Silex Media announces Vincent Benveniste as Director Sales & Business Development

Vincent Benveniste - a 20 year veteran in IT communications - joined Silex media in October 2006 to lead the Solution provider's sales and business development efforts. As native French, Benveniste will also head up the Southern Europe operations from the Paris office.

Prior to Silex Media, Benveniste was Regional Manager for Sendmail Inc., the email security expert powering 35% of the Internet traffic. In his 6 year tenure he held numerous positions in sales, business development and marketing, driving the shift of email from a low value high volume medium to one of the most critical application serving top financials and mobile providers across Europe.

At Lucent, he notably helped establish the company as the leader in call centers across Europe in less than 3 years at the time the enterprise voice market was moving from a cost to a profit center. Working from the EMEA headquarters in Waterloo, Belgium, Benveniste was in charge of the Enterprise telephony product line management. Prior to leaving in 2000, he led the sales development effort at Avaya France for new applications, such as VOIP. Avaya is now the leader in this space.

Before Avaya, he spent 5 years at Apple Computer Europe to develop network services, including networked based corporate email and Wide Area voice and data services.

Vincent Benveniste started his career in 1986, piloting computer conferencing services in a venture he co-founded with support from France Telecom.

Benveniste has a certificate in Biology from the Jussieu University in Paris.

Ian Wray joins Silex Media as Business Development Manager

Expanding the capabilities and geographic reach of Silex Media GmbH. Ian Wray joins the growing team of broadcast IT experts. Prior to joining Silex Media, Ian worked for 4 years at SGI in a number of successful business development roles.

As well as growing direct business with major broadcast initiatives across Europe, Ian will be working to establish strong partner relationships with major hardware and software vendors in the open systems approach to broadcast IT architecture.

He will also provide a valuable link with Silex Media investors, SGI Japan, who he has a close working relationship of several years, helped in no small part by his Japanese speaking ability.

He brings with him ten years of experience in working across several vertical sectors including manufacturing, telecoms and content creation markets, which he will be applying to the broader adoption of Silex Media solutions in new markets as convergence across industries becomes more widespread.

About Silex Media

Silex Media comprises people, resources and know-how from SGI's Broadcast Business Unit in Europe. Silex Media concentrates on delivering IT-based solutions, systems integration and workflow products & services to broadcasters and professional media companies that wish to efficiently move from traditional tape based environments to digital workflows or to transition from a radio & television market to an internet & telecommunication position. Silex Media has offices throughout Europe and is 100% backed by SGI Japan whose investors include NEC, SGI, Sony and Canon. The company website is www.silexmedia.com.

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