Chyron Expands Latin American Market Presence

MELVILLE, NY--(Marketwire - Aug 23, 2011) - Chyron (NASDAQ: CHYR) today announced the appointment of Aldo Campisi as vice president of Latin American sales. Campisi will work closely with Juan Gonzalez, Chyron's regional sales manager for Latin America, to further expand the company's sales and marketing initiatives within this region. Together, these positions provide support to existing and potential customers in designing, implementing, and fully leveraging Chyron graphics system installations.

"Aldo and Juan both boast a wealth of experience and technical knowledge in engineering and deploying broadcast graphics systems and workflows," said Mark Bachmore, vice president of sales, Chyron. "As Chyron continues its worldwide growth, we anticipate that these two key team members will play a valuable role in extending our Latin American presence and maintaining the quality of our sales and support services there."

A native speaker of Spanish and Portuguese, Campisi has more than 17 years of business development experience in the broadcast production market. He joined Chyron in 2006 as a product manager for the company's Lyric PRO software before moving into an international sales and marketing role. Prior to joining Chyron, Campisi was a senior graphics specialist at Vizrt, where he was responsible for creative, graphical, and visual effects during live broadcasts as well as data interfacing of electoral streams, sports scores and results, and newsroom feeds. Previously, Campisi worked at Pinnacle Systems, Global as a senior product specialist.

"The rapidly growing Latin American market presents an exciting opportunity for Chyron," said Campisi. "My new role allows me to focus on business development within this particular region, and I look forward to building strong relationships with our Latin American dealers and partners as well as seeking out new business opportunities for the company."

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As the pioneer of graphics as a service for all digital video media, Chyron (NASDAQ: CHYR) continues to define the world of digital and broadcast graphics with Web, mobile, HD, 3D, and newsroom integration solutions. Winner of numerous awards, including two Emmy^® Awards, Chyron has proved itself as the undisputed leader in the industry with advanced graphics offerings that include Chyron's Axis World Graphics online content creation software and order management system, on-air graphics systems, clip servers, channel branding, and graphics asset management solutions. More information about Chyron products and services is available on the company websites: www.chyron.com and www.axisgraphics.tv. The company's investor relations information is at www.chyron.com via the "Investors" link.

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