Altia Systems Announces Expanded Management and Engineering Team

CUPERTINO, Calif., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Altia Systems™ www.altiasystems.com today announced the appointment of a seasoned technology executive team to lead PanaCast™ Channel Sales, Software Engineering and Solution Architecture for the rapidly growing company that just received the coveted "Demo God" award from DEMO™ Mobile in April of 2013.

PanaCast delivers an immersive, real-time 200° field of view, providing a panoramic video and audio experience to anyone, anywhere with an Internet connection. PanaCast offers up to 60 FPS (Frames Per Second) of panoramic HD video as well as HD audio over a standard Ethernet® connection. Even at sub-3G wireless speeds, PanaCast enables Panoramic HD video quality and always includes enterprise-level encryption.

Dan Sibille joined in January as Vice President of Channel Sales, leveraging more than 20 years of expertise in Channel Sales and Marketing in the Americas. Most recently acting as Vice President of North America Channels with Polycom®, Inc., Dan began his career in Technology Sales and Marketing with Hayes® Microcomputer Products, Inc as Director of Sales over the Americas, following with key sales roles at 3COM®, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc., Internet Security Systems™, Inc., Extreme Networks®, Inc., and LifeSize™ Communications.

Naveed Alam has been appointed VP for Software Engineering. Naveed brings a strong track record of industry success in development, engineering management and entrepreneurial management at such companies as Teneros™, Brocade®, Cosine Communications™, 3Com® and Arktan™, where he was a co-founder and developed the core technology. He was awarded an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California and is the holder of five US patents.

Ram Natarajan has been appointed Principal Solution Architect. He has more than 20 years of experience in video/image processing, cryptography and speech signal processing. He is an acknowledged expert in both encoding and streaming video and has previously served in executive roles in startups including Arohi™ Systems, Cradle Technologies™ and Stradient™ Inc. Mr. Natarajan received his Master's degree in Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

"With the addition of Dan, Naveed and Ram, Altia has a world-class executive team that will help further establish PanaCast as the new standard for desktop and mobile device multi-point video communications," said Aurangzeb Khan, CEO and co-founder of Altia Systems.

Altia Systems™ www.altiasystems.com is a venture-backed company based in Cupertino, California that has created the PanaCast™ solution. PanaCast™ is a unique experience that enables anyone on desktop or mobile to receive an interactive, real-time panoramic HD 200⁰ field of view video stream that replicates the human panoramic perspective. Follow @panacast1 on Twitter® for further information.

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