Gotuit Appoints Dan O'Connor to Vice President of Engineering and Patrick Donovan to Vice President of Product Management

Gotuit Appoints Dan O'Connor to Vice President of Engineering and Patrick Donovan to Vice President of Product Management

Valuable Appointments as Company Rapidly Expands Throughout North America with Personalized On Demand Video Products

WOBURN, Mass., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Gotuit Media Corp., the leading provider of personalized video products, today announced the recent appointments of Dan O'Connor to vice president of engineering and Patrick Donovan to vice president of product management.

"We're very excited about the addition of Dan and Patrick to our executive team," said Gotuit's President Mark Pascarella. They will leverage their extensive experience in interactive TV and home entertainment to help us accelerate and manage our growth as we drive new and exciting personalized on demand products to the 550,000 digital subscribers we serve today."

Pascarella continued, "Dan O'Connor has a wealth of experience in interactive TV and multimedia, and his remarkable vision and knowledge of where this industry is heading will serve us well. And Patrick Donovan has held senior positions in the interactive TV market for the past five years, most recently with Motorola in their Digital Video Solutions business. He has a deep understanding of the broadband consumer and home entertainment market and is the ideal appointment to drive our products to the next level in personalized on demand video entertainment."

New Appointments' Backgrounds:
Daniel O'Connor, V.P. of Engineering

Daniel O'Connor joins Gotuit after 15 years in a wide variety of senior engineering responsibilities focused on interactive TV and multimedia, including the last eight years at an interactive program guide software development organization.

Prior to joining Gotuit, Daniel was vice president of platforms engineering and then senior vice president of partner integration and operations for TV Guide On Screen, a subsidiary of Gemstar-TV Guide. During his eight-year tenure, his role grew from purely engineering to strategic covering product design, business development and customer/partner management. Previously, he held a number of senior software engineering/architect roles at NetRights, Skipstone, the Interactive Media Laboratory at Dartmouth Medical School and Apple Computer, with a focus on digital rights and interactive media.

He holds an A.B. degree in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College and pursued his doctoral research in interactive media at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.

Patrick Donovan, V.P. of Product Management

Patrick Donovan joined Gotuit after more than ten years of senior management experience, the last five with interactive TV media hardware and software companies.

Prior to joining Gotuit, Donovan directed Motorola's Whole-Home Media Solution products, including Whole-Home DVR -- Motorola's first networked solution for set top boxes. He joined Motorola when the company acquired Ucentric Systems, where he was vice president of product management. He led the product management of the Ucentric Digital Home Solution, a suite of software products that delivered whole-home media solutions, including Whole- Home DVR, Music, Photos, and other applications. Ucentric's software was licensed by Motorola, Voom, HP and DirecTV. He also secured agreements with major service providers, including Comcast, AT&T Broadband, Rogers Cable and Cablevision. He previously served as director of operations for CareTools, Inc., an enterprise software provider to the healthcare industry. Donovan began his career in management consulting organizations Grant & Partners and Symmetrix.

Donovan earned a B.S. degree in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School.

About Gotuit Media Corp.

Gotuit Media is dedicated to creating personalized video products, which allow consumers to quickly access the parts of a show in which they are the most interested. The company has established partnerships with leading content providers in the areas of Music, News, Sports, and Entertainment. Gotuit's video on demand products are available to more than 550,000 digital subscribers in New England, western New York, western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio on Time Warner and Adelphia Communications cable systems, and are among the most popular on demand offerings on those systems.

Gotuit holds a broad portfolio of patents in the time-shifted video space, including several landmark awards concerning video metadata. Founded in 2000, Gotuit Media is privately held and funded by Highland Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Motorola and other investors. Additional information can be found on Gotuit Media's web site at http://www.gotuit.com/.

Media Contacts:

Terry May
HighTech Public Relations, Inc.
terrymay@hightechpr.net
321-632-1690

Source: Gotuit Media Corp.

CONTACT: Terry May of HighTech Public Relations, Inc. for Gotuit Media
Corp., +1-321-632-1690, terrymay@hightechpr.net

Web site: http://www.gotuit.com/

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