Steve Bush is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pure Networks. A seasoned entrepreneur and leader, Steve brings more than 12 years of software architecture and design experience to Pure Networks. Most recently, Steve served as Vice President of Engineering at OpenDesign, an application infrastructure software company. Before joining OpenDesign, Steve spent 10 years at Microsoft Corporation in a variety of roles, including product manager, developer, product planner, group program manager, architect, and development manager. Before leaving Microsoft, Steve was the development manager for MSN.com where he was responsible for scaling MSN.com into the second most-visited portal after Yahoo. Steve was also architect of Microsoft.com, building it from a single machine into the fourth most-visited site on the Internet. He also drove several scalability analyses for Microsoft, specializing in large-scale, high-reliability systems.

Dave Clark is Director, Product Strategy & Management, for Home Entertainment Products at Scientific-Atlanta. He has responsibility for managing and charting the future course of the DVR platform which includes the Explorer® 8300 and 8300HD Home Entertainment Servers as well as the Multi-Room™ DVR products. Dave joined Scientific Atlanta in January, 2001.

Prior to coming to Scientific-Atlanta, Dave held various engineering and marketing positions at Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA, GE, and ProScan brands). The last engineering position he held was as project engineering coordinator for DirecTV set-top units. Dave then moved into product management where he managed various product lines including digital cameras, camcorders, and 19”-36” televisions.

Prior to Thomson, Dave started his career working in the defense industry for what is now Raytheon, working as a project engineer on weapon and avionic systems for Navy aircraft.

Dave received a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Purdue University.

As product line director for THX Ltd., John Dahl is charged with managing the THX Certified Home Theater Program. Launched in 2004, it provides the designer and system integrator communities with audio and visual specifications for creating state-of-the-art home theater rooms. In addition, Dahl is also tasked with operating the THX Certified Dealer Training program, and developing strategies for the THX marketing and engineering groups. Prior to joining THX in 1998, he was an independent consultant to the consumer electronics industry, working with clients such as Atlantic Technology, DWIN and Soundstream. Previously, Dahl was senior product development manager at NAD Electronics, where he managed the planning and development of high-end consumer audio components. Dahl started his consumer electronics career at the retail level, working as a student selling HiFi components before becoming partners in an audio/video store in Burlington, Vermont. Today, Dahl is a Top Ten CEDIA Instructor, and holds training courses and seminars at CEA events, as well as participates on panels at other consumer electronics trade shows and conferences.

Jordan Greenhall is the CEO of DivXNetworks Inc., which he has grown from a small startup with a handful of employees into a thriving, profitable company on the cutting edge of video technology. DivX technology has been downloaded over 120 million times, powers a range of applications and offers a full range of video solutions for the software, hardware, gaming and video-on-demand markets. Prior to founding DivXNetworks, Mr. Greenhall was Vice President at MP3.com, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the company's business and content development model. Mr. Greenhall graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997, and summa cum laude from Texas A&M in 1994.

David is responsible for technology strategy and business development for advanced IP services, including the development of gateway architectures and working with application partners to define new service models that leverage broadband IP connectivity to the home.

Grubb joined General Instrument (GI) in 1982 as a development engineer in research and development (R&D). He worked on a variety of advanced technology programs in video scrambling, digital audio, and fiber optics. In 1989 he joined GI’s transmission network systems (TNS) business as a systems engineer and assumed leadership responsibility in 1991 as director of engineering and, later, vice president of engineering. In 1997 he was named vice president, marketing for the TNS business before accepting his current position in 1999.

Grubb holds four patents and has published numerous papers on fiber optics and HFC network technology. He has published/presented at numerous industry conferences, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) (1989, 1990) and the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE) shows. Most recently, he served on the conference committee and also moderated the pre-conference tutorials for the 2001 SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies.

Grubb earned his bachelor’s of science, electrical engineering degree from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982 and a master’s of science, electrical engineering degree from Drexel University in 1987.

Inder Gopal has led the creation and deployment of leading-edge networking technology for a variety of influential technology companies. Currently, he serves as Chairman and Chief Product Officer of Lemur Networks, an early stage company he co-founded which is focused on simplifying home networks. Previously Inder was Chairman and CEO of ReefEdge, a leading manufacturer of Wireless LAN switches and gateways, where he raised over $40M in venture financing and helped to create a market leading portfolio of products with a solid revenue stream. Prior to founding ReefEdge, Inder was AT&T's Chief Architect and Corporate Vice President, with responsibility for creating the road map for the convergence of AT&T's cable, wireless and wire-line businesses to Internet based technologies. Before that, he was CEO of Taconix, a spin-off from Prodigy, selling software infrastructure to Internet service providers. Prior to that, he was CTO of Prodigy, in charge of development and operations. At Prodigy, Inder was responsible for the transformation of Prodigy from a proprietary on-line service into a into a leading nationwide Internet service provider. Previously, he served in a variety of senior management positions at IBM, playing a key role in IBM's entry into e-business. He also led the development of IBM’s router and ATM products and was the creator of IBM’s NBBS architecture.

Inder has 15 patents and more than 70 technical publications to his credit. He is known as the inventor of the pioneering PARIS high-speed network, which was the first Gigabit/second packet switching system. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He has been an editor of several IEEE and ACM journals, has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and universities, and has served on several NSF and DARPA grant review panels. He is a Fellow of the IEEE with a PhD from Columbia University, New York and a BA from Oxford University, England.

Peter Henry is vice president of National Semiconductor’s Portable Power Systems product line.  He previously served as its director since its establishment in 2000.  Henry is responsible for development, market strategy and silicon for this strategic market segment.                  

Henry joined National Semiconductor in 1998 as director of design for the Power Management product line.  Prior to coming to National, he was vice president of marketing for Suni Imaging Systems and held a variety of engineering, marketing and product line management positions at Analog Devices, Inc. 

Peter earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.  He completed the Stanford AEA Executive Institute in 1999.

Scott Horn, Microsoft Corp.
Director of Marketing, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division

Scott Horn is director of marketing in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft Corp. His team is responsible for product marketing for the Microsoft Windows Mobile, Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded device platforms. Horn previously managed teams of program managers and product managers at Microsoft and worked on numerous desktop and embedded tool products. He has also developed software professionally on a number of embedded and computing platforms in the telecommunications industry. He has a bachelor of science degree in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve Iverson developed his passion for technology and innovation while growing up in a house full of electronics and personal computers. Iverson's interest carried him to Pomona College of California, where he was awarded two research grants to study digital data compression, and eventually developed a new and innovative technology for his undergraduate thesis while studying adaptive data compression algorithms.

This new technology built the foundation for Streamload and has since evolved into a service that allows users to send, receive, and access their data files online, including entire video and music collections. Under Iverson's leadership, Streamload, which has 10 employees in its downtown San Diego headquarters, is starting to make sense and cents to more and more people. The company, which has been profitable since June of 2001, recently closed its first round of institutional financing from San Diego's Windward Ventures. Iverson was a 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year finalist.

Education

BA (1982): Seoul National University
MA/PhD (1988): University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Industrial Engineering
MBA (1999): Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Professional Experience

Samsung Electronics (’03- )  Vice President, Mobile Solutions and Home Networking
Coree Networks (’00 – ’02)  Founder & CEO of a Venture Backed Optical IP Switch Company
Lucent Technologies (’88 – ’00) 
Bell Labs (’88 – ’93)  Various marketing & Sales Role (’93-’98)
Metro Optical Network Division (’98-’00) Managing Director/General Manager

Ted Laverty, DTS Europe
Director Business Development

As director of business development, DTS Europe, Ted Laverty is responsible for broadcast and interactive technologies. Based in the company’s research & development office, Northern Ireland, he joined DTS in August 2001. Ted has an extensive career history in the audio industry spanning over 15 years. Prior to joining DTS he worked for high-quality audio codec developer, Audio Processing Technology Ltd, acting as their LA-based U.S. general manager.

Prior to that he worked in the music industry for over a decade founding a number of successful technology and production businesses as well as being a professional musician. Ted is a chartered engineer and member of the IEE, the AES and is active in many technology standards bodies around the globe. He holds an honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Queens University, Belfast.

Mr. Pathela is Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Residential Products at NETGEAR. He brings extensive networking and product marketing experience in the areas of corporate enterprise, telecommunications and service providers. He previously served in the position of Director of Product Management and Marketing, in which he was responsible for NETGEAR’s home and business product strategies, product line management and marketing. Prior to joining NETGEAR in early 2000, he served over a period of 15 years at Hewlett Packard in the capacity of product management and marketing for the computer systems business and last served as the Worldwide Marketing Manager for the communications industry business unit. He holds a BS degree from Tufts University with an honorary double major in computer science and international relations. He also completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and participated in executive studies at the Haas School of Business/ UC Berkeley.

Percosan has served as the executive director broadband strategy for Texas Instruments Cable Broadband Communications Group since the acquisition of Libit Signal Processing in 1999. In this role he provides strategic direction that aligns Texas Instruments technology strengths with the needs of the cable industry. He is also responsible for identifying market trends and providing the vision to the cable broadband group.

Prior to this position, Percosan was the vice president of strategy and business development at Libit Signal Processing. Percosan also served as vice president of strategic marketing, at Lysis SA and vice president of engineering at Ariel Corporation.

Percosan has presented on the broadband topic at numerous technical seminars. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of California at San Diego

Greg Rodehau is the director PC technology marketing at Dolby Laboratories. He is responsible for the development and execution of Dolby’s global PC marketing strategies and business development efforts. 

Previously Greg was at Hewlett-Packard, where he directed domestic and international marketing teams in its printer and PC businesses. While at the H. J. Heinz Company, he managed the consumer marketing efforts for the Ore-Ida and Weight Watchers brands. 

Mr. Rodehau received his BS from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rutton Ruttonsha was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Business Line Personal Entertainment Solutions within Philips Semiconductors in January 2003.

Prior to taking over the responsibility for the Personal Entertainment Solution business he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Business Line Audio Solutions. Rutton has held a number of senior management positions at Philips Semiconductors between 1998 and 2001, including Business Design Manager for the Consumer Business and Commercial Manager for Discrete Semiconductors. Rutton joined Philips in 1983 and worked in various positions in Philips Components and Amperex.

Prior to joining Philips he worked at International Rectifier in California, USA. Rutton holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Walchand College of Engineering, India, and the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Southern California, USA.

Rutton was born in 1955 and is married with two children.

Steve Shannon is a Silicon Valley veteran who in the late 1990s was the creative force behind some of the area’s most well known consumer technology brands. His most recent post was vice president of marketing at SONICblue, where he was responsible for the success of both the Rio MP3 player and ReplayTV product lines.

Steve joined SONICblue through the acquisition of ReplayTV. At ReplayTV he helped launch the world’s first digital video recorder, driving marketing strategies.

Before ReplayTV, Steve was director of Internet authoring at Macromedia, where he launched Dreamweaver – Macromedia’s popular Web-authoring tool and still the company’s most profitable product line. Steve joined Macromedia when it purchased iband, the company he co-founded and the original developer of Dreamweaver. Prior to iband, Steve worked for Coopers & Lybrand and Paramount Pictures. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

As director of AOL’s Broadband Gear Group, Chris Smith leads a team dedicated to expanding AOL member access to entertainment content and services beyond the PC, to include mobile devices and multiple locations. Since joining AOL, Mr. Smith has developed and implemented key relationships with business partners, including CBS, Monster.com, Travelocity, and TV Guide. He has also managed the development of Netscape’s music and e-mail products and services. Prior to joining AOL, was a lead consultant for Arthur Andersen, focusing on business process re-engineering and customized client/server design. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia.

Ken Smith is a proven entrepreneur with over 12 years of high technology and services industry experience. Most recently, he was a member of the original management team at eYak, an IP Telephony concern, where as Vice President of Marketing he helped to grow the company from 8 to over 100 employees and raise the company's valuation from $10M to $210M in nine months. Previously Ken served as Director of e-Strategy at Mainspring, a Cambridge-based Internet strategy services firm. Before Mainspring Ken led USWeb's Boston-based strategy consulting services practice and he was a co-founder of the Internet advertising division of communications giant Arnold Communications. Ken's first entrepreneurial venture was as a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Communicate, a Santa Monica-based retail store-front operation that offered Internet access, software training and CD-ROM development to consumers. Ken is a founding board member of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council and served for five years as president of the International Interactive Communications Society Boston chapter. He is a frequent speaker at major Internet conferences throughout the US, in the UK and Germany and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Boston College and UCLA.

Phil Whitworth, XM Satellite Radio
Director, Product Marketing

Phil Whitworth has served as director of product marketing for XM Satellite Radio since April 2003 and is responsible for the strategic marketing direction of XM’s home audio presence. During his tenure, Mr. Whitworth has helped XM secure a leadership position in the home market serving as the project leader for partnership deals with several key consumer electronics hardware and software manufacturers, including Audiovox, Crestron, Dell, Microsoft, and Polk Audio, among others. Prior to joining XM, Mr. Whitworth worked for Hughes Network Systems as director of program management where he was responsible for the deployment of global satellite broadband networks and played a key role in the development and market launch of DirecTV set-top boxes for Sony, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Philips, and TiVo.

Mr. Whitworth, a graduate of the University of Delaware, received a master's in program and project management and an MBA from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He lives in Virginia with his wife and son.

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