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Scopus Appoints Key Personnel to New US Office

Princeton, NJ/July  28, 2003/Satnews/ Scopus Network Technologies, appointed  key personnel to its recently-opened North American headquarters with industry veteran Carlo Basile as its president. Located in Princeton, N.J., the new office was opened to facilitate rapid growth for Scopus within the North American satellite, broadcast, cable, and telecommunications markets.

Basile brings to Scopus more than 20 years of experience in leading operations, business, and engineering development for technology companies in the consumer electronics, multimedia, and broadcast TV industries. As president, he will be responsible for guiding and managing the company's continued growth within the Americas.

Before joining Scopus, Basile was COO at MoreCom Inc., an ITV company that developed a unique expertise in the DVB environment and with the Motorola and Scientific Atlanta North American cable platforms. Prior to MoreCom, Basile was CTO at Princeton Video Image, Inc., where he helped to bring the highly successful "NFL First-Down Line" to national broadcast audiences.

Basile has held senior management positions with Philips Electronics North America, with global R&D responsibilities for the company's entire digital television, Internet TV, DVD, HDTV, LCD, and plasma display product lines. He also played a role in the development of the Digital Television Standard, for which he earned an Emmy award in 1997, and has been a key
figure in several industry groups, including MPEG, ACATS, ATSC, and DVD Forum.

Scopus also appointed Dan D'Alessandro as Director of Sales, North America, and Mario Rainville as Associate Vice President of Product Marketing.  Dan D'Alessandro joins Scopus from Applications Unlimited -- a systems integration firm specializing in services for broadcasters, telcos, and broadband companies -- where he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

From 1998 to 2002 at Lucent Digital Video (LDV), D'Alessandro was North American Sales Director, responsible for directing and leading sales efforts for the company's MPEG 2 networking products. While building sales channels with Lucent customers, he was named Salesman of the Year for three consecutive years. D'Alessandro also has served in development and account management roles at Grafica & Grafica Inter.active, Comcast Cable, and Turner Broadcasting.

Prior to joining Scopus, Mario Rainville co-founded Morecom, Inc., a provider of digital convergence technologies and products for television and the Internet. He was key in defining systems architectures, marketing the platform and products, as well as managing technology partnerships with key industry players. In 2000, Morecom was acquired by Liberate Technologies, at which Rainville assumed the leadership in product management of the company's flagship enhanced TV technology. His extensive product development expertise in broadband networks, digital STBs, fiber optic multiplexers, and image processors stems from his positions at General Instrument Corporation (now Motorola), ABL, and Matrox Electronic Systems.

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