vobile."
    Prior to Vobile, Witte was Vice President of Business Development and
Sales at Advestigo, where he was responsible for all North American business
and strategic partnerships. Before Advestigo, he was Vice President of
Business Development and Sales at BitPass, an ecommerce solution provider
which was acquired by Digital River, and headed major account sales for
leading secure content-management solution provider Macrovision. While at
Macrovision he successfully developed and launched an industry leading
web-based P2P anti-piracy service for the global movie, music, games and
software industries.
    "Vobile is at the forefront of an exploding new video content economy. The
digital content distribution market is full of exciting opportunities, but
with those opportunities come complex issues involving ownership, monetization
and accountability," said Witte. "Content identification is the critical
foundation for any successful business in this dynamic space, and nobody is
better at video content identification than Vobile. I'm thrilled to be joining
the exceptional team Vobile has assembled to help producers, distributors and
consumers get the most out of their digital content."
    About Vobile
    Vobile is a leading provider of video content identification and
management services. Its core VideoDNA(TM) technology enables fully automated
identification, tracking and management of any video and audio content with
high performance, accuracy and scalability. Vobile operates a very large scale
database of VideoDNA for content identification and video search services.
Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For
more information, visit the Vobile Web site at www.vobileinc.com.

    Vobile, VideoDNA, the Vobile and VideoDNA logos are trademarks of Vobile,
Inc.

    Media Contact:
    Allyson Hoffman
    Vobile, Inc.
    Phone: 408-492-1100
    Email: pr@vobileinc.com

SOURCE  Vobile, Inc.

Allyson Hoffman of Vobile, Inc., +1-408-492-1100, pr@vobileinc.com

 

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