Assistance Technique et Etude de Materiels Electroniques SA announced it has selected long-time industry leader Mike Antonovich as its Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas. Antonovich, will lead ATEME's expanding team throughout the Americas as the company continues its rapid trajectory in high quality traditional and multi-screen video encoding and transcoding solutions to address the evolving needs of the Broadcast, Cable, DTH and IPTV markets. Antonovich brings more than 30 years of sales, marketing, operations, engineering and executive leadership experience to ATEME.

He has served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing of Roberts Communications Network; President and CEO of Genesis Networks; President and CEO of The SPACECONNECTION; Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing for PanAmSat.