COMPANY
Company Profile
Because of 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) and Japan (Tokyo).
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Management
 | 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 General Manager of ATEME. Dominique previously managed various hardware designs for markets such as telecommunications and aeronautics where he was specialized in video acquisition and compression, methods of multiplexing and transmissions over IP technologies. Dominique passed his engineering degree at 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, and administrative department. He previously held positions in finance as Management Control Director for Karavel, Finance Controller for Alstom and manager for Arthur Andersen / BearingPoint.
Pierre Larbier is ATEME’s Chief Technology Officer and a renowned expert in the field of algorithmic design and MPEG / H.264 video compression. He has specifically dealt with video encoder architecture and designs for a wide range of platforms and applications: from low-power single DSP solutions to ultra-high quality FPGA based HD broadcast encoders. Pierre obtained his engineering degree from INSA, Rennes, France, with a specialization in electronics. He is a DVB & SMPTE active member. |
Board Members
 | 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. |  | 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. |
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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.
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. |
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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 General Manager of ATEME. Dominique previously managed various hardware designs for markets such as telecommunications and aeronautics where he was specialized in video acquisition and compression, methods of multiplexing and transmissions over IP technologies. Dominique passed his engineering degree at Supelec, Paris, France, with a specialization in electronics. |
History
ATEME [pronounce ‘a-‘ as in ah and ‘-tem’, ignore the final ‘e’] was founded in 1991 in Bièvres, near Paris, France. From our start we placed a strong focus on developing new technology related to signal processing and digital compression and forged partnerships with high-performance programmable semi-conductor providers Texas Instruments, Altera, and Xilinx.
In 2003 we introduced two product ranges, the first targeted at video security applications and the second at broadcast and broadband video compression segments. The following year we co-developed the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 software encoder, Nero Digital, for the PC.
In 2005 we introduced the world’s first FPGA based MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder and launched a series of new products for broadcast, broadband and video security applications.
In 2007 we launched our Kyrion family of encoders at the NAB show in Las Vegas.
In 2008 we expanded our operations in North America and incorporated ATEME Inc opening an office in Burbank, CA.
In 2009, we launched new innovations to the market with the Titan platform for massive parallel multi screen transcoding, and the world first MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit encoder and decoder pair for the high end contribution market.
Throughout the history of the company we have been solely dedicated on video compression and have developed significant competencies in this area. Throughout the history of the company we have been technology innovators. |
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