Imerge - headquartered in Cambridge, UK - is a recognised leader in Internet-connected hard disk-based audio products and Media Appliances. Products include the XiVA™ Media Appliance Technology, XiVA-Net Entertainment Portal for music and video products and the revolutionary SoundServer range of hard disk audio devices. Its market-leading core technologies – XiVA™ and XiVA-Net - are licensed extensively to manufacturers, household brands, software and service providers. Imerge was created to build partnerships and licensing arrangements operating as an extension to partner teams and as a third-party developer of CE media appliance products. Imerge offers a long-term, flexible working relationship and is committed to driving major growth for all its partners. Imerge was created in 1997 and spun out of the Generics Group in September 1998 to develop advanced products and services for the converging markets of audio, video, computer technology and the Internet. The company’s first products were designed to store, categorise and forward video, audio and text to hard disk-based products for use in commercial environments. Customers in this sector have included RAW Communications, ABB and Future School. In 2000, the company’s first consumer products hit the streets with the now-successful SoundServer Hard Disk Music System range, based on Imerge’s core technology, XiVA™. Licensee products using XiVA™ soon followed from February 2001 and now XiVA™ is rapidly becoming a de facto standard in this sector. Imerge has qualified as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the eastern region in the Deloitte & Touche Eastern Fast 50 Programme. The annual Fast 50 competition names the fifty fastest growing hi-tech and biotech companies in the East of England based on figures for the last three years. Claiming a place in the top 50 in a region that is home to some of the country's most successful and innovative companies represents a major achievement for Imerge. Adrian Lucas (Director of Business Strategy) is the original founder of Imerge and is widely recognised as being central to driving the Company’s growth, strategic direction and progress at every stage. An experienced and proven international business developer and strategic leader, he has taken Imerge from its early embodiments in 1994 through incorporation in 1997, all funding rounds to its present leading and mature position in the market. Previously, he worked at Sony in the digital TV arena for two years and then moved to the Cambridge-based consultancy, Scientific Generics, ultimately to head up their digital New Media group. Here he was responsible for all business development and strategy for digital broadcast consulting, hard disk based media server products and New Media services.
