Imagine Communications Appoints Seasoned IPTV Executive, Doug Means and Digital Video Expert, Dr. Tibet Mimaroğlu To Management Team

Key hires position the company for MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding and Internet
Video applications
SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)--
Imagine Communications, a leading innovator in advanced digital video solutions,
today announced the appointment of two key executives- Doug Means as chief
operating officer and Dr. Tibet Mimaroğlu as vice president of engineering.
Imagine has raised the video quality bar in the cable industry with its
leading-edge HD encoding technology. With these new hires the company intends to
build on that strength by leveraging their expertise in video processing
solutions for IPTV and HD video on demand.

Means comes to Imagine from Motorola where he spent 14 years as a top executive,
most recently VP/GM of their IPTV video solutions business unit. In his new
role, Means brings a wealth of industry experience to Imagine and has a
reputation for being an effective and strong leader. He is well known by
Imagine`s customers and highly respected in the US cable, satellite and IPTV
markets, as well in high growth international markets including Europe and Asia.

"We are pleased to have Doug join the Imagine team," said Jamie Howard,
President and CEO of Imagine. "He has an outstanding track record of building
and scaling sales organizations` impressive growth. With his dedication and
proven leadership abilities he is the perfect fit for Imagine in this stage of
our development."

Dr. Mimaroğlu is a leading innovator in video processing solutions. He joins
Imagine with 29 years of solid experience in product development and engineering
management. Dr. Mimaroğlu was most recently CTO and EVP, Engineering of
Beko/Grundig Elektronik, the number two consumer electronics company in Europe
with $1.5B annual revenues in TV, set top boxes and other CE products. Dr.
Mimaroğlu led the multinational engineering team across four global locations.

"Tibet is highly talented with invaluable experience in H.264/Advanced Video
Coding technology and is completely aligned with Imagine`s PersonalizedTV®
strategy," said Ron Gutman, Imagine chief technology officer and co-founder.
"His broad industry knowledge and ability to successfully lead product
development from inception to the marketplace is key to Imagine`s growth and we
welcome him to our organization."

Dr. Mimaroğlu`s background includes a Ph.D. in video processing from Oakland
University in Rochester, MI. He has also held executive engineering roles at
Atheros Communications, Ubicom and Compression Labs.

About Imagine Communications

Imagine Communications is a leading innovator in digital video solutions
enabling content providers and system operators to deliver bandwidth-intensive
services with optimum video quality and Quality of Experience (QoE). Imagine`s
products serve the traditional HDTV and SDTV digital broadcast markets as well
as emerging PersonalizedTV® areas such as VOD, Network PVR (nPVR), Internet
Video and IPTV. Imagine is based in San Diego with R&D in Israel. Imagine`s
strong management team includes industry leaders with decades of experience
delivering innovations in video communications. Founded in 2005, Imagine
Communications is privately held and funded by Carmel Ventures, Columbia Capital
and Court Square Ventures.

www.imaginecommunications.com

Imagine, the Imagine logo, ICE-Q, ICE, Enabling PersonalizedTV and
PersonalizedTV are registered trademarks of Imagine Communications, Inc. Other
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Imagine Communications, Inc.
Denise Lewis, 858-480-0122
denise@imaginecommunications.com
or
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Curtis Sparrer, 415-442-4034
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