ANT Bolsters Team with Hire of New Engineering Director
Engineering expert John Gooch appointed
14 May 2009
ANT, the provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, today announced the appointment of John Gooch as Engineering Director. John has been recruited to help build upon the company’s strong market position and follows ANT’s recent announcement that it has deployed more than 10 million units worldwide. John’s extensive telecoms experience and knowledge will be called upon as ANT’s business continues to grow.
The demand for innovative new IPTV services is stronger than ever with subscribers forecast to reach over 90 million globally in 2013*. As a leading player in this market ANT continues to build its engineering team to drive the creation and adoption of new digital TV services.
John has over 30 years of industry experience working in a variety of high profile engineering roles. He previously spent eight years with Nortel Networks, in leading roles across a diversity of business units including the Field Operations Team, Product Management for Nortel’s Network Management Solutions and most recently as leader for Installation and Commissioning in Northern Europe. Prior to Nortel Networks, he spent five years as Network Engineering Programme Manager with BT. John’s background in telecoms will prove invaluable to ANT as it looks to build on recent growth in the IPTV and hybrid markets.
John said: “ANT is dedicated to the development of the industry and it’s an exciting prospect to work for a company with such significant growth potential. ANT has some of the best engineers in the field who are developing software that is used by millions of consumers each day.”
Simon Woodward, CEO ANT plc, said: “I’m delighted that John has joined to lead our expanding engineering team. His depth of organisational experience and management skills will be a vital asset as the business develops. We have an energetic and collaborative approach with a goal of shaping the future of digital TV, in support of this goal we continue to invest heavily in our engineering division as it is the bedrock of what we do.”
About ANT Software Limited
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is the leading provider of client software solutions and services to the digital media industry. It develops open-standards-based client software and applications to enable operators to exploit digital media across a broad range of consumer devices from TV’s set-top boxes and iDTV’s, to portable media devices such as mobile phones and personal media players, regardless of content delivery platform.
ANT enables media driven organisations to quickly create and roll-out innovative and successful applications and TV services on any consumer device, enabling operators to attract new subscribers, reduce churn and increase average revenue per user.
ANT’s software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Cisco, Chunghwa Telecom, HwaCom, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.
ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).
