– USA, CA – Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ:ROVI) today announced the appointment of Steven Lucas to its Board of Directors, effective March 20, 2015. This appointment expands the size of the Board from six to seven directors.
Andrew Ludwick, Chairman of the Board and chairman of Rovi’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, said “Steve is a seasoned veteran of the technology industry with an impressive record of accomplishment at the highest levels of leading companies. He brings a powerful mix of exactly the right ingredients to fuel Rovi’s forward momentum. His expertise in analytics will be particularly valuable as Rovi continues to leverage our prominent guide footprint to help customers understand, analyze and monetize their cross-platform audiences. The market for advanced data and analytics services is large and growing, and Rovi has made significant progress in the last 12 months alone by introducing new customers to our advertising and analytics platforms to generate added revenue both for customers and for Rovi. Having thoroughly reviewed a broad range of highly qualified candidates and sought input from a number of our stockholders, the Committee enthusiastically recommended Steve’s appointment to the Board.”
Steve Lucas is the global President of SAP’s Platform Solutions and has served in this role since 2013. In such role, he has led the go-to-market teams and strategy for SAP’s Analytics, Database, Cloud Platform and ‘Internet of Things’ products. Prior to his current role, Mr. Lucas served as Global Executive Vice President and GM for SAP’s Database & Middleware Business, as well as global GM for SAP’s Business Analytics & Technology organization, where his responsibilities included strategy and go-to-market activities across sales, marketing and product management lines of business since 2009. Over the course of his 20+ year career in enterprise software, Mr. Lucas has held senior executive roles at a number of leading enterprise, cloud and analytics technology companies, including Senior Vice President of Force.com at Salesforce.com, Group Vice President at Business Objects, as well as various senior leadership positions at Crystal Decisions, a reporting software company. Mr. Lucas has also co-chaired various government technology leadership initiatives including the TechAmerica BigData committee. Mr. Lucas also serves as a member of the board of directors of SendGrid, a privately-held internet email infrastructure technology company.
As part of Rovi’s ongoing effort to augment the Company’s Board of Directors with expertise in key strategic areas, Rovi’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee conducted an extensive search process with the assistance of Howard Fischer Associates, a leading professional search firm and identified, interviewed and evaluated a wide range of candidates.
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