Darby Sanchez named CEO of GlobeCast Asia

SINGAPORE 12 January 2009 – Darby Sanchez has reprised her role as CEO of GlobeCast Asia, effective January 1st. Based in Singapore, Darby will be responsible for all of the GlobeCast Group’s activities in Asia, including the recent acquisition of facilities in Hong Kong. She replaces David Justin, who has been called back to corporate headquarters in Paris to work with CEO Christian Pinon on GlobeCast’s worldwide strategy.

Darby Sanchez has been with GlobeCast for a decade, serving most recently as Senior Vice President of Sales at GlobeCast Europe in Paris, as well as Vice President, Latin American Sales at GlobeCast America. Prior to joining GlobeCast, Darby was with L3 Communications and General Instrument Corporation.

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GlobeCast (www.globecast.com): a subsidiary of France Telecom, is the leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fibre network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other rich media each year, providing ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to direct-to-home satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends; as well as corporate and digital signage networks. GlobeCast’s fleet of SNG trucks deploys globally to support coverage of the biggest news and sporting events each year in SD and HDTV formats. Borders are non-existent when it comes to GlobeCast’s services, thanks to the company’s 12 teleports and technical operations centres as well as its 18 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.