Fuze Box Appoints Streaming Media Inventor Alan Lippman as Executive Vice President of Advanced Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuze Box today announced that streaming media veteran Dr. Alan Lippman has been named Executive Vice President, Media Technology at Fuze Box. Dr. Lippman assumes his role immediately.

Recognized as one of the fathers of streaming audio/video and digital media hub technologies, Dr. Lippman will usher Fuze Box into the next generation of video technology. "We are uniquely positioned to welcome a thought leader in the video technology field, such as Alan, who will elevate Fuze Box to the next level in video collaboration," said Jeff Cavins, CEO of Fuze Box. "We are excited that the timely appointment of Dr. Lippman will further solidify the company's presence in the online collaboration space as Fuze Box approaches the cusp of unprecedented advances in video-based experiences."

Dr. Lippman holds a BSM in Mathematics from the University of Washington, which he received at the age of 14 and graduated four years later with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. Dr. Lippman has since augmented his career through pointed and specialized media partnerships. As the Chief Engineer at RealNetworks, he was a key architect of RealAudio® and RealVideo® software that today is still downloaded millions of times per week. Upon founding Trusted Media Networks in 2001, Dr. Lippman established international standards for network management currently in use by Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. Dr. Lippman moved to Redback Networks in 2006 as the Chief Video Architect focusing on video traffic optimization.

In joining Fuze Box, Dr. Lippman heads a team that will focus on perfecting video capabilities across fixed web and mobile devices. He and his team will also work to optimize high definition video management and delivery. "I am pleased to join Fuze Box as the company extends its visual collaboration platform to global users." Lippman continues, "There are many differentiated advantages that the Fuze Box platform provides for media capabilities and these uniquely match many of the product sciences I have been working on over the last five years."

With the addition of Dr. Lippman, Fuze Box also announces the opening of new offices in Seattle.  Dr. Lippman and a team of experienced developers in the field of video and audio technologies will be the first employees working out of Fuze Box's new Seattle, WA location.

About Fuze Box:

Fuze Box is a leading platform provider of visual collaboration applications for consumers and businesses. Its applications - Fuze Meeting, Fuze Messenger, Fuze Movie and Tweetshare - allow people to communicate, collaborate and share content from any device, anywhere in the world. Fuze Meeting is a mobile and web-based collaboration service that features integrated audio conferencing as well as high- definition, synchronized video and image sharing. The company's technology is based on a real-time visual communications platform that converges telephony, high-definition, synchronized video and image sharing across the enterprise, the web and mobile networks. For more information, please visit http://www.fuzebox.com.

CONTACT: Kristen Isaacs of Fuze Box, +1-415-367-4558 (office),+1-818-621-2823 (cell), [email protected]

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