Executive Biographies
Our team of management and technology experts are the key to Grass Valley's success. It is their market knowledge, operational experience, and technical skills that make Grass Valley the world's leading broadcast and professional audio/video equipment manufacturer.
Alain Andreoli
Alain Andreoli
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Alain's long term mandate is to build Grass Valley into a strong global leading brand–the premier video technology solutions company–leveraging its more than 50-years of R&D and technology innovation leadership, its broad range of products and solutions, and its intimate relationships with one of the broadest and most loyal customer bases in the broadcast industry. Alain joins Grass Valley from Francisco Partners, where he was an Operating Partner. Just prior, he was President of Sun Microsystems Europe which included 30 subsidiaries operating in 100 countries and representing 40% of Sun's business, until Sun's acquisition by Oracle.
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Charlie Dunn
Charlie Dunn
  Executive Vice President and General Manager Products

Charlie is responsible for all Grass Valley™ product lines, with a focus of ensuring a unified and collaborative strategy across all product groups. Charlie is responsible for complete alignment and integration, as well as a technical vision. Charlie has more than 15 years of experience in the broadcast media, entertainment, and professional video marketplace.
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Ian Halifax
Ian Halifax
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Ian has responsibility for all aspects of finance and accounting, legal affairs, human resources and IT. He brings more than twenty years of global finance experience to Grass Valley.
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Jeff Rosica
Jeff Rosica
  Executive Vice President and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Jeff is responsible for all customer-facing activities worldwide and drives the organization's global marketing functions. With more than 25 years of experience in the broadcast, media, and professional video marketplace, Jeff is an industry and company veteran who most recently served as a senior vice president and the division head for the organization.
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Rafael Castillo
Rafael Castillo
  Senior Vice President – Latin America and Caribbean Region

Rafael is responsible for the management of the Latin American and Caribbean region activities. From 2008 to 2009, Rafael served as the Vice President of Sales for the newly created Thomson Systems Division and was responsible for driving the business in Latin America, which included: Grass Valley Broadcast and Headend products, Set-top Boxes, Cable Modems, Broadband Modems, Softswitches, MiddleWare for IPTV, Mobile and Cable applications, and the consumer telephone business.
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Gale England
Gale England
  Senior Vice President, Global Operations & Quality

Gale is responsible for implementing methodologies that ensure delivery of products to our global customers faster and more cost effectively. Gale has more than 35 years of experience in the data communications, telecommunications, and software industries.
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Andy Jackson
Andy Jackson
  Senior Vice President – North America Region

Andy leads the sales activities for all market segments inclusive of direct and indirect channel sales, as well as the broadcast systems, technical sales support, and contracts administration activities in North America. Andy brings to this role more than 22 years in the industry, an exceptional record of accomplishments encompassing domestic and international business responsibilities, and a well-established relationship with the broadcast industry.
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Marcel Koutstaal
Marcel Koutstaal
  Senior Vice President and General Manager – Imaging Product Group

Marcel is responsible for the entire camera product line at Grass Valley. He is based in Breda, the Netherlands which is the primary location for the development and manufacturing of Grass Valley cameras. He has overseen product management for the LDK 23HS mkII, LDK 200, LDK 300, LDK 500, Viper Filmstream Camera, C2IP camera control system, the Infinity Digital Media Camcorder, and the LDK 8300 HD Super SloMo camera (honored in 2010 with a Technical Emmy® Award).
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Karen Niparko
Karen Niparko
  Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Karen has global responsibility for the company’s human capital programs including talent acquisition, employee and leadership development, compensation and benefits, employee communications, as well as metrics and performance management.
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Bruno Pillet
Bruno Pillet
  Senior Vice President Global Services

Bruno Pillet is the Senior Vice President of Global Services for Grass Valley, with full responsibility of all aspects of the Customer Support and Professional Services businesses. Bruno consulted for several years with Siemens Enterprise Network and Oracle Corporation. He has many years of managing customer support delivery operations, developing partner networks and driving customer satisfaction.
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Karl Schubert
Karl Schubert
  Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Karl is responsible for identifying future technologies and developing a vision and technology roadmap for the future of the Grass Valley™ product lines.
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Andrew Sedek
Andrew Sedek
  Senior Vice President – Asia Pacific Region

Andrew leads the sales activities for all market segments inclusive of direct and indirect channel sales, as well as the broadcast systems, technical sales support, and contracts administration activities in Asia Pacific. He is also responsible for implementation of sales and marketing strategies through business planning and budget development. With more than 30 years in the broadcast industry, Andrew has held engineering, sales and marketing, as well as general management roles with Bosch and Philips.
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Ed Vandehey
Ed Vandehey
  Vice President Video Product Group

Ed is responsible for server, storage, switcher, router and modular products. Ed is active across the unified team that drives Grass Valley’s product development efforts. Ed is responsible for development teams in Beaverton, Nevada City, Salt Lake City, and Kuala Lumpur.
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Harold Vermeulen
Harold Vermeulen
  Vice President Media Product Group

Harold is focused on media-centric solutions for playout, news, and file-based production within live environments.
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Alan Wright
Alan Wright
  Senior Vice President – Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region

Alan leads the sales activities for all market segments, inclusive of direct and indirect channel sales, as well as the broadcast systems sales, technical sales support, and service sales in EMEA. Alan has held a number of positions with system integrators and professional service companies including that of Senior Vice President of Business Development and Sales & Marketing Chief for Technicolor, and most recently the Chief Commercial Officer and a member of the Executive leadership team for Red Bee.
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