Netco Silver (dba: Brisio Innovations) Announces Industry Veteran Yoshitaro Kumagai to Advisory Board
17 January 2014 - 1:00AM
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Netco Silver (dba: Brisio Innovations) Announces Industry Veteran
Yoshitaro Kumagai to Advisory Board
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) -
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®, 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.
Paul AndreolaPresident, CEO and
Director604-644-0072www.brisio.com
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