Kasenna Appoints Kumar Shah as Chief Executive Officer

Kasenna Appoints Kumar Shah as Chief Executive Officer

May 12, 2006

Industry Veteran to Lead Company's Expansion in the IPTV Market

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Kasenna, The IPTV Company(TM), a leading provider of
video-on-demand (VOD) content and MPEG-4 ready IPTV
applications for Triple Play services over broadband
networks, today announced the appointment of Kumar Shah as
its CEO, effective immediately. Shah succeeds industry
visionary Mark Gray, who will continue to serve on the
Kasenna Board as its Chairman and also continue to drive
strategic partnerships across the globe.

    An industry veteran with more than 20 years of
business, marketing, and sales management experience, Mr.
Shah was recruited by the Kasenna board members from US
Venture Partners, where he was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence
(EIR). Prior to that, Mr. Shah was involved with a number of
venture capital funded start-up companies, most recently as
President & CEO of Occam Networks (OTC: OCNW) and prior
to that as Chief Marketing Officer of AccessLan
Communications, which was acquired by Advanced Fibre
Communications, which in turn was acquired recently by
Tellabs.

    "With our rock-solid and battle-tested VOD Server,
innovative LivingRoom Middleware Platform, and industry
leading ViewNow Content Aggregation and Management
business, Kasenna has clearly established a demonstrable
technology and product leadership in the IPTV market,"
said Kumar. "I am excited about joining Kasenna at this
crucial inflection point for Kasenna and for the IPTV
market. I am looking forward to leveraging our product and
technology leadership into a global leadership position in
the IPTV market."

    "The board members of Kasenna are pleased to have
Kumar join Kasenna as the CEO and as a board member. Kumar
brings to Kasenna a wealth of telecom industry experience
and brings with him an impressive track record of
successfully launching and managing start-up
companies," commented Steve Krausz of US Venture
Partners, a Kasenna Board member. "We also want to
thank Mark Gray for the excellent leadership he has
provided to Kasenna in developing Kasenna's
industry-leading PortalTV solution."

    "I am very pleased to welcome someone of Kumar's
calibre to Kasenna to drive the future expansion of
Kasenna's operations and solutions portfolio and further
solidify our leading position in the advanced video
entertainment market," concluded Mark Gray, Chairman
of Kasenna.

    About Kasenna

    Kasenna -- "The IPTV Company(TM)" -- is a
leading provider of video-on-demand (VOD) content and
MPEG-4 ready IPTV applications for Triple Play services
over broadband networks. Kasenna PortalTV(TM) is an
integrated, turnkey, yet customizable, IPTV solution
enabling telecom service providers, cable operators and
others to generate additional revenue, increase profits and
raise customer satisfaction through the delivery of advanced
television services.  Kasenna's patented software
technology, built on open standards with an intelligent
management infrastructure, has been proven with countless
global deployments.  Through its subsidiary ViewNow,
Kasenna is able to offer operators the industry's only
integrated and turnkey IPTV solution that includes scalable
IP video infrastructure, subscriber applications, and VOD
programming.   

    Kasenna is a privately held company with headquarters
in Sunnyvale, California, and office locations worldwide.
For more information, please visit http://www.kasenna.com
.

    For more information, please contact:

     Heike J. Stabenow,
     Kasenna, Inc.
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Jim Carlson,
     Carlson & Co. PR
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

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