SANTA CLARA, Calif. 9/13/2005 - Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) announced today the appointment of Buff Jones as executive vice president and general manager of its software technologies group, effective immediately. Jones will be responsible for managing and building the software technologies group, including product management, R&D, marketing, sales and services.
"Buff brings a tremendous amount of enterprise software and professional services management experience to the Macrovision organization. Having worked with her in the past, I can personally attest to her knowledge, leadership skills and customer focus. I’m extremely pleased to have her as part of the Macrovision executive team," said Fred Amoroso, Macrovision chief executive officer.
Jones said, "I’m excited to join Macrovision—a company with enviable market position and tremendous growth opportunities in software value management and e-commerce. Given my past working experience with key members of the executive team, I look forward to making an immediate, positive impact on the business."
Jones most recently served at IBM as vice president, responsible for IBM’s WebSphere’s worldwide business integration development and OEM enablement. Prior to IBM, as senior vice president of products at CrossWorlds Software, she helped the company break even and was instrumental in the integration of CrossWorlds after its acquisition by IBM in 2002. Before IBM and Crossworlds Software, Jones was the senior vice president and general manager of Merant’s PVCS business unit. Earlier in her career at Merant, she was the senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Before Merant, Jones served in several senior management roles at Compuware Corporation where she lead the team focused on client server systems management and led its North American sales, services and product management teams.
Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA in Information Systems and Business Communications from the University of Southern California.
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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