Strong industry financial management professional to join ANT board of directors
Cambridge, UK, 27 March 2003
ANT Limited, a leading provider of browser-based content rendering solutions for TV and consumer electronics, has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of financial and business specialist Paul Dodd, as Chief Finance Officer. Working closely with Simon Woodward, President & CEO, Dodd will be responsible for all aspects of the company's financial and administrative management.
"We are delighted to welcome Paul to ANT. His financial and strategic expertise will be of invaluable help to ANT as it continues to grow over the coming years," said Simon Woodward, CEO & President of ANT Limited. "Paul has the experience to lead the financial development of the company, and to assist the commercial team build and manage the important partnerships that are fundamental to our business."
"ANT has an excellent global customer and partner base, exciting technology and a visionary strategy," said Dodd. "I am very much looking forward to the challenge of working with this dynamic, highly focussed commercial organisation."
Prior to joining ANT, Dodd spent nine years as a partner with the Cambridge office of Ernst & Young, the international accounting and advisory firm. Dodd built the tax practice there into a highly regarded and profitable business, and he was primarily responsible for delivering strategy and the financial success of the division. He also introduced major new clients and substantial fees to the company as a whole.
Dodd read law at Liverpool University and qualified as a chartered accountant before going on to take senior management positions with Schlumberger and The Plessey Company.
About ANT Software Limited
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.
ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.
ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).
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