Knox Carey
Director, Technology Initiatives

Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Knox Carey is responsible for strategic market development for media

technology initiatives at Intertrust. He is an active driver of our activities in international standards bodies and industry specifications for digital rights management and trusted computing, serving as Chairman of the Architecture Working Committee of the Coral Consortium DRM Interoperability effort.  Furthermore, he is responsible for the market development and specification of Intertrust's media service interoperability reference technologies.  Dr. Carey joined Intertrust in 1999 as a member of the Technology Initiatives Staff. Prior to joining Intertrust he was a research scientist at Sony Corporation, where his work focused on advanced audio and video data compression. He was also VP of Engineering at Axiomatic Corporation, a startup in interactive TV middleware.  Dr. Carey earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Joe Haver

3P Segment Manager

Assurance Solutions Division

Agilent Technologies

Joe Haver is the world wide 3P Segment Manager at Agilent Technologies' Assurance Solutions Division (ASD) residing in Colorado Springs , Colorado . Joe is responsible for managing the product marketing, business development, R&D and marketing activities of the NSTO next generation IP communication test equipment portfolio. This portfolio covers communication test and troubleshooting equipment for LAN, WAN and mobile networks and focuses on next generation voice, video and broadband data services. During Joe's ten years of experience within HP and Agilent's data communication market, he has contributed as a Hardware Support Engineer, Application Support Engineer, Business Development Manager, Product Manager and currently as the 3P Segment Manager where he manages the ASD strategic direction and market initiatives. Joe has been featured as a speaker at many industry events and is recognized as an expert in next generation voice, video and data networks. Joe is a certified VoIP Engineer and has attended Colorado State University for Electrical Engineering and Regis University for Marketing and Computer Networking.

Jim Funk

Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing

Akimbo
Jim Funk has more than 20 years of corporate strategy, acquisition and marketing experience with leading companies in Silicon Valley . Prior to joining Akimbo, Jim was senior vice president of strategic planning at Imagicast, and established key partnerships that enhanced the company's wireless e-commerce services for retailers. Before that, Jim co-founded GoCampus, a startup focused on providing computer services to the higher-education market, and served as its vice president of business affairs. During his five years as a vice president with Macromedia, Jim helped the company grow from $25 million to over $100 million in revenue by working to acquire several industry-leading products, including FreeHand, Dreamweaver and Flash. Prior to Macromedia, Jim spent seven years in marketing and product roles at Apple Computer, which included managing the highly successful higher-education student marketing programs.

Steve West

Director, North American Strategy
Alcatel-Lucent
Steve West is Director of North American strategy for Alcatel-Lucent and is based in Ottawa , Canada . With a lengthy resume of IPTV and video marketing and strategy experience dating back to the late 90's , Mr. West is an Alcatel-Lucent Marketing/Strategy lead responsible for North American activities related to Alcatel-Lucent's "triple play" solution including the Microsoft IPTV platform. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent's acquisition of iMagicTV in 2003, Mr. West was Director of Product Management, Media Manager IPTV platform. Prior to iMagicTV, Mr. West was responsible for consumer broadband services marketing, including the world's first commercial launch of a consumer mass market IPTV service at Aliant Telecom, Atlantic Canada's largest telecom service provider.

Aaron Feen

Director of Consumer Marketing

AMD
Aaron Feen is Director of Consumer Marketing for AMD's digital entertainment solutions, including the AMD LIVE!T PC brand.  Prior to his current position, Feen was AMD's Director of Marketing for China where he was responsible for expanding marketing coverage across China , winning new customers and growing market share.  Feen has been with AMD since 1992, during which time he has held various sales and marketing positions, including division marketing manager, product manager and technical sales engineer. Feen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois .

Rick Sailor

Vice President for the Americas

Amino Communications LLC

Rick brings 35 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, (9 years of which have been in IP-based solutions), to his role as VP Americas for Amino Communications LLC. During his career, Mr Sailor has been responsible for the successful business development of several manufacturing telecommunications companies, interfacing with sales and account management teams focused on Independent and regional 'Bell' Telco's. His background includes members of the communications value chain such as DSLAMs, outside plant facilities and central office infrastructure. Prior to joining Amino in 2004, Mr Sailor was responsible for developing the market position of Net 2 Net Technologies, a manufacturer of IP-based DSLAMs, in the Midwest region of USA. Thanks to his broad experience, Mr Sailor is extremely knowledgeable about the telecoms industry at all levels of service delivery and is ideally positioned to advise on, and examine, the key issues facing the growth and ultimate success of the IPTV industry, now and in the future.

Michael Dager
CEO and Chairman of the Board

Arxan

Michael Dager joined Arxan as Chief Executive Officer in July 2006. Mr. Dager has over 22 years of experience in senior level positions at leading technology companies. He came to Arxan from Worksoft, a leading provider of automated enterprise testing solutions, where he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Prior to Worksoft, he was president and CEO of OSE Systems Inc.(ENEA.ST), growing the company from a startup in 1997 to the number two embedded operating system supplier in 2001 with a stock market valuation of over $1 billion. Before OSE Systems, Mr. Dager held senior sales management positions at Pure Software (RATL) for many years helping raise the market valuation of the company from start-up level to over $1 billion. During his tenure at Pure the company completed one of the most successful IPOs of 1995. The company was later acquired by Rational Software. He began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division after earning a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor .

Chris Maliwat

Director of Product Management

Azureus

Chris Maliwat is the Director of Product Management of Azureus, Inc. Before joining Azureus, Chris was with eBay, Inc. responsible for defining and building buying features that enable the success of eBay?s 100+ million buyers. Managed areas receive over 600 million daily page views and generate over $1600 of gross merchandise sold per second.Prior to eBay, Chris was co-founder and Senior Architect for V2 Group, a leading provider of product strategy and design services for clients. Iincluding Intuit, Inktomi, and Seagate. ?Chris was also the co-founder and Director of the Interactive Services division of USWeb/CKS, responsible for defining the user-experience for such clients as Levi, Dockers,Harley-Davidson, and Logitech.Chris holds a BS in Symbolic Systems | Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford University and has completed coursework with The Wharton School of Business.

Robert Schumann
General Manager

Cinea

As general manager at Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Rob Schumann leverages more than 15 years of technology security experience to drive Cinea towards its continuing mission of providing world-class anti-piracy solutions for the entertainment industry.   Prior to co-founding Cinea in 1999, Schumann was chief architect for the Divx encrypted DVD platform. Beginning in 1994, he spearheaded the development, deployment and operation of this leading-edge consumer system. He also directed planning for international expansion and the development of Divx technology in new markets. Earlier in his career, he was a senior IT executive at Circuit City Stores, Inc. where he spent more than seven years deploying sophisticated secure telecommunication, transaction processing and customer support technologies. Schumann has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute.

David Hunt

Triple Play Products

Conklin-Intracom

Dave has held numerous positions in R&D, sales, marketing, accounting, program management, regulatory affairs and business development for both service providers and vendors over the past 30 years. In addition to a number of startups, Dave's professional career includes Nortel Networks where he was part of the team that developed and introduced the precursor to Optical Ethernet, Tellabs, Telus and CNCP Telecommunications where his team designed and deployed Canada's first multi-service network and Canada's first competitive long distance voice service. In his current position Dave is responsible for Conklin-Intracom's triple play products in the Americas, concentrating on the identification and the delivery of solutions that meet emerging content needs.

Peter Lee

Vice President, Corporate Business Development

Disney

Peter Lee is Vice-President, Corporate Business Development New Technology, at The Walt Disney Company in the Corporate Strategy, Planning, and Technology Group. His responsibilities include creating new business opportunities for The Walt Disney Company in digital content consumption/delivery. He recently was a Media Industry Consultant, where he worked for Disney and Fox as an executive consultant in the area of video-on-demand. Prior to this he was the President/CEO of GeoVideo Networks (a Lucent Technology company), the COO/CTO of MyPotential (a well-being company chaired by Deepak Chopra), CTO/co-founder of Hitplay Media (targeted ad insertion and streaming media content provider) and the Global Development Executive for Broadcast and Advertising at IBM (other roles included positions in the Watson Research Center, Federal Systems Division, Media Marketing, and the Interactive Television Group). He has an MS degree from USC and a BS from UCLA. He has a Technical Emmy (2005), nine patents granted and multiple patents pending in the areas of digital ad insertion, content distribution, and portable media players.

Dwight DeClouette

Business Development Manager

Service Providers-IPTV

EMC Corporation

Dwight De Clouette   is EMC's Telecommunications/Media & Entertainment Business Unit, Business Development Manager for IPTV solutions.  Dwight is specifically responsible for growing EMC's role as a leading digital media infrastructure provider to both the Telco and Cable Service Providers. He is currently leading a team that is engaging EMC Business Units and Partners to develop  comprehensive,  best of breed digital media services and solutions that will include; content management, content distribution, network management, and core to edge content storage architectures.   Dwight is also responsible for EMC's IPTV go to market strategy leveraging 22 years of telecommunications industry experience, he works closely with EMC TME Global Sales Force, accelerating the development of EMC's IPTV initiative in the global marketplace. EMC technologies can be found installed in over 90% of the Tier 1 Telco Service Providers worldwide. Before focusing solely on IPTV solutions, he had spent four years with EMC in the Telecommunications/ Media & Entertainment Business Unit focused at the development of Partner relationships with System Integrators, Telecommunication Equipment Manufacturers, and Telco ISV's, to provide differentiated solutions to the Telco market. He was recognized for his work with EMC Clariion Engineering in the certification and deployment of EMC's current NEBS level 3, mid-tier storage offerings.

Alain Fernando Santana

Chief Marketing Officer

Envivio 

David Price

Vice President, Product Marketing and Business Development

Harmonic Inc.

Vice President - MPEG Industry Forum

David Price is Vice President, Product Marketing and Business Development at Harmonic Inc., where he is responsible for pioneering Harmonic's leading position in digital video broadcast, distribution and IP-based delivery technologies. An experienced speaker, he has presented at many conferences throughout the world.  He has over 24 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is currently Vice President of the MPEG Industry Forum. Mr. Price was selected in 2003 and 2004 as one of the "Euro 50" by Cable & Satellite Europe. Originally, an electronics engineer on the design team of the world's first CAT scan system, he graduated from CIT with a Fellowship MBA and has an Honors Bachelors degree in Cybernetics, Instrument Physics and Mathematics.

Robert (Bob) M. Zitter

Executive Vice President,

Technology and Chief Technology Officer

HBO

Bob Zitter is executive vice president, Technology and chief technology officer, for Home Box Office. He is responsible for the company's technology interest worldwide, overseeing distribution, origination, production operations and engineering. In addition, he oversees HBO's new technology planning and IT groups. He was responsible for HBO's pioneering introduction of digital compression technology in 1992, the development and launch of HBO HDTV in 1999, and the technology aspects of HBO on Demand. He was also one of the founders of HBO's businesses in Latin America, Asia and Europe . Zitter was inducted into The Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2006, and is a recipient of the NCTA's Vanguard Award.

Brian Levy

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Communications, Media and Entertainment

Hewlett-Packard Company

Brian Levy has recently joined Hewlett Packard as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) Business. In this role, he provides the technical leadership and strategy for the worldwide organization. For the past four years Levy has been Group Technology Officer, Service Strategy and Innovation in BT. He has been instrumental in the BT's 21st Century Network programme, where he developed the SOA architecture for the network and initiated the development of many new transformational services. Levy has been a keynote speaker at many major conferences throughout the world and he has penned my articles. Levy has also played a key role in industry forums such as the IP Sphere Forum and the Home Gateway Initiative. He is a member of the Samsung Advisory Board and is considered by many to be a thought leader in the industry. Levy's career encompasses some thirty six years. He began his career with BT in 1970 with an apprenticeship as an Engineer in Manchester . He received an award from BT to attend Salford University where he obtained an honours degree in Electronic Communication. He spent nine years with the BBC in radio and TV broadcasting and nine years with AT&T in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) becoming the Director for Network Services for the EMEA region Levy left AT&T to join Qwest in Europe and ran the operations of EUnet across Europe (a major European ISP backbone together with fifteen in-country ISPs).

Peggy Dau

Director, Broadband & Media Communications, Media & Entertainment (CME)

Hewlett-Packard Company

Peggy Dau is the Director, Broadband & Media Program for the HP Communications, Media & Entertainment (CME) Business Group. She is responsible for developing HP's strategy for content management and content distribution for Service Providers and Media Companies. This includes Digital Media Solution, Media Storage, IPTV and other content delivery services. Her responsibilities include business strategy, solution development, strategic partnerships and overall HP value proposition.

Dau has been with Hewlett-Packard for 20 years in variety of sales and business development roles. She has been focused on rich media and content delivery solutions for the past five years. Having emerged as an expert in Digital Content Delivery Solutions, Dau's focus now includes:

• Emergence of web services compliant tools to integrate business and functional process in the media, broadcast and telco industries
• Industry standards-based solutions providing a foundation for heterogeneous content management solutions
• Value of industry standards-based solutions enabling new content centric services for network operators (fixed, satellite or wireless)
• Service management for content delivery services

Dominique Minvielle

Worldwide Program Manager, CME IPTV

Hewlett-Packard Company

Dom Minvielle is the Worldwide Program Manager, IPTV Solution for Communications, Media & Entertainment (CME). He is responsible for developing HP's strategy for digital content distribution for service providers. His responsibilities include business strategy, solution development, strategic partnerships and overall HP value proposition. Minvielle has been with Hewlett-Packard for 10 years in media-oriented roles from systems and software development to custom solution development. Minvielle's key areas of expertise include:

• Content protection enforcement strategies and initiatives from conditional access and digital rights management to secure legal consumer experience
• IPTV service deployment challenges for OSS and BSS integration
• Future delivery channel models
• Services Automation and Crossover with Personalization & Profiling strategies

Ed Forman

Executive Vice President,

and Chief Operating Officer

ICTV

Ed rejoined ICTV in 2006 after having been co-founder/CEO of Switched Media, a developer of solutions for mass customization of live video streams that merged with ICTV. In his prior ICTV stint, Ed was SVP of marketing and was instrumental in launching the company's HeadendWare product. Previously, Ed was president/CEO of RealContax, Inc. and VP marketing and new ventures for enCommerce, Inc., an Entrust acquisition. From 1996-99, Ed was SVP product development and marketing for Elemental Software. Ed also was instrumental in the sale of Network Innovations to Apple Computer, and RadioMail's launch of the first mobile wireless e-mail solution.

Michelle Abraham

In-Stat (Reed Business)

Principal Analyst
Michelle's specific areas of research include Telco TV, Mobile TV, MPEG encoders , and MPEG ICs. She has contributed industry commentary to many technical and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Business Week, EETimes, and Electronic News. Ms. Abraham has been a speaker at industry conferences such as Globalcomm, CES, TelcoTV, and Digital Hollywood. She has also contributed articles to industry publications, including Electronic News and TWICE. She completed her BA in Economics at the University of Michigan. Ms. Abraham received her MBA from Arizona State University.

Rob Barth

Senior Product Manager

IPTV

Intelsat

Rob Barth is a Senior Product Manager for IPTV at Intelsat. Prior to Intelsat, Mr. Barth founded Expedient Media Solutions (EMS), a company created to facilitate and enable multi-media systems using IPTV distribution technology by applying system integration, digital video compression and telecommunications expertise. Prior to EMS, Mr. Barth was General Manager , U.S. for iMagicTV, an innovative software company whose products enabled navigation and management of IPTV solutions.  During the previous five years, Mr. Barth worked for DiviCom, Inc., a leading supplier of digital video compression and networking products and services. Prior to these startup ventures, Mr. Barth held senior marketing and program management positions at Sprint Corporation and GTE Spacenet where he performed system integration, developed and managed programs for large-scale broadband telecommunications and digital multimedia satellite distribution services.  Mr. Barth received a BS in Information Systems Technology from the University of Arizona and a Masters degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado .

Vicki Warker

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Intelsat

Ms. Warker is responsible for the company's growth initiatives and maximizing the company's performance in serving the video and network services customer groups. In addition, she manages all product development, product management and rationalization initiatives, and customer feedback and analysis to ensure Intelsat's products and services anticipate customer needs and market demand.  Ms. Warker previously served as Vice President of Marketing and Products within the Sprint Business Solutions organization. In that role, Warker had responsibility for product marketing, vertical marketing, pricing and offer development for business customers. She also managed Sprint Business Solutions' entire product portfolio: voice, data and application services, wireless and wireline services; local, long distance and international services. Warker initially joined Sprint as VP, Sprint Business Marketing in January 2003 when she was responsible for Sprint Business marketing and product initiatives. Prior to joining Sprint, she was Vice President-Global Marketing with GE Global eXchange Services. Her position at GE Global was preceded by a role at Concert Communications where she served in a variety of channel management, product management and marketing roles before being named Vice President-Marketing, Global Markets. Warker holds both Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Peggy Miles

President

Intervox Communications

Peggy Miles was an early pioneer in webcasting , and digital media commencing in 1995 when she started her company, InterVox Communications which provides digital media strategy and business development, and then founded the International Webcasting Association . Ms Miles has facilitated a webcasting list since 1996, which continues today. Her first two members were Mark Cuban and Howard Gordon. She is considered a futurist and on the cutting edge. She produced the first CBS webcasts of the All Stars Broadcasting Live, which included baseball interactive games. She was instrumental in working with a Korean company that built the first portable players, and video phone prototypes that Bill Gates displayed at his keynote at CES in 2001. She produced the first TV and Internet Web Auction with Home Team Sports benefiting the Leukemia Association. The auction was presented on the Net and on network broadcast stations at the same time following a Baltimore Orioles game. Her work in China includes promotion and development of a digital media training center. More than 10 years ago, Miles created with KCBS FM in Los Angeles (Dick Van Dyke) a now playing application that showed songs and program data on the Internet. Unique to this was the in-sync delivery of the songs that were playing on the air to billboards around Los Angeles as well as displayed Live on the station's webpage. Miles worked with multimedia BB, bulletin board services and interactive voice response systems (IVR). She continues her role today as a leading business strategist, trainer, presenter and keynote speaker.

Kumar Shah   

Chief Executive Officer, Kasenna

Kumar is a veteran of the Telecommunications and Networking industry with more than 20 years of experience with responsibilities ranging from general management, marketing, sales, strategic planning, and business development to engineering management. Over the past decade, Kumar has been involved in development of video, broadband access, multi-service switching and internetworking products for the global telecommunications carriers and service providers. The products and start-up companies Kumar has been involved with have generated more than $1B in revenues. Kumar was most recently an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) at US Venture Partners, where he was involved with incubation of several ventures developing Video Remote Access Server (Video-RAS), high-capacity switched video multiplexer, and ground transportation Internet portal. Prior to that, Kumar was President and CEO of Occam Networks (OTC: OCNW) and prior to that Chief Marketing Officer of AccessLan Communications, which was acquired by Advanced Fibre Communications, now part of Tellabs (NASD: TLAB).   Kumar has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts , Amherst and B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , India .

Lee Berke
President

LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media
Lee founded LHB in 2001, which specializes in developing direct relationships between sports teams/properties and new media platforms. LHB's client roster includes more than a dozen teams throughout the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, and Pittsburgh Penguins, along with developing regional sports programming for the Verizon FiOS video service. Mr. Berke's background in developing sports media businesses also includes co-authoring the original business plan for the New York Yankees' YES Network, and heading up marketing for Madison Square Garden and MSG Network.

Bob Saffari

Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development

Advanced Video Products, LSI

Erik A. Smith

Vice President of Content and Programming

Metacafe

Erik Smith is vice president of content and programming at Metacafe. Smith brings considerable experience in emerging media platforms and youth media to the Metacafe executive team, where he is responsible for building new media partnerships and developing an engaging content mix for the Metacafe site.  

Before joining Metacafe, Smith served as senior director for business development and programming at MobiTV where he was responsible for developing and implementing the programming strategy and business models for MobiTV products on both mobile and broadband platforms. While at MobiTV, he successfully negotiated content partnerships with such media brands as ABC, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox News, Fox Cable Networks, NBC, Discovery Communications, Rainbow Media, Viacom, The Weather Channel and others. Prior to MobiTV, Mr. Smith held executive programming positions at mobile and broadband startups Digital Lifestyles Group and Motive Communications. Smith began his career at Sun Microsystems and DirecTV.

Peter Barrett

Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Engineering

Microsoft TV Group
Peter Barrett serves as chief technology officer and general manager of engineering for the Microsoft TV Division at Microsoft Corporation.  Barrett leads Microsoft TV's strategic product development and planning and ensures the division's ongoing innovation in the area of digital TV technologies. His technical vision and leadership were instrumental to Microsoft TV's successful launch of its IPTV platform and Foundation Edition software, products that have been embraced by leading cable and telecommunication companies like Bell Canada, Comcast and SBC. Recognized as a leading expert in Internet Protocol Television and advanced digital TV software, Barrett is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Bob Wilson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Modulus Video

Robin Wilson

Vice President, Business Development

Nagravision

Robin has spent 20 years in marketing and engineering roles for companies based in Europe and the US including NBC, BBC, Grass Valley Group and DiviCom. Prior to Nagravision, Robin confounded an advanced compression (H.264) start-up. Robin graduated with a BSc. degree from Dundee University , Scotland , and holds a watermarking patent.

Sheau Ng

Vice President, Consumer and Broadcast Technology
NBC Universal
Sheau has been with the digital revolution from the start, contributing to MPEG, ATSC, DVD, and various technical standards activities. His career spans from compression research to product development in consumer electronics, semiconductors, and content/media industries. He was an contributing member of the Grand Alliance team, working at Sarnoff in late 80s. In early 90s, Sheau was part of Toshiba's DVD team, where he helped build the world's first DVD encoder. While at Toshiba, he also chaired the DAVIC 1.0 Technical Committee. Later, he was the architect of Philips first consumer HDTV on the ATSC market. At Philips, and later on at ATI, he was responsible for the software architecture of their DTV system-on-chip solutions. Sheau is now a vice president at NBC Universal, with responsibility in the areas of consumer and broadcast technology, standards, and policy. He chairs the Content Protection Task Group in the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA). He is an active member at the CEA IPTV OCC, and many other industry groups. He is focusing his attention on making digital entertainment a worldwide reality. Sheau holds graduate degrees from M.I.T., and had done post-graduate work at Princeton University. He also attended the executive MBA program at INSEAD. He currently holds over 30 patents worldwide. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children.

Roger Gregory

Marketing Director, BCT Telco and Operator

Business Line Set-Top Box and Home Media Devices

NXP

Roger Gregory is the marketing director of the Telco and Operator group in the Home business unit at NXP Semiconductors. Roger is responsible for leading the global marketing and business development activities for IP-set-top box (STB), satellite pay system STB solutions and wireless audio products. The global marketing team he leads is focused on bringing advanced solutions to customers that meet the requirements of these new, emerging markets. Roger started his career at NXP in 1994, as an engineer, and then a systems architect for the Philips optical drive solutions based in the United Kingdom . In 2000, he became the inter na tio na l marketing ma na ger of DVD Recoding systems. Following a year in corporate strategy, Roger moved to the U.S. in 2005 to lead the marketing activities for IP-STB solutions. Roger holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Salford , England .

Lynn Rowe

President and Chief Executive Officer

One World Technologies

Owner of One World Technologies, Inc., a full service consulting firm specializing in the design & operation of television networks, applications, & special events, Mr. Rowe is a holder of various patents and key executive in numerous industry milestones from compression and SNG to file based production and distributed collaboration

Jennifer Kyriakakis

Director of Product Solutions

Oracle Communications Global Business Unit

With over 10 years experience in communications billing, Jennifer is responsible for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management strategy and solutions globally for the IP market segment including broadband, VoIP, IPTV, cable and WiMax. Prior to Oracle, Jennifer for worked for Portal Software which provided real-time billing and revenue management software to communications and media companies and was acquired by Oracle in 2006. At Portal, Jennifer acted as a technical sales consultant and held various positions in solutions and services marketing. Before that, she spent over 5 years developing and implementing billing and customer care solutions with companies such as Andersen Consulting, Logica and Verizon International for companies in North America and Mexico . She has a strong background in development and implementation lifecycles and operational support of enterprise software solutions and billing, as well as a strong knowledge of the communications and media services marketplace. Jennifer has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg , VA.

Kurt Schref
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Parks Associates
Kurt Scherf studies developments in home networks, residential gateways, digital entertainment, technology development in the housing market, and residential and building management and controls. Kurt is the sole author or contributing author/analyst to more than 50 research reports and studies produced by Parks Associates since 1998. Kurt joined Parks Associates following a career in political research and multi-tenant dwelling management. He earned his BA from The University of Iowa. Industry Experience: Home Networks & Residential Gateways, Home Networking Media (Wi-Fi, UWB, HomePlug, HomePNA, MoCA, etc.), Media Center PCs, Set-top Boxes, Consumer Storage, Media Server Hardware and Software, Consumers and Digital Entertainment, IPTV, Internet Television and Web Video, Digital Home Customer Support Issues.

Danny Wilson

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pixelmetrix

Danny Wilson is the founder of Pixelmetrix Corporation, a Singapore-based company that specializes in the design and production of management and telemetry systems for digital broadcasters. The company's award-winning products are deployed globally at numerous terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV operators. He began his management career at Hewlett-Packard , Canada , as the Business Manager of HP's Communication Measurement Division. He was responsible for the introduction of the MPEGScope Transport Stream Analyzer and the world's first ATM/B-ISDN Test System, which accelerated the development and deployment of ATM technology worldwide. He later went on with HP to Kobe , Japan , where he established and managed HP's Asia Business Centre - leading the development of the world's first multi-port network monitoring system, which was implemented throughout Japan , by NTT. A frequent speaker at IPTV and television conferences in Europe, Asia and North America , he currently serves as Editor for the Performance Monitoring/Quality of Service workgroup of the ITU-T/IPTV-FG.

Angela Gyetvan

Vice President of Marketing

Revver, Inc.

As the vice president of marketing, Angela plans and coordinates communication efforts, including public relations and the development of company marketing and communication materials. She is a veteran of 18 years of product launches and brand-building activities. Her work has spanned multiple categories, including hospitality, packaged goods, media, e-commerce, and interactive entertainment. 

Angela was formally president of Stratus Rewards, where she was charged with scaling and bringing to profitability the VISA "White Card." Formally director of marketing, Residential, for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, she was responsible for customer acquisition and retention efforts. Angela has held executive positions at Food.com, Napa Valley Kitchens, Electronic Arts and Brøderbund Software where she spearheaded the team for the ground-breaking Living Books line. Her strategic consulting clients have included emerging media company NapaStyle, Inc., which now has programming on the Food Network, PBS and Fine Living. She is a member of Film Independent, the American Film Institute the Junior League of Los Angeles, Inc, and Step Up Women's Network. She holds a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and lives in Los Angeles with her daughter. 

David Jensen

Vice President, Broadband Television

Tandberg Television

David Jensen is a two-time Emmy award winning Producer, Creator and Entrepreneur. His experience in the delivery of digital media, entertainment and information has made him a leading member of many industries. He has been on the forefront of digital media development and distribution for more than a decade inventing, programming and producing Internet-based entertainment, broadband, video-on-demand, interactive television and social networking destinations. Most recently, as a founding member of the management team at Zetools, he helped lead the successful merger of Zetools with TANDBERG Television. He has also received numerous awards and industry recognition including being elected to the PGA/HWR Digital 50 and being nominated seven times and winning two Emmys for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television in 2004 and 2005. In his new role at TANDBERG Television he heads up Broadband TV Business Development and Sales.

Braxton Jarratt

Senior Vice President,

Marketing and Business Development

Tandberg Television

As Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Braxton Jarratt is responsible for leading product strategy, marketing and marketing communications for all TANDBERG Television products within the Americas region in addition to worldwide product marketing for TANDBERG Television's on-demand software division. His leadership has been instrumental in the company's success as a premier supplier of digital media solutions that enable new business models for the digital broadcasting, cable, satellite and telecommunications markets . Broadband before the company was acquired by TANDBERG Television in February 2005. While at N2 Broadband, he helped secure deployments of the company's on-demand software products to more than 100 cities and nearly every video-on-demand site in North America . Braxton previously worked at Cox Communications, where he was director of product strategy. At Cox, he led product development, product strategy and business development for advanced digital television services including video-on-demand, interactive TV and advertising on-demand. Before joining Cox, Braxton served as Vice President at Communications Equity Associates, an investment and merchant bank specializing in cable television and telecommunications industries.Braxton graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Engineering Sciences with a concentration in Digital Design.

Alan Delaney

IPTV Business Development Director,

EMEA and APAC

Tandberg Television

In his role as TANDBERG Television's IPTV Business Development Director, Alan Delaney is responsible for building and maintaining the company's relationship with telcos, operators and content owners in order to further the deployment and adoption of IPTV. Using TANDBERG Television's award wining IPTV video head-end, on-demand and interactive TV solutions, Alan is able to provide IPTV operators with access to an extensive range of tools that allow them to introduce and drive new video business models. Alan joins TANDBERG Television from Pace Micro Technology where he spent five years as IPTV Product Manager. D uring this period he developed and implemented a strategic business plan for the company's IPTV services and maintained ownership of Pace's IPTV product portfolio in terms of roadmap, pricing, customer requirements specification, profitability and timely platform delivery. Alan started his career at Iomega Ireland where he worked in a variety of roles before joining Iomega UK , initially as OEM Technical Marketing Engineer. Then as European Field Application Engineering Manager where he took responsibility for the day to day operation of the European regional team which provided field application engineering support to Iomega's European tier 1 OEMs. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Applications from Queen's University, Belfast and a BA in European Business Studies from the University of Ulster .

Joseph Ambeault

Director, Interactive Services, Verizon Video PLM
Verizon
Joseph's primary focus is the advancement of Verizon's television and platforms, including on-demand, interactive television, digital adve rtising delivery, video games and interactive program guides. He had addressed audiences at conferences hosted by CES, NATAS, Digital Hollywood, NCTA, SCTE, CCMI and the Korean Cable Television Association on topics ranging from time-shifted television to video-on-demand deployment and revenue assurance. Mr. Ambeault also has several articles and commentaries published in television and adve rtising trade publications throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Verizon, he was a director of Broadband Systems for SeaChange International. Mr. Ambeault received a BA in philosophy and computer science from Brandeis University.

Brent Simon

Product Manager, On Demand Applications
Verizon
Brent contributes to the development of Verizon's television platforms and software. He is focused on the company's advancements for on-demand applications and video games. The emergence of on-demand services and interactive games require the participation of a broad range of key participants including television and film studios, ad agencies, broadcasters and technology partners. Mr. Simon shares the experience of Verizon's research and development and deployment work with these audiences through his efforts for a number of industry organizations. His operations, business-oriented articles, white papers and commentaries have been published in television trade publications. Previously, Mr. Simon was Product Manager for SeaChange International's interactive television system. He started his career as a systems consultant for the Bank of Tokyo, one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Russ Schafer

Senior Director of Product Marketing,

Digital Home

Yahoo! Inc.

Russ Schafer brings more than eighteen years experience in product and corporate

marketing to his role as Senior Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Digital Home. Russ has global product marketing responsibility including consumer insights, segmentation, concept development, branding, pricing, positioning and compelling "out of the box" consumer experiences. Yahoo! Digital home is at the leading edge of the Web's intersection with the "10-foot experience" of television viewing. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Russ held positions as Director of Marketing, Director of Technology Management, Director of Business Development and Operations, and Regional Sales Manager for Intel, Sybase, and IBM. He has marketed a broad range of hardware, software, and Internet products and services to consumers and businesses. His responsibilities spanned the entire product lifecycle, including research, design, development, branding, pricing, manufacturing, inventory management, distribution and intellectual property. Russ' experience as an entrepreneur included time as Director of Product and Business Management for an Intel-funded startup that developed a mobile wireless and e-commerce software platform and service. He was responsible for market development and business management including market research, pricing, user interface design, e-commerce transactions, e-coupon advertising, and a multi-million dollar P&L. Russ holds an MBA in international business from Duke University and a BBA in Management from Texas A&M University.

Mark Sebastyn

Senior Manager, Product Marketing

On Demand Solutions
Connected Home Solutions

Motorola, Inc.

Mark Sebastyn is Senior Manager, Product Marketing for the On Demand Solutions group within Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions business.  Mark joined Broadbus Technologies in 2005, which then was acquired by Motorola.  As Senior Manager Product Marketing, Mark develops, manages and executes all product marketing activities for the Broadbus B-1 Video Server including: sales support with direct customer interaction, sales training, competitive analysis and partner management.  Prior to his current position, Mark has held various Marketing roles at Juniper Networks, ADC IP Cable Division, Lucent Technologies and Appian Communications.  He holds a M.B.A., High Technology Concentration from Northeastern University and a B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, Northeastern University.  Mark is also a member of the CTAM organization.

Kevin S. Wirick

Vice President, Marketing IP Video Solutions

Connected Home Solutions

Motorola, Inc.

Kevin Wirick is Vice President, Marketing for the IP Video Solutions group within Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions business.  Kevin joined the former General Instrument Corporation in 1996 and contributed to the development of the first digital cable system deployments with the Headend In The Sky (HITS) system.  He has lead the introduction of several new video technologies including the first commercial High Definition satellite video network systems,  interactive digital video cable networks, and direct broadcast satellite networks.  As Vice President for Marketing, Kevin is responsible for developing and executing the product strategy to serve content providers and service providers deploying IPTV over DSL.  Prior to General Instrument, Kevin was with TRW in Redondo Beach, Ca where he developed satellite communications systems and Wide Area Network switching equipment.  Kevin holds a MSEE from the University of Southern California and a BSEE from Bradley University, and is a member of SCTE and CTAM.

Martin J. Stein

Senior Director, Marketing

Motorola Connected Home Solutions Group

IP Video Solutions

Mr. Stein directs  marketing and business development activities related to MPEG-based standard definition and high definition video processing  products.  These include satellite, cable, telco, and terrestrial transmission systems, access control and encryption systems,  IP set tops, and commercial integrated receiver/decoders.  Mr. Stein has also been instrumental in establishing third party partnership agreements to provide more comprehensive solutions for Motorola customers.  Prior to joining Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions Sector ( formerly General Instrument), Mr. Stein was marketing manager for imaging, film, and video storage devices at Ampex Corporation, a leader in video recording equipment based in Redwood City, California.  Mr. Stein earned a B.S. in industrial engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and an M.B.A  at California State University, Fullerton.