SANAT CLARA, Calif. 4/4/2005 - Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) announced today that Loren Hillberg joined the Company as Executive Vice President, General Counsel reporting to CEO, Bill Krepick. In this capacity, Hillberg will be the Company’s first inside General Counsel and will be responsible for all corporate legal matters including contracts, intellectual property, SEC matters, trademarks, litigation, M&A legal support, federal and state regulatory compliance and advocacy, as well as HR and facilities.
Prior to Macrovision, Hillberg served as senior vice president and general counsel of Macromedia beginning in 1998. Before Macromedia, he served as vice president and general counsel for Micro Focus Group, Plc, a UK based provider of enterprise software tools.
Bill Krepick said, "We are fortunate to have found someone for our first general counsel with Loren’s extensive background in software, licensing, intellectual property, and M&A. We will eclipse $200 million in revenues this year, and we need to be able to scale our internal operations to accommodate even greater growth in the future. Loren will help us accomplish that, while at the same time helping us retain our core cultural values that emphasize creativity, teamwork, individual initiative, and quick response to our customers."
Hillberg has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics (with distinction) from Stanford University and a Juris Doctorate degree from University of California, Hastings College of Law. He is 46 years old.
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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