[January 19, 2005] Cable Industry Veteran Craig Kugler Joins ICTV As Senior Vice President, Customer Service and Operations Tweet LOS GATOS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Jan. 19, 2005 -- ICTV, creator of HeadendWare(R), the broadband industry's most powerful platform for the delivery and distribution of compelling interactive content, announced today that Craig Kugler has joined the company in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Customer Service and Operations. Kugler, who has 26 years experience in the cable and telecommunications industries, will be responsible for directing and managing all aspects of ICTV's ongoing customer relationships including Product Deployment Management, Technical Services, Professional Services and Customer Service. In addition, Kugler will have overall responsibility for ICTV's Quality Assurance and Manufacturing Operations. "With the increasing cable and telecom interest worldwide in the HeadendWare platform worldwide, there is a need to consolidate and coordinate the customer-facing areas of our business across our headquarters in the United States and our new European base of operations," said Mike McGrail, president and CEO of ICTV. "Craig Kugler's strategic planning and execution skills and his expertise in the broadband industry made him an ideal fit for this position." Kugler joins ICTV after a 26-year career with DST Innovis, where he was promoted from director of development to several senior positions, including vice president, custom solution services, vice president, program management, and ultimately, vice president, broadband program management. During his tenure with DST Innovis, he earned increasingly greater levels of responsibility for development, for meeting customers' day-to-day business needs, and finally for the management of strategic planning, development and execution of products for the company's broadband customers. About HeadendWare(R) ICTV's HeadendWare platform enables network operators to deliver compelling interactive content and applications, including animation, high-fidelity audio and full-motion video, to any digital set-top box. Using headend-based processing power and the existing digital plant, HeadendWare removes set-top box and middleware constraints on the delivery of compelling interactive multimedia content and allows TV-friendly activity that cannot be matched by satellite competitors. With HeadendWare application servers located anywhere on the operator's network or outsourced, an operator's entire digital subscriber base can interact with robust multimedia applications developed with standard PC, Web and Java tools using existing set-top boxes and remote controls. HeadendWare supports the latest versions of HTML, JavaScript, Java, Windows Media Player(R), Flash(R), RealPlayer(R) and QuickTime(R), enabling network operators to provide subscribers with a limitless array of content and applications. About ICTV(TM) ICTV(TM) provides enabling infrastructure for the delivery of new television services to broadband subscribers. The company offers a solutions-oriented approach to new television services that combines the standards-based technology of ICTV's HeadendWare platform with a portfolio of branded iTV applications that can be deployed today. The solution-based approach offers operators the highest returns on bandwidth and capital of iTV services available today. Strategic investors include Adelphia, Liberty Media, Motorola, OpenTV, Shaw Communications, TV Guide, Cox Communications and Lauder Partners. Based in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, with offices in Baltimore and the United Kingdom, the company has been issued 23 patents and has numerous patents pending, ensuring protection of its unique and innovative television services solution. ICTV is a member of the Motorola Horizon and Scientific-Atlanta CreativEdge Developer's Programs. For more information, visit www.ictv.com. HeadendWare is a registered trademark and ICTV is a trademark of ICTV, Inc. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]