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

Reggie comes to TANDBERG Television from its acquisition of N2 Broadband in February 2005, the leading provider of open-platform solutions for on-demand entertainment, where he was president and CEO since early 2001. Under Reggie's management, N2 Broadband grew annual revenues from less than $1 million to more than $23 million in just under four years. The company, which achieved cash-flow breakeven status during the same period, boasts a customer roster that includes North America's top-five cable operators and the world's leading entertainment companies. In November 2004, Reggie was named one of the "12 to Watch in 2005" by Television Week Magazine. As a result of his leadership, N2 Broadband was featured in CED Magazine's Broadband 50 ranking from 2001-2004 and received the Red Herring Top 100 Innovators award in December 2004.

Reggie has extensive capabilities in building brands and providing customers with a steady, consistent commitment to quality. Prior to joining N2 Broadband, he served as chief marketing officer at WebMD Corp., which during his tenure from 1998 to 2000 grew from 40 to 4,000 employees and received more than $2 billion in funding, while becoming established as one of the world's leading Internet destinations, which is now enjoyed daily by millions of consumers and healthcare professionals. Reggie previously held various management positions with Miller Brewing Company, a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. He earned a BBA in finance from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Emory University.
 

Prior to joining SupportSoft, Rich was director, wireline segment for the Communications & Media vertical at Siebel Systems. His responsibilities included product development, marketing, and strategy for the wireline segment worldwide. A Siebel employee for over five years, Rich helped launch the initial Siebel Communications product line. Rich spent five years with Telcordia designing test systems for various communications technologies including ADSL, ISDN, and MPEG video. Rich also worked on developing speech synthesis and optical routing algorithms at AT&T Bell Labs.

In addition to a BS in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rich has an MSEE from Columbia University and an MBA/MA from the Wharton School and Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rich represents SupportSoft as a member of the DSL Forum and has spoken at industry conferences including VoIP World 2004, CONNECTIONS™ @ CES 2005, Next Generation Telecom 2005 China, and IEC Communications Forum 2006.
 

Duverne joined Philips in 2000 as the country manager in France for the company’s components business. Prior to that role, he served as product line manager within one of the divisions of the Hoechst Group. He has worked as a sales engineer in the PCB industry for Porcher Industries in Hong Kong, where he also served as regional manager, Asia Pacific.

Duverne graduated in 1989 from the Dijon Business School in France with a BA (Hons) degree in business. In 1995, he completed a master of business administration degree at Insead, one of the world’s largest and most influential graduate business schools.
 

For more than two decades Ferris has played a significant role in bringing hybrid fiber-coaxial networks and the “triple-play” concept to market in the broadband industry. Ferris was part of the US WEST team that built the first digital broadband network in the U.K. with Comcast, Jones Cable, and TCI (now known as Telewest) and later introduced it into the U.S. market. He was also involved in the deployment of Time Warner Cable’s ground-breaking Full Service Network iTV trial in Orlando, Fla. At MediaOne, Ferris created the MediaOne brand and developed the company’s broadband cable modem and digital video strategy.

Prior to joining Atlas, he led Starbucks’ Direct Marketing business unit where he developed key online marketing initiatives. Scott was responsible for re-directing Starbucks’ Internet position from a pedestrian Website to an integrated direct marketing catalog and e-commerce enterprise.

Ferris is committee chair of the Data/Metrics for the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Project and is an active member of the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) On Demand Television Consortium.

Ferris holds a BA in business administration - marketing from S.U.N.Y College at Cortland.
 

As an initial member of the Kodak EasyShare Gallery (formerly Ofoto) management team, Geary led the company's business development team creating successful partnerships with leading technology, retail, and imaging companies including Sony Electronics, Apple Computer, Microsoft, AT&T, Amazon.com, and Hewlett-Packard. Geary and his team also launched the Kodak Mobile Service in the U.S. and in Europe and developed partnerships with the countries’ leading mobile carriers and handset manufacturers including Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and Nokia in the U.S., O2 in the U.K., SFR in France, 3 Mobile Market in Australia, and T-Mobile in Germany, Austria, and the U.K.

Geary comes to Kodak from America Online where, as director of business development, he extended, negotiated, and closed multi-million dollar strategic partnerships across AOL properties and led business development efforts for consumer electronics and camera e-commerce partners.

Prior to AOL, Geary was director of business development for When.com, the leading online calendar and events service. Geary also brings a wealth of e-commerce experience from CyberCash where he was director of corporate marketing. He began his career as a management consultant at the San Francisco Consulting Group, specializing in the global telecommunications industry. Geary is a graduate of Stanford University.
 

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.

Before mySimon and CNET, Josh held management roles at companies like USWeb, Softbank Content Services, Apple Computer, and Phoenix Technologies. Josh received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science with honors in computer science from Tufts University.

Throughout his career Josh has shared his knowledge with audiences at industry conferences. Josh’s expertise extends to a wide range of subjects, from financial and management issues to the future of networked entertainment, consumer electronics, and online media and commerce.
 

Previously Inder was chairman and CEO of ReefEdge, a leading manufacturer of wireless LAN switches and gateways, where he 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 CTO of Prodigy, in charge of development and operations, where he helped transform Prodigy from a proprietary online service into a into a leading nationwide Internet service provider. He spun out a company, Taconix, from Prodigy, selling software infrastructure to Internet service providers and served as its founding CEO. 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 20 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 and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and universities. He is a fellow of the IEEE with a PhD from Columbia University, New York, and a BA from Oxford University, England.
 

Graczyk is responsible for communications, public relations, branding, positioning, advertising, partner co-marketing, and events worldwide for the Microsoft TV family of software products. He assumed his current role with the Microsoft TV group in October 1999.

Since 1991, Graczyk has held a number of marketing and sales management positions at Microsoft, both at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters and the New York City field office. His past responsibilities include marketing lead for the award-winning MSN™ MoneyCentral personal finance service; marketing lead for MSN Communications Services, where he launched MSN Messenger Service and MSN Web Communities; public relations lead for the Web Essentials and MSN divisions; entertainment marketing manager for MSN; and corporate account sales management.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Graczyk spent six years with UNISYS Corporation. He served in various sales and product management positions, with a focus on customers in the banking, securities, and insurance industries.

Graczyk frequently speaks at digital TV industry events, including Broadcast Asia, CTAM Research Conference, Digital Hollywood, DigiTrends Camp Interactive, Kagan Interactive TV Summit, IFA Berlin, and the PBS Technology Conference.

In 1994, Graczyk received the Corporate Account Executive of the Year Award at Microsoft. Graczyk is also a member of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing.

Graczyk has a bachelor’s degree in science from the Boston College School of Management, where he holds a triple major in marketing, computer science, and economics.
 

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 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. There, he drove the definition and implementation of the world's first digital land mobile radio product. Later, he ran the product management organization for Motorola's Intelligent Network business, which delivered enhanced voice and data services to cellular operators worldwide.

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.
 

For the past six years, Mr. Holove has focused exclusively on the personal peripherals market, first with Labtec and then with Logitech after the merger of the two companies. He spent several years managing marketing and communications for all of Logitech's product lines in both the Americas and European regions. Prior to his work at Logitech, Mr. Holove worked at Hewlett-Packard where he was part of the launch team for the HP Pavilion home PC and for a marketing agency serving clients including Nintendo of America, Toshiba, and HP.
 

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 he 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 has closed two rounds of equity financing, manages hundreds of terabytes of customer data, and has maintained profitability for more than three years.

In 2004, Iverson was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, and in 2005 he was named one of San Diego’s “40 under Forty” by San Diego Metropolitan Magazine. Iverson has spoken at many industry conferences including CES, Fall Focus and CONNECTIONS™ by Parks Associates, Digital Living Room Summit & Venture Forum by ihollywood forum, and Digital Life. Iverson has also been quoted and covered by international media including the New York Times, Associated Press, USA Today, C/Net, ZDNet, PC Magazine, PC World, and many more.
 

While director of design engineering for Motorola's Fast Static RAM Division, he contributed to sales growth of over 50% per year to over $500 million and #1 market share worldwide. Art has prior start-up experience at Entregate, Inmos Corporation, and as co-founder and VP of development of a joint venture between RCA and Sharp. He has a BSEE, cum laude, from the University of Missouri, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from the University of Texas. Art remains actively involved with UT’s leading entrepreneurship program and is a frequent judge in the UT MOOT Corp business plan competitions.
 

In addition to his strong leadership at D-Link, Larsen has worked for Microsoft Corporation and SMC Networks, Inc. and co-founded Code220, Inc., an interactive online training solution provider, which provides services for various law enforcement agencies.

Larsen holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, specializing in marketing and management, from Central Washington University.
 

As a former vice president within Nortel Networks’ Content Business Unit and Data Network Business Unit, Ms. Lo is most recognized creating and developing the market for content-based switching. Ms. Lo joined Nortel in 2000 as part of its $7.8 billion acquisition of Alteon WebSystems.

As vice president of marketing at Alteon, Ms. Lo built an emerging start-up company that executed one of the most successful multibillion dollar initial public offerings at its time with a revenue run rate of over $400 million.

Prior to Alteon, Ms. Lo was the vice president of marketing at the Centillion Business Unit of Bay Networks. Centillion was a networking start-up co-founded by Lo that developed the first token ring switching system. The company was purchased by Bay Networks in 1994.

Ms. Lo’s career also includes several management roles at leading network and computing companies including Network Equipment Technologies and Hewlett Packard. She holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
 

ComVentures’ recent investments focus on emerging companies 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. Roland has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry as an engineer, strategist, and investor.
 

Prior to joining Microsoft, in December 2003, Mehta spent three years with Nokia where he was the global head of the Nokia Broadband Media Solution for the fixed-line operators delivering audio and video services over DSL. In this role he worked with most of the major global telecom companies, understanding their concerns and ensuring that they could deploy a video solution.

Mehta has also held positions at Oracle, where he was responsible for all marketing and sales activities for Oracle’s Interactive Television Division for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). Within the EMEA region the Oracle Video Server held a dominant market share with telecoms, cable companies, and satellite video delivery systems. During the initial period of his tenure in a product management role he was responsible for launching several major releases of the Oracle Video Server.

In the early part of his career, Mehta worked at nCUBE designing file systems and video servers for nCUBE’s massively parallel supercomputers. Mehta has a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and digital communications.
 

Prior to joining Scientific-Atlanta, Dr. Morse was a founder and the CTO of PowerTV, Inc., now part of Scientific-Atlanta. Here he and his team, along with their set-top partners, brought the first IP-based digital interactive television system to the mass market, providing the software platform and services for over 10 million digital interactive set-tops in North America today.

Prior to working at PowerTV, Dr. Morse was a member of the team that developed the first Hardware Reference Platform for Multimedia consumer electronics devices at Kaleida Labs, an Apple-IBM joint venture. Dr. Morse was also a founder of Ultra Digital Systems and MTL where he developed DSP Development systems and video compression schemes for PC multimedia applications.

Dr. Morse’s first foray into business was in 1981 when he received a Commodore Vic-20 and founded a company offering fast loaders and encryption schemes to the software duplicating industry.

He attended the University of Liverpool and holds a PhD in electronic engineering and a B.Eng in electronic engineering. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers.
 

Prior to that, he worked for ten years for Siemens Communications in different sales and marketing positions in the U.S. and Europe. Francesco holds a doctor degree in information science from the University of Pisa and a master’s degree in business administration from the Webster University.
 

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.
 

Stephen has 18 years’ technical and commercial experience in the telecommunications and IT marketplace. Previously, Stephen headed up new product development for Concert’s ASP hosting business, after joining from BT where he had held various commercial and technical roles in the Cable TV Services and Consumer Products Divisions. Prior to joining ANT, Stephen was an account director at Lucent Technologies in the areas of optical transport and voice-over-IP products.
 

Most recently, Rich was the top marketing executive for Yahoo!'s largest division. As director of marketing for the Listings Business Unit, Rich oversaw marketing planning and execution for Yahoo!'s Search and Directory, Classifieds and Local Media business segments. Prior to Yahoo!, Rich was with Bigstep, the site building and ecommerce service for small businesses, where he was vice president of marketing for nearly three years managing corporate and product marketing, public relations, research, and content. Prior to Bigstep, he was director of brand marketing at Jamba Juice, where he helped the company grow from 60 to 130 stores to become the national category leader. Early in his career, Rich rose through a number of roles at Pepsi where he ultimately managed marketing for a $300 million product portfolio and at Walt Disney Home Video where he led U.S. marketing for the $150 million specialty accounts channel including Blockbuster, Disney Stores and Musicland.

Rich holds a BA in economics and art and an MBA from Duke University. He is actively involved with the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco and is on the Board of Advisors for Parents for Good Sports, a national non-profit dedicated to parent-driven, educational programs to enrich the lives of young athletes and their families.
 

Dr. Rubin is a founder of NDS which started in Jerusalem in 1988 as News Datacom. He has a BSc in physics and electro-optical engineering from the Jerusalem College of Technology (1975), an MSc in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1978), and a PhD from the University of Southern California in medicine and computer engineering (1981).
 

Prior to taking the responsibility for the Business Unit Home, Paul held a number of senior management positions at Philips. He was the head of Corporate Alliances in Amsterdam and was responsible for growing the business with the top Philips alliance partners. He was vice president of Sagem Communications SA in Paris, managing the integration of the Philips organization into the Sagem company. Prior to this Paul was the business unit manager for the Internet Fax activities of Philips Consumer Communication in Vienna. Other positions he held include marketing & sales responsibilities for Philips PC Peripherals, Philips Media, and Philips Computers. Paul joined Philips in 1989.

Paul Sandberg has a degree in business economics from the University at Tilburg.
 

Aside from his DLNA duties, Mr. Smyers is also vice president of the Network and Systems Architecture Division of the US Advanced Technologies Center 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.
 

Wimmer began his career with Microsoft in 1996 as a reporter and producer for the launch of MSNBC, the joint cable and online news venture between Microsoft and NBC. He later moved to MSN and served as a producer creating entertainment games and online magazines. In 1998, Wimmer joined the Microsoft TV Group, where he was able to combine his knowledge of broadcasting and the Internet to work for the Microsoft group tasked with creating interactive TV. At Microsoft TV, Wimmer started as lead program manager on the first set of iTV tools produced by Microsoft. He also developed demos and prototypes of iTV. He also managed the production and marketing of the Microsoft TV Websites before assuming his current responsibilities.

As IPTV product marketing manager, Wimmer currently oversees marketing and communications efforts for Microsoft TV's IPTV solution and gives presentations at major trade shows and digital TV events on behalf of Microsoft TV.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Wimmer succeeded as an award-winning journalist, earning first and second place awards from the Virginia Press Association for investigative reporting and feature writing. Wimmer served as a reporter for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, Seattle Times, and Bellevue (Wash.) Journal-American.

Last year, Wimmer received the Promotion and Marketing Professionals Association/Broadcast Designer's Association (PROMAX&BDA) Gold Award for a marketing video he produced about Microsoft's vision for interactive TV. Wimmer is a member of the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. and often gives presentations at major trade shows and interactive TV events on behalf of Microsoft TV.

Wimmer holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast communications and business management from Virginia Tech.
 

Russell Zack, Chief Operating Officer, Cauldron Solutions

Before co-founding Cauldron, he built several technology companies focused on large vertical industries such as automotive, media and entertainment, and telecommunications. Previous industry-related experience includes his time spent as president and CEO of DragonFly Mobile Inc., a mobile data optimization and application company he founded in 2000. Russell also co-founded the interactive media company, Sigma6, in 1994. He holds a BA/BS degree in digital multimedia from the University of Michigan based on a unique first-of-a-kind curriculum in the engineering field.