SANTA CLARA, Calif. 11/4/2005 - Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) announced today that Mark Bishof had joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services, and that Greg Jorgensen had joined as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Each appointment is effective immediately.
Mark Bishof will oversee all sales, presales, services, channels and alliances for the Company worldwide. Greg Jorgensen will be responsible for all worldwide product marketing, demand generation, brand strategy, market intelligence and corporate communications.
Macrovision Chief Executive Officer Fred Amoroso remarked, "I am very pleased to be able to welcome to Macrovision two world-class executives to strengthen our management team. Both Mark and Greg bring outstanding credentials in key business areas to their roles at Macrovision and I am excited at the opportunity to work with each of them as we grow and transform Macrovision into the future."
Mark Bishof is a software and management consulting industry veteran, and brings a diverse background in selling and delivering enterprise integration and technology solutions for Global 2000 customers. He recently served as a consultant to Warburg Pincus in their Information Technology and Communications practice. Bishof was Vice President of Worldwide Industry Solution Sales for IBM’s Software Group and prior to that, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, WebSphere Business Integration and was instrumental in building WebSphere into the dominant player in the business integration marketplace. Before IBM, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Services for CrossWorlds Software, and was integral in the acquisition and integration of CrossWorlds into IBM in 2002. Prior to CrossWorlds, Bishof served as a partner at Deloitte in the Telecommunications practice, and as an associate with Booz-Allen Hamilton in their Intelligence and Space Systems Group. Bishof also serves on the Board of Directors for Solstice Software.
"I’m very pleased to be joining a dynamic executive team that can help take Macrovision to its next level. The opportunity to expand our sales and services capabilities around go-to-market solutions for customers is an exciting challenge," Bishof commented.
Greg Jorgensen was formerly the Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing at McAfee, Inc. (Network Associates). He was instrumental in driving an increase in market share across the suite of consumer online and retail products, as well as global realignment of all Network Associates enterprise solutions under McAfee System and Network Protection moving the company from a pure anti-virus player into an intrusion prevention powerhouse. At IBM, Jorgensen was a senior consultant for the Software Group’s Solutions and Strategy Division where he was primarily responsible for leading the global strategic positioning of business integration (and CrossWorlds enterprise applications technology/products) as it evolved within the WebSphere brand—he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for CrossWorlds Software prior to the IBM acquisition. Previously, Jorgensen was Vice President, Worldwide Brand Marketing at Oracle, where he spearheaded a new strategic direction and global positioning across 36+ countries. Before joining Oracle, Jorgensen headed up agency operations, account management teams and corporate development for various marketing and global advertising firms in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.
"I look forward to joining an aggressive team focused on delivering new technologies that enhance a customer’s experience," said Jorgensen. "Together we will expand Macrovision’s market position in both the entertainment and software industries."
Macrovision develops and markets content value management and software value management technologies for the home video, PC games, music, cable/satellite, consumer software, and enterprise software industries,. Macrovision holds a total of 220 issued or pending United States patents and 1,200 issued or pending international patents, and continues to increase its patent portfolio with new and innovative technologies in related fields. Macrovision has its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with other offices across the United States and around the world.
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About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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