Our management team is changing the fundamentals of the movie rental industry. They bring a wealth of diverse background experience ranging from high technology, to consumer-facing industries, including the movie rental business. Collectively, they have been involved in numerous and substantial start-ups, turnarounds, IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions.
Chairman, President & CEO
Mr. Berger joined DVDPlay in November 2005 as chairman, president, and CEO following four years as chairman of the board. Mr. Berger brings nearly 30 years of executive experience in the high tech industry. He was most recently the CEO of Nuance Communications and, previously, he served as CEO of Vicinity Corporation, AdForce, Inc., and Radius, Inc. Mr. Berger holds a BS in Business Administration from Bucknell University and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.
Vice President and CTO
Mr. Horstmann has served as Vice President and CTO since November 2005. Prior to accepting this position, he was president and CEO of DVDPlay. Mr. Horstmann brings nearly 20 years of executive and engineering experience in the high tech industry. Prior to joining DVDPlay he was president and CEO of Open Grid, Inc. Previously, he founded Ensemble Solutions. His technical experience includes senior engineering, research and development positions at Siemens, LSI Logic Systems Research Laboratory, Sun Microsystems, and X1 Corporation.
Andrew Preston
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Preston joined DVDPlay in July, 2007. Prior to joining DVDPlay, Mr. Preston was an interim CEO, CFO, COO and CMO for start-ups and turn-around companies through Venture Consulting and Valuations Group. Mr. Preston served as President for several companies including, Softbook where he increased sales ten fold the first year, and sold the company to Gem/Star TV Guide and TMaker-Deluxe Corporation where he raised venture capital funds and repositioned the company into a multi-product content and educational/entertainment software publisher, increasing revenue from $1M to $12M before selling the company to Deluxe Corporation.
Senior Vice President, Retail Sales & Marketing
Ms. Moore joined DVDPlay in April, 2007. Prior to joining DVDPlay, Ms. Moore was Safeway’s national account executive for 14 years at ADVO Inc. Prior to Safeway, Moore was senior account representative at the Oakland Tribune where she was part of the original development team responsible for launching the newspaper’s TMC product and Market Saturation Program.
Senior Vice President
Ms. Macpherson joined DVDPlay in December 2006. She brings over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry. She is the co-founder of Westport LLC a company dedicated to providing seasoned executive management to young technology companies. Previously, she has held executive positions with Encentuate and ActivIdentity both focused on the security software industry. Prior to that she was a General Partner with Celtic House investing in and raising capital for technology companies and served as Chairman of the Board of Storymail which was sold to Gem/Star TV Guide. She spent 12 years consulting to high tech companies with The Boston Consulting Group, CSC Index and her own firm Macpherson & Associates. Ms. Macpherson holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jim Godwin
Vice President, Manufacturing and Logistics
Mr. Godwin joined DVDPlay in September, 2006. Prior to joining DVDPlay, Mr. Godwin served as Director, Engineering and Program Management for Flextronics International. Before joining Flextronics, Mr. Godwin served as COO, EVP and CFO for SET Engineering. Mr. Godwin has extensive experience in bringing products into high-volume manufacturing in time quality critical disk environments. Mr. Godwin has been awarded 12 US patents. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Vice President, Video
Before joining DVDPlay in December, 2006, Mr. Szwak was Vice President of Purchasing for Blockbuster Entertainment Inc. where he was responsible for the purchasing and distribution of all products and merchandise for more than 4,000 Blockbuster corporate and franchise stores; he also negotiated agreements with studios and distributors. He left Blockbuster to take a Viacom interdivision promotion to Republic Pictures as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development and later Senior VP of Sales where he and his team brought to the home entertainment market such highly acclaimed films as Bound, The Usual Suspects, Freeway, Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, HYPE!, and Angel Baby. Mr. Szwak later joined Monterey Media, Inc. where he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and was responsible for the sale of new release and catalog DVD product to retailers and rentailers, distributors, and internet sites in the US and Canada. He brings 26 years of experience in the
video rental industry. Mr. Szwak holds a BA in Psychology from Rutgers University.
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