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Rimage Appoints Peter Shutte as Vice President of Business Development for Qumu
MINNEAPOLIS --(Business Wire)--
Rimage Corporation (NASDAQ: RIMG) today announced that Peter Shutte has
joined as Vice President of Business Development of Qumu, its enterprise
video and digital publishing software business. He will report to Vern
Hanzlik, Senior Vice President of Rimage and General Manager of Qumu.
Peter Shutte has over 20 years of sales and business development
experience with enterprise software and Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert))
companies. His most recent corporate position was General Manager of
Cloud Services and Partnerships at Looxcie, a real-time streaming and
recording device maker, where he was responsible for OEM relationships
and helping bring Looxcie Live (real-time streaming capability) to
market. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Business
Development and then Vice President of Sales at Sajan Inc., a
cloud-based provider of global language services and translation
management software. He joined Sajan from WebEx, which he joined in 1999
and where he ran the Enterprise Sales group. During his tenure, WebEx
established itself as the premier web conferencing solution for the
enterprise. Mr. Shutte cofounded Workgroup Technology, an enterprise
PDM/PLM software company, in 1992. There he established both a channel
and direct revenue model throughout the US and then Europe which helped
enable the company's successful IPO in 1996. Mr. Shutte has been
consulting and advising start-up organizations in the San Francisco Bay
Area over the past year prior to joining Qumu.
"Peter is a tremendous addition to our managment team at Qumu," said
Vern Hanzlik, SVP and GM of Qumu. "His enterprise software application
and collaboration expertise brings a valuable perspective to our
business development and channel strategies. With his experience in
growing several software companies and establishing them as leaders in
their markets, Peter will be able to step in immediately to expand and
build our channel strategy with companies like Microsoft, IBM and
Oracle (News - Alert). These relationships will become invaluable, given the continued
momentum that Qumu has demonstrated in the last two quarters with
top-tier enterprises."
Mr. Shutte said, "Qumu has many of the elements required for success,
including leading software technology, a blue chip customer base, and
expanding market presence. I look forward to working with the Qumu team
to build on the success of the last several quarters in driving our
video solutions for the enterprise in the US and Europe."
The Company also announced that it will grant an inducement award to
Peter Shutte in connection with his appointment as Vice President of
Business Development of Qumu. Mr. Shutte will receive an "inducement
award" as defined by NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, consisting of a
nonqualified stock option to purchase 50,000 shares of Rimage's common
stock. The option will be granted on January 7, 2013 and will have an
exercise price equal to the fair market value of Rimage's common stock
on the date of the grant. The shares will vest in four equal
installments on each of the first four anniversaries of the date of
grant and will have a term of seven years. The inducement award will be
granted outside of the terms of the existing Rimage equity incentive
plans, was approved by the Compensation Committee of Rimage's Board of
Directors, and was granted pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
About Rimage Corporation
Founded in 1978, Rimage Corporation (NASDAQ: RIMG) helps businesses
deliver digital content directly and securely to their customers,
employees, and partners. Rimage's Qumu business is well established in
the rapidly growing enterprise video communications market. Rimage's
Signal online publishing platform automatically pushes secure mobile
content to nearly any mobile device or computer. Qumu and Signal, in
combination with Rimage's CD, DVD and Blu-ray-Disc™ publishing
solutions, enable businesses to securely deliver their videos,
documents, audio files and images in today's multi-platform,
multi-device world. Rimage supplies thousands of customers in North
America, Europe and Asia with industry-leading solutions that increase
engagement, collaboration and control. Additional information can be
found at www.rimage.com.
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