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LOS ANGELES (May 31, 2005) – Starting its eighth year, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has elected a new Board of Directors including the Executive Committee for its coming fiscal year (August 1 – July 31) (roster listed below).
The DEG is a trade association charged with promoting the DVD format, as well as offering member companies a platform to engage in ongoing discussions concerning various issues and opportunities which relate to other digital technologies that may emerge in the future.
The DEG’s Officers of the Board – known as the Executive Committee - is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of the DEG’s overall agenda, budget and Executive Staff. The DEG regular membership elects the Board and the DEG Board elects the Executive Committee.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment President Bob Chapek remains President of the DEG. The DEG’s two Vice Presidents are Mike Fidler, Senior Vice President, Home Products Division, Sony Electronics, who is re-elected for another term and Peter Staddon, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, who is elected for the first time to the Executive Committee. DreamWorks Home Entertainment’s Sandy Friedman has been re-elected as CFO and New Line Home Entertainment President and COO Stephen Einhorn has been re-elected as Secretary.
DEG New Members
Additionally, the DEG is starting its fiscal year with three new Associate members. They are AGI Media, JVC Disc and Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory. These companies join Anchor Bay, D&M Holdings, Hitachi, Memory Tech, Sonopress and Universal Operations Group who joined this past year.
DEG: THE DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP – BOARD OF DIRECTORS FY2005-06
The five Officers of the Board – the Executive Committee – are listed first.
PRESIDENT
Bob Chapek
President
BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
VICE PRESIDENT
Mike Fidler
Senior Vice President, Home Products Division
SONY ELECTRONICS
VICE PRESIDENT
Peter Staddon
Executive Vice President, Marketing
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT.
SECRETARY
Stephen Einhorn
President and Chief Operating Officer
NEW LINE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Sanford Friedman
Head of Worldwide Operations
DREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
BOARD MEMBERS
Ted Cohen
Senior Vice President, D3
EMI RECORDED MUSIC
Maureen Weber
General Manager, Optical Storage Solutions Business
HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY
Blake Thomas
Executive Vice President & General Manager
MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Reid Sullivan
Vice President - Entertainment Group
PANASONIC CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Tom Lesinski
President
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
WORLDWIDE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Gary Bauhard
Director of Marketing
PIONEER ELECTRONICS
Marty Gordon
Vice President
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS
Leslie Cohen
Senior Vice President, New Business
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Marshall Forster
Executive Vice President, North America
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
John Town
Senior Vice President, Research and Development
THOMSON
Jodi Sally
Vice President, Marketing
TOSHIBA AMERICA
Paul Bishow
Vice President, Marketing – New Formats
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
Craig Kornblau
President
UNIVERSAL STUDIO HOME VIDEO
Jim Cardwell
President
WARNER HOME VIDEO
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group is a Los Angeles-based, industry-funded nonprofit corporation that advocates and promotes the many benefits associated with DVD while providing updated information regarding the format to both the media and the retail trade. As an industry-funded, nonprofit organization, the DEG offers opportunities for member companies to engage in ongoing discussions concerning various issues and opportunities, which relate to other new digital technologies that may emerge in the future.
Regular members of the DEG are Anchor Bay Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, D&M Holdings, DTS Entertainment, EMI Recorded Music, HBO Video, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Image Entertainment, JVC Company of America, Lions Gate Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, New Line Home Entertainment, Panasonic Consumer Electronics, Paramount Home Entertainment, Philips Consumer Electronics, Pioneer Electronics (USA), Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Thomson, Toshiba America Consumer Products, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video.
Associate members are AGI Media, Ascent Media, Broadcast Text, Deluxe Media Services, InterActual Technologies, JVC Disc, Macrovision, Memory Tech, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, Sony DADC, Sonopress, Technicolor and Universal Operations Group.
Interested consumers can reach the DEG at (310) 888-2201, via e-mail at getinfo@digitalentertainmentinfo.com or through its web site at www.digitalentertainmentinfo.com .
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