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–Phillip Alvelda to Step Down as CEO, Paul Scanlon Named President
–Company also Enters Cooperation Agreement with Intel

Mobile TV company, MobiTV, has implemented a significant restructuring of its senior management team, which it says is designed to accelerate its growth trajectory:

• The company’s co-founder, Paul Scanlon, who previously served as its COO, will now serve as its president, with responsibility for sales, business development, product management, marketing and content.
• Bruce Gilpin, who previously served as chief strategy officer and interim CFO, will replace Scanlon as COO. He will be responsible for the office of the CTO, engineering operations, IT and customer support.
• Bill Losch, who was previously chief accounting officer at DreamWorks Animation SKG, has joined the company as CFO. 
• Co-founder and CEO, Phillip Alvelda, says that he plans to hand off day-to-day CEO duties to a successor (an executive search is currently underway), while continuing to serve as chairman of the board. Alvelda is apparently scaling back his role at MobiTV in order to focus on the Westminster Institute for Science and Education (WISE), an organization which he co-founded last October, and which describes its mission as "to transform elementary and secondary school science programs and policies nationwide in order to meet the growing demands of an increasingly technological world economy, and educate the next generation of 21st century citizens." "Last year I co-founded the Westminster Institute for Science Education, and now it is really starting to take off," Alvelda, a former academic who holds a Ph.D, said in a prepared statement. "The lessons I have learned as a practicing scientist and serial technology entrepreneur are directly applicable to transforming K-12 science and technology education across the nation. NASA, MIT, Cornell, and MobiTV have truly taught me that science classes do not have to be dominated by boring memorization of science history or cook-book experiments. Now I can really start to share the wonder and joy of exploring and discovering new ideas, and how those ideas literally change the world we live in."

In other MobiTV news: the company has entered a cooperation agreement with Intel that calls for the partners to work together to optimize the PC version of the MobiTV service for use on Intel Centrino processor-based notebooks, ultra-mobile PC’s (UMPC’s), and Mobile Internet Devices (note: according to the companies, the latter–usually referred to by the acronym, MID–are a new category of devices that offer consumers a mobile form factor, always-on Internet connectivity, and access to a "rich and compelling" set of productivity and personalized entertainment applications). "We are pleased to announce this collaboration with Intel to deliver a live television service optimized for Intel Notebooks and the new category of Mobile Internet Devices," Ray DeRenzo, MobiTV’s VP of business development, said in a prepared statement. "MobiTV and Intel will work with the OEM’s to deliver a true out-of-the-box television experience." Over the course of this year, Intel and MobiTV say they will work to develop, sell and distribute MobiTV services that are optimized for interoperability with Intel-based notebooks, UMPC’s and MID’s. The companies also say they expect to work on "next-generation platforms and services to personalize and improve the user experience."

Originally Published: May 30, 2007 in [itvt] Issue 7.32 Part 1

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