Eagle Broadband Appoints David Micek as Chief Operating Officer  

HOUSTON, Nov. 16/Satnews Daily/ ¾ Eagle Broadband, Inc. (AMEX:EAG) has appointed David Micek, formerly with Texas Instruments, Borland and Ashton-Tate, as chief operating officer, effective immediately.

Micek brings more than 25 years of senior-level product development, sales, marketing, operations and general management experience with Fortune 500, start-up companies and corporate turnarounds to Eagle Broadband. With a proven track record of developing, launching and growing new products into market leaders, Micek has an established reputation for achieving dominant market share positions for some of the most well-known technology brands including Ashton-Tate's dBASE and Borland's PARADOX. In this new role at Eagle, Micek will be responsible for directing key operations of the company with a special focus on new product development to speed time to market for strategic product offerings that will fully meet customer needs and further drive revenue growth.

Most recently, Micek had several turnaround assignments including president at Internet search company AltaVista Software where he led a restructuring, reduced costs and directed the successful sale of the company's enterprise software business. Before AltaVista, he was president and CEO of wireless networking company Zeus Wireless where he refocused the company on high growth markets, signed major new customers and negotiated the successful sale of the company.

Micek was also president & CEO of broadband video software tools company iKnowledge, where he restructured the company, raised new financing and implemented a new business plan focused on achieving aggressive revenue growth targets.

Prior to iKnowledge, he was vice president & general manager at Texas Instruments' software business unit where he managed P&L activities including product strategy, product management and development, marketing, indirect sales and operations and helped achieve market leadership positions for two separate product lines. Before Texas Instruments, Micek was also director & general manager at software maker Borland where he managed P&L functions including product strategy, product management and marketing and he successfully grew the company's Paradox PC database product to become a market-leader.

Prior to Borland, he was group product manager at Ashton-Tate where he was responsible for defining and executing the entire product strategy for the company's dBASE database product line including product management and marketing. While at Ashton-Tate Micek successfully grew dBASE into the number one market share leader and helped scale revenues to $245 million. He holds an MBA from the University of Southern California.

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