PlayBox Technology, an international communications and information technology company known for broadcast television playout and channel branding, announces two key additions to its board.
Stanislav (Sunny) Petkov has been appointed chief technical officer to oversee ongoing development of the TV automation solutions. Pierre Kande joins the board as CloudAir chief architect with special responsibility for developing the company’s exclusive new software product range.
Petkov joined PlayBox Technology in 2006 from a technical operations role at Bulgarian broadcast Planeta TV. He has headed the PlayBox development team for many years, most recently as chief research and development officer, providing a high level of staff motivation, engineering expertise and continuity.
Kande joined PlayBox Technology from Cisco Systems in December 2014. As system architect, he has masterminded the CloudAir project, supervising the refinement of new-generation virtualized products which PlayBox Technology is developing alongside the established TV automation range.
The two new board appointments follow the recently announced promotion of Don Ash to president, Pavlin Rahnev to CEO, Phillip Neighbour to COO, Ananth Sam to director of solution sales and customer care, and Ben Gunkel to chief commercial officer. They come at a time when PlayBox Technology has achieved an over 30 per cent share of the total worldwide television channel playout market and a far higher proportion of the channel-in-a-box sector.
