{"id":517,"date":"2016-07-05T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.criware.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2016-07-06T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T01:34:42","slug":"welcome-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/05\/welcome-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Adam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited to announce that video game industry veteran <strong>Adam Levenson<\/strong> has joined CRI Middleware as <strong>General Manager, North America and Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam will have the overall responsibility for business development and management for\u00a0CRI&#8217;s growing operations in these regions with a goal of leading the industry with<strong> cutting edge\u00a0solutions for virtual reality<\/strong> while expanding awareness and building the community of users for\u00a0CRI&#8217;s flagship middleware products, <strong>CRI ADX2<\/strong> and <strong>CRI Sofdec2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam has nearly 25 years of experience encompassing the business, legal, creative,\u00a0and technical aspects of the video game industry. His career has evolved from working\u00a0as a sound designer in the burgeoning multimedia industry in the early \u201890\u2019s, to sound and\u00a0music director positions at <strong>Interplay, Electronic Arts, and Shiny Entertainment,\u00a0<\/strong>then senior director at <strong>Activision<\/strong> from 2006 to 2011. In 2011, he launched <strong>Levenson Artists Agency<\/strong> to represent clients\u00a0such as celebrity composers <strong>Hans Zimmer<\/strong>\u00a0for opportunities in video games.\u00a0Adam most recently served as COO of <strong>Somatone Interactive<\/strong>, a global industry leader in audio production specializing in mobile\u00a0games.<\/p>\n<p>We should hear more from Adam in the near future but here is what he had to say about joining CRI Middleware:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was impressed with the <strong>CRIWARE<\/strong> tech and with CRI\u2019s commitment to providing world-class\u00a0solutions from the moment that I first met Ray Nakazato and Oshimi-san. I\u00a0knew we could be great working partners, and I\u2019m excited to have this opportunity to expand\u00a0awareness of <strong>CRI ADX2<\/strong> and <strong>CRI Sofdec2<\/strong>. The emergence of <strong>VR and AR technologies<\/strong> represents the most\u00a0significant platform shift for interactive media in decades and CRI is uniquely positioned to\u00a0provide cutting-edge solutions for audio\/video authoring and playback on both new and existing\u00a0platforms\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full press release here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PressRelease_LevensonJoinsCRI_070516.pdf\" rel=\"\">July 5th 2016: Adam Levenson joins CRI Middleware<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to CRI Middleware, Adam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited to announce that video game industry veteran Adam Levenson has joined CRI Middleware as General Manager,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}