Encompass Holdings Appoints New Business Development Executive
February 11 2010 - 7:16AM
Encompass Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ECMH),
www.encompassholdings.com, announced today the appointment of
Joseph Berardi, CEO of
Quadrant Data Systems, as
its VP of Operations and Business Development and Acquisitions.
Joseph P. Berardi has over 25 years of broad
based experience in technology development and corporate
management. With an educational background in engineering and
corporate finance, Mr. Berardi began his career in the early
eighties where he held positions as Chief Engineer
for a television production/post-production company,
Broadcast Systems Engineer for Panasonic
Broadcast Systems and as Director of
Engineering for South Bay Film and Video
in Los Angeles.
In 1992, as the industry began the transition into the digital
era, Mr. Berardi formed his own consulting firm that specialized in
upgrading television production and broadcast
facilities. During this time he was involved in the design and
installation of numerous television facilities in the U.S., Mexico,
Central America, Korea, and Turkey.
In 1994 his firm was contracted full time by the Salinas
Group, a multi-billion dollar financial conglomerate in
Mexico. As Director of Television Operations and
Planning, Mr. Berardi led a project management team in the
roll-out of TV Azteca's all digital international
satellite distribution system and state-of-the-art terrestrial
broadcast network consisting of over 320 owned and operated
stations nationwide. Mr. Berardi also played a key role in the
group's multiple acquisitions of foreign broadcast operations
throughout Central and South America.
During his 12-year tenure with the organization, Mr. Berardi
held a number of executive management positions including 5 years
in R&D where he was primarily responsible for developing new
business models around emerging technologies. Mr. Berardi
returned to the U.S. in 2003 as CTO and
Director of Operations and Engineering for
Azteca America, Inc. where he organized and led a
team to design and build the national network's flagship station
and network headquarters in Los Angeles.
Concurrently with his work with the Salinas
Group, Mr. Berardi founded Geoline
Communications in 1996 as one of Mexico's first
Internet Service Providers. As its
CEO, the company had grown to serve over 5000
business and individual customers in the Mexico City metropolitan
area and had deployed one of the first high-speed packet switched
metro area networks in the country.
Most recently, Mr. Berardi held the position of
Executive Vice President of B&B
Systems and Convergence Corporation in
Glendale, California. His responsibilities included the
restructuring and consolidation of the two business units and
directing the development of modular, turnkey IT-based
high-definition television production and archive systems.
Scott Webber, CEO of Encompass, stated, "Joe is
a specialist in strategic development, business modeling and large
scale implementation of emerging technologies in a wide range of
domestic and international environments. With his success in
leading the launch of Quadrant's new
High-performance Virtual Computing
Services, he will begin focusing on our Rotary
Engines and XBoards."
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http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=6962
Forward-looking statements in this news release are made under
the "Safe Harbor'' provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Certain important factors could cause results
to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking
statements, including the impact of changed economic or business
conditions, competition, the success of existing and new product
releases and other risk factors inherent in product development and
other factors discussed from time to time in reports filed by the
company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Encompass Holdings, Inc.
J. Scott Webber
InvestorRelations@EncompassHoldings.com
Quadrant Data Systems, Inc
Joseph Berardi
Management@qds-i.com
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