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Broadcast Industry Veteran Ronald Williams Joins Doremi Labs

 

April 17, 2009 – Burbank, CA - Doremi Labs is pleased to announce the appointment of Ronald Williams to the position of Vice President of Sales, Broadcast Products Division. Ronald will work closely with Doremi’s engineering staff in developing and launching new and innovative products as well as overseeing Doremi’s sales operations.

“Mr. Williams brings to the position many years of sales management experience from his employment with Philips, Sony, and Panasonic comments Emil Rizko, Managing Director of Doremi Labs.”  “He has also been a Doremi dealer for the past 7 years, so he is truly an expert in knowing Doremi’s product lines and their markets.” 

Most recently, Mr. Williams has been an executive with The LANDMARK Group; a design and consulting company in the Broadcast, Video, CGI and Film industry.  The LANDMARK Group has designed and built facilities for all major networks, post production houses, government facilities and performs quality control and proof of performance for CGI and HDTV facilities. 

After earning his BSEE from Michigan, Mr. Williams served as Engineering and Technical Director for the ABC television network in New York. As one of the team leaders who designed six Olympic games, eight political conventions and many Wide World of Sports events, winning nine Emmy nominations, he went on to organize the special events unit for the network.  

Mr. Williams continues his work with SMPTE standards writing committees. He was co-chair of the committee responsible for writing standards for High Definition television and other transmission standards. He served as chair of the SMPTE colorimetry committee for Digital Cinema, DC28 and continued on with DCI. He has chaired several SMPTE standards committees, including the Reference Monitor standard committee. 

Ronald’s tenure and contributions to the industry are welcomed attributes to Doremi’s executive team.