Damon Roach Joins Comark As CDS Business Development Manager

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark, a manufacturer and supplier of DTV transmitters, encoding systems, and associated field services for over 45 years, has hired Damon Roach as the business development manager at Comark Digital Services (CDS). Damon will be specifically overseeing ATSC 3.0|NextGen TV projects and opportunities.

Roach’s most recent experience in the broadcast industry was with AWS Elemental, where he was the federal sales manager of encoding and transcoding included Cloud Media Services for U.S. Federal Government civilian agencies and various nonprofit organizations. He was responsible for the launch of sales and marketing initiatives to attract organizations within the public sector and to establish a robust sales pipeline to exceed the company’s sales targets.

Prior to AWS Elemental, Roach spent more than 10 years at Imagine Communications (formerly Harris Broadcast) where he helped drive revenue for media software and video infrastructure solutions for broadcast and multichannel video programming applications.

Prior to Imagine Communications, Roach also spent time at MRC, Tandberg Television, ParkerVision and Sony Corp. of America.

Comark Digital Services (CDS) was re-launched in 2018 to assist customers with navigating the migration to ATSC 3.0.