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Tony Nguyen Appointed to EVP/CTO at Advanced Digital Services
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posted May 12, 2010, 20:09
ADS market expansion on-track; appoints industry veteran to take technology leadership role in guiding company to next stage of growth.
ADS market expansion on-track; appoints industry veteran to take technology
leadership role in guiding company to next stage of growth.
(Hollywood, CA) Advanced Digital Services, Inc. (ADS), a leading global provider
of best-in-class post-production services, announced the appointment of industry
veteran Tony Nguyen as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
Mr. Nguyen, formerly the Vice President of Technology and Operations at Ascent
Media Group, adds to the company's executive team as it continues its growth
and expansion in the US and abroad.
In his new role and reporting to the President, Mr. Nguyen will be responsible
for strategic planning and business development for ADS, as well as overseeing
all aspects of technology, engineering and IT operations for the company. In
addition, he will lead in the development of ADS's technology roadmap to ensure
the company's continued growth and expansion in providing best-of-breed post
production services, including a web oriented video streaming portal and a state-of-the-art
electronic file delivery platform aligned with the entertainment industry's
need to deliver timely and consistent content to its audience in the shortest
amount of time.
"I'm delighted to have Tony join as a senior member of our executive team
as his proven track record in executive management with many high profile companies
will be a significant asset in helping to move us to the next stage of growth,"
said ADS's Chairman, President and CEO, Andy McIntyre. "His stellar career
in broadcast and post production coupled with his extensive experience and knowledge
in deploying broadband, storage and networking technologies for customer driven
organizations is a testament of what is to come for our company. Further, his
vision of how content will be aggregated, managed and delivered over existing
and emerging digital networks is a perfect match to ADS's long term vision."
"I'm very pleased to join ADS as the company is poised to make significant
inroads into the electronic delivery market," added Tony Nguyen. "My
near-term goal is to spearhead the development of a highly available, robust
and scalable media asset encoding / management and electronic delivery platform
that removes the complexity and workflow deficiencies associated with the previous
generation of bulky proprietary systems. To this end, I look forward in helping
to establish ADS as the de-facto service provider for the management and delivery
of electronic content to the entertainment industry – creating a new price
performance paradigm and a win-win for all."
Tony Nguyen's distinguished twenty plus years as a rising technology executive
in broadcast and post production culminated at Ascent Media Group where he was
most recently Vice President of Technology and Operations. In this capacity,
Mr. Nguyen managed all aspects of technology, engineering and operations for
the Syndication & Content Distributions division at the Digital Media Data
Center in Burbank, California. While there, he was also involved in the development
of the Pitch Blue HD content delivery platform, and managed the technical support
and vendors relations for the project. As Vice President of Engineering and
Operations for Ascent Media Group's Network Services division, Mr. Nguyen brought
his expertise in network origination to the team, including facilities design,
engineering and operations management. Additionally, he helped launch The Reelz
Channel and The Documentary Channel at the Burbank Teleport facility. Prior
to joining Ascent Media, Mr. Nguyen continuously broadened his technical management
experience as Vice President of Broadcast Operations at the Andrita Studios/Playboy
Entertainment Group, Director of Network Operations for The Game Show Network
(GSN) and Technical Director for multiple live sport event networks at the LA
International Teleport for IDB Communications. Mr. Nguyen currently serves as
an advisor council member for Motorola's Advisor Council Broadband Sector and
is the Board President for the Satellite Professional Internationals (SSPI)
Southern California chapter.
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