Digital Fountain, Inc., a leading provider of advanced standardized solutions for digital media delivery, today announced the appointment of David Warner as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Warner brings over 20 years of significant financial leadership experience with large and small, public and privately held, high growth technology companies to Digital Fountain, including senior financial positions at MontaVista Software and Sybase. He will assume responsibility for the company’s financial operations. This appointment further strengthens the management team as the company moves forward with strategic growth initiatives in its content delivery network (DF Splash), IPTV, Mobile, and Defense solutions.
“David has a proven track record in managing growth for both private and public companies, and we are very excited to add him to our management team,” said Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO of Digital Fountain. “His diverse financial experience and prior success in helping to manage fast growing software and service companies was paramount in our decision to hire David, especially as we prepare to launch our new video CDN solution in January of 2008.”
Mr. Warner has more than two decades of financial experience in the software, systems, and technology industries, and a proven track record of building operations for high growth. Most recently he served as the CFO for MontaVista Software, where he raised $104M from leading venture capital firms and corporate investors such as U.S. Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, Siemens, Sony, Panasonic, NTT DoCoMo and IBM. Prior to MontaVista, Warner was the CFO of The EC Company. Mr. Warner has also held various senior management and financial analyst positions at Electronics for Imaging, Sybase and Tandem Computers. He received his MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Management, and a BA from the University of California, Davis.
About Digital Fountain
Digital Fountain is a leading provider of advanced standardized solutions for digital media delivery, even in the most challenging network environments. Digital Fountain solutions are currently deployed in advanced IPTV, CDN, and mobile delivery applications throughout the world, and have been adopted by leading global standards bodies, including DVB, and 3GPP. Many other standards bodies are currently evaluating DF Raptor as a best practices standard for digital media delivery. Partners and customers include leading global companies such as Cisco Systems, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Northrop Grumman, KDDI, SK Telecom, Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Radio, Sony, Nokia, and many more. For more information, please visit www.digitalfountain.com [1].
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