Omneon Hires Regional Sales Manager for Middle East Operations

Omneon Video Networks has established Middle East operations.

Harout Torossian has been appointed regional sales manager of the new office in Dubai.

Prior to joining Omneon, Torossian--who has 25 years of experience in international broadcast sales and management--held the same position for the Middle East and Africa when he worked for Scientific-Atlanta, where he worked for seven years, delivering CATV and satellite technologies to broadcast and telecommunications groups.

Torossian is also a former employee of Philips Broadcast Television Systems, where he served as regional manager in the same markets.

Omneon has recent installations at Showtime in Dubai and Riyadh Television.