Don Gordon joins Silicon Valley-based ICTV as its CTO and Senior VP of Engineering. ICTV creates HeadendWare, a delivery and distribution platform of interactive TV programming. Most recently Gordon was director of software architectures for Microsoft TV and played a part in the selection of Microsoft TV as the software platform for Verizon's FIOS TV service. Gordon has 26 patents to his name dealing with MPEG video and network-based interactive services.
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