AMO.L Regulatory News (AMO)

22 Jan 2007 07:01

Amino Technologies PLC22 January 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 January 2007 AMINO TECHNOLOGIES PLC BOARD APPOINTMENT Amino Technologies plc ("Amino"; stock code: AMO), the Cambridge based broadbandnetwork software and systems company is pleased to announce the appointment withimmediate effect of Andrew Burke as a non-executive Director. Until recently, Andrew Burke, aged 45, was at British Telecommunications plc asCEO of BT Entertainment where he devised and ran the company's TV-over-Broadbandinitiative (BT Vision), chaired their Premium Rate Services activity, pioneeredtheir Digital Media Services and led their relationships with the media world. Prior to that Andrew was Director Online Services at BT Retail and wasresponsible for all the value-added services developed to complement broadbandofferings in the UK including VoIP, security and payment services. PreviouslyAndrew was founder and CEO of eVerger, an investment fund created in April 2000by Aegis Group, a leading communications and marketing consultancy, and WarburgPincus, the global private equity partnership, which together committed $100million to the venture. Before that, Andrew was COO of eVentures, the Internetventure capital fund owned by News Corporation and Softbank. He was the founderand CEO of LineOne (acquired by Tiscali), the Internet Service Provider, andestablished News International's initial Internet presence back in 1994. Keith Todd, Amino's Chairman, said: "We are delighted to welcome Andrew to Amino's Board. Andrew's knowledge of theIPTV marketplace and of delivering entertainment over broadband will add greatlyto the Board's capability in this rapidly evolving sector." Additional information Andrew Phillip Burke is currently a director of APB Consultancy Ltd. and RawflowLtd. and Chairman of Crisp Thinking Ltd. In the past five years, he has been adirector of eVerger Group Ltd., eVerger Ltd., eVerger Associates Ltd., eVerger(UK) Ltd., Netusability Ltd., Dynamic Logic (Europe) Ltd., IQ Commerce EuropeLtd. and for a 3 month period he was also interim CEO of Canine Corporation plcwhich is now in administration. No further disclosure is required underParagraph (g) to Schedule Two of the AIM Rules with respect to Andrew PhillipBurke. CONTACTS Amino Technologies: 01954-234100Keith Todd, Chairman www.aminocom.comBob Giddy, Chief ExecutiveStuart Darling, Finance Director Bankside: 020-7367-8888Steve Liebmann or Simon Bloomfield KBC Peel Hunt Ltd: 020-7418-8900Julian Blunt or David Anderson About Amino Amino Technologies plc (www.aminocom.com) designs and supplies Electronicsystems, software and consultancy for IPTV (telco triple-play applications),on-demand video and in-home multimedia distribution delivered through threeoperating divisions. Amino Communications supplies the AmiNETTM series of high performance IPTVset-top boxes and gateways for development in the telecommunications, broadcastand hospitality markets. Generally, AmiNET products are supplied with theIntActTM IPTV software stack for customer premises solutions to OEMs enablingthem to supply IPTV set-top boxes and gateways for larger scale deployments andthe hospitality sector. Amino is partnered with world-leading companies in systems integration,middleware, conditional access, semi-conductor, head-end systems and browsertechnologies. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange