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Macrovision Corporation Appoints Buff Jones As Executive Vice President and General Manager of Its Software Technologies Group

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 18:00 CDT

Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) announced today the appointment of Buff Jones as executive vice president and general manager of its software technologies group, effective immediately. Jones will be responsible for managing and building the software technologies group, including product management, R&D, marketing, sales and services.

"Buff brings a tremendous amount of enterprise software and professional services management experience to the Macrovision organization. Having worked with her in the past, I can personally attest to her knowledge, leadership skills and customer focus. I'm extremely pleased to have her as part of the Macrovision executive team," said Fred Amoroso, Macrovision chief executive officer.

Jones said, "I'm excited to join Macrovision -- a company with enviable market position and tremendous growth opportunities in software value management and e-commerce. Given my past working experience with key members of the executive team, I look forward to making an immediate, positive impact on the business."

Jones most recently served at IBM as vice president, responsible for IBM's WebSphere's worldwide business integration development and OEM enablement. Prior to IBM, as senior vice president of products at CrossWorlds Software, she helped the company break even and was instrumental in the integration of CrossWorlds after its acquisition by IBM in 2002. Before IBM and CrossWorlds Software, Jones was the senior vice president and general manager of Merant's PVCS business unit. Earlier in her career at Merant, she was the senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Before Merant, Jones served in several senior management roles at Compuware Corporation where she lead the team focused on client server systems management and led its North American sales, services and product management teams.

Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA in Information Systems and Business Communications from the University of Southern California.

About Macrovision

Macrovision develops and markets content and software value management solutions for the video, music, games and software industries. Macrovision's technologies are embedded in over 9 billion DVD, VHS and CD units representing over $130 billion of protected entertainment content. In the software market, Macrovision licenses software developers the FLEXnet(TM) universal licensing platform and the InstallShield(R) suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide. Over 50,000 software publishers and virtually all of the Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision's technologies to maximize the value of their software. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices worldwide. More information about Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com.

(C) Macrovision 2005. Macrovision, FLEXnet and InstallShield are registered trademarks or trademarks of Macrovision Corporation. All other brands and product names and trademarks are the registered property of their respective companies.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained herein, including the quotations attributed to Mr. Amoroso and Ms. Jones that are not statements of historical fact, including statements that use the words "will" or "believes" or similar words that describe the Company's or its management's future plans, objectives, or goals, are "forward-looking statements." A number of factors could cause Macrovision's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovision's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2005, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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