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Appointments
GatesAir Appoints
Bruce Swail As CEO
USA: GatesAir has appointed Bruce
D. Swail as the company's Chief
Executive Officer.
Swail brings more than 35 years of
telecom and electronics experience
to GatesAir.
Most recently, Swail was the CEO
of Ulticom Inc., a private equity
held provider of telecom signalling
solutions and US Robotics, the
well-known data communications
vendor, also private equity held.
Earlier in his career, Swail was an
executive at Flextronics and spent
20 years with Motorola.
Commenting, Bruce Swail said:
"I'm delighted to be joining the
GatesAir team with its storied
history and decades of leadership.
The company is poised for
impressive growth and I'm excited
to get started."
Outgoing CEO Phil Argyris will
remain with GatesAir as long as
necessary to facilitate a smooth
leadership transition.

Kozo Nagao Named
Leader President

JPN:
Leader
Electronics
Corporation has appointed Kozo
Nagao as President.
"Since
the
company's
establishment in 1954, Leader
has
contributed
innovative
measurement technology for
sectors of industry such as home
appliances, television broadcasting
and mobile telephones," Kozo
Nagao commented. "Progressing
with measurement technology
as the basis of our business,
Leader has evolved its products
and supporting services to meet
the demands of each era and will
continue to pursue various forms
of value provision into the future."
Kozo Nagao joined Japan's Ministry
of International Trade & Industry
in 1997, progressing in 2001 to
Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2002 he
joined Corporate Directions,
which he continues to serve as
a partner. He has served as an
advisor to Leader since 2014,
joining the board in 2015.

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Tigo Sports
Selects SAM
For 4K Upgrade

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igo Sports, Paraguay's first sports
channel dedicated exclusively
to multiple sports coverage, has
purchased a range of SAM solutions
including its Sirius 840 router, Kudos
LC350 framerate converters and IQ
Modular infrastructure as part of
a major upgrade to its facility. The
upgrade allows the simultaneous
production of HD and 4K content across
major sporting events in Latin America.
SAM's partnership with Paraguayan
reseller MACOM was key to delivering
the project for Tigo Sports.
Sebastian
Saldivar,
Technical
Manager, Tigo Sports, commented:
"As we continue to receive demands
for enhanced viewing capabilities,

it was essential for us to create an
environment that included the latest
in 4K technology and workflow
management capabilities and SAM's
technology is exactly what we
were looking for. Its multi-purpose
functionality and the fact that it
supports numerous formats including
4K was an investment we needed to
make for the future of this network.
The Sirius 840 lets us manage
channels independently for better
control over our audio and video."
Tigo Group provides Pay TV and
internet services to more than
400,000 homes across Paraguay,
offering over 60 international channels
with 20 in HD.

SAM Sirius 840 router

PPC Orders EditShare Solution

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lite film-marketing agency Picture
Production Company (PPC) is the
first facility to place an order for the
brand new EditShare XStream EFS
300 single-node, scale-out storage
platform.
"We have a range of systems in
our London office, complementing
our many workflows. To expand
our portfolio, and specifically our
Avid environment initially, we

immediately thought of EditShare for
our shared storage infrastructure,
because EditShare supports the
lot," commented Nick Tipping, PPC
Technical Director. "EditShare will
work with Avid. It will work with
Premiere Pro. It will even work with
Final Cut Pro 7, and most other edit
platforms you can think of. The new
EFS 300 model is a very robust, costeffective solution. We have had an

EditShare system in our Los Angeles
office for a couple of years now and
have had nothing but good results, so
it was a perfect choice."
The EditShare XStream EFS 300
single-node,
scale-out
storage
installation replaces the PPC Soho
office's aging Avid Unity system
with a platform-agnostic EFS 300
solution that will futureproof the PPC
infrastructure.
PPC has locations in Soho, London
and Los Angeles, and produces
trailers, television spots and online
video for some of the world's largest
film studios.
EditShare EFS 300
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