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As senior vice president, broadband access and bundled services, Steve Boom manages the teams focused on developing compelling, bundled premium services and deep partnerships with leading broadband providers, including SBC and Verizon in the U.S., BT in the U.K., and Rogers Cable in Canada. Boom also oversees Yahoo!’s Digital Home strategy, which aims to extend Yahoo! beyond the desktop and onto networked devices throughout the home.

During his more than five-year tenure with Yahoo!, Boom has held several senior management positions. Most recently he served as senior vice president, strategic initiatives, where he was charged with developing and implementing corporate strategy in emerging technologies. Prior to that he led Yahoo!’s Enterprise Solutions initiative where he had global responsibility for the company’s delivery of solutions to the enterprise market. Between 1998 and 2002, Boom was based in Yahoo!’s London office, the company’s European headquarters. While there, he launched the European operations of the Enterprise Solutions division and served as its managing director. Prior to this role, he was Yahoo! Europe’s business development director, responsible for strategic alliances and new business models for Yahoo!'s core consumer operations, with a particular focus on the European telecommunications and financial services markets.

Before coming to Yahoo!, Boom was an attorney with the Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for advising high-tech clients such as Yahoo!, Intel, WhoWhere?, and Moai Technologies.

Boom holds bachelor of arts and science degrees from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.

John Burke is corporate vice president and general manager of the Consumer Solutions Business for Motorola Broadband. In this role, Burke is responsible for driving Motorola Broadband’s focus on retail and consumer-direct distribution channels, and to expand the company’s product portfolio, enabling Motorola Broadband to bring new and innovative products into consumers’ homes.

Burke previously served as the corporate vice president and general manager of the IP Communication Gateways group for Motorola Broadband. In this role, Burke was responsible for the business, which enabled operators to meet consumer demand for new IP applications, such as wireless home networking and streaming audio.

Prior to this role, Burke served as vice president and general manager of the Cable Modem Group within the IP Network Systems business unit of Motorola Broadband. Motorola is the cable modem market leader with approximately 13 million modems shipped to date.

Burke has been with the Company for over 15 years, serving in positions of increasing responsibility in marketing, business development, product management and finance.

Burke holds a master’s degree in business administration from St. Joseph's University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The Ohio State University.

Kevin Corbett is the visionary, architect, and strategist behind Intel Corporation’s digital home initiative. Corbett believes PCs, consumer electronics devices, and digital content services will offer exciting new consumer experiences. They should all work seamlessly together so that people can enjoy their photos, music, movies, TV, games, and sports on any device from anywhere in, around and outside the home.

Kevin Corbett is vice president and chief technology officer for the Digital Home Group at Intel. Corbett is responsible for helping to accelerate the development of interoperable products and content services that will deliver these exciting new consumer experiences. Corbett is working with companies of all sizes across the computing, consumer electronics, and content industries to create open industry standards and technologies that will foster new usage models for consumers and new business models for OEMs and digital media services.

Corbett led strategic planning for Intel’s chipset business. He drove the integrated graphics vision for Intel and many other key platform initiatives. Intel is now the largest worldwide shipper of PC graphics chips as a result of this vision. Later he went on to lead the marketing and planning for all of Intel’s Desktop platform silicon including processors and chipset products. In this role he drove the vision behind the new ‘*T’ technologies and led the desktop platform and usage model strategies that resulted in the Intel digital home and Intel digital office visions.

Corbett has a reputation for building new ecosystems based on industry standards. He has led the development of many open standard based ecosystems like USB, USB II, PCI, AGP, AGP II, PCI-Express, all important advancements of the PC platform architecture. Corbett’s most recent accomplishment was the creation of the Digital Living Network Alliance. Corbett was the visionary and pioneer that worked closely with PC, CE, and mobile handheld industries to build this critical initiative for interoperability among these devices within the digital home network.

Corbett held a variety of positions at Intel including roles in sales, marketing, and strategic planning before being named as an Intel Vice President in January 2003 and then Digital Home Group’s CTO in January 2004. Prior to joining Intel in 1992, Corbett worked for Abbott Laboratories in a variety of positions including business planning and engineering.

As chief technology officer, Charles Giancarlo plays a key role in contributing to and communicating Cisco’s technology strategy and vision. In addition, he holds the senior leadership role for two groups, Voice Technology and Global Government Solutions.

In another key role, Giancarlo is president of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, an independent division of Cisco providing wired and wireless products for the high growth consumer and SOHO networking market. Cisco-Linksys is the home networking leader, with a market share of more than 50% and revenues of over $500 million. Linksys is expanding its business internationally and among Service Providers, as well as continuing to build market share among the company’s core users.

Giancarlo also co-chairs the Cisco Enterprise Business Council and is responsible for developing and executing Cisco’s business strategies for this important customer segment. Previously, he ran the Cisco Service Provider Business Council, directing a cross-functional executive team focused on helping Service Providers make the transition to new packet-based services and infrastructures.

Earlier at Cisco, Giancarlo ran the Commercial Line of Business, developing leading-edge high volume networking products and driving Cisco brand awareness among companies of all sizes. During his tenure, Cisco’s stackable switching and access routing brand shares grew significantly and Cisco led the industry with award-winning wireless LAN and stackable Layer 3 Ethernet switch introductions.

Giancarlo joined Cisco in December 1994 and shortly thereafter became vice president of business development, successfully developing Cisco’s merger and acquisition strategy and practice. In this position he played an instrumental role in Cisco’s first 18 acquisitions and 20 investments. He then moved on to become senior vice president of global alliances, building the organization responsible for developing an ecosystem of strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, Accenture, Microsoft and Sprint to enable the Internet industry worldwide.

Giancarlo came to Cisco through the acquisition of Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, where he was vice president of marketing and corporate development. He was also a cofounder and vice president of marketing for Adaptive Corporation, which developed the industry’s first asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) product for the LAN market. While with Adaptive, Giancarlo founded the ATM Forum, a successful alliance of over 600 companies focused on the development of ATM technology. He also holds multiple patents in the areas of ATM and voice technologies.

Giancarlo holds an MBA from Harvard and MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and Brown University, respectively.

Tina Sharkey oversees the design, development, and programming of the AOL network – which includes AOL.com, AIM, and other Web properties that attract a total of more than 100 million monthly visitors – as well as the AOL Welcome Screen, the window into the AOL service for more than 22 million paying members. In addition, Tina manages community across AOL and the Web and the social-networking initiatives and consumer experience for AIM.

Prior to this role, Tina oversaw the successful development of a strategic programming approach called Life Management, which includes areas on the service such as Personal Finance, Bill Pay, Parenting, Research & Learn, Homework Help, AOL Food, Living, and Diet & Fitness. Recognizing that many AOL members must balance work, families, and households, Tina led the creation of a suite of solutions that help make members’ lives easier. One of the most successful was AOL Bill Pay, the #1 online financial activity by AOL members that lets members pay, track, view, and manage their bills online, and the Money Coach program, which is part of the most visited personal finance site on the Web, with participation from more than one million AOL members. Another success was AOL Food, which partners with Time, Inc, to build an extensive database and online tools for home cooks. Tina led the integration of more than 17,500 recipes from leading publications such as Real Simple, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Cooking Light, Coastal Living, Sunset, and Health. This December, Tina and her partners at Time, Inc. were recognized with the first ever Time Warner Chairman’s Award for Collaboration for her work on AOL Food.

Tina also pioneered the America Online Chief Everything Officer award, which highlights achievements of family managers who do it all. Maria Shriver was the first recipient of this annual award. Tina was also selected as a distinguished guest and speaker at the 2004 California Governor's Conference for her continued efforts on behalf of women and families across America. And she has held prominent speaking roles on women and technology at conferences including Women in Communication, Women in New Media, Wharton Media Conference, and Working Mother.

Before coming to AOL, Tina was a co-founder of iVillage, the pioneering online community for women, and served as its Senior Vice President of Programming and Chief Community Architect. She was also Group President of Sesame Workshop's Online Services, where she created the award-winning Sesame Street interactive media business, and collaborated with Barry Diller on a new home shopping channel, Q2, a division of QVC, where she served as Vice President of Marketing and Programming.

Tina helped launch the Adobe Acrobat and New York 1 brands while at Frankfurt Balkind, where she also managed corporate brand strategies for Time Warner, QVC, and Sony. She was a principal at Majestic Partners, a media and technology consulting firm in New York, where her clients included the New York Times Digital and Cisneros Television Group.

Tina’s many charitable and educational activities include membership on the Dean's Council at the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Sister to Sister. She is a founding board member of Baby Buggy and a judge for the Smithsonian Institution's New Media Innovation Awards. Most recently, Tina was selected as an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, which engages the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community-spirited leadership.

Visionary and plenary speakers

Joe Belfiore is the general manager of the Windows eHome Division, responsible for development and business planning for Windows XP Media Center and Media Center Extender devices. A huge consumer advocate, Joe believes that the Media Center vision and mission will revolutionize the way people think about and use personal computers-- transforming them from mostly-productivity devices to the primary entertainment hub for digital convergence in the home.

Before moving to the eHome division, Joe acted as product unit manager for the Windows User Experience team throughout the planning and development of Windows XP. In that job, Joe was responsible for the overall user experience of Windows-—both as a manager of the engineering and design team that created most of the Windows XP user interface, and also as a key driver of positive user experience across the Windows division.

Joe began his career at Microsoft as a 1990 college hire from Stanford, as a program manager on OS/2. Shortly afterwards, he drove the design of the first Windows NT user interface, then became the lead PM for the UI of “Chicago” (Win95), and then acted as group program manager for IE 4 and Windows 2000 User Interface before his work on Windows XP.

Dan Gittleman is chairman and CEO of OpenPeak Inc., a leading software company focused on creating seamless wireless control and interfaces for consumer electronics, digital media, and home systems.

Prior to founding OpenPeak, Mr. Gittleman was chairman and CEO of StorageApps Inc., the number two global storage virtualization software company (as ranked by Gartner/Dataquest), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2001.

Bill Healy is the senior vice president of product strategy and marketing for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, headquartered in San Jose, California.

In this role, Mr. Healy has company-wide responsibility for product strategy, portfolio planning, marketing and competitive intelligence, and new business opportunities. In addition to defining and prioritizing Hitachi GST’s product portfolio and future product strategies, Mr. Healy is responsible for all inbound and outbound marketing activities.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Healy was senior vice president of Hitachi’s Consumer and Commercial hard disk drives. He managed product development, integrated market planning, marketing and strategy for desktop, mobile and emerging market hard disk drives. Previously, he was general manager of mobile hard drive products for Hitachi, responsible for managing the company’s 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch businesses.

Before joining Hitachi, Mr. Healy was a key contributor to IBM's Storage Technology Division for more than a decade, where he held two major roles within the company -- managing Storage Technology Division’s mobile business as well as being the division’s Vice President of Marketing. Prior to that, between 1999 and 2001, he managed all of the division’s product segments, including desktop, mobile, server and Microdrive hard disk drives. He was also responsible for launching the Microdrive product line for consumer storage applications in 1999.

From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Healy was the director of mobile products for IBM Storage Technology Division, a time during which IBM achieved record levels of profitability. In 1994, he was director of IBM's desktop storage business. From 1992 to 1994, he served as the director of business and product planning for IBM’s mobile and desktop hard disk drive storage operation. During the late eighties and early nineties, Mr. Healy helped develop the low-end small form factor storage business and led efforts to pioneer IBM’s HDD technology entry into the OEM business.

In the eighties, he served as manager of planning for IBM's entry-level storage products. This position led to additional management responsibilities within IBM's storage business, including an assignment as assistant to the president of the storage division.

Before joining IBM Storage Technology Division, Mr. Healy held a number of development and management positions, from large systems processors micro-programming to test and field support positions in the minicomputer systems arena. He has also managed competitive analysis and development staffs.

Healy joined IBM as a micro-programmer in Kingston, New York. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a master of science degree in computer science.

Hyeon Lee is currently vice president of mobile solutions and home networking at Samsung Electronics. Previously she was founder and CEO of Coree Networks, and from 1988-2000 she was with Lucent Technologies in a variety of roles, including sale and marketing and finally as managing director/general manager of the Metro Optical Network Division.

Hyeon has a BA from Seoul National University, an MA and PhD from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Peter Lee is vice president, business development new technology, at The Walt Disney Company in the Corporate Strategic Planning and Corporate New Technology Departments. He is responsible for new business development for digital content consumption/delivery and the company’s unilateral content protection efforts. He recently was an executive media industry consultant for Disney and Fox. Prior to this he was the president/CEO of GeoVideo Networks (a Lucent company), the COO/CTO of MyPotential (a Deepak Chopra well-being company), and CTO/cofounder of Hitplay Media (targeted ad insertion and content provider) and the global development executive for broadcast and advertising at IBM. He has an MS degree from USC and a BS from UCLA. He has eight patents granted and multiple patents pending.

Lou Lenzi is vice president of product management and engineering for the Home Networking Accessories business within the Connectivity Business Unit at Thomson, manufacturer of RCA and Thomson branded consumer electronics products.

Lou is responsible for the design, development, and manufacturing of Thomson’s line of home networking and accessories, a range of over 2000 SKUs sold at retail outlets worldwide under the RCA, Thomson, Jensen, and Acoustic Research brands.

Lou began his career with Thomson in 1988 and has held a variety of positions in product development, product management, design, strategic planning, and new business development. He has been involved in a leadership role in many of Thomson’s initiatives into new consumer products and services.

Paul Marino is vice president and general manager of Philips Semiconductors’ connectivity business line. In this role he is responsible for overseeing the breadth of wireless connectivity technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and UWB, and wired connectivity technologies such as USB and IEEE 1394.

Before joining Philips, Marino spent 18 years with Motorola, both in the United States and Israel, where he held different technical and business positions. He most recently served as vice president and director of the digital signal processing (DSP) platforms organization at Motorola.

Marino obtained his MSEE degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania.

Patrick Moorhead is vice president of global marketing for the Microprocessor Business Unit of the Computation Products Group at AMD.

Moorhead joined AMD in 2000 as vice president of desktop and mobile strategic marketing for the Computation Products Group at AMD. One year later, he assumed the position of vice president of customer advocacy, leading AMD’s ongoing programs to put end users at the forefront of the industry’s technology discussions.

Prior to joining AMD, Moorhead held a variety of marketing leadership positions spanning consumer and enterprise computer hardware, software, and services at Compaq Computer Corporation, AT&T, and the AltaVista Company. Moorhead holds a bachelor of science in business from Miami University.

Steve has spent the last 20 years in this business. He’s an art director who writes and a creative director who has finally learned to creatively direct, instead of just doing it himself. As co-founder of Red Tettemer, Steve has helped shape a wide array of media and entertainment brands. He believes people are smart and advertising should be too and that a true martini is made with gin. Some day he’ll settle down and start painting again, which is what his dad says he should have done all along.

Beyond touching the creative work for every client of the agency, Steve has worked on a wide range of brands in his career, including Comcast, HBO, ESPN, Cartoon Network, The Philadelphia Daily News, PA Department of Tourism, and Ringling Brother’s Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Greg Wilfahrt is executive vice president and co-founder of SMS.ac. Mr. Wilfahrt heads the corporate communication and public relation efforts at SMS.ac and assists in developing the company's strategic roadmap. Prior to his arrival at SMS.ac, Mr. Wilfahrt was vice president of public relations at MP3.com, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Vivendi Universal in mid-2001. He also served as senior vice president of communications at Ubrandit.com, another a publicly traded company.

Mr. Wilfahrt earlier founded WWC, an award-winning advertising, public relations and marketing agency that was sold in 1999. He has addressed members of Congress on several occasions on issues related to the distribution of digital content over the Internet and most recently, on content deliverable to mobile devices. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from San Diego State University.

In June 2002, Jim Williams joined the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) Office of Technology as vice president, television and video systems standards. In this role, Jim leads the Association’s participation in a broad range of television and video engineering standards-setting activities, and works proactively with the consumer electronics and computer industries to safeguard motion picture content in future products.

Prior to joining the MPAA, Jim spent nearly 20 years with Hughes/DIRECTV, advancing from a skilled hardware, software and chip designer to a seasoned entertainment executive responsible for up to 300 employees and up to 70 development engineers.  In 1997, he led the business start-up of DIRECTV Japan, the fastest full-scale direct broadcast satellite start-up in history. Jim returned to the United States to lead the first nationwide HDTV service in 1998. Starting in 1999, Jim led the DIRECTV set-top box development team.

Jim holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from California State University, Long Beach.

Jim holds 9 patents in digital television technologies with another 9 patents pending.

Udi Yuhjtman possesses years of senior management experience in developing and promoting new technologies and has been with Jungo from the company’s early years. Jungo develops residential/SOHO gateway software for broadband CPE manufacturers, and Jungo-powered gateways are currently deployed in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Prior to joining Jungo, Mr. Yuhjtman served as the vice president of engineering at Chip Express, where he was personally responsible for spearheading and managing all prototyping activities, engineering services, and customer support. While at Chip Express, he approved the design and production of over 1000 ASICs, and his contribution helped Chip Express grow from a start-up to a $40-million revenue generating company. Mr. Yuhjtman holds a BSc in computer science from the Technion, Haifa.

Workshop Speakers, Special Luncheon Panel

Jeff Abramowitz is the senior director of marketing in Broadcom’s Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit. Since joining the company in January 2002, he has led Wi-Fi strategy, business development, product management, product marketing, and customer support as the business has gone from new market entrant to market share leader.

Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Abramowitz was the director of the PRISM/home product line for Intersil’s Wireless Networking Division. He joined Intersil in June 2000 through the company’s acquisition of NoWires Needed BV, where he had been vice president for worldwide marketing and was responsible for the company’s Silicon Valley operations.

Previously, Mr. Abramowitz was the director of product management for 3Com’s Wireless Connectivity Division. He served over five years in various marketing roles at 3Com. Prior to joining 3Com, Mr. Abramowitz was the Radio Systems Group engineering manager for CellNet Data Systems, a wireless data communication systems company.

Mr. Abramowitz helped found the Wireless LAN Association (WLANA) in 1996 and served as its president from 1996 through 2001. In 1999, he helped found what is now known as the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization responsible for certifying and promoting interoperability among wireless LAN products.

Mr. Abramowitz earned an MBA from Stanford University, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Anderson has worked on IEEE 1394 for nine years, including seven years on the board of the 1394 TA and two years as chairman. On behalf of the TA he has presented worldwide on 1394 in general, on specific protocols such as SBP-2, and has participated extensively in interoperability events. Dr. Anderson also contributed to key 1394 standards such as 1394a, 1394b, Open HCI, and SBP-2. He is an engineering manager at Apple Computer and a member of IEEE and ACM.

Mr. Broockman serves Alereon as chief executive officer. He comes to the company from Legerity where he served as vice president and general manager of voice over broadband and executive in charge of the company's global marketing organization. Mr. Broockman has more than 23 years of leadership experience in the fabless semiconductor and communication IC industries, with specific experience in managing product development, customer and strategic marketing, branding, marketing communications, and public relations.

Before joining Legerity, Mr. Broockman served as CEO and president of Alchemy Semiconductor Inc., where he was instrumental in the fabless semiconductor company's successful spin-out from Cadence Design System's Austin Microprocessor Design Group, and the company's introduction of the world's highest performance, lowest power Internet edge processor system-on-a-chip (SOC). Prior to his tenure at Alchemy, Mr. Broockman held senior management positions at Cirrus Logic, where he was vice president and general manager of the Crystal Industrial and Communications Products Division. Before joining Cirrus Logic Mr. Broockman worked at IBM for 17 years. He held positions including DSP product line manager for IBM Microelectronics, product manager of High Bandwidth Systems, SNA architecture manager, senior technical staff member for IBM's networking products division, and senior design engineer, with expertise in bipolar and NMOS technologies.

Mr. Broockman holds eight U.S. patents and was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He graduated from the University of Florida with BS and MS degrees in engineering.

Bill McFarland has served as chief technology officer since October 2004. Until October 2004 Mr. McFarland served as director of algorithms and architecture. In this role, he led a team developing digital signal processing algorithms, defined radio and digital architectures, and represented Atheros in regulatory and standardization efforts.

Prior to joining Atheros, Mr. McFarland spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard Labs leading research on mixed-signal ASICs. During his last six years at HP, he directed the wireless-circuit research effort. In this role, he managed a team that developed one of the world's first CMOS integrated radios. Mr. McFarland has an MSEE from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BSEE from Stanford University.

panelists

Robert Acker is vice president of music services. He is responsible for developing the company's world-class music and video products and services, including RealPlayer, the RealPlayer Music Store, RadioPass, and the award-winning Rhapsody service. Before joining Real in 2004, Mr. Acker was a founding member of the XM Satellite Radio team. As vice president of product development and planning at XM Satellite Radio, he directed all aspects of the company's development of the world's first consumer satellite radio.

In addition to holding an MBA from Harvard, Mr. Acker also holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from MIT.

Eric Barker been managing or advising high technology companies in Canada for over 20 years. As the trade and investment commissioner for the Canadian government, Eric helped numerous communications companies find investment capital and build their businesses in overseas markets. He was also the director of technology development for the Department of Communications in addition to founding his own successful businesses and working for Price Waterhouse Coopers as a business consultant specializing in intellectual property.

Eric has been with Corinex for three years and has contributed to building the company into the market leader in the powerline industry (48% market share as per In-Stat/MDR). He was instrumental in Corinex obtaining the industry’s first volume order (30,000 units) of 200 Mbps AV powerline technology for an IP TV rollout by the third largest telco in the world.

Mr. Barker holds an honours degree in economics and business from Carleton University in Ontario, Canada.

Behrens is a serial entrepreneur working with his sixth start-up company - three of which are now public companies and the other two were acquired by other technology companies. Prior to Orb Networks, Behrens held the following positions: chief executive office at Snaketech, president of SIS Microelectronics, and executive vice president of engineering at Applied Medical. He also held senior management roles at Cadence Design Systems for nine years and executive positions with technology companies for the last 15 years in management, sales management, engineering, and marketing. Behrens holds two U.S. patents and a bachelor of science degree in physical science from Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO.

Aaron Bernstein is a senior product manager for the BREW Developer Relations team at QUALCOMM Internet Services (QIS). QIS is the QUALCOMM division responsible for QUALCOMM's BREW® solution and Eudora® email client, and is chartered with driving development of next-generation wireless data applications, technologies and value-added services.

Aaron manages the games segment, along with the 3D and video technology segments. He works closely with third-party publishers and developers to assist in their development for the BREW solution.

Prior to joining QUALCOMM in 2003, Bernstein worked at PacketVideo, RealNetworks, and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting.

Anne Marie Biernacki is founder and CTO of Digiticians, provider of software and automated remote managed services simplifying people’s digital lives by managing their personal technology. She has over 20 years experience in technology leadership positions and was selected as one of ten “Women to Watch” in 2005 by Mass High Tech. Prior to Digiticians, she was VP/CTO and member of the original management team of FuelSpot, a venture-backed B-to-B exchange and supply chain enabler in petroleum commodities. Prior to FuelSpot, Anne Marie was a founding team member of an “e-health” transaction and services pioneer Avicenna Systems Corp. / Care InSite, subsequently bought by Healtheon / Web MD. Previously, she consulted to numerous Federal research programs in optical signal processing for companies including The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC) and Photon Research Associates. She was also a researcher in small entrepreneurial ventures focused on commercializing optical signal processing technologies under the government’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant program.

Anne Marie holds a master’s degree with additional graduate work in electrical engineering from Tufts University, a bachelor’s in electrical engineering with honours from the University of Dayton, and was a Draper Fellow at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Anne Marie has been an active member of The Commonwealth Institute as well as the New England Women Business Owners association, and other industry organizations and standards groups over time, including Mass eComm and the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange of the American Petroleum Institute.

Andrew Bovingdon is a user interface and Web expert with more than 14 years experience in the field. He is a leading supporter of digital home entertainment and automation and a champion for the delivery of rich interactive media and services through the television.

As head of marketing and product management for ANT Software Limited, Andrew is responsible for identifying and developing new worldwide market opportunities for ANT’s unique portfolio of browser, user interface and digital-media management products and services. Andrew has a global remit to drive product development, develop technology partnerships and direct marketing initiatives to meet the changing needs of ANT's key markets, especially to help build on ANT’s leading position in the IPTV and broadband TV industry and to build the company’s position in the consumer electronics markets.

Andrew previously held worldwide marketing and product management positions with Microsoft Research Cambridge, Tarantella Inc. and Santa Cruz Operation. He received a BSc in computer science from Staffordshire University.

ANT Software Limited is a leading provider of proven browser technology to broadband TV and networked home entertainment markets. With extensive global IPTV deployments and the chosen browser supplier for Alcatel middleware, ANT’s software enables device manufacturers and TV operators to present digital content and services to end users via branded interfaces. ANT currently has worldwide deployments with Pace, Samsung, Sagem, Amino, Alcatel, Chunghwa Telecom, SaskTel and Kingston Communications.

David Britts, partner, ComVentures, has extensive experience advising, building, and investing in leading communications technologies companies. His most recent investments focus on emerging technologies that are solving some of the broadcast and entertainment industry’s toughest problems. For example, infrastructure company Exavio has completely redefined the real-time post-production process for editing uncompressed HDTV and is enabling new methods for distributing personalized TV and other video content over IP. Portfolio company CHIPS & Systems’ revolutionary new chipset enables TV set-top boxes to decode content in any video format, so that for the first time, studios and content providers can deliver video directly to consumers, and protect that content in new ways.

David’s current board seats include Celestial, CHIPS & Systems, Exavio, and Jaalaa. His past board seats include HotRail (acquired by Conexant), Narus, and PortalPlayer (NASDAQ: PLAY). David previously worked with JP Morgan Partners as general partner and the global head of its communications, semiconductors, and storage technology venture group. He was a founding member of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) Technology Group, which later became a part of Credit Suisse First Boston. There, David established the global communications equipment practice, advising and investing in numerous early-stage companies. David holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

John Canning is a member of Microsoft’s Windows eHome Division, a group within Microsoft whose goal is to develop new technologies that enable consumers to enjoy personalized entertainment, communications and information experiences in ways that enrich and simplify consumer’s home environment. Canning currently leads external evangelism for Applications and Services for eHome. As technical evangelist, Canning works external third parties in the areas of media and data distribution, DRM, content, whole home control, and services. John also manages a team that drives the 3rd party developer program, manages technical support and training for the field.

Prior to joining the Windows eHome Division, Canning served as third-party product manager for Microsoft’s TV Platforms Group. In that position he worked with companies to develop and manage compelling new network services for cable operators and to help them increase operational efficiencies and customer service.

Before he came to Microsoft in 1997, Canning held various marketing and engineering positions with Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., where he participated in product development and implementation of cable modem systems as applications architect and systems engineer.

Canning earned a master’s degree in information design and technology and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His expertise ranges from worldwide communication and media issues to broadcast and broadband technologies and services.

Sanjay Castelino oversees all industry and technical marketing activities for Motive’s communications and enterprise management solutions, which include products for broadband, home networking, IP voice and video services, and business applications. Before joining Motive, he held management consulting positions with A.T. Kearney and Andersen Consulting LLP, where he developed business and customer service strategies for global manufacturing, telecommunications and health care clients. Mr. Castelino earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master of business administration from Cornell University.

Arnon Catalan is the COO of Gteko Ltd., a leader in ease-of-use and support software for the digital home. As COO, Arnon is responsible for Gteko's ongoing operations and strategic relationships, focusing on helping the company grow through new business initiatives and strategic partnerships. Arnon joined Gteko in 2003 as the company's VP of business development. Prior to joining the company, he served as vice president at AIG Orion Venture Capital Fund, executing investments that focus on Internet and Information Technologies. Arnon holds a Master of Business Administration from Insead University in Fontainebleu, France, and an LLB from The Tel Aviv University.

Rajeev Chand serves as the director of research and senior equity research analyst for wireless technologies at Rutberg & Company. Mr. Chand leads the firm's coverage of the wireless industry, including research on venture capital and merger and acquisition activity. Mr. Chand's roles include: developing thought capital on new technologies, providing counsel to potential investors and acquirers, and evaluating transaction opportunities. Most recently, Mr. Chand served as director of research for iSherpa Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm. Previously, Mr. Chand served as a strategy consultant with Accenture. He earned an undergraduate business degree from the Wharton School of Business.

Rob Chandhok is vice president of engineering for QUALCOMM MediaFLO. In this role, he is responsible for the technical architecture and development of MediaFLO.

Chandhok joined QUALCOMM in 2000 as director of engineering in QUALCOMM’s Eudora Products group, where he was responsible for supporting strategic development for a variety of Eudora products. He then served as senior director of business development for the QUALCOMM Internet Services (QIS) division, followed by his role as vice president of technology for QChat, a push-to-talk VoIP technology for 3G CDMA networks.

Before joining QUALCOMM, Chandhok served as president of Within Technology for seven years after founding the company in 1993. He worked as a research computer scientist at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science for more than 10 years, before leaving to found Within Technology. While at Carnegie Mellon, Chandhok was published in the research areas of programming systems and computer-supported collaborative work.

Chandhok holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

David Cohen is a senior product marketing manager with Broadcom Corporation specializing in wireless and security technologies. He is also a founder and was recently chairman of the Wi-Fi Alliance (formerly WECA, the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance), the industry trade group that promotes Wi-Fi and certifies products as Wi-Fi interoperable. David Cohen is an industry leader in the Wi-Fi wireless LAN market. In his current position as Chairman of the Alliance's Security Committee, he has helped to spearhead Wi-Fi Protected Access™ (WPA), which is now a requirement for secure deployments of Wi-Fi.

Prior to joining Broadcom, Mr. Cohen was wireless product manager at 3Com where he developed their first wireless LAN system, including the Access Point 6000 and XJACK PC Card, bringing several innovative features to market for the first time.

Mr. Cohen has spoken on and chaired numerous Wi-Fi panels at various conferences, and has been frequently quoted in the press. He was named Co-Person of the Year 2001, by Mobile Computing and Communications Magazine and in March 2002 was awarded the "Outstanding Leadership as Chairman of the Board of Directors" award by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance.

CNET's editor-at-large Brian Cooley lives with technology, reporting on its best uses to make your life more efficient, fun, and productive. He's our resident expert on what happens when the rubber meets the road in consumer electronics and personal technology.

He first became known as "The Voice of Technology" through his work on CNET Radio. Now, after nine years at CNET, he bridges the gap between technology and the real world in his online video reports that show what works, what doesn't, and how to make it all fit in your life -- not just in theoretical market demographics.

Most recently, Cooley was asked to create a helpful series called “CNET Tips for Digital Living” where he explains HDTV and home theater systems and provides tips to help consumers choose the products that will best fit their lifestyles. Through a partnership between CNET and Premier Retail Networks, Inc. Cooley reaches out to new technology-interested consumer segments offline by showing them the value of his expertise while they are making complicated and expensive purchase decisions. The videos are shown in television departments in leading nationwide retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, and Sears.

In between producing product videos, Cooley speaks at several conferences and appears on several broadcast outlets including CNN Headline News, CNBC, MSNBC, KPIX (SF/Bay Area CBS Affiliate), and KRON (SF/BayArea Channel 4). He is also often called upon by print publications to offer his advice on the latest technology products and trends.

Earlier in his career, Cooley served as news director at broadcast market leaders KMEL/San Francisco and KKBT/Los Angeles. Just prior to joining CNET, he was morning host and Web evangelist at KPIX /San Francisco.

Joe Dada founded Smarthome in 1992. Since its inception, Dada has helped Smarthome grow from a handful of products to an integrated distributor of more than 5,000 electronic home improvement products. Dada has been instrumental in driving Smarthome’s outstanding growth over the last 12 years in both revenues and customer base. Smarthome was the first electronic home improvement company on the Internet and the first to create a dedicated business-to-business division, SmarthomePro. Dada belongs to the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a forum for executives to exchange ideas, learn and share strategies to achieve personal and professional growth and success, and he currently serves as director. Dada holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. As an expert in home automation, Dada has been invited to speak at numerous conferences, including the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Wireless Sensing Solutions, Electric West, National Hardware Show, International Wireless Symposium, Connections, Electronic House Expo, and The Networked Home.

Eric Dewannain has been with Texas Instruments since 1992 and is the worldwide director of business development for the Broadband Communications Group based in Dallas, Texas. His function is to spot, incubate, and grow new businesses in the broadband segment. He is an active board member of the CEA Home Network and Information Technology Division.

Prior to this assignment he was general manager of TI’s cable modem business and was European DSP business manager based in Nice, France before then.

Eric received his MSEE from French Engineer school in 1984 and MBA from University of Phoenix in 1991.

Prior to working for Texas Instruments, he was with Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, as Pentium circuit design manager.

Tim Dowling is president and CEO of Pure Networks, the leading creator of home networking software and services. Tim brings 20 years of experience building new technology businesses and launching software and Internet services including Voice over IP, cellular data communication, and consumer technology products. Tim spent 14 years at Intel Corporation in a variety of roles, including leading Intel’s consumer Internet initiatives.

Mark Evensen co-founded Entone in 1999 after architecting the world’s first commercial video over DSL service at Cable & Wireless Hong Kong. Mark has been deploying end-to-end telco video services for nearly 15 years starting with TV Answer in the early 1990s, followed by Bell Atlanta, Cable & Wireless, and dozens of carriers while at Entone.

Alain Fernando-Santana leads the overall market strategy and operations for NetCentrex’ activities in the Americas. He was formerly a vice president of Syseca Inc., a leading provider of software integration services for the telecommunications, energy, and transportation industries, and prior to that a vice president of Thomson Software Products, a multi-national software development company. Mr. Fernando-Santana has over 17 years of experience in executive management for U.S. and European-based high-technology companies in the RTOS, ATM, smart card, wireless cable, and data mining sectors.

Bruce Gitlin joined ContentGuard as part of its founding team. His current responsibilities include all business development, marketing and sales, and ContentGuard’s participation in standards. Prior to ContentGuard Gitlin was director, strategic alliances at Xerox where he was responsible for establishing alliances with key computer industry leaders. At Xerox, his responsibilities included VP strategy for the Office Systems Division and for the Office Products Division, VP and general manager, Personal Computer Division, and a range of positions in marketing, international strategy, and product and solutions development.

Douglas Glen has over twenty-five years of experience as a media and entertainment operating executive, followed by several years experience as a venture capitalist. Mr. Glen is been chief marketing officer of Zetera Corporation, developer of innovative technology for network storage systems. Previously, he was a managing partner in ProVen Private Equity, a London-based venture capital firm specializing in media and entertainment investments.

From 1994 through 1999, Mr. Glen was senior vice president, business development and strategic planning, for toymaker Mattel. While at Mattel, Mr. Glen directed the formation of the company’s girl’s software division, which created some of the best-selling entertainment software titles of all time, building on the company’s flagship Barbie brand. He was also responsible for the Intel-Mattel joint venture which produced high tech toys under the Intel Play brand.

Prior to Mattel, Mr. Glen was group vice president for marketing and business development at Sega of America. There he was responsible for the company’s branding and licensing and for the extension of its Sonic the Hedgehog property into an animated television show. Also at Sega, he formed Sega Channel, a joint venture with Time-Warner and TCI, which delivered video games over cable television.

Before then, Mr. Glen was general manager of Lucasarts Entertainment, the entertainment software division of George Lucas’ film company. There, he supervised the development and marketing of best-selling computer and video games, which extended Lucas properties such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Young Indiana Jones. Previously, Mr. Glen founded an advertising agency, which was sold to D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, where he remained for the next five years, supervising many of the agency’s media and entertainment accounts. Mr. Glen completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA and PhD from Somerset University.

For more than 15 years as a successful high-tech entrepreneur, Josh Goldman has combined his passion for breakthrough technology with his ability to create innovative business models for high-growth companies. He joins Akimbo, the first Internet-to-TV video on demand service, from Sprout Group venture capital, where he was the firm’s first entrepreneur-in-residence, working to develop business ideas for new high-tech companies.

Prior to Sprout Group, Josh served as president and chief executive officer of mySimon, Inc., the largest comparison-shopping service on the Internet. He oversaw the growth of mySimon into a major consumer e-commerce site, culminating in the sale of the company to CNET Networks. He then stayed on as president of CNET’s consumer division. Josh received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in computer science from Tufts University.

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.

Geoff Graber is general manager of Yahoo! Games (http://games.yahoo.com), one of the primary offerings in Yahoo!’s Media and Entertainment business unit. Graber oversees the strategy and business direction for Yahoo! Games, including content creation, business development, web site production, marketing and engineering. Yahoo! Games is currently the No. 1 games site on the Web according to MediaMetrix and hosts more than 22 million unique users and 8 billion minutes of game play per month.

Before heading up Yahoo! Games, Graber lead business development for Yahoo! Mobile. He was responsible for establishing partnerships with wireless carriers, handset OEMs and content developers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Qualcomm, Nokia, and others. Graber also spearheaded the key initiative to build a mobile games business for Yahoo!.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Graber spent more than 10 years in the interactive entertainment industry. In 1995, he launched Electronic Arts’ operation in China and served as the managing director in the region until 1998. Under Graber’s leadership, EA was the first company in the video games industry to enter the China market. Over the next three years, the division achieved a dominant market position and record sales each year, despite rampant piracy.

Graber left EA to co-found Muse Corporation, a provider of a software platform for broadband entertainment content and services. While too early for the market, Muse demonstrated the potential for next-generation “beyond the browser” internet applications. Graber raised over $12m for the company and built relationships with leading broadband and entertainment players in Hollywood and Asia, as well as major games and technology companies worldwide.

Next, Graber developed a background in the mobile entertainment space, consulting for clients such as Nokia China, Moviso (a Vivendi Universal company now owned by InfoSpace), and several mobile game developers while considering starting his own game development firm and before joining Yahoo.

Graber began his career in venture capital. He held top-level positions at BankAmerica Capital Corp. and IDG China Ventures. He also founded IQI Accessories, a developer of innovative laptop computer products, and has helped numerous startup companies create business plans and raise seed capital.

Graber holds a BA in East Asian studies and business from the University of California, Los Angeles. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and lives in San Mateo, CA with his wife, Ellen.

Mr. Greenhall is responsible for corporate strategy and overall strategic direction at DivX, which he has grown from a small start-up with a handful of employees into a thriving, profitable company on the cutting edge of video technology. DivX technology has been downloaded over 160 million times and powers a range of applications from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products. Prior to founding DivX, Mr. Greenhall was vice president at MP3.com, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the company's business and content development model. He also served as a strategic consultant with INTERVU, a premiere streaming media services provider.

Mr. Greenhall graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997 and summa cum laude from Texas A&M in 1994.

Jon Hambidge is the head of global marketing for IPWireless. He oversees all of IPWireless' marketing efforts as well as the development of strategic distribution partnerships. Hambidge joined IPWireless in April 2001 and brings a strong background and understanding of the broadband services market.

Prior to joining IPWireless, Hambidge guided the marketing efforts of NorthPoint Communications, a national DSL provider in the United States. He oversaw the management of channel marketing programs for NorthPoint’s more than 200 ISP resellers, the development and launch of NorthPoint’s successful “Living and Working Broadband” advertising campaign, and strategic marketing partnerships with Microsoft, Yahoo, and many other leading Internet companies. Hambidge was also responsible for the development of the company's going-to-market strategy as NorthPoint launched service in over 50 markets nationally. Before NorthPoint, Hambidge spent over seven years at Schwab, where he was responsible for the launch of two products in the market.

Hambidge holds an MBA from The Haas School of Business, the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor of arts in economics and rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Frank Hanzlik is managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance and an 18 year veteran of the wireless industry.

Prior to the Wi-Fi Alliance, Frank was vice president of marketing and product management at Mobilian Corporation, a fabless semiconductor start-up company. As an early member of the executive team, he built the marketing and sales organization, successfully positioning Mobilian as an early leader in multi-standard wireless chipsets, and launching the world’s first chipset to support the simultaneous operation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Before joining Mobilian, Frank was a senior manager at Dell Computer Corporation, where he built a communications product marketing organization to support Dell’s $11 billion dollar consumer and small business product lines. There, he launched several market leading products in wireless, home networking, and broadband, including the company’s first Wi-Fi product in 1999, an industry first.

Prior to Dell, Frank spent 11 years at Motorola in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in the sales and marketing of cellular and land mobile radio products. Frank holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management and an undergraduate in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. He has been a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance since 2000.

Mr. Haraldsvik brings 15 years of strategy and global marketing experiences to Flarion. His focus is to market Flarion to market-makers and industry influencers, through analysts and press relations and other tactics for market education. Mr. Haraldsvik has held executive positions with several Fortune 250 technology companies.

Before joining Flarion in Fall of 2001, Mr. Haraldsvik was the vice president of marketing and field communications with Nortel Networks, the Shasta IP Services business unit. In this role, Mr. Haraldsvik was responsible for world wide positioning of the Shasta 5000 Broadband Service Node (BSN) and awareness building for value added, network-based services that drive profitable Internet business cases.

Prior to Shasta Networks (Nortel/Shasta IP Services), Mr. Haraldsvik was the director of Americas regional marketing with Nortel Networks, Enterprise Solutions. Preceding Nortel Networks, Mr. Haraldsvik helped create and build the North American Marketing Organization (NAMO) with Bay Networks, providing marketing and sales support for 1,500 field sales people. Mr. Haraldsvik industry background includes an additional eight years of advertising and public relations agency accomplishments, working with Fortune 500 clients in Silicon Valley, California. Mr. Haraldsvik holds a BA in business administration from University of San Francisco (USF), California.

As president, Harris is responsible for operational vision and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Digital 5, Harris served as vice president of global software strategy for the Consumer Division of STMicroelectronics. He joined ST following the acquisition of the consumer division of Ravisent Technologies of which Harris was the founder and CTO since its inception in 1994. While at Ravisent, he was involved in several private funding rounds and a successful IPO, leading to an eventual valuation of nearly $1B. During his time there, Ravisent secured design wins for its DVD technology with most premier PC and consumer electronics OEMs.

Prior to Ravisent, Harris served in executive or technical roles at numerous small companies and start-ups. Harris graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer and electrical engineering.

Christof Heidelberger is the founder and technological visionary behind leading media networking platform provider BridgeCo AG in Switzerland. He formed the company five years ago and, as chief executive, successfully led BridegCo’s growth to multi-million dollar revenue and a professional headcount of 60. His vision of cost-effective media networking in the home led directly to three rounds of equity financing from top-tier U.S. and European venture capital and corporate investors, including Benchmark Capital, Cipio Partners (formally Infineon Venture), Earlybird, Fidelity Ventures, and Intel Capital. Mr. Heidelberger has also managed the company’s transition from its initial development stage through the expansion of its executive suite to include managers experienced in corporate governance of major enterprises. Mr. Heidelberger continues as BridgeCo’s CTO, where he guides the company’s product and technology development, focusing on fast growing mass-market applications for media networking.

A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Heidelberger founded two other companies prior to founding BridgeCo. He established Heidelberger Engineering in 1985 to design equipment and systems for professional audio. Among its many projects are Apogee Electronics' award-winning filters, Goldmund's digital audio products, and the digital signal processing system for the Wembley Arena Stadium in London. And Mr. Heidelberger was a founder of Professional Audio Systems, which was successfully sold in 1982. Mr. Heidelberger was VP engineering at Schmid Telecom, Zurich, responsible for developing Schmid's industry-leading DSL modems and air traffic control systems (ICS) communication system. He also worked in management positions for and Electro-Voice (Michigan, USA) and Soundcraft Electronics (London, UK).

The holder of two patents, Mr. Heidelberger is a graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH) with an MS degree in electrical engineering.

Rob Hull is the VP business development for the Technology and Innovation team within the British Telecom Group CTO. He heads up the Innovation Scouting function whose role is to identify, qualify, then introduce innovative technologies, propositions, and business models into the BT lines of business. The team reports back on U.S. market trends and help manage BT's small venture capital activity.

He is the author of BT’s external venturing strategy and plays a major role in the evaluation of innovative technologies and propositions with a view to their strategic fit within BT. He then leads the initial business development activity into BT.

Rob worked in BT’s Group Strategy and Development Department for 15 months being heavily involved with BT’s strategy on Application Service Provision and API utilisation.

Immediately before this, he was head of marketing and business development for one of BT's major business sales units where he had had a number of sales and marketing roles over a period of 10 years.

Rob has a master's degree in electronic systems engineering and has lived in the Bay Area with his wife and three young children since September 2000.

As the director of product marketing for SupportSoft’s broadband solutions, Marc Itzkowitz defines SupportSoft’s product and partnership strategy for these growing industries. With six of the top seven North American broadband service providers (BSPs) standardizing on SupportSoft’s automated support solutions, Itzkowitz is helping to remove the "geek factor" from technology and make high-speed access, home networking and digital cable as ubiquitous to everyday consumers as the telephone.

Itzkowitz’s motto is “Technology exists for people. People don’t exist for technology.” He feels that today’s complex broadband and digital video technology is being developed faster than people can support it. SupportSoft has solved this game of catch-up through automated service and support. Itzkowitz is committed to this "self-help" approach because it solves a problem that all technology users face both at home and at work.

Prior to joining SupportSoft, Itzkowitz was most recently responsible for running the day-to-day operations of SeniorNetConnect, which focuses on developing and deploying new technologies to get seniors online. Previously, he worked for Informix Software where he created and executed its mergers and acquisitions strategy. Itzkowitz was previously a market technologist for Corporate Market Research at General Motors Corporation.

Itzkowitz received his Bachelor of Science degree in information systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University.

In his spare time, Itzkowitz enjoys spending time with his family of four. He also enjoys cooking, traveling, reading classic humor, and fine dining.

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 14 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, closed its first round of institutional financing in August 2004 from San Diego's Windward Ventures. Iverson was a 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year finalist.

Seth Kenvin joined BigBand Networks from the venture capital firm Cedar Fund where he worked from its founding. Before Cedar, he was with venture capital firm Venrock Associates. Kenvin was a senior editor of The Red Herring magazine and was previously a member of the high technology corporate finance group of Bear, Stearns & Co. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University. Kenvin serves as treasurer and a board member for the Silicon Valley / Pacific Northwest chapter of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).

Gary Langille is responsible for industry alliance and standards programs at Echostar Technologies Corporation as part of the Systems Engineering organization. He is currently representing Echostar in the MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) field test and certification working groups. Prior to joining Echostar, Gary was director, alliance and new business development for Eastman Kodak's Commercial Imaging Group. His responsibilities included the development and licensing of advanced imaging technology to Kodak alliance partners. Prior to this assignment Gary was the general manager of Kodak's Advanced Imaging Development Center located in Lowell, MA. He was responsible for research, development, marketing, and sales of color imaging products and technologies. Gary holds a BSEE and MS in engineering management from Northeastern University.

Jeremy is a principal with Bessemer Venture Partners, which carries on one of the longest-standing venture capital activities in the country. In 1911, Henry Phipps established what was to become Bessemer Securities Corporation (BVP's principal limited partner) as an investment firm for the benefit of his descendants, starting with his share of the proceeds from the sale of Carnegie Steel. Since its inception, a central component of Bessemer Securities' charter has been to invest in and help build innovative, high-growth companies. Some of the companies that Bessemer helped establish or build in the early days include W. R. Grace, International Paper, and Ingersoll-Rand.

At Bessemer, Jeremy focuses primarily on software and services investments. In addition to co-leading Bessemer’s investments in Gerson Lehrman Group and Determina, he serves on the Board of Gracenote and eEye Digital Security.

Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was vice president of operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher. Jeremy joined Dash from AEA Investors, a private equity firm with an expertise in leveraged and management buyouts, where he specialized in consumer products and light industrials in the U.S. and in Europe. Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company.

Jeremy graduated from Duke University with a BS in computer science and economics.

Dr. Paul F. Liao holds the positions of vice president and chief technology officer for the Panasonic Corporation of North America, and is the President of its Panasonic R&D Company of America. In these positions, Dr. Liao is responsible for technology direction and R&D for Panasonic’s North American operations. Dr. Liao serves on the board of directors of the Panasonic Foundation as well as several Panasonic companies, is a member of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council, and serves on the Consumer Electronics Association’s Technology Advisory Group.

Prior to joining Panasonic, Dr. Liao held a number of positions at Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore) and Bell Laboratories including as the Vice President for Emerging Networks, Assistant Vice President of the Solid State Research Laboratory, the Network Systems Research Laboratory, and of the Network Architecture and Foundations Center.

Dr. Liao is a past president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal. He is a former editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, and has been Co-Editor for the Academic Press Series entitled Quantum Electronics. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Home Alliance, and of the Board of Trustees of Brookdale Community College located in Lincroft, New Jersey.

Dr. Liao is a fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America and was part of the Leadership New Jersey Class of 1989.

Robert P. Lilleness is the president and chief operating officer of Universal Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ: UEIC) a leading provider of wireless home and digital control technology. The $150+MM technology company develops software, integrated microchips, and turnkey solutions for the cable/satellite, consumer electronics, and computer industry. The company is based in Orange County, California, and has offices around the world.

Prior to Universal, Lilleness served as vice president of product management and marketing at Trilogy Software Inc., a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, that develops and markets e-business software for Global 2000 corporations. Lilleness also served on Trilogy's management board that oversaw all aspects of the company's sales, marketing and operations.

Before Trilogy, Lilleness worked for the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) in a number of marketing, management and operational roles. His work was critical in the success of the Windows NT® Server and Microsoft BackOffice® businesses, and Microsoft's move into enterprise computing and Internet technologies.

Lilleness received his undergraduate degree from the University of Puget Sound and holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

As Mirra’s executive vice president of business development, Richard Mandeberg is charged with fostering new strategic business relationships and expanding existing ones. Before stepping into this role, Mandeberg led Mirra as CEO, launching the company and the first integrated content protection solution for the home and small office. He was responsible for striking relationships with key retail channels, resulting in Mirra’s distribution through Best Buy, Fry’s Electronics, and Dell, among others. He drove financing efforts for the company through two rounds of financing, bringing in Venture Strategy Partners and Sequoia Capital as major investors in the company.

Prior to Mirra, Mandeberg was president of Siren Technologies, where he drove the creation and distribution of broadband multimedia in retail for McDonalds and public environments. Siren’s software and retail multimedia appliances are used in both American and European retail markets. The company was sold to Publicis Groupe in 2000. Before Publicis Groupe, Mandeberg was vice president/director of digital marketing at Frankel & Co. and President of Editel Chicago, where he expanded core competencies to include emerging technology opportunities in multimedia and the Internet.

In his 20+ years of pioneering the development of digital media technology and leading small and established companies, he has observed the convergence of broadband with digital devices. He envisions a technology need for home users that reaches beyond storage and into automatic backup and access of home digital content.

Mandeberg holds a BA degree in film and computer imaging from the University of Michigan.

Francesca Mari holds a degree in public relations and in business administration.

She started working as a project manager in the telecommunication industry, with Pacific Bell Wireless (now Cingular, CA, USA) and Vodafone (Italy).

In 2000 she joined Fastweb where, as a marketing manager, she worked on the launch of the first Italian video-on-demand channels: Rai Click, which today offers over 4,000 titles from RAI's archives, and ONtv, that offers movies and other on-demand content, premium channels, PPV events, and interactive formats such as quizzes, interactive fiction, t-shopping, and interactive advertising.

Recently, Francesca took the responsibility of Planning and Analysis group in Information Technology.

Alexander is responsible for Intel Capital’s strategic investment strategies and related investments in the areas of Digital Media & Entertainment, part of Intel Capital’s Digital Home fund. Currently, Alexander devotes much of his time to defining strategies in Premium Content Services & Distribution and next generation advertising models. Previously, Alexander was responsible for Intel Capital’s investments and related strategies in Education/E-Learning. Some of his investments include Zinio – provider of electronic magazines, Envivio – leading provider of H264 systems, and Gametrust – best known for the Gameframe platform for enabling tournament based gaming.

Prior to joining Intel Capital, Alexander was technical advisor to the senior vice president of Intel’s Interactive Media Services division where he advised on strategy. Previously, Alexander was controller for Intel’s Content Services division where he oversaw financial aspects of the division, including numerous investments in Europe, Japan, Asia, and Latin America. Alexander joined Intel Corporation in 1994 where he held various management roles prior to joining Intel Capital. Alexander holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he is also chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Visitors Board and serves as an advisor to the Entertainment Engineering program. He received his Master of Business Administration from Purdue University.

Gary Matos is the market development manager for Intel’s Digital Home Group. He is responsible for strategic product planning, definition, and marketing with an emphasis on the Digital Home. Gary also drives middleware and solution enabling with ODMs, PC OEMs, ISVs, and service providers.

Prior to his current position, Gary was the product line manager for Intel’s consumer wireless network adapters and gateways. He also served as the operations manager for Intel’s Small Business Network and Home Networking Operations where his organizations delivered worldwide manufacturing capabilities and distribution channels. As an Intel employee since 1987, Gary has held other positions at Intel in engineering and program management.

Gary has spoken on Digital Home Market Development at analyst debriefings, press interviews, and at Intel’s Developers Forum. He has also addressed audiences at Internet World, Digital Home, e-Show, Broadband Home, iWireless World, and Digital Hollywood. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Long Beach State University in California.

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products. Information about Intel is available from the company’s site on the World Wide Web at http://www.intel.com.

Matthew McRae serves as the Director of Service Provider Business Development for Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is responsible for positioning the company as a leader in the consumer broadband industry. This includes sales, business development, product definition, and channel strategy across the company’s Cable, DSL, VoIP and Home Networking product lines.

Prior to his work at Linksys, McRae consulted for several networking companies including Actiontec Electronics, BlueWave IP Networks, Intelenet Communications, and IP Global Solutions. He provided guidance and expertise in the areas of IP networking, product design, market positioning, value-added services, CPE strategy, deployment planning, and business models.

Previously, he led the marketing, product roadmap, and business development efforts at Infinilink Corporation, a start-up broadband CPE and software company. The company’s intellectual property helped bring down total cost of deployment for broadband services and McRae was instrumental in creating high-profile OEM, Telecommunication, and technology deals.

Before Infinilink, McRae was the director of new product development and marketing at Viking Components and was responsible for the company’s marketing efforts worldwide. He diversified the company away from memory and started Viking’s communications and broadband product lines.

Matt McRae has a degree in computer science engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in business from the Wharton School of Business.

Andy Melder joined Intellon as senior vice president, sales, marketing and business development in April 2004. With more than 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Andy has a proven record of technology company growth. Prior to joining Intellon, Andy was chief operating officer of Clarisay, Inc., a developer of uniquely manufactured integrated SAW filter modules for the cellular handset market.

Andy was also a founding member of Microtune, Inc., (NASDAQ:TUNE), a developer of broadband, wireless RF and analog-intensive integrated devices, targeting the automotive, home networking and consumer electronics markets. During his tenure at Microtune, Melder was Vice president of Sales & Marketing and later, Vice President of Business Development. Part of his responsibilities included identifying new technology platforms for the company’s strong RF and mixed-signal core competencies as well as corporate growth through the identification of strategic merger and acquisition opportunities. While at Microtune, the company expanded its presence in the cable infrastructure and home markets, as well as the wireless networking and consumer electronics sectors.

Additionally, Andy was also served as vice president, Sales, Marketing & Corporate Business Development of Tripath Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRPH). He was also a management team member which led the company to its IPO in 2000. He was the Director of Business Development of Cirrus Logic Inc’s (NASDAQ:CRUS) graphics business from 1995 to 1996, through an acquisition of Pixel Semiconductor, where he was also Director of Business Development.
Andy is a recognized expert in the communications and consumer electronics market and a frequently sought commentator on industry issues. He has spoken at a wide variety of venture & financial summits, educational forums, industry conferences and trade shows including: CES, Comdex, and the Western Cable Show.

He holds a BSEE/business from Carnegie–Mellon University, and a MSEE/operations Research from Southern Methodist University.

Ted Michaud is a distinguished member of the technical staff for Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector in the Consumer Entertainment Systems group.

Michaud joined Motorola Broadband, then General Instrument Corporation, in 1982 as a member of the engineering staff. A 21-year veteran to the CATV industry, he has served in various engineering positions for the company.

Michaud holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from College of New Jersey.

Per Nathanaelson is chief executive officer of Zensys, the leader in wireless networking technology for residential control and status reading applications. Before joining Zensys, Mr. Nathanaelson was a senior officer in C Technologies, a world leader in image processing. Prior to C Tech Mr. Nathanaelson held various positions over a ten year period with Philips in the U.K., U.S., Scandinavia, and the Netherlands. His most recent position was General Manager Nordic Region for Philips Components.

Richard Nesin is responsible for marketing CopperGate’s high performance multimedia home networking chipset products. He brings over 22 years of marketing experience in the communications semiconductor industry including pioneering work in home networking, Bluetooth, and 802.11 product areas. Prior to joining CopperGate, Richard held various strategic and marketing positions at Agere Systems and Lucent Technologies. Richard is also president of HomePNA, the industry organization responsible for developing and successfully driving ITU standardization of the HomePNA 3.0 specification.

Jeffrey Paine joined UTStarcom in April 2004, bringing with him over 20 years of high technology marketing expertise. Prior to joining UTStarcom, Jeff spent six years as a senior executive in the voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry. Most recently he was vice president of marketing and business development at Syndeo Corporation, a leading provider of softswitch and services platforms for the cable television industry. He was also one of the first 100 employees at Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for the creation and implementation of many of the company’s best-known marketing programs between 1989 and 1995, when he left as director of corporate marketing.

Before joining Cisco, Jeff held senior marketing positions at Intel Corporation and General Instrument. He holds a BA degree in communications from Brown University and an MA degree in communications from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the IEEE-CS and holds a Lifetime Teaching Credential from the California Community College System.

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.

Dr. Pence received a BS degree in physics from the University of Virginia in 1984 and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1989.

In 1989, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he held various technology management positions, overseeing basic research and commercialization of technology with IBM product divisions. Major programs under his direction included networking and communications technology, analog integrated circuit design, and digital media solutions. He guided pioneering work in 802.11 wireless LANs and wide-area wireless data technologies in the mid-1990’s, and managed technology commercialization efforts with IBM Microelectronics and the IBM PC Company for Fibre-Channel and infrared communication components. In the software area, he was responsible for research and development activities in the emerging digital media space, including work in content management, internet media (streaming audio/video), and pattern recognition. After moving to the IBM Software Group, he managed product initiatives in the areas of web content management and integration of rich media support across a number of IBM products, including Lotus Notes and Domino and WebSphere.

In 2000, Dr. Pence joined Universal Music Group as lead technologist for the online music initiative. In this role, he helped to form partnerships with technology providers, develop systems incorporating digital asset management, digital rights management, and reporting, and deploy early trials to test the systems and collect feedback. In 2001, he became Chief Technology Officer for pressplay, a joint venture between Sony and Vivendi Universal designed to offer an online music subscription service. In this capacity, he led the technical effort to bring the pressplay service to market, choose technology partners, and ensure the system was reliable and user friendly. In addition, he was responsible for charting the course of music download services to platforms beyond the PC, including wireless devices, set-tops, and game consoles.

In 2002, Roxio acquired pressplay and rebranded the service with the Napster name. Dr. Pence led the effort to build a legitimate service on the pressplay technology infrastructure, culminating in the relaunch of Napster in October, 2003. Most recently he led the effort which resulted in the world’s first portable music subscription service – Napster to Go.

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.

Jim Poder has been a senior engineer for advanced technology projects in Comcast’s New Media Development organization since July 2001.

His focus is to identify, investigate, and integrate emerging technologies which leverage the broadband and cable TV infrastructure. These services utilize Comcast’s high-speed two-way infrastructure and video distribution channels to provide new products and services. Before joining Comcast, Jim worked for a start-up technology company successfully designing and deploying packet radio networking equipment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jim graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He lives with his wife in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, and is expecting his first child in July.

Tom Powledge is the director of product management for the Consumer Products and Solutions team at Symantec, and he is responsible for the management of the Norton consumer product line. Powledge’s team determines product strategy, analyzes industry trends, and develops solutions to address customer needs. His team is also responsible for competitive assessment, product positioning and pricing.

Powledge joined Symantec in 1995 and served in various product management positions for the Norton-brand consumer software products. He also led the product strategy team in searching for new business opportunities for Symantec. Powledge has nine years in the industry and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Daniel Putterman is president and CEO of Mediabolic. He founded the company in 1999 and his leadership and vision have driven the company’s success.

Prior to Mediabolic, Putterman founded Maximum Information, Inc., the first enterprise Web management solution company, acquired by NetManage (NASDAQ: NETM) in 1996. He went on to co-found EoExchange, a supplier of Internet research solutions to vertical portals, one year later.

A technology industry veteran, Putterman held senior management positions at Borland International and Symantec Corporation and was responsible for product management, business development, and worldwide evangelism.

Reza first saw the need for a new approach to home monitoring in 1999 and founded iControl Networks in 2003 to execute that vision. Prior to iControl Reza was the director of business development at Echelon Corporation, a leading control and automation company. He joined the company in 1991 as one of the early employees and was involved in its first product launch, growth of the customer base to over 4,000, reaching profitability and a successful IPO in 1998. Prior to Echelon, Reza worked at IBM for four years as a development engineer as well as a member of an IBM Fellow group. Reza has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Electronics Association's Home Networking and IT Division as well as a Founding Board Member of the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) Steering Committee. Reza holds two US patents. He received a BSEE from State University of New York at Stony Brook and a MSEE from Cornell University.

Morikazu Sano serves as the vice president of product marketing and public relations for Buffalo Technology USA. In his role, Mr. Sano is responsible for building brand and company awareness, increasing sales and channel presence, overseeing product development and business development. With over 10 years of industry experience, Mr. Sano played a key role in the development of Buffalo Technology USA, a subsidiary of Melco Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Nagoya, Japan.

Mr. Sano began his career with Melco in Tokyo as an Account Sales Representative. He was promoted to product manager where he was responsible for developing retailers, sales and marketing plans for new products and establishing new OEM markets. As the sales and marketing manager of the Overseas Department at Melco, Mr. Sano was responsible for the company’s memory business in Asia and helped to grow the company’s memory sales to $45 million in 1999. In 2001, Mr. Sano was promoted to the vice president of Buffalo Technology, USA where he helped increase networking sales from $300,000 to over $12 million over a three-year period. Mr. Sano was responsible for launching the first 802.11b and 802.11g products as well as successfully launching Buffalo’s storage products in the U.S., which helped to grow the company’s storage sales to over $10 million in the first year.

Mr. Sano received a bachelor of arts in communications from California State University, Fullerton.

Juan C. Santiago leads the strategy, new market development, and regulatory efforts for Motorola's Wireless Broadband group. As director of strategy, he also guides the ongoing development of the Canopy(tm) line of WiMAX Forum Certified™ wireless broadband products, advises Internet service providers on business plans, and manages strategic relationships. Juan's 15-year career at Motorola also included various engineering and management positions with Motorola's radio, cellular, paging and wireless data communications businesses. Juan holds a master’s in electrical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has published several articles on wireless communications and is the holder of two U.S. patents.

A founder of DigitalDeck, Mr. Scheelke led development of the company's core patent-pending DigitalDeck Entertainment Network technology. Along with co-founder Ted Griggs, he played a pivotal role during DigitalDeck's start-up phase, forging key alliances and securing early-round funding. He currently oversees product development engineering and general operations.

Mr. Scheelke has more than 15 years of software development expertise. Prior to joining DigitalDeck, he held key product development positions with Omnis Technology Corporation, predecessor to Raining Data Corporation, a leading provider of software infrastructure and development tools. Mr. Scheelke served as business and development liaison to Omnis' Japanese distributor. He also headed the localization of Omnis Studio, a component-based, object-oriented RAD tool that allows the development of enterprise-wide client/server relationships. Mr. Scheelke's experience further includes seven years as an engineer at Apple Computer, where he had responsibilities for leading Apple products such as QuickTime and QuickDrawGX. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Mr. Smyers serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Digital Living Network Alliance and as president of DLNA Corporation.

Aside from his DLNA duties, Mr. Smyers is also vice president of the Network and Systems Architecture Division of the Platform Technology Center of America at Sony Electronics. Mr. Smyers’ particular area of focus is system architecture, system I/O and interfaces.

Through his leadership as chairman of the 1394 Trade Association's AV Working Group over the course of seven years, Mr. Smyers has served a pivotal role in bringing about a suite of standards that define consumer device discovery and control.

Mr. Smyers now also serves as the chairman of the CE Linux Forum Steering Committee, and has in the past served as CTO and member of the Board of Directors of the 1394 Trade Association and on the UPnP Steering Committee.

Mr. Smyers holds a BA in physics and philosophy from Cornell University.

Andrew Steele leads the worldwide marketing and business development initiatives for Terayon Communication Systems, including strategic market and business development, product marketing, product management and corporate communications.

Prior to joining Terayon, Andrew founded Steele Consulting, delivering strategic business consulting services to clients including Mailblocks - recently acquired by AOL - and Quinstreet, a leading provider of online direct and paid search advertising and marketing services. As vice president of sales at MetaTV, Andrew developed key strategic relationships with customers such as Comcast, Cox Communications, and EchoStart and helped raise over $65M in venture and strategic funding. At Microsoft’s MSTV division, Andrew managed the strategic business development initiatives including key corporate acquisitions, IP licensing agreements, and strategic investment in cable operators around the world. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, Andrew held strategic business development and finance roles at MCI, Pratt Industries, and Johnson Controls.

Andrew has been a featured speaker at leading digital media industry conferences, including Digital Hollywood, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the Entertainment Technology Alliance, and Parks Associates' Fall Focus. He is on the steering committee of the Innovations in Digital Advertising (ID!A) industry working group, and a member of the National Academy of Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Award Committee. Andrew received his bachelor of business administration in international finance and marketing from the University of Miami and his MBA from Georgia State University.

Mr. Steere is Matrix's vice president of sales & marketing, bringing to the company a unique blend of marketing skill, business strategy, and technology acumen. After graduating with a BA in computer science from Harvard University, Mr. Steere joined Citibank's Illinois Consumer Banking Business as a branch manager, driving new approaches to sales and local marketing, and the use of technology in retail banking.

After receiving an MBA from Stanford University, Mr. Steere joined Intel. At Intel, he held a series of marketing positions focused on mobile computing and the consumer electronics industry. As director, strategic integration operation, he cultivated Intel's corporate strategy for the consumer electronics industry. Following Intel, Mr. Steere became an early entrant into the business-to-business Internet market as business unit manager at pcOrder.com. In that role, he was responsible both for managing the company's key computer manufacturer relationships and for relaunching the company's core service, TechBuyer Online. Mr. Steere joined Matrix in February 1999. He is responsible for all Matrix sales and marketing activities and oversees Matrix's strategic relationships. In addition to his sales and marketing role, Mr. Steere has served as Matrix's acting CFO from 1999-2004.

Ron Stein has more than 25 years experience in business development, sales, and marketing in the telecommunications industry. As such, he has led many of the key business and marketing initiatives at companies such as Paradyne Networks, VideoServer, Motorola, and Racal-Datacom. Most recently at Solarics Business Solutions as Managing Partner, Ron led a team of people dedicated to accelerating market penetration and revenue generation for their clients.

At Paradyne Networks, Ron held the positions of VP and general manager of the Technology Business Group, sr. VP of marketing and business development, and vice president of sales for emerging markets where he developed and executed highly successful campaigns targeting service providers as well as reseller channels. Ron was also founder and principal consultant of ClearSight Communications in Atlanta where he worked with companies such as BellSouth, Sprint, Microsoft, and US Robotics, providing business and market development leadership to client companies.

Ron is a frequent speaker at telecommunications conferences and in his spare time serves as chairman of his town's of Business District Redevelopment Committee as well as a member of the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce committee for their beach economic impact study. Ron earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida.

As vice president of marketing for 2Wire, Brian Sugar is responsible for defining and executing 2Wire's strategy for delivering a triple play of data, voice, and media services. Brian oversees all product management, channel marketing, communication and creative services for all product lines and services.

Brian was founder and CEO of Sugar Media, a digital media software platform company, acquired by 2Wire in October 2003. Prior to Sugar Media, Brian served as chief Web officer at Kmart's bluelight.com, where he was responsible for technology, merchandising, and the customer experience. As vice president of eCommerce at J.Crew for 4 years, Brian led day to day operations and set the overall strategic direction for the business. Prior to J.Crew, Brian was a founder of Neptune Interactive, a Washington DC based ISP. Brian continually demonstrates an ability to manage business and technology organizations focused on delivering valuable solutions to meet the needs of the consumer.

Jonathan joined ICTV in 2000 and is responsible for managing the company's strategic relationships in the infrastructure and content areas while driving the company's product roadmap and marketing strategy.

Prior to joining ICTV, Jonathan served in a variety of strategic planning and product development roles with On Command, a subsidiary of Liberty Media that provided interactive and on-demand television products to the hospitality industry. Previously, Jonathan served in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Audit, Assurance and Business Advisory Services Group.

He began his career in Washington D.C. where he served in the Legislative Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State and was a founder of The G7 Group, a political and economic risk consultancy.

Jonathan holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Washington and Lee University and a master of business administration from Cornell University's Johnson School.

Sutton Trout, director of digital content and consumer products, IGN Entertainment, has a 13-year track record of successfully launching products, growing marketshare, and creating revenue streams for consumer entertainment products and software companies such as SEGA, Sony, and Eidos. At IGN Entertainment, Trout drives publisher relations for the company’s Direct2Drive digital download retail store. He has been responsible for garnering top game offerings and content for IGN Entertainment sites.

Prior to IGN, Trout served as senior manager at Konami of America where he drove licensing and business development. He was also a founding team member at Eidos Interactive, contributing to revenue growth of $15 million to more than $800 million in six years. Trout was on Sony’s early creative team and involved in the national launch of PlayStation.

Brian Tucker
Content Program Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation

Brian Tucker is the content program manager for Intel’s Digital Home effort. Brian works with the software and services companies to bring new exciting content to the Digital Home.

Brian has held previous positions in marketing for Intel’s processor and cellular products. Prior to joining Intel, Brian was responsible for technical marketing at Brooktree Corporation (now Conexant). Brian also developed desktop PCs for Compaq Computer Corporation as a development engineer and program manager

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products. Information about Intel is available from the company’s site on the World Wide Web at http://www.intel.com.

Yoav Tzruya is a seasoned software professional with over 14 years of experience in product and marketing roles.

At Exent, Yoav is overseeing market strategy, product definition and the launch of Exent’s technologies into various markets, powering consumer gaming services. Yoav is further managing Exent’s strategic partnerships and eco-systems, oversees Exent’s marketing efforts and is involved in various standardization initiatives.

During the last five years, Yoav has been instrumental in the launch of many broadband and value-added services in a variety of service provides, including MSOs, telcos, wireless operators and independent content providers.

Yoav is a recognized industry expert in the marketing know-how, business processes, and best practices for launching content, value-added, and broadband services.

Prior to joining Exent, Yoav was VP Product Strategy & Marketing at TeleKnowledge, a billing & customer care software vendor, catering to tier-1 content and service providers. Before TeleKnowledge, Yoav led a strategic, mission critical software project for the Israeli Air Force.

Yoav holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics (cum laude) and a Master of Science degree in computer science (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University.

Bob Van Andel is the founder and CEO of Allegro Software, a provider of software toolkits that bring Internet and Web technologies to embedded devices. Bob and his teams have been designing and building embedded systems and communications protocols for more than 20 years. As a veteran of the UPnP/DLNA interoperability sessions (PlugFests), he understands well both the theoretical and practical implementations of networked digital media protocols. Prior to founding Allegro nine years ago, Bob was vice president of engineering at Avatar Technologies after holding various technical positions at Data General where he built dedicated systems for diverse applications from racetrack results monitoring to UFO location tracking.

Michael Vergara is the director of the developer solutions group at RSA Security. His role is to expand RSA Security's technology into new markets like wireless, consumer electronics, embedded systems, and international markets. He has been a speaker at numerous industry trade shows and technology conferences including the RSA Conference, Networld + Interop, PC Expo, and Internet World. Also, he has conducted international training seminars on RSA products and technology. Before joining RSA Security, Mr. Vergara led the development and introduction of artificial-life software in the U.S. and Europe for Fujitsu Interactive. While at Dai Nippon Printing, he introduced new card technology products (smart card, optical memory, thermal re-write) and he was a speaker at the CardTech/SecurTech conference.

With over 15 years of experience in the networking industry, Vivek Wandile brings with him rich expertise in the areas of networking protocols, IPs & their applications. Apart from having worked for most part of his career on networking protocols, he has also been one of Wipro’s senior architects for home networking IPs such as Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, and UWB.

Currently Vivek is heading the Connectivity Solutions Group at Wipro and is associated with the development of solutions for the Digital Home around networking technologies. Some of the initiatives Vivek is involved with are Multimedia streaming over wireless, wireless USB, wireless 1394, and voice over WiFi.

Mr. Wardani has over 20 years of experience in the development of communications systems and products over satellite, coaxial cable, wireline and wireless, from silicon solutions to box product, terminals and full networks. Prior to co-founding Entropic in January 2001, he did two years of independent contracting on home networking and broadband wireless chipset developments. Between 1991 and 1999, Mr. Wardani did technical marketing, business development, and led the engineering development of the set-top box physical layer ICs and initial cable modem efforts that became Conexant Systems’ Digital Infotainment Division and ComStream Corporation products. Prior to serving as director of engineering at ComStream, Mr. Wardani served as manager and project leader of engineering at Linkabit Corporation between 1980 and 1991. His BS and MS in electrical engineering were received from the University of California San Diego.

Mr. West is the CEO and cofounder of Control4, a manufacturer of home automation systems designed for the broad market. This is the fourth new technology company he has started in Utah with his long time partner Eric Smith. In creating these companies, Mr. West has raised more than $200 million in private capital, and has created many hundreds of jobs along with profitable opportunities for investors. Control4 recently ranked 5th on Fast Company magazine’s list of 101 hot new technology companies.

Prior to Control4, Mr. West co-founded STSN in 1998 and served as its chairman, CEO, and president. Prior to founding STSN, West was the CEO and cofounder of PHAST Corporation. West’s other professional experience includes work at Proctor and Gamble, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and Wasatch Advisors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Utah and a master's in business administration from the Wharton School of Business. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

West currently serves as the Chairman of the Utah Capital Investment Corporation, a Utah State fund of funds initiative to help drive venture capital investment and technology company development. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Utah Information Technology Association (UITA) and serves on the board of the Utah Science Center Foundation. West was named Utah Valley Entrepreneur of the year in 2004 and is on Utah Business Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the state.

Evan Young is a senior product marketing manager at TiVo, responsible for developing new products and services that will change the way people watch television and access entertainment. Evan has an extensive background in consumer electronics, interactive television services, and software. He is the technical editor and contributing author of Burning Down The House, a how-to book on digital home audio recording and production, and How To Do Everything With TiVo, both from McGraw-Hill.

Evan previously worked in consumer marketing at American Express and management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has a BA from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford where he was the founder of Stanford's annual "Future of Entertainment" conference. Evan is an accomplished conductor, composer, and arranger and volunteers his time to a number of Bay Area arts organizations.

Oren Zeev joined Apax Partners in 1995 and is a member of the Apax U.S. Operating Committee. His investment focus is in the technology area, including digital media and Internet-related investments. Previously he was a research staff member at the IBM Israel Science and Technology center. At IBM, Oren was a member of the founding team of the VLSI Design Center, where he managed several significant research and development projects. Previous investee companies include Commtouch (CTCH), Butterfly (acquired by TI), Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel), and Tescom (TASE: TSCM).

Oren holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD and a BSc cum laude in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Gabe directs Trymedia's worldwide strategic relations and marketing communications activities. His contributions to the digital distribution industry include such milestones as posting the first legitimate downloadable games to Peer-to-Peer Networks and completing extensive consumer research on game download habits and trends.

Prior to joining Trymedia, Gabe held positions in the e-commerce field with companies such as Cisco Systems, Bay Networks/Nortel, and Checkpoint Software. He was also director of marketing for the Game and Web divisions of CMP Media. Gabe is a frequent speaker and media resource on topics related to the digital distribution of entertainment content. He holds a BIS from Canada’s University of Waterloo and an MBA from Rollins College in Florida.

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John Barrett currently analyzes technology-driven products and services for Parks Associates, a digital home research firm and consultancy. He has authored over a dozen industry reports on topics such as broadband adoption, ISP bundling strategies, mobile phone service, digital music, and VoIP telephony.

He holds an MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a BS in international affairs from Georgetown University.

Michael Cai studies the development in broadband markets, emerging broadband wireless technologies such as WiMAX, gaming and other value-added services. He also follows the development of China's telecom and IT industry. He has written several reports on Chinese telecom market, hot spot, broadband wireless, and gaming. Michael has presented his research in numerous industry events including CES, Supercomm, Connections, and E3.

Michael earned his MBA with a 4.0 GPA from Baylor University in May 2002. He also holds an MA in leadership from Landegg International University, Switzerland, and a BA in economics from Shandong University, P. R. China.

Tricia Parks
President, Parks Associates

Tricia Parks is the founder and president of Parks Associates, a market analyst and research company dedicated to providing meaningful information and counsel to companies offering technology-based products aimed at improving people's lives. She presents worldwide on consumer trends, market requirements, and industry structure, with an eye to meshing visionary and progressive ideas to consumer needs and wants.

Parks Associates began Wiring America, the Habitech Institute, and now hosts Fall Focus, a topical annual executive conference, and, in partnership with CEA, CONNECTIONS™, an international conference and showcase for the digital home. Parks Associates is also the developer of the Relevancy Theory, a forecasting model for sales across a broad range of digital electronic products and services.

Tricia has served on a variety of industry boards including CEA's Home Networking and Information Technology division, the National Research Council's Committee for a Partnership to Assess Technology for Housing (PATH), the AMD Board of Global Consumer Advocacy, and CABA. Tricia Parks has a BA from Sweet Briar College and graduate studies from the University of Texas.

Kurt Scherf
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 30 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.

Stuart Sikes is responsible for providing Parks Associates’ clients with a business relationship that complements their strategic marketing activities. Whether research, custom analysis or events, Stuart seeks to bring the right elements of the Parks Associates team to the client relationship.

Stuart has served technology companies for the past fifteen years, designing technical service, software and hardware solutions for companies ranging from global semiconductor manufacturers to one of the nation’s largest airlines. In his positions with companies including AT&T, NCR, OpenConnect Systems, and Intelligraphics, Stuart’s roles have included sales, product marketing, marketing communications, and executive management. Stuart’s business development activities include launching new product lines, deploying a direct sales force, positioning products in the retail channel, and opening new sales channels in Asia.

Stuart holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from SMU with a concentration in strategic marketing.

Harry Wang studies telecom and entertainment service industries with a focus on digital rights management, portable entertainment device and digital imaging.

Harry earned his MS in marketing research from University of Texas at Arlington. He also holds an MBA in finance from Texas Christian University and a BA in international trade from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P.R. China.