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Score Media Appoints New Director of Software Engineering for ScoreMobile and Digital Products
TORONTO, July 14th, 2011 – Score Media Inc. (TSX: SCR), home of ScoreMobile®, a leading ad-supported sports app across all major smartphone platforms, today announces the appointment of Lars Laakes, Director of Software Engineering, to its digital products team.
With over twenty years of industry experience, Lars has held various positions at Logitech, Microsoft and ADP and was a co-founder of ObjectArts Inc. Through his various roles, he has garnered leadership experience in software development, business and technical architecture, process and delivery governance and team building.
Most recently, in his role at Logitech as Director of Software Engineering, he led the software services and client development teams in the Digital Home Group. These teams developed the next generation Digital Home services platform enabling Logitech to deliver the latest line of Harmony Remote Controls and the first GoogleTV device – the Logitech Revue. His teams developed platform services that enable content based control, building on the convergence of entertainment on internet streaming content services, connected TVs and mobile devices.
“We are extremely pleased to be adding Lars to our team,” says Dale Fallon, Vice President, Digital Products, Score Media Inc. “We will continue to work with our world-class development partners and by adding Lars we are well positioned to take our in-house engineering capabilities to a similar level.”
For additional details, contact:
Sharon Lassman
Director, Communications
Score Media Inc.
416-977-6787 x2217
About Score Media Inc.
Score Media is a media company committed to delivering interactive and authentic sports entertainment. Score Media’s primary asset, theScore Television Network (“theScore”), is a national specialty television service providing sports news, information, highlights and live event programming in more than 6.8 million homes across Canada. The Company’s digital media assets include theScore.com and the industry leading mobile sports applications ScoreMobile, ScoreMobile FC and SportsTap which reach over three million unique users per month. Score Media also operates theScore Satellite Radio which is available across North America on SiriusXM. Growing from a team of 60 in 1997 to over 280 employees in 2011, Score Media is a revolutionizing interactive media company.
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