SANTA CLARA, Calif.— 7/31/2006 - Macrovision® Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) today announced that Andrew K. Ludwick has been appointed to serve on its Board of Directors effective July 28, 2006.
Mr. Ludwick brings many years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience to the Board, previously serving as CEO of Bay Networks, a networking company, and as founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of SynOptics, also a networking company.
"Andy has an extensive background successfully growing and running large scalable organizations. His experience is a great fit for Macrovision as we continue to progress and grow our business," said Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision Corp. "We are pleased to welcome Andy to Macrovision's Board of Directors."
In addition to serving as a member of Macrovision's Board of Directors, Mr. Ludwick serves on the boards of several private companies. He also serves on the Dean's Council (Applied Engineering and Sciences) of Harvard College, and is a member of Harvard University's COUR. He is also a director of the Santa Rita Foundation, a private non-profit charitable organization.
Mr. Ludwick joins Macrovision Board members John O. Ryan, Alfred J. Amoroso, Donna S. Birks, Steven G. Blank, William Stirlen and Robert J. Majteles.
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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