ATEMET announces that Sylvain Riviere has joined the management team as Executive Vice President of Marketing - a new position for the company. Mr. Riviere joins ATEME's operational leadership as the company also welcomes the founder of the billion-dollar Iliad Group, Mr. Xavier Niel, to its Board of Directors.

An industry veteran with years of hands-on experience in marketing, management and video compression technology, Mr. Riviere joins ATEME with the mandate to apply all of these areas of expertise to his position within the company. He is specifically in charge of ATEME's worldwide corporate and product marketing, as well as helping to implement a new solutions focus for ATEME technologies and products in Broadcast and Broadband market segments.

Prior to ATEME, Mr. Riviere was the Senior Director of Product Marketing for BigBand Networks. Before this, Mr. Riviere was a Senior Group Manager at Harmonic, and was also with MPEG pioneer FutureTel as Director of Product Marketing.