Critical Media Expands Management Team with the Addition of New CTO Tom Gilley

December 15, 2009

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical Media Inc., developer of end-to-end digital video solutions to capture, monetize, distribute and syndicate content online, today announced the addition of Tom Gilley as the company's new Chief Technology Officer. Gilley will contribute to corporate strategy and is responsible for product development across the company's three offerings - Critical Mention, ClipSyndicate and Syndicaster.

"After 30 years in the technology industry, Tom's broad range of experience and success in entrepreneurship, product development and patents in digital media and social computing is unmatched," said Sean Morgan, CEO of Critical Media Inc. "Tom understands the intellectual property, technologies and development process that we apply in order to ship successful products that address the rapidly changing business models of modern media. With Critical Media at the forefront of the broadcast and web media industry, he will help us to continue producing solutions that our clients require in order to evolve and thrive."

"I am enthusiastic to continue the evolution of Critical Media's products for real business applications," said Gilley. "This is an opportunity to leverage my experience to invent and deliver the next generation of broadcast media intelligence solutions."

Gilley was most recently the founder of Vidavee, an on-demand, B2B, web video company, which sold to Vignette in 2008. He stayed on with Vignette as CTO and led the integration of Vidavee's platform into the Vignette enterprise content and social media product line while contributing to the company's overall enterprise software strategy. Prior to Vidavee, Gilley was a technology strategist with Compass Advisers, a boutique investment bank, where he led the technology practice with strategic advisory roles in mergers, acquisitions and investments for large public companies and private equity firms in the areas of security systems, enterprise software, media, and wireless.

Earlier in his career Gilley gained corporate product management experience at Apple Computer where he worked as an R&D manager in the Advance Technology Group, for which he successfully contributed to a critical intellectual property portfolio and launched high-tech products and companies for handheld computers, set-top boxes, media systems, digital cameras and social computing. Gilley transferred from R&D management to Apple portable product management to lead new product development. A lifelong entrepreneur and inventor, Gilley is named on numerous patents and founded several successful companies including Meeting Technologies, a social computing company; FutureTel, the first MPEG video broadcast equipment company; and PicoStar, an incubator and technology investment company. At PicoStar, Gilley was the founding CTO for Cobalt Networks which was subsequently sold to Sun Microsystems as well as Super11, the second largest destination portal in Brazil.

About Critical Media Inc.

Critical Media Inc. is at the forefront of real-time broadcast media capture, search, syndication and information services. The company provides tools and services to content consumers, providers, distributors and advertisers, leveraging its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure. Everyday Critical Media digitizes and monetizes more than 15,000 hours of keyword searchable broadcast content from four continents. The company is comprised of two divisions: the Information Services Group, which markets Critical Mention, the company's dynamic real-time business intelligence platform, utilized by 25 percent of the Fortune 100; and the Video Services Group, focused on building the world's largest ad-supported repository of fully searchable, authoritative video news and information (ClipSyndicate), while providing broadcasters and content owners with risk-free, streamlined solutions such as its clip publishing platform (Syndicaster), and other solutions intended to take all complexity out of distributing and monetizing their video assets online. Headquartered in New York City, Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the name Critical Mention by Sean Morgan, one of the founders of Screaming Media - the largest text syndication company on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc. For more information please visit www.critical-media.com.

SOURCE Critical Media Inc.

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Contact:
JJ Pullaro
Critical Mention, Inc.
212-400-8670
jj@criticalmention.com

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