International Datacasting (IDC)… Moving On Up… (Business)

[SatNews] International Datacasting Corporation (TSX: IDC) (“IDC” or the “Corporation”) has a new President and CEO—Doug Lowther has been appointed to the Corporation’s Board of Directors.  Mr. Lowther became President and CEO of IDC on May 13th and was appointed to the Board on May 17th.

Mr. Lowther was most recently Executive Vice-President at Irdeto, a leading global supplier of digital TV (dTV) technology and services.  He has extensive experience developing and executing successful business growth strategies in the fields of digital television, wireless networking, IP-based services and software security. He started with Irdeto as Vice President of Marketing in 2004 and during the next several years led the creation of a product portfolio that achieved substantial revenue growth.  More recently, Mr. Lowther was responsible for Irdeto’s business with Pay TV operators worldwide. His previous positions include several executive roles with Nortel Networks, where he was Vice President and General Manager of Wireless Applications and the Vice President of Strategic Marketing.  He began his career building network planning and operations systems for telecom operators.