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 Video Security Video 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).
The Consumer Electronics business unit is responsible for licensing
ATEME’s best-in-class technology in other markets, ranging from mobile convergence devices to audio-video OEMs,
as well as software developers on all major platforms.
On top of this ATEME Consulting business unit is a unique IP-centric design center,
offering our customers expertise for their innovative audio video designs, and flexible assistance to ensure cost
and time-effective integration of ATEME audio video encoding and decoding libraries in their developments.
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), Canada (Montreal), Japan (Tokyo) and China (Hangzhou).
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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.
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| Dominique Edelin is founder and COO of ATEME.
Previously, Dominique had directed hardware designs for market such as telecommunication and Aeronautic.
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.
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| Benoît Fouchard joined ATEME in 2001 as VP Sales.
Benoit previously held key business development positions with IT supply chain specialist ModusLink,
where he expanded the presence of the group in Southern and Eastern Europe. Benoit has a Master Degree from HEC,
the French top business school.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Sylvain Rivière joined ATEME in 2007 as
EVP marketing to implement new solutions focus for ATEME technologies and products in Broadcast and Broadband market segments.
Prior to ATEME, Sylvain was the Senior Director of Product Marketing for BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND), a leading provider
of broadband multimedia infrastructure for video, voice and data. Before this, Sylvain was a Senior Group Manager at Harmonic, Inc.
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| 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.
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Photos copyrights © 2007 Nicolo Sertorio et Arnaud Vareille.
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2007
. Manuel Rodrigues,
a Texas Instruments veteran, joins ATEME as business development manager for the Consumer business unit
. Incorporation of ATEME Japon KK in Tokyo
. Launch of Kyrion family of encoders at NAB
. Formerly Senior Director of Product Marketing for BigBand Networks,
Sylvain Rivière joins ATEME as EVP marketing to implement new solutions focus for ATEME technologies and products
in Broadcast and Broadband market segments
. STE Past President Nathan Simmons joins the company
as Director of Sales, Broadcast and Broadband for the US market and opens Burbank office
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
2005
. Closing of the 2nd round
of financing with XAnge Private Equity and Ventech
. Opening of Japan
office (Tokyo).
. Demonstration at NAB of the first FPGA-based
MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 encoder
. Demonstration at IBC of MPEG-4
AVC encoding in a single FPGA
. Launching of mixed DSP- and Power PC-based reference
designs for Video
Security applications
2004
. Release to market of the H.264
decoder and the WM9
codec on DSP
. New subsidiary in Montreal (Canada): ATEME-Canada,
Inc
. Nero Digital ™:
The first MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 encoder available on
PC
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
1998
. Development of the partnership with TEXAS
INSTRUMENTS, materialized by new acquisition and
recording products based on DSPs
1991
. Creation of ATEME, independent company on the Vélizy-Villacoublay
area (78)
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