Ex-Cable Execs on ZillionTV Roster

Follow-on to my post yesterday about ZillionTV, the ambitious startup aiming to “reinvent” TV with an Internet-based set-top (chutzpah or delusion?).

The company’s management ranks, it should be noted, include a few cable industry vets:

* CEO Mitch Berman, previously VP marketing for C-COR and OpenTV, marketing director Sky Network Television New Zealand; VP affiliate sales for then-startup E! Entertainment Television; regional manager of affiliate operations at HBO

* Senior VP of digital entertainment Charles Cataldo previously was HBO’s SVP of broadcast & studio operations, overseeing its playout facility in Hauppauge, N.Y., and studio and post-production operations facilities in Manhattan

* Senior VP of advertising Bonnie Stone previously was Turner’s head of ad sales in Los Angeles for eight years

* Senior VP of engineering Mike Catalano was GM of Thomson’s product integration center to develop set-tops for News Corp.’s BSkyB, Sky Italia, and Foxtel Australia; previously VP of technology partners at OpenTV

*VP of global marketing Liz Seidner Davidoff was also a former VP of marketing for C-COR, and worked for OpenTV as director of corporate marketing services.