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OPERATION HOPE LAUNCHES CORPORATE INCLUSION INITIATIVE TO ADVANCE BOARD-LEVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINORITY EXECUTIVES

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The initiative was launched as part of a “Third Reconstruction” Proposed by Operation HOPE CEO John Hope Bryant

ATLANTA, July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Operation HOPE today announced the formal launch of The Corporate Inclusion Initiative, which aims to level the representational playing field of corporate America by placing well-qualified minority candidates on company boards of directors, ensuring that the boardrooms reflect the ethnic and gender makeup of the country.

“The Corporate Inclusion Initiative aims to place well-qualified minority candidates on company boards of directors in the US.”

Originally announced as part of a “Third Reconstruction” in the Milken Institute Review, the initiative was designed to develop a roster of highly qualified candidates that could be recommended or placed in executive leadership roles for which they were highly-suited. The initiative now boasts a confidential roster of nearly 50 candidates representing a broad spectrum of executive experience and backgrounds.

According to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, as of 2022, only 22.2% of Fortune 500 corporate board seats were held by individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. While this is up from 17.5% in 2020, this percentage lags well behind the demographic makeup of the United States.

By recommending and placing well-qualified candidates from underrepresented ethnic and racial backgrounds on boards of directors, we ensure that the most influential companies and their decision-making are reflective and aware of our country’s diversity – when all voices have a seat at the table, everyone benefits.

How it works:

High-profile members of the Operation HOPE network and community recommend candidates from a wide variety of industries and backgrounds.
 After rigorous vetting by the Corporate Inclusion team and review by leadership, the candidates are added to the program.
 When necessary or beneficial, candidates are given executive coaching and direction on improving their suitability for board service.
 As placement opportunities become available, candidates are recommended for roles in which they are both prepared and well-suited.
 Corporate Inclusion serves as a catalyst for placement and an objective advisor to both the candidates and the placement organization, facilitating and assisting as needed.

About Operation HOPE, Inc.
Since 1992, Operation HOPE has been moving America from civil rights to “silver rights” with the mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the underserved—disrupting poverty for millions of low and moderate-income youth and adults across the nation. Through its community uplift model, HOPE Inside, which received the 2016 Innovator of the Year recognition by American Banker magazine, Operation HOPE has served more than 4 million individuals and directed more than $4.2 billion in economic activity into disenfranchised communities—turning check-cashing customers into banking customers, renters into homeowners, small business dreamers into small business owners, minimum wage workers into living wage consumers, and uncertain disaster victims into financially empowered disaster survivors. For more information: OperationHOPE.org. Follow the HOPE conversation on TwitterFacebookInstagram or LinkedIn.

Operation HOPE Contacts:

Kevin Boucher, Operation HOPE
Kevin.boucher@operationhope.org

Lalohni Campbell, Per/Se Media Group
la@persemediagroup.com
404-593-7145

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Innovid by Mediaocean Positioned as a Leader in the SPARK Matrix™: AdTech Platform, 2026 by QKS Group

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PUNE, India, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — QKS Group announced today that it has named Innovid by Mediaocean as a leader in the SPARK Matrix™: AdTech Platform, 2026. This comprehensive evaluation provides a detailed competitive analysis, market ranking, and strategic insights to help users evaluate global vendor capabilities and market positions.

This recognition also reflects Innovid’s continued investment in AI-powered execution and the value it is delivering to customers and the industry at large. Earlier this month, the company introduced NIVO, its AI core for agents and orchestration, helping marketers turn intelligence into action across the advertising lifecycle. Early adopters have already reported workflow efficiency gains of up to 90%. 

“Innovid by Mediaocean’s leadership position in the advertising technology market is supported by its breadth across creative management, ad serving, campaign execution, measurement, optimization, and workflow automation,” said Richa Choubey, Senior Analyst, QKS Group. “The platform is particularly strong in helping advertisers manage campaigns across connected TV, digital, social, and linear media while providing greater consistency in execution and measurement across channels. Through cross-channel delivery capabilities, independent measurement, AI-enabled optimization, and interoperability across the advertising ecosystem, Innovid by Mediaocean enables brands and agencies to improve operational efficiency, strengthen performance visibility, and better manage increasingly fragmented media environments. Its integrated approach supports organizations seeking greater control over campaign operations, measurement consistency, and linkage between advertising investments and business outcomes.”

Analyst Assessment: Aligning with Market Dynamics

Innovid operates at the intersection of several of the most significant trends shaping the advertising technology landscape, including the rise of CTV, the growing demand for independent measurement, increasing media fragmentation, and the application of AI to campaign execution and optimization. Rather than competing solely on individual point capabilities, the platform’s value proposition lies in its ability to connect creative management, ad serving, measurement, and optimization workflows across channels that have traditionally been managed in silos.

As advertisers navigate an increasingly complex ecosystem characterized by evolving privacy requirements, proliferating media environments, and heightened expectations for accountability, platforms that can provide consistency, interoperability, and operational efficiency become increasingly important. Innovid’s continued investments in cross-channel measurement, CTV innovation, and AI-enabled workflow automation reflect a clear understanding of these market dynamics. While the AdTech market remains highly competitive and rapidly evolving, Innovid has established itself as a significant independent player with a differentiated position in helping brands, agencies, and media organizations execute, measure, and optimize campaigns across fragmented digital and television environments. Its ability to balance scale, openness, and innovation positions it well as organizations seek greater transparency and control over advertising performance in an omnichannel world.

“Innovid demonstrates differentiated capabilities in creative management and optimization, leveraging AI and automation to improve campaign efficiency and effectiveness,” said Umang Thakur, Vice President and Principal Analyst, QKS Group. “Its support for omnichannel activation, unified measurement, and cross-platform creative governance makes it well suited for organizations seeking to centralize advertising operations and maximize the impact of creative assets at scale.”

Building on a Foundation of AI Innovation

In 2025, QKS Group named Innovid the ‘Most Valuable Pioneer‘ in its AI Maturity Matrix for AdTech, highlighting the company’s ability to embed intelligence across the campaign lifecycle. With the launch of NIVO AI, Innovid has evolved that embedded intelligence into live, scalable execution, addressing the multi-channel complexities and fragmentation challenges highlighted in the QKS report.

“What stands out in this report is the growing need for greater connectivity across the advertising ecosystem,” said Grant Parker, President, Innovid. “Marketers aren’t struggling with a lack of tools; they’re struggling with disconnected workflows, fragmented data, and operational complexity. With NIVO, we’re helping brands and agencies bring those workflows together, turning signals into coordinated action across creative, delivery, measurement, and optimization.”

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To download the full report and explore the visit SPARK Matrix™: AdTech Platform, 2026.

About Innovid

Innovid is the leading omnichannel advertising platform, empowering marketers to create, deliver, measure, and optimize ad-supported experiences. At the core of Innovid is NIVO, powering AI agents and orchestration to activate, adapt, and optimize campaigns across the advertising lifecycle. As part of Mediaocean, Innovid is tied into Prisma, the industry’s core ad infrastructure for planning, buying, and billing, as well as Protected for verification, fraud detection, and brand safety. Visit www.innovid.com to learn more.

Media Contact:
Megan Coyle
Megan@innovid.com

About QKS Group

QKS Group is a global analyst and advisory firm helping enterprises, technology vendors, and investors make trusted, data-driven decisions. Our portfolio spans the flagship SPARK Matrix™ evaluation framework, SPARK Plus™ analyst advisory platform, QKS Intelligence™ for market and competitive tracking, and QKS Community™ for CXO leaders and practitioners. All offerings are powered by a Human-Intelligence-driven framework and QKS’s closed-loop research methodology–integrating expert-led insights, quantitative modeling, and continuous validation to deliver credible, outcome-focused intelligence. For more available research, please visit Research.

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Innoscience’s current products are not affected by both rulings of the Munich Regional Court

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MUNICH, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Innoscience today announced that the Munich Regional Court has just issued a pair of rulings, from which it could be confirmed that Innoscience’s currently marketed gallium nitride (“GaN”) power device products fall outside the scope of Infineon’s asserted German patents and may be commercialized in Germany without restriction.

These rulings are fully consistent with the final determination issued last month by the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”), which found that Innoscience’s current products do not infringe Infineon’s asserted U.S. patent relating to packaging design (U.S. Patent No. 9,899,481). The Munich case concerns the German counterparts of that same patent family. In line with the ITC’s findings, the Munich Court found infringement only with respect to a limited set of legacy products—certain packaged 650–700V transistors—that had already been discontinued. Therefore, any injunction granted would not apply to Innoscience’s current product portfolio. As a result, there is no impact on Innoscience’s ongoing operations or its customers’ use of its products in Germany.

The decisions mark another significant milestone in Innoscience’s string of favorable outcomes across major jurisdictions. They follow the company’s recent success in China, where it secured an injunction and damages award against Infineon, as well as its decisive victory at the ITC in the United States last month. Together, these rulings reaffirm the legality of Innoscience’s current product portfolio and its ability to operate freely in key global markets.

While proceedings in Germany remain ongoing, including Innoscience’s invalidity challenges to the asserted German patent, the growing body of decisions across China, the United States, and Germany underscores that the global litigation campaign initiated by Infineon has not altered the competitive position of Innoscience’s core products. To the contrary, independent judicial findings across multiple jurisdictions have consistently validated the robustness of Innoscience’s technology and reinforced market confidence in the company’s product compliance and innovation capabilities.

Innoscience remains committed to advancing its technology leadership and expanding its global footprint, delivering cutting-edge GaN solutions to customers worldwide in a fair and competitive marketplace.

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NetZoom Announces Data Center Infrastructure Management Solution for Higher Education Institutions

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NetZoom® is a robust DCIM for managing College and University data centers, campus infrastructure and smart classrooms

CHICAGO, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — NetZoom offers an intuitive Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution designed to help colleges and universities document, visualize, and manage the infrastructure supporting campus IT services, research computing, smart classrooms, and distributed data center environments.

NetZoom helps colleges and universities establish a reliable source of truth, improve operational planning, and support critical infrastructure without adding unnecessary burden to IT and facilities teams.

Higher education institutions often manage infrastructure spread across data centers, MDF/IDF closets, labs, classrooms, and multiple campus locations while supporting digital learning, campus connectivity, research workloads, and administrative systems. These environments require accurate asset management, reliable connectivity documentation, capacity planning, and operational visibility across IT and facilities.

Common infrastructure management challenges in higher education include:

Lack of a single source of truth for asset managementDistributed assets across the entire campusLimited space, power, cooling, and budget resources as digital learning, research computing, and campus IT services continue to expandMaintaining uptime and resiliency for critical academic, research, and administrative systems

“Higher education institutions are managing increasingly complex data center environments that support students, faculty, research, and campus-wide digital services,” said Uriel Campos, General Manager at NetZoom, Inc. “To manage these environments effectively, teams need clear visibility into their assets, connectivity, capacity, power, and cooling. NetZoom helps colleges and universities establish a reliable source of truth, improve operational planning, and support critical infrastructure without adding unnecessary burden to IT and facilities teams.”

NetZoom also supports IT and facilities teams by centralizing asset, connectivity, capacity, power, cooling, and change management data in a visual DCIM platform. By bringing these functions together, institutions can improve resource planning, reduce reliance on manual tracking, identify capacity constraints, and better understand the impact of infrastructure changes.

NetZoom’s DCIM solution offers significant benefits to higher education institutions including:

Campus-wide infrastructure visibility: Helps IT and facilities teams maintain a centralized view of assets across data centers, MDF/IDF closets, labs, classrooms, and distributed campus locations.Improved planning for space, power, and cooling: Provides visibility into capacity utilization so institutions can better support growing digital learning, research computing, and administrative systems.Reduced reliance on manual tracking: Centralizes asset, connectivity, capacity, and change management data to help reduce spreadsheet dependency, duplicate records, and inconsistent documentation.Operational support for limited IT resources: Helps streamline day-to-day infrastructure management, giving campus teams better access to the information needed to plan changes, troubleshoot issues, and manage equipment lifecycles.Scalable support for evolving campus technology: Allows institutions to start with core DCIM functions and expand into areas such as monitoring, reporting, service management, integrations, and advanced capacity planning as their needs grow.

Availability

NetZoom DCIM for Higher Education is immediately available in both SaaS and On-Premises deployments. For demonstrations, POCs, pricing and deployment options, contact NetZoom at 630-281-6464, email Sales@NetZoom.com or visit NetZoom.com

About NetZoom

Founded in 1995, NetZoom, Inc. is an Illinois corporation with headquarters in the Chicago area. NetZoom offers a flexible and powerful application that integrates with on-premise, virtual and cloud resources and many third-party tools like ServiceNow® to create a complete DCIM solution for data center professionals worldwide to effectively model, manage, monitor and maximize IT and Facility infrastructure.

For more information, visit NetZoom.com

NetZoom is a registered trademark of NetZoom, Inc. All other marks and names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Marketing Department, NetZoom, Inc., 1 630-281-6464, Marketing@NetZoom.com, https://NetZoom.com

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