NEW YORK, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ooVoo, an innovator in the way people communicate with real-time video, today announced the appointment of Asher Shiratzky as chief technology officer (CTO). A well-respected strategist and technology innovator, Shiratzky brings more than two decades of senior management and technical experience to ooVoo.
Shiratzky will be located in ooVoo's offices in Tel Aviv, Israel where he will lead the Company's product innovation team and oversee design of infrastructure and architecture functions.
"ooVoo's focus on delivering innovative communication services to enable people all over the world to connect and communicate face-to-face, drives the need for a highly capable and talented CTO who is passionate about this pursuit and able to help get us there," said Philippe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo. "Asher's rich background in innovation, product architecture and integration of technologies will drive ooVoo's continued research into the development of exciting new ways to communicate online."
Shiratzky brings more than 25 years of experience in product research and development; system engineering and architecture; data communication; voice and video over IP and IMS; enterprise systems; multimedia systems and service provider platforms. Most recently Shiratzky served as CTO of Radvision's technology business unit responsible for research, standardization and strategic development for visual communications products including high definition video-conferencing and converged video telephony services.
Prior to joining Radvision in 2003, Shiratzky was CTO at Sphera where he led research and development teams efforts in automated enterprise hosting systems. Shiratzky has also held the position of chief technology officer and vice president of technology at Elron TeleSoft and Elron Software NCC.
Mr. Shiratzky lives with his wife and three children in Tel-Aviv, Israel and enjoys reading and traveling in his spare time.
About ooVoo
ooVoo provides a high-quality video communication service that delivers a more meaningful way for people to call and connect over the Internet. ooVoo's technology enables people to experience a face-to-face conversation and share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room together, whether they are across the street or across the globe from each other. ooVoo's superior quality video and audio is available to anyone with a computer, broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo's high quality video chat service includes high-resolution video, video conversation recording, telephony, video messaging, instant message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities.
ooVoo is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. You can learn more and download free ooVoo software at http://www.oovoo.com/.
CONTACT: Philip Robertson of ooVoo, +1-646-300-8743, philip.robertson@ooVoo.com, ooVoo ID: philiprobertson; or Rachel Colley for ooVoo, +1-212-515-1954, rcolley@brodeur.com, ooVoo ID: rachel412
Web Site: http://www.oovoo.com/

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