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Eagle Broadband Appoints Brian Morrow as General Manager of Company's IPTV Solutions DivisionHOUSTON --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 7, 2005 -- Proven Technology Executive to Run Company's IPTV Division to Fully Capitalize on Revenue and Growth Opportunities in the IPTV and Hospitality Markets Eagle Broadband, Inc. (AMEX:EAG), a leading provider of broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, today announced the appointment of Brian Morrow as General Manager, IPTV Solutions division effective immediately. In this newly created position, Morrow will assume overall management and profit and loss responsibility for Eagle's IPTV Solutions division which includes the company's core IPTVComplete(TM) and MediaPro IP set-top box product lines. Morrow brings more than 25 years of senior-level sales, marketing, product development, operations and general management experience in the technology industry to Eagle Broadband. With a diverse background that ranges from launching technology startups and corporate turnarounds to strategic management consulting, Morrow has a proven track record building and growing technology companies into industry leaders. In announcing the appointment, Dave Micek, President and CEO of Eagle Broadband, stated, "I am very pleased we were able to attract an executive of Brian's caliber to Eagle Broadband in what is a strategically important management role for the company. Brian's appointment comes at an ideal time as we continue to allocate additional resources to our IPTV Solutions division and focus on accelerating our IPTVComplete and MediaPro IP set-top box revenues. Having worked closely with Brian in the past, I am confident that his proven business strategy, sales, operations and executive management skills combined with his in-depth knowledge of the IPTV and telecommunications markets, will enable him to ramp revenues and achieve both short and long-term success with our IPTV Solutions division." "The push by broadband providers and hospitality operators to deliver advanced video and entertainment services to their customers has created one of the technology industry's most lucrative growth opportunities," stated Brian Morrow. "I look forward to helping the company leverage its first to market advantage with its high definition IP set-top boxes for hospitality operators and the only true, end-to-end IPTV solution for broadband providers, to successfully grow the IPTV Solutions division. My goal is to enable both Eagle and our IPTV and hospitality customers to profit from deployment of Eagle's industry-leading IPTVComplete and MediaPro IP set-top box solutions," Morrow added. Morrow joins Eagle from geographic information systems software and services firm Analytical Surveys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANLT) where as President and Chief Operating Officer, he rejuvenated the sales, marketing and operational performance of the company. Prior to joining Analytical Surveys, he served as a management consultant for several early-stage communications and technology start-up companies where he performed CEO/COO-level trouble-shooting and business strategy work, including interim roles as CEO of Peerseeker (handheld voice and data communications) and Vice President of Business Development with NetSapiens (Voice over IP PBX solutions). Before his recent consulting assignments, Morrow served as President and Chief Operating Officer with Endeavors Technology, a Java and .NET web services start-up company that developed Web collaboration and application delivery enterprise software, which he grew to a leadership position until its acquisition by U.K.-based Tadpole Technology (London: TAD). Morrow also served as Senior Vice President of Operations--Americas for business process and database tools company Select Software Tools (formerly NASDAQ:SLCTY), where he was instrumental in a successful turnaround and eventual sale of the company to Computer Horizons Corporation (NASDAQ:CHRZ). He was also Director and General Manager of Component-Based Development for the software division of Texas Instruments where he launched TI's enterprise software business and rapidly grew revenues including sales to more than fifty Fortune 500 companies. Before Texas Instruments, Morrow also held senior development, operations and management roles with Lawson Software, Minicom Data Corporation, Prentice Hall legal systems and was a principal and Certified Management Consultant with Price-Waterhouse Coopers. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Dalhousie University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Ottawa. About Eagle Broadband Eagle Broadband is a leading provider of broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) and communications technology and services that create new revenue opportunities for broadband providers and enhance communications for government, military and enterprise customers. Eagle leverages years of proven experience delivering advanced IP-based broadband bundled services to provide service provider partners with a way to deliver next-generation entertainment, communications and security services to their subscribers. The company's product offerings include IPTVComplete(TM), the fastest, lowest cost way for broadband providers to deliver the most competitive IP video services, the MediaPro line of HDTV-ready IP set-top boxes that enable broadband providers and hotel operators to maximize revenues by delivering state-of-the-art, interactive entertainment services and the SatMAX(TM) satellite communications system that provides government, military, homeland security and enterprise customers with reliable non-line-of-sight voice and data communications from any location on Earth. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information, please visit www.eaglebroadband.com or call 281-538-6000. (EAGG) Forward-looking statements in this release regarding Eagle Broadband, Inc., are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, continued acceptance of the company's products, increased levels of competition, new products and technological changes, the company's dependence upon third-party suppliers, intellectual property rights, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
