Academy Award® winning industry veteran creates new vertical for Signiant
BURLINGTON, MA November 7, 2006 — Signiant™, Inc., the leader in distributed data management, today announced that media industry veteran Thomas A. Ohanian has joined its executive management team as vice president of product management. In this role, Tom will lead the company’s efforts to further develop its Signiant Mobilize™ product line and leverage his extensive background to bring new vertically-focused products to the media and entertainment market.
With its focus on centrally managed and intelligent data distribution, and its history of customer-driven innovation, Signiant is developing solutions that enable integrated file-based workflows to achieve new levels of efficiency and forensics compliance. Leveraging his 26 years of designing and implementing revolutionary technologies and workflows for the media and entertainment industry, Ohanian will determine product strategy, market initiatives, and feature definition required for media companies to maximize their ROI as they adopt an all-digital workflow.
“Tom adds an incredible amount of experience, intelligence and drive to Signiant’s continued growth and success as we look to further develop our distributed data management solutions, especially within the media and entertainment industry,” said Signiant CEO Dennis Albano. “With Tom at the helm of our product management efforts, Signiant is poised to change the way companies transport digital media assets to positively affect the bottom line.”
Ohanian is an acknowledged industry expert and inventor of several award-winning digital media products. His vision has led to the widespread adoption of digital nonlinear editing systems, digital media workflows and collaboration strategies throughout the entire media industry. Among his past posts, he was the Sr. Director of Autodesk Consulting for Media & Entertainment and the eighth employee and product visionary at Avid Technology. Tom is an Academy Award® and a two-time Emmy® recipient for technical innovation.
“Implementing a digital media distribution strategy is an exceedingly relevant topic in today’s competitive media and entertainment market. Signiant’s Mobilize technology provides the platform to simply and quickly transform business models and workflows that must coincide with the transition from analog to digital processes and the diversification of their distribution outlets,” said Ohanian.
About Signiant Inc.
Signiant (http://www.signiant.com/) is the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the media and entertainment industries. Signiant provides its customers with the only integrated, open software solution that manages, secures, automates and accelerates their digital file-based workflows to efficiently move and distribute content throughout their ecosystem and to more media outlets, in less time. Signiant is headquartered in Burlington, MA with development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and offices in NY, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. Read the Signiant blog at http://www.digitalmediagalaxy.com/
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