By TVT Staff
Cobalt Digital has announced the promotion of Dr. Ciro Noronha to CTO and the appointment of Anthony Tan as director of sales engineering for APAC. According to Chris Shaw, Cobalt COO, the changes reflect the Company’s growth and significant global expansion, especially in the important APAC region. Noronha and Tan will be at Cobalt Digital’s stand (10.B44) at the IBC Show at the RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 9-13 to greet friends, colleagues and customers.
“This is an exciting time for Cobalt as the company progresses both geographically and technically,” explained Shaw. “We’ve experienced record-breaking sales month after month for the past few years and much of that success can be linked to Ciro’s ability to identify an industry need and bring new technologies to market. Now it’s time to acknowledge Ciro’s skill and talent with a promotion to CTO and watch his leadership drive the engineering department to the next level.”
Noronha moves into the newly created role of CTO from his position as executive vice president of engineering. Noronha, a founder of ImmediaTV Corporation which was acquired by Cobalt Digital in 2016, has worked in the compressed video over IP space since 1995. He previously held engineering management positions at Optivision, SkyStream, Tandberg Television, and Ericsson, having led the development of several compression and networking products, including encoders, decoders, transcoders, gateways, and multiplexers. A founder of the RIST Forum, Noronha currently serves as its president. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of numerous academic papers and has seven issued patents.
