News Release from: Ateme
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 October 2005
Tokyo office is full of eastern promise
Ateme has opened an Office in Tokyo and appointed Yasushi Kato as Sales Director for Japan.
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Ateme has opened an Office in Tokyo and appointed Yasushi Kato as Sales Director for Japan. The opening of an office in Japan is the first step towards extending reach into this dynamic economy. The new office will increase efficiency by providing local customer support and enabling the expansion of sales activities.
Four new partners are expected to strengthen the distribution network before the end of the year.
Ateme has had a distributor in Japan since 2002, exclusively focused on DSP-based solutions, such as video compression codecs for Texas Instruments DSPs (H.264, MPEG-4, WM9, MPEG-2), DM64x-based development boards and platforms, and reference designs for video security or streaming media.
Broadcast quality advanced video codecs like H.264 and MPEG-4 as well as reference designs targeted at the video security market are expected to take an increasingly large part in the growth of Japanese high tech industry.
Ateme's sales in Japan could represent up to 10% of its revenue within two years.
Yasushi Kato is a Computer Science graduate of Tokyo Noko University.
He has more than 15 years in sales, marketing and channel management for international IT firms operating in Japan, including Aladdin and most recently Ubicom.
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