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By its pioneering commitment and expertise, ATEME is a World-leading provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 video compression solutions.

ATEME primarily targets bandwidth sensitive markets where its technology, boasting unrivalled compression efficiency, ensures increased Quality of Experience for the final users, while reducing our customers OPEX.

The Broadcast Broadband business renowned solutions, including Kyrion™ family of offline and streaming encoders, powers numerous high-end digital video applications: content creation, contribution, broadcast, mobile TV, Video on Demand (VOD), IPTV. These solutions support both standard and HD content, deployed across any platform - from mobile to Ultra HD.

The Defence & Security business unit offers integrators a comprehensive portfolio of encoders and network video recorders (NVR), decoders and software players, and network supervision solutions. ATEME pioneered the adoption of MPEG4 and now H.264 on the most demanding applications, such as transportation (road traffic, train, airports) and government (military, public safety).

ATEME SA, founded in 1991, is headquartered in Bièvres near Paris, France, and operates worldwide through its distribution network. ATEME’s offices and subsidiaries are located in USA (Burbank-CA), Japan (Tokyo) and Hong Kong (China).

Michel Artières is founder, President and CEO of ATEME. Previously, Michel had directed R&D in Image Processing and Compression at French Ministry of Defence. He specifically directed research works in the field of progressive lossless compression for very high definition images, and blurred image restoration in noisy environments. Michel received his engineering degree from Supelec, Paris, France, with a specialization in signal processing.

Dominique Edelin is founder and VP R&D of ATEME. Previously, Dominique has directed various hardware designs for markets such as telecommunications and aeronautics. He specifically managed large designs of equipments for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: video and data payloads acquisition, compression, methods of multiplexing and radio transmission. Dominique received his engineering degree from Supelec, Paris, France, with a specialization in electronics.

Benoît Fouchard  Benoit was named Chief Strategy Officer in January 2010 with the responsibility to engineer the next stage of growth for ATEME. Before joining ATEME in 2001 as VP of Sales, Benoit held international business development positions with IT supply chain specialist ModusLink, spearheading the group expansion in Southern and Eastern Europe. Benoit holds Master Degrees in Busines Administration from HEC, Paris and CEMS.

Emmanuel Boureau joined ATEME in 2009 as VP Sales and as a member of the ATEMEs Executive Team, helping to define the company’s future strategy and direction. Previously, Emmanuel worked at Tandberg Television, where he was responsible for developing business across the whole EMEA region. Emmanuel Boureau graduated from the Institut Superieur de Commerce de Paris.

Joseph Soueidi joined ATEME in April 2009 as COO to be in charge of Ateme’s operations. Prior to Ateme, Joseph Held key Senior management positions within large Multinational companies like Bosch Telecom, Marconi and GE Security. Joseph is a Telecom Engineer and has a Master Degree in Business Administration.

 
Howard Barouxis joined ATEME in 2008 as VP and GM Americas, based in Burbank, California. Previously, Howard was responsible for the head end business holding a position as Vice President of North American Sales, at Thomson. Howard brings extensive experience in sales and business management to the company having held other senior positions with Grass Valley, Thales, and Siemens. Howard also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Fabrice Sana joined ATEME in 2007 as CFO. He is responsible for control and reporting, tax, treasury, administrative and IT department. He previously held positions in finance as Management Control Director for Karavel, Finance Controller for Alstom and manager for Arthur Andersen / BearingPoint. Fabrice has a Master Degree from the European Business School.

Xavier Niel joined ATEME board in December 2006. He is Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for the Iliad Group, a dominant player in the French Internet and Telecommunications market through its ISP subsidiary, Free®. Free is the number one alternative ADSL operator in France with more than 2,278,000 subscribes as of December 31, 2006, 50% of which are effective IPTV viewers.
He has been responsible for the Group’s major strategic developments, from the development of Internet access services to the launch of the Freebox project.

Jean Bourcereau is a General Partner with Ventech, investing in semiconductor and communications. He currently serves on a number of Boards including Arteris, Crocus Technology and Ekinops. He previously was a Director of Musiwave (acquired by Openwave). Jean graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and ENST.

Dominique Agrech is a Member of the Executive Board at XAnge Private Equity. He has been active in venture capital since 1986, having gained experience in both life sciences and Information Technology. After a first experience with the Suez group, Dominique joined Abn-Amro Capital France in 1997 as head of Venture. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and ENSPM.

2010

2009 

• Emmanuel Boureau is appointed as Vice President of Sales for the EMEA region
• Launch of H.264 4:2:2 10-bit Contribution Solution at NAB
• Inauguration of Burbank office
  

2008

• Inauguration of Hong-Kong office
• Richard Chau is appointed as Vice President of Sales for the Asia Pacific region
• Launch of Kyrion File Encoder 2.0  file-based encoding solution for asset creation
• Howard Barouxis is appointed as Vice President of Sales for the Americas region

2007

• Incorporation of ATEME Japan KK in Tokyo
• Launch of Kyrion family of encoders at NAB

2006

• Renowned Businessman and Visionary Founder of Free Telecom, Xavier Niel, Joins ATEME Board of Directors
• Claude Stoffel joins ATEME as sales director for broadcast & broadband solutions, after almost 10 years spent at the European Broadcasters Union (EBU)
• Opening of China office (Hangzhou)
• Demonstration at NAB of the first MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding chipset

2003

• Launching of application oriented products for the Video Security (VSIP) and the Professional Audio and Video (Kompressor) applications
• Launching of the technological and commercial partnerships with Nero AG around Nero Digital®
• Nero Digital® is the world's first complete MPEG-4 solution (audio, video and streaming) on PC

2002

• ATEME publishes the MPEG-4 Guide
• Two institutional investors
• Creation of an export distribution network

2000

• Start of the export activity
• ATEME becomes also ALTERA partner