Digimarc Corporation announced that former ZipHQ Chief Legal Officer and seasoned deal strategy and operations leader George Karamanos has joined the company as Chief Legal Officer (CLO), effective April 8, 2024. On April 1, 2024, the Board of Directors of Digimarc Corporation approved the appointment of George Karamanos to succeed Joel Meyer as the Company's Executive Vice-President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, effective April 8, 2024. Karamanos brings proven expertise in supporting the hyper-scale growth of world-class enterprise software businesses.

Over the past year, Digimarc's technology has taken center stage. The company excel in supporting companies progressing in their digital transformation journey, where the identification or the authentication of physical and digital items is critical. George's experience in partnering with cross-company go-to-market teams is exactly what the company need as scale to keep pace with the global market opportunity.

It is truly an exceptional time to join the Digimarc team. The company is revolutionizing the digital transformation journey for companies across industries and sectors, worldwide, said George Karamanos, Digimarc's Chief Legal Officer. Managing global risk and compliance is table stakes for a world-class legal team-acting as a strategic partner to help accelerate business outcomes, however, is what motivates me and can make the legal function a true competitive differentiator.

Karamanos brings nearly two decades of legal leadership and experience advising leading technology companies including Google, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Spotify. Building on CLO and General Counsel roles at DataRobot Inc. and AppDynamics, respectively, Karamanos most recently served as CLO at ZipHQ where he optimized the legal function for deal velocity and go-to-market acceleration. As General Counsel at AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco in March 2017), Karamanos helped grow the company from $40 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) to nearly $800 million in ARR over five years.

Karamanos brings his experience and maniacal focus on leading strategic growth for business to his new role as Digimarc's CLO. The company also announced that Joel Meyer has been named Digimarc's Vice President of Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovation Strategy. Meyer served as Digimarc's Chief Legal Officer through the company's integration of EVRYTHNG, enabling the smooth consolidation of its operations and transformation of Digimarc to a software-as-a-service business.

As Digimarc VP of IP and Innovation Strategy, Meyer returns to his roots fostering innovation and shaping Digimarc's world-class IP portfolio.