oViCs names Jess Herrera as Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing

Saratoga, CA -- February 12, 2014 -- oViCs, a leading provider of industry-standard advanced video IP cores for HEVC / H.265, today announced the appointment of Jess Herrera as the company's new Vice President of Sales and Marketing, reporting to President and CEO, Sorin Cismas.

With more than 20 years of semiconductor industry experience, Mr. Herrera was the Vice President of Sales and US Country Manager for Chips & Media, and prior to that Director of Sales at MIPS Technologies. He also held various positions at Cirrus Logic, Stream Machine, Zoran and CompCore.

“I’m excited to join oViCs and I look forward to working with this exceptional engineering team to capitalize on the significant growth opportunities in the video technology market,” Herrera said. “The oViCs team has a proven track record of developing the lowest power and most efficient video solutions. It's also great to be teamed up with Sorin again, and I'm positive that we will have great successes as we did previously at CompCore.”

“We are pleased to welcome Jess and to have him lead our sales and marketing efforts. He is highly qualified and knowledgeable, and brings unparalleled expertise to his new role,” said Mr. Cismas. “I am excited for the coming year as we prepare to roll out solutions that will bring a new level of capabilities to our customers across multiple markets.”

About oViCs

oViCs is a leading developer of Intellectual Property (IP) for low power, high-definition (HD) and Ultra HD video compression and image processing solutions focused on HEVC/H.265/MPEG-H, video processing and video analytics for the mobile, automotive, connected home, video capture, streaming, and distribution markets. Founded in 2011, oViCs is based in Saratoga, CA. For more information about oViCs, please visit http://www.ovics.com.