Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0we signed a strategic Advertising Management System contract to accelerate the emerging ATSC 3.0 multi-services market. I look forward to supporting Tom Cotney is his new role in an advisory capacity at The Gores Group and believe he will be able to fuel Imagine\u2019s continued expansion and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\nMr. Vogt has been a CEO and strategic leader across the telecommunications, broadcast and media sectors for 30 years \u2013 16 years as a CEO. During that time, he has overseen the acquisition and integration of 15 companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis transition underpins our long-term commitment to Imagine, and to the media and entertainment sector in general, as well as the confidence we have in Imagine to continue leading the industry in the transition to IP and cloud services from monetization to content distribution,\u201d said Mr. Gores.<\/p>\n
The Gores Group bought Imagine from Harris Communications in February 2013 for roughly $225 million and Vogt took over that July.<\/p>\n
In a letter sent out Tuesday evening to “Strategic Partners, Clients and Friends,” Vogt wrote:<\/p>\n
I want you to be among the first to know that I am transitioning from the day-to-day operations of Imagine to a Senior Advisory role with the Gores Group working on strategic M&A activity specifically focused on the Technology, Media and Communications sectors.<\/em><\/p>\nWhat we have accomplished together, reshaping and redefining the industry, has been nothing short of amazing. The internet, mobility and the cloud have forever changed the going-forward business models. As many of you are aware, we established an Innovation Advisory Board in 2014, which has been invaluable relative to shaping Imagine’s long-term roadmap and establishing our near-term priorities. Over the past three years, Imagine has achieved many innovative and technology “firsts,” including being the first media technology company to deliver an all IP\/cloud platform for playout and master control. We are also pacing to have our best financial performance quarter of the year.<\/em><\/p>\nThis momentum will continue as the Gores Group’s long-term commitment to Imagine and to the media and entertainment sector in general is not only strong, but increasing, as is our confidence that Imagine will continue to lead the industry in the transition to IP and cloud services from monetization to content distribution. In my advisory role, I look forward to helping drive that ongoing investment and working with the newly appointed CEO.<\/em><\/p>\nI am pleased to announce the appointment of\u00a0Tom Cotney, who will be leading Imagine going forward. Tom has spent 20 years partnering with, selling to and competing in the communications and mobile technology industries. He served as General Manager of the Communications Sector at IBM Global Services, and has been a CEO and board member for a number of privately held companies.<\/em><\/p>\nI have been honored to work with the great minds and leaders of the media industry for the past four years, and be assured, Imagine will continue to innovate and grow under Tom’s leadership. Please continue to reach me at my Imagine email as I remain involved assisting Tom and the management team with a smooth transition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine Communications (owned by The Gores Group) has announced that Tom Cotney has been named CEO of the company, effective immediately. Current CEO Charlie Vogt is joining The Gores Group […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,9248],"tags":[7854],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130572,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130567\/revisions\/130572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}