David Conti Avid Technology, Inc
Avid Technology Park
One Park West
Tewksbury, Mass. 01876
phone: 978-640-3669
corporate communications manager
[email protected]
With the National Association of Broadcasters trade show winding up (it was last week in Las Vegas), we thought we'd bring you this week a profile of a corporate communicator in the digital media sector.
Born: Beverly, Mass., 1960
Georgetown High School, 1978
Boston College, 1982
First Job: paperboy, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, 1972
First Career Job: account executive, Agnew Carter, McCarthy, Inc., Boston
Hobbies: holistic health, personal finance, vegetarian cooking, cooking, fatherhood, recycling, piano, film noir
Last Book I Read: "Eat Right 4 Your Type - the blood type book" by Dr. Peter D'Adamo
Advice to Avid employees: Become more obsessed with customer satisfaction.
A career mistake (misstep) I wish I never made, but admittedly learned from: Prior to Avid, I made a decision to join a friend and former co-worker at a videoconferencing company. One month later he resigned. The company was going through major and traumatic changes. I lasted only four months and I was thrilled to join Avid in 1997 to manage corporate PR, employee communications, and corporate giving initiatives. Look more before you leap, especially as your career advances.
The most important NAB event/announcement for our company: Of Avid's many announcements this week at NAB in Las Vegas, two will help grow top-line revenue and continue our industry leadership: the new Avid Unity is a family of shared storage and distributed computing productions that will enable true collaborative digital media creation. Avid's 24P technology enables multi-format delivery including HDTV from a single source of film and television content.
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