Netco Silver (dba: Brisio Innovations) Announces Industry Veteran Yoshitaro Kumagai to Advisory Board
January 16 2014 - 8:00AM
Marketwired Canada
Netco Silver Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NEI), doing business as Brisio Innovations, (the
"Company"), is pleased to announce the addition of tech industry veteran Mr.
Yoshitaro Kumagai to the advisory board of the Company.
Mr. Kumagai has a wealth of experience and an outstanding track record of
success in various sectors of the technology industry. He is a highly respected
executive with over twenty years of experience in the electronics and consumer
fields.
Mr. Kumagai has held senior management positions at a number of successful
international companies, including chairman and CEO of Vivitar Corporation.
www.vivitar.com
Yoshitaro is an advisor and/or co-founder of a number of successful technology
start-up companies, including San Francisco, California based Fitbit Inc., the
maker of a multi award winning line of wireless enabled wearable devices.
www.fitbit.com
Since 2001, Mr. Kumagai has been a director of Destiny Media Technologies Inc.
(DSNY, DSY.V), a provider of products and services that enable content owners to
securely display and distribute audio and video content digitally through the
internet. http://dsny.com/
Mr. Kumagai has been an advisor to both domestic and international start-ups and
corporations. He was an original member and advisor to Pure Digital Inc., which
was acquired by Cisco Systems Inc. in 2009 for $590 million after which time
Yoshitaro joined Cisco as a senior advisor.
Mr. Kumagai was an original member of Picture Vision, a provider of virtual
photo content distribution systems to PC and mobile phones. As senior advisor in
charge of business development and mergers and acquisitions, he helped establish
their Japanese subsidiary. The company was later sold to Kodak for $200 million.
In addition, Yoshitaro was co-founder of Bayes Japan, a leading Japanese
cellular phone content developer. The company developed more than 50 games in
Japan including multi-player games for i-mode and AU. All games were approved by
Docomo for listing in their official game list, including games such as
DragonQuest-Monsters, DragonQuest-LotoCity and Chinmoku-no-Kantai from Kodansha.
The company was acquired by Tose, one of Japan's leading game developing
companies. www.tose.co.jp
He also holds the position of senior advisor to Catch Media Inc. Catch Media is
the developer of Play Anywhere(R), a modular and robust cloud-based B2B
registry, tracking, routing and clearinghouse service that can be implemented
across multiple ecosystems. www.catchmedia.com
Mr. Kumagai holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Hosei University and a BS
in Information Systems and Mathematics from Georgia State University.
Paul Andreola CEO of Brisio Innovations commented, "We are very pleased to have
a person of Yoshi's caliber and experience join our company. His management,
financing and merger and acquisition experience will be invaluable as Brisio's
management team begins to execute on the company's business strategy. We look
forward to his contributions and welcome his guidance."
Mr. Kumagai states: "I am excited to be joining the Brisio team, and believe
that their strategy of identifying, acquiring and accelerating the growth of key
technology assets is perfectly timed. I look forward to working with management
to unlocking value for Brisio shareholders."
Brisio Innovations is focused on the acquisition, development and marketing of
software applications for mobile computing devices (smart phones, tablets, and
wearable computers).
On behalf of the Board,
Paul Andreola, President, CEO and Director
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that
term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Paul Andreola
President, CEO and Director
604-644-0072
www.brisio.com
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