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

Recognized as a leading expert in Internet protocol television and advanced digital TV software, Barrett is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Allen (Al) Delattre is the global managing director of the Electronics and High Tech Industry Practice at Accenture.

A nine-year veteran of Accenture, Al has more than 20 years of experience in creating and implementing new business models and strategies with an emphasis in leading large-scale strategic initiatives. His clients have spanned all segments of the high-tech industry but especially semiconductor, consumer electronics, and telecommunications, where he often consults on convergence-related trends and opportunities. In addition, he also has significant "turnaround" experience with clients, including executive-level line management positions.

As an established industry expert, business journalists often call upon Mr. Delattre from such leading outlets including CNBC's SquawkBox, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal to comment on emerging trends and the application of leading strategies to create competitive advantage.

Michael Grasso is assistant vice president, Consumer Marketing, for AT&T U-verse^SM. Mr. Grasso is responsible for the marketing of AT&T U-verse.

In his previous position, Mr. Grasso oversaw consumer promotions, marketing communications, and advertising initiatives designed to acquire and retain customers for local and long-distance voice services, high-speed Internet services, SBC | DISH Network satellite TV entertainment, Cingular Wireless, and Wi-Fi services.

As a driver of the national consumer marketing strategy, Mr. Grasso’s areas of focus included general market, multicultural and college segments with diverse approaches for multiple customer sales points including AT&T call centers, retail locations, and the online sales channel. He has built industry-leading strategic joint marketing relationships and programs that have helped re-position AT&T companies as leading communications and entertainment providers. These opportunities include the following launches: SBC blue room music initiative (http://blueroom.sbc.com); Project DU blogging aggregator geared toward tech-savvy consumers (www.projectdu.com); national marketing campaigns with Disney/Pixar for The Incredibles theatrical & DVD releases and Twentieth Century Fox’s Fantastic Four; a multiyear Eric Clapton initiative; and title sponsorships of events such as the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Lollapalooza 2005. His organization has also developed marketing relationships with multiple leading brands including DELL, HP, Harry & David, MGM Studios, P&G, Best Buy, and Upromise.

Mr. Grasso was previously responsible for overseeing the SBC Long Distance product line, now part of the AT&T family of companies, and its launch in several states in the companies’ traditional service territory. He previously directed the product development and rollout for the SBC Yahoo! suite of Internet services. Mr. Grasso has worked in multiple other business units over his 14 year career with the new AT&T companies, including Emerging and Multicultural Market Development, Industry Marketing, Corporate Finance, and Information Technology.

Mr. Grasso holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and applied statistics from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, and a master’s degree in telecommunications management from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bill Leszinske is the general manager of the Networked Media Platform Group within Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. He previously served as the Intel® Viiv™ technology platform manager.

Leszinske has an extensive background in sales and marketing. In 2004, he formed the Digital Home marketing team within Intel's Desktop Products Group. Leszinske also served as director of Chipset and Software Marketing for the same group. Prior to joining Intel, he was a regional applications manager for one of the world’s largest computer companies.

Leszinske joined Intel in 1989 and holds a BS in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. He is based out of Intel Corporation’s Folsom, California, campus, and lives nearby with his wife and three children.

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing some 2000 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the continent’s largest annual trade show, the International CES™.

Shapiro is an active leader in the development, launch and marketing of HDTV. He has testified before Congress on HDTV and other technology and business issues more than 20 times. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and has served as a leader of the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC). He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and in 2003 received its highest award as the industry leader most influential in advancing HDTV.

As chairman of the Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC), Shapiro has led the manufacturers’ legal and legislative battle to preserve the legality of recording technology and the consumer battle to protect fair use rights. Shapiro has held many exhibition industry leadership posts, and in 2002, received the exhibition industry’s highest honor, the IAEM Pinnacle Award. Shapiro also served until recently on the Board of Visitors of George Mason University, Virginia’s largest university, and is a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He also served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission on Information Technology. Shapiro has also been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a “mastermind” for his initiative in helping to create the Industry Cooperative for Ozone Layer Protection (ICOLP).

Shapiro leads a staff of more than 130 employees and thousands of industry volunteers. CEA has won many awards, including several for its magazine, Vision, and awards as a family-friendly employer and one of the 50 Great Places To Work in Washington.

Prior to joining the association, Shapiro was an associate at the law firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey. He also has worked on Capitol Hill, as an assistant to a member of Congress. He received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a double major in economics and psychology from the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Will Beals, Director, Hardware Systems Architecture, EchoStar Technologies, Corp.

Mr. Beals is the director of hardware systems architecture at EchoStar Technologies, Corp. He has been with Echostar since 1989 working on their digital STB service since its inception. He is currently in charge of investigating and developing new STB technologies for Dish Network and their international partners.

Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of North America Digital Entertainment Category, Digital Entertainment Products, Hewlett-Packard Company

Jan-Luc Blakborn is the director of the digital entertainment category for HP’s Consumer Products and is responsible for digital entertainment products, category management, and strategy for North America. Drawing upon 15 years of consumer electronics and personal computer expertise in international sales and marketing, Jan-Luc has helped HP to successfully enter into the consumer digital entertainment space. Jan-Luc’s responsibilities cover a number of categories including flat-panel and rear-projection digital television sets, home theater projectors, and digital entertainment centers.

Prior to this assignment, Jan-Luc was the director of channel development for handheld products. In this role, Jan-Luc managed the relationship and marketing efforts with key sales channels and sales teams. Notable accomplishments during his tenure include successfully developing the handheld business at U.S. retail by growing unit sales and revenue to over 60% of all HP handheld sales and increasing retail unit share from 6% to a record high of 23%.

Prior to HP, Jan-Luc held various global leadership positions at Philips Consumer Electronics, including the director of global marketing and sales for the digital entertainment group. Jan-Luc’s achievements there include directing the simultaneous launch of Philips’ first convergence product (PC-TV) in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

Jan-Luc holds a Master of Science degree in business economics, with a specialty in marketing management, from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. He is fluent in Dutch, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German. While attending Erasmus University, Jan-Luc participated in the MBA exchange program with Michigan State University (1988) and received the Kuhlmeijer Marketing Award for best marketing assignment of the year (1989).

Charles Cerino, Vice President, New Services Technology, Comcast New Media Development

Mr. Cerino leads a team of futurists investigating technological advancements and their impact on the cable industry.

Charlie joined Comcast in 1978 as a system engineer to build the Philadelphia suburbs. During his tenure, he has held system, region, and corporate engineering positions and has been active in the Delaware Valley Chapter of the SCTE serving as a founder, board member, and president. He also chaired the NCTA's engineering subcommittee on CLI and FCC regulations. Since 1995, Charlie has focused on exploring new technologies and was instrumental developing and launching cable modem service in Comcast. Charlie has his BS degree from Temple University. He holds a First Class Radiotelephone operator's license and a Ham radio license.

Joe Dada, CEO, SmartLabs Inc.

Joe Dada founded SmartLabs in 1992. Since its inception, Dada has helped SmartLabs 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 SmartLabs’s outstanding growth over the last 13 years in both revenues and customer base. Smarthome.com 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 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, Antenna Systems and Short-Range Wireless, and The Networked Home. In 2005 he was nominated as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year®.

Peter Daley, Equity Research Analyst, Digital Media, Rutberg & Company, LLC

Peter Daley serves as equity research analyst for digital media at Rutberg & Company. Mr. Daley leads the firm's coverage of the digital media industry, including roles of thought leadership, private company analysis, and transaction counsel. His team is responsible for developing thought capital on privately held companies in the global digital media industry, for formulating venture capital investment and merger and acquisition theses, and for delivering briefs, presentations, and counsel to investors, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs. His team's coverage spans product and technology categories, including semiconductors, devices, infrastructure, and services.

Mr. Daley is a serial entrepreneur and former technology investment banker. Most recently, Mr. Daley served as vice president, marketing at Clearbridge, a San Francisco-based provider of electronic transaction integration solutions. At Clearbridge, he was responsible for strategic and product marketing and for sales channel development.

Prior to joining Clearbridge, Mr. Daley founded and served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of BuildPoint, a provider of Web-based enterprise applications. At BuildPoint, Mr. Daley was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, and operations, including raising over $42 million of venture capital from leading financial and corporate investors.

Previously, Mr. Daley served as corporate finance analyst in the technology investment banking practice of Credit Suisse First Boston. While at CSFB, Mr. Daley worked on initial and secondary public offerings and private placement transactions in the digital media, Internet, personal computing, and networking industries.

Mr. Daley earned a BS in economics with a concentration in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a BSE in electrical engineering with concentrations in computer engineering and in telecommunications from The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and he attended the University of Oxford as a visiting student where he studied semiconductor engineering and economics.

Christopher Dobrec is director of business development for Consumer Markets at Cisco Systems, setting distribution strategy and technology direction and building programs for the delivery of consumer products through Cisco’s Linksys and Scientific-Atlanta divisions.

Mr. Dobrec’s primary responsibility is to shape the strategy and guarantee the execution for Cisco’s consumer products and services. Mr. Dobrec is helping to ensure that Linksys and Scientific-Atlanta products and ecosystem of partners are capable of delivering complete solutions to the marketplace that take advantage of Cisco’s, Scientific-Atlanta’s, and Linksys’ products, technologies, and services.

Mr. Dobrec joined Cisco in 1994 with the acquisition of Kalpana, the pioneer of Ethernet switching where he held worldwide responsibility for technical marketing and systems engineering. Since joining Cisco, Mr. Dobrec has held a variety of sales, product marketing, and business development responsibilities. Prior to Kalpana, Mr. Dobrec was involved with numerous early-stage, networking start-ups.

Eddie C. Drake, CTO, Siemens Home Entertainment

Eddie Drake is responsible for the product vision of the Myrio IP Video Platform. As one of the founding engineers and architects for Myrio, Drake has been involved in all product development of Myrio solutions since inception. As director of technology, he led the design and development effort of Myrio's set-top box client software, which is one of the first Linux/Java TV-based clients commercially deployed today. He was the original project manager for the On Demand Network (ODN), the prototype application and predecessor to Myrio's current production solution. He was responsible for identifying key technologies and system components and led the team that developed Myrio's first prototype application, tested at a rural telephone company in northern Nevada for 18 months. Drake has previously been involved in the television and media production industries. He was involved in major television and multimedia projects for national companies such as AT&T Wireless, StarGuide Digital / Musicam, Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery, and Quiksilver Boardriders Club USA.

Mark Francisco has been directing an engineering team in Comcast’s New Media Development organization since July 2001.

His focus at Comcast is to lead the definition of networked home technologies and services. The applications are centered on using the best of Comcast's data, telephony, and video resources to seamlessly provide additional value to their customers. Mark is currently chairing CableLabs CableHome Certification Board. Previously, Mark spent six years leading the systems integration of CDMA Cellular Phones for Motorola. While at Motorola, Mark led systems integration efforts resulting in the first Bluetooth-enabled cellular telephone reaching the market. Prior to Motorola, Mark spent nine years developing microwave communications hardware for communications and meteorological satellites while at Lockheed Martin. Mark has a BSEE degree from Rutgers College of Engineering and an MSEE degree from Drexel University. He lives with his wife and two children in Clarksburg, NJ.

Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group

Bob Greene is senior vice president of advanced services for Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG). Greene reports to Robert B. Clasen, president and COO. He is responsible for the development of new, advanced distribution vehicles, including broadband delivery systems for SEG products, such as Starz Ticket on Real Movies, the first-ever premium television subscription-based on-demand movie download service.

Prior to joining SEG, Greene served as CEO and chairman of Digital Lava Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of streaming media software. Previously, Greene was senior vice president of Lightspan Inc., a San Diego-based developer of interactive educational software delivered over cable and telephone networks. He also served for 13 years at Showtime Networks Inc., rising to senior vice president of sales and marketing.

Greene graduated from the University of Virginia.

Bob is a 20-plus year veteran in the field of data communications and wireless data with several articles and workshops to his credit. He is a founding member and chair of 802.15, the IEEE working group on wireless personal-area networks, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, and chair of 802.15 Task Group 3a looking at UWB and other PHY layer alternatives for 802.15.3.

In 1990, he was one of the founding members of 802.11 and continues in an active role today. With GTE, Bob was responsible for wireless opportunity business development. Bob joined BBN in early 1997, prior to its acquisition by GTE, with the mission of commercializing wireless ad hoc networking and wireless PAN technologies. From 1990 to 1996, he was VP of engineering and business development for TyLink Corp, a bootstrap start-up in high-speed digital access products and network and circuit management software, and was a co-founder of Windata, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of wireless LANs. From 1980-1990, Bob was with Codex, a subsidiary of Motorola, where he was VP/GM of the company’s modem business. Bob holds a BA degree from Oberlin College and MA and PhD degrees in physics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Amy Heller, Vice President, Business Planning & Development, International Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment

Amy Heller has spent nearly ten years at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. She is vice president of strategic planning & business development for Paramount International Home Entertainment. In this role, Amy manages international planning and development for key territories across Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Amy works closely with territory managers to identify and plan for emerging distribution channels for entertainment content. Prior to her international experience, she worked with Domestic Home Entertainment in designing revenue-sharing proposals for the studio. Prior to that, Amy managed planning and development for pay television.

Rob Herb, Managing Director, BA Ventures

Rob Herb invests in markets in which he has always had a passion. At BAVP, Rob is part of the firm's information technology team that identifies hardware investments including semiconductors and components, primarily for consumer electronics and enterprise systems. He sits on the board of directors of Ageia and MIPS Technologies.

Rob joined BAVP in 2005 following more than 20 years with AMD in a number of sales, marketing, and general management positions. For the last four years of his tenure with AMD, Rob was executive vice president and chief marketing officer, working in the office of the CEO. In that capacity he led the worldwide sales and marketing team and directed AMD's go-to-market strategy across all product lines.

Rob has a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois.

John Hildebrand, Vice President, Video Technology Engineering, Cox Communications

Mr. Hildebrand is vice president and a corporate officer at Cox Communications in Atlanta where he has responsibility for interactive television and digital video technology.

Mr. Hildebrand has spent the last fifteen years as a leader and pioneer in the interactive television industry. In June 2002 he began the effort to define a future digital video delivery architecture for the U.S. cable TV industry, which became the basis for NGNA. Prior to Cox he was general manager and VP of engineering at NetChannel, an Internet-to-the-TV start-up acquired by AOL which formed the basis of AOLtv. He also worked at Time Warner Cable's Full Service Network where he was responsible for development of all interactive software applications. His efforts as chief operating officer at USA Video led to the company deploying the world's first computer-based, interactive video-on-demand system to paying consumers. Hildebrand initiated his work on VOD in early 1992 at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he began his professional career and worked for nearly 15 years.

Mr. Hildebrand is a member of the CTAM, NCTA, IEEE, and SCTE. He also serves on the OpenCable Certification Board at CableLabs and several technical advisory boards of cable industry technology companies.

Peter Lee, Vice President, Business Development, The Walt Disney Company

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/co-founder 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.

Paul Liao, Vice President & CTO, Panasonic Corporation of North America

Dr. 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 in North America.

Prior to joining Panasonic in 1996, he 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.

He is a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal and a past president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. Dr. Liao 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 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.

Alexander K. Marquez, Director, Strategic Investments, Media & Entertainment, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation

Alexander is currently responsible for Intel Capital’s investments and strategies related to Digital Media and Consumer Internet, part of Intel Capital’s Digital Home fund.

Prior to joining Intel Capital, Alexander served as technical advisor to the senior vice president of Intel’s Interactive Media Services division where he advised on strategy and media investments. Alexander also served as 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 Bachelor 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.

Joe Menard, Corporate Vice President, Consumer Business Segment, AMD

Joe Menard is corporate vice president, Software Strategy, at AMD. In this role, he is responsible for defining and driving AMD’s software strategies and partnerships and building the software and solutions ecosystem around the AMD64 platform.

Before joining AMD, Menard was founder, chairman, and CEO of WebGain, Inc., a privately held provider of Java software for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that he was with BEA Systems where he held several leadership positions including general manager of the E-Commerce Server Division, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, and senior vice president of sales, EMEA. Before joining BEA, Menard led the TUXEDO Systems division at Novell. Previous to this role, he was vice president of marketing at Unix System Laboratories and spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in a variety of senior product management, product marketing, and program management jobs. He started his career as an electrical engineer at Raytheon.

Menard holds a master’s degree in business administration from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Sheau has been with the digital revolution from the start, contributing to MPEG, ATSC, DVD, and various technical standards activities. He did his undergraduate and graduate studies at MIT in 1982. His career spans from compression research to product development in consumer electronics, semiconductors, and content/media industries. He was an early member of the Grand Alliance team, working at Sarnoff. His contribution to the ATSC system included a prototype transport packet specification that preceded the MPEG Transport System specification. In early 90s, Sheau was part of Toshiba’s DVD team, where he helped developed the world’s first DVD encoder. Later, he was the architect of Philips first consumer HDTV on the ATSC market. He also contributed to the development of DTV system-on-chip solutions at Philips and later on at ATI.

Sheau is now a vice president at NBC Universal, with responsibility in the consumer and broadcast technology, standards, and policy. In his current capacity, Sheau studies new and exciting technology and products that can help bring about the vision of the company. He is actively involved in a number of industry groups, including CEA, ATSC, Coral Consortium, HANA, etc. Sheau is focusing his efforts in getting multiple industries to work together toward an interoperable digital world that meets the changing needs of today’s consumers.

Sheau holds over 23 patents. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and two children.

Hyun Park, Vice President, Research Fellow, and Head of Ubiquitous Solution Team, LG Electronics, Inc.

Hyun Park is currently vice president, research fellow, and head of the Ubiquitous Solution Team for LG Electronics, Inc. Park was head of the Home Network Division for LG Electronics from 2001-2005 and has held leadership and research positions with Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies. Park has a PhD in computer and information sciences from the University of Florida and a BS in electrical engineering from Seoul National University.

Dick Sillman, Chief Technology Officer, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Dick Sillman is chief technology officer of communications, media, and entertainment at Sun Microsystems, Inc. For the past 26 years Dick has pioneered many industry firsts, including the first desktop RISC machine at Sun Microsystems, the first hard drive in a set-top box at Microsoft/WebTV and the first multi-sync graphics controller for the Hewlett-Packard Company.

In his recent post as senior director in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Dick led the development of Project Honeycomb, an innovative storage system offering low cost, high availability, massive scalability, and autonomous management. Before returning to Sun in May 2003, Dick was director of systems engineering for start-up Andes Networks, where he led development and manufacturing of the world's fastest ASIC-based security accelerator. Prior to that role, Dick was director of systems engineering at consumer-oriented start-up WebTV Networks.

From 1985 to 1997, Dick was a system designed and team leader within Sun's CTO office. In 1991, he was invited to become a charter member of Sun Microsystems Laboratories where he pioneered IEEE 802.11 wireless networking, embedded system software, and produced several handheld, laptop, and desktop thin client prototypes to support networking research and various Java initiatives. Dick received the Chairman’s Award for his thin client work in 1996.

He holds a BSEE degree from Carnegie-Mellon University with a minor in business administration. He has also pursued graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at M.I.T., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Stanford University.

Ladd Wardani, Vice President, Business Development, Entropic Communications, Inc.; President, MoCA

Ladd Wardani has 24 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. Ladd is currently vice president of business development at Entropic Communications and serving as the president of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA). 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, Ladd 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, Ladd 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 University of California San Diego.

Brian Whitton, Executive Director, Access Technologies, Verizon Communications

Brian is the executive director of access technologies for Verizon Communications. In his current position Brian is responsible for directing the design and development efforts of next generation access network platforms.

Brian began his career with the former GTE in 1983 as an associate in GTE's Executive Development Program. Prior to his current position, Brian was assistant vice president of technology development for GTE. He also has held positions in product development, business operations development, engineering, systems development, business planning, and technology planning.

Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and an MBA from the University of Dallas with an emphasis on telecommunications management and policy.

J.D. Zeeman, Director, Digital Media Global Communications Sector Services, IBM Global Services

J.D. Zeeman is responsible for enabling business to exploit the exciting new technologies of Digital Media (i.e., audio, video, image). His industry focus is Telecommunications, along with Media & Entertainment and Energy & Utilities. His global work encompasses strategy, offering development, business development, and leading-edge engagement support.

Digital Media encompasses the creation, management, and distribution of unstructured content. IBM Global Services delivers unique value via services including consulting, project management, application development, systems integration, infrastructure optimization, end-to-end testing, operational readiness, and managed operations.

Mr. Zeeman's concentration is on innovative implementations of digital media to to address new market opportunities and to fulfill leading-edge client needs. Areas of recent focus include content services (e.g., IPTV, online games), wireless computing, and e-business on-demand. Within content services, recent concentrations include the enablement of service delivery platforms and the integration of OSS/BSS systems.

Mr. Zeeman has been with IBM Global Services over ten years. He has worked with clients to execute a full continuum of I/T solutions (i.e., plan, build, and run). Organizational responsibilities have included strategic outsourcing, e-business hosting services, and professional services.

Mr. Zeeman has served as a keynote and panel speaker at industry events including the Broadband and Triple Play Services Conference, Broadband World Forum, Digital Hollywood, Future Image Summit, TelcoTV, and WiFi Planet.

Mr. Zeeman holds a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School and a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Princeton University.

Oren Zeev, Partner, Apax Partners

Oren Zeev is a partner at Apax Partners and co-leads the Tech & Telecom Group in the U.S. He has extensive experience investing in areas such as digital media and consumer-driven electronics. With over a decade of experience with the firm, Oren has successfully completed deals in the U.S. and Israel and maintains a broad, cross-border investment perspective. Previous investments include Audible, Inc., Butterfly (acquired by TI), Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Tescom (IPO), and Commtouch (IPO).

Prior to joining Apax Partners in 1995, Oren 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.

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

Oren is a member of the Israel Venture Network, an organization that focuses on increasing Israel’s national competitiveness through the venture community. He currently serves on the board of directors of Mobixell Networks Inc., Transera Communications, Inc., Audible, Inc., and Pictage, Inc.

Tony Zona, Vice President, Motorola Wireline Networks, Marketing and Product Management, Motorola, Inc.

Mr. Zona is responsible for product development and business strategy for Motorola Wireline Networks’ Fiber to the Premises Solutions that enable wireline telecom operators to deliver video, voice, and data over fiber access networks. Mr. Zona Joined Motorola in 2004 through the acquisition of Quantum Bridge Communications which he founded and where he served as president and CEO. Mr. Zona brings more than 20 years of experience in developing, managing, and marketing telecommunications technology and systems.

Prior to founding Quantum Bridge, Mr. Zona was with Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies developing and managing broadband access, transport, and data networking products. Before joining Bell Laboratories, Zona was a systems engineer for Raytheon in the Missile Systems Division. He holds a BSEE from the University of Rhode Island, an MS in applied mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA from Boston University.

Centillium CEO Faraj Aalaei is the guiding force behind the company's successful track record as a leading innovator of high-performance, cost-effective semiconductor solutions for "last-mile" broadband access deployments. An industry pioneer and holder of two patents, Aalaei has spent over 24 years at the forefront of technical advancements - from helping develop the world's first broadband modem for CATV networks to the introduction of Centillium's high-capacity convergent technology for DSL, optical, and VoIP applications.

Prior to co-founding Centillium in 1997, Aalaei held a variety of management and engineering positions at leading access technology providers, where he applied his expertise to the development of DSLAM, Digital Loop Carrier, and Fiber-to-the-Curb products at Fujitsu; the first SONET system at AT&T in collaboration with NTT; and high-speed, two-way systems for CATV networks at Bell Labs. He began his career at MA/COM designing very high speed satellite communications systems. Aalaei's contributions to the industry include chairing the PHY group at DAVIC, serving on the advisory board of Global Catalyst Partners, and several high-tech firms in Silicon Valley, as well as working frequently with several other venture capital firms. Aalaei holds an MSEE from University of Massachusetts and an MBA from University of New Hampshire.

Christopher Allen, Head of Product Strategy & Product Marketing, Yahoo! Music

Christopher Allen is responsible for driving Yahoo! Music’s global product vision and managing the strategic product and service roadmap since the acquisition of Musicmatch by Yahoo! in October 2004. A seasoned executive with over 10 years of product/marketing experience, Allen currently oversees customer acquisition and retention strategies for Yahoo! Music’s media and premium services businesses. Mr. Allen is also charged with analyzing future product trends to evaluate integration of digital music services into emerging technologies and devices.

Prior to joining Musicmatch in May of 2000, Allen was a co-founder and head of product marketing and strategic planning at Kablink, an online photo service company. Previously, Christopher spent more than 10 years in product management at pioneering companies AT&T and NCR working on data warehouse decision support, CRM, and business intelligence initiatives. While Allen was at Musicmatch, the company received seven consecutive PC Magazine Editors' Choice awards for excellence and countless accolades for leadership in digital music products and services.

Allen received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of San Diego. Allen is considered a powerhouse at Musicmatch, and he certainly looks the part. He has competed in amateur bodybuilding and for the past 13 years has been the head powerlifting coach for the North San Diego County Special Olympics team.

David Arfin, CEO, GlooLabs, Inc.

David Arfin was founder and CEO of CLE Group, a multimedia software company, until its acquisition by PLI. He then co-founded Flywheel Communications, an Internet rights-based management company for secure document exchange.

Arfin holds an MBA from Stanford, an MA in public policy analysis from Claremont Graduate University, and a BA in political science from UCLA. Arfin is a past president of the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto.

GlooLabs, Inc. has developed GlooNet, a remote-access platform for embedded devices and remote access services for multimedia that enables wireless carriers, ISPs, cable operators, and device manufacturers to provide innovative, next-generation technology for use in the home, office, and remote locations. GlooNet supports remote access to photos, music, video, and productivity documents. GLOO™ is licensed to service providers and device manufacturers and who develop and brand products for the mobile and digital entertainment worlds. A privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, GlooLabs investors include Siemens Acceleration in Communications and Nokia’s Innovent.

Mike Barlow, CEO, PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.

Mike Barlow is CEO of PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc. PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE:ALA). The company was founded in 1998 and was a division of PacketVideo Corporation until its acquisition by Alcatel in Q4 2003.

At the helm of PacketVideo’s Network Solutions, Inc., Barlow has direct P&L responsibility for the pvServer product line, the world’s most successful multimedia distribution system for mobile networks. pvServer has been successfully tested, accepted, and implemented by leading wireless operators around the world, including NTT DoCoMo, Orange, and others.

Prior to joining PacketVideo Corporation, Barlow was a Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG) vice president, where he sold and successfully implemented CDMA systems into seven of the top 30 mobile markets in the United States. Earlier in his career, Mike was a system analyst for business support systems at AT&T Computer Systems and a digital design engineer for complex electronic warfare systems at Northrop - Defense Systems Division.

His educational background includes a Master of Business Administration, University of Illinois, with a concentration in finance, marketing and entrepreneurship, and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, Southern Illinois University.

Gunjan Bhow, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Actiontec Electronics, Inc.

Gunjan Bhow is vice president of marketing and product management at Actiontec Electronics. In this role, Bhow oversees all aspects of business strategy, product roadmap, and corporate marketing. Bhow is particularly focused on digital entertainment and personal communications solutions that enrich the broadband home. Prior to joining Actiontec, Bhow was director of platform product strategy at Microsoft Corporation in the Home and Entertainment Division. In this role, he managed market research, product strategy, business planning, and rollout plans for Microsoft’s digital TV software platform for broadband service providers worldwide. A passionate believer in everything-on-demand future of digital entertainment, Bhow led the strategic planning for software products surrounding EPG, VOD, and DVR for cable operators in North America, Europe, and Latin America.

A veteran of the digital media space, Bhow enjoys a unique and global perspective on digital media, spanning technology, business, and long-term trends in digital video. As a technologist, Bhow did pioneering work in digital video and 3D animation beginning at Corel Corporation in early 1990s – developing and launching products covering digital illustration, video editing, and playback such as Micrografx Designer, PhotoMagic, CrystalGraphics Flying Fonts, and 3D Vortex. He was responsible for launching some of the world’s first consumer digital video applications in partnership with companies including Sony and Microsoft, including 3D Impact for Windows 95. Leveraging his technology passion on the business side, Bhow led strategic venture capital investments at Telesystem, a global broadband company with carrier holdings in 40 countries. His focus was on telecom carriers around the world investing in emerging digital media technologies, including Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, France Telecom, and Singapore Telecom. Bhow also led the product management team at Oracle Corporation in charge of developing the next generation of visual authoring tools – covering Web animation and digital media. Bhow has spoken at conferences worldwide – including CES, Digital Hollywood, Comdex, SIGGRAPH, TieCon India, Videomaker Expo, and Arts Alliance Summit in London - covering digital media topics ranging from distribution technologies, consumer user-interface, and enhanced content. Bhow holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from University of California at Berkeley. He has founded a computer literacy non-profit institute in India and is also a visiting scholar at Nirma Institute of Management, a leading graduate business school India.

Mr. Brochu brings over 20 years of senior level experience to Loudeye including top management, executive, and directorship positions in emerging growth technology, software, and digital entertainment companies.

Prior to joining Loudeye, Mr. Brochu served as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc., a Nasdaq-traded e-business and e-service solution provider. Under his leadership, he transformed the company from a small business with a single product into a publicly traded company with a market-leading software suite, a European presence, and a Global 2000 customer base.

Mr. Brochu guided Primus into becoming one of the first technology companies in the country to transfer its client-server software solutions to the Web. Mr. Brochu was instrumental in engineering the 2004 sale of Primus to ATG to create the industry’s most complete e-business solution platform.

Prior to joining Primus, Brochu was the president of Sierra On-Line Inc., one of the world's largest publishers of interactive entertainment, educational, and home productivity software. At Sierra On-Line, Mr. Brochu led efforts to grow revenues by over 300%, leading to the sale of Sierra On-Line to CUC International for $1.1 billion.

He currently serves on the boards of the WSA, the largest technology trade association in Washington State, and several public and private technology companies. Brochu also sits on the advisory boards for two venture capital firms.

Steve Brown, President & CEO, Health Hero Network

Mr. Brown is the founder of Health Hero Network. During Mr. Brown’s leadership as CEO, the company secured over $50 million in private financing to develop and commercialize the Health Hero® technology platform and the Health Buddy® appliance. Health Hero Network is now recognized as an industry-leading innovator and solution provider for remote health monitoring and management, with demonstrated and published outcomes showing quality improvement and cost effectiveness for major healthcare institutions. Mr. Brown began his career by developing disease management systems and software for pharmaceutical and medical device companies while conducting research on interactive technologies designed to monitor and improve patient self-care and health-related behavior. Mr. Brown's research has included some of the first interactive television and information appliance applications for disease management, patient education, and behavioral health, resulting in over 50 patents assigned to Health Hero Network. Mr. Brown graduated with a BS in physics from Stanford University.

Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Toshiba Storage Device Division

As vice president of marketing for Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), Maciek Brzeski is responsible for directing Toshiba’s marketing and product planning efforts relating to hard disk drive sales in the United States. Maciek joined Toshiba in 1996 and previously focused on the company’s optical business unit. He has been instrumental in launching Toshiba’s DVD recordable and 1.8-inch hard disk drive product lines.

A veteran of the computer industry for more than 19 years, Maciek also has held positions at AST, Raytheon, and Telex. Before moving to California in 1989 to head up AST’s international marketing efforts and serve as strategic marketing/planning manager, he drove AST’s European marketing initiatives from the company’s U.K. headquarters. Maciek began his technology career as a data communication systems engineer at Raytheon before and after it was acquired by Telex.

In addition to his extensive technology marketing expertise, Maciek has been a key representative for Toshiba in the storage industry. He has spoken at numerous events including the 2005 Consumer Telematics Seminar, OSTA, the DVD Entertainment Conference & Showcase, Digital Hollywood, and Optical Storage Symposium.

A graduate from the University of London, Maciek earned a degree in electronic engineering with a computer science concentration.

At Synacor, Drew Buckley focuses on distribution sales and strategic partnerships with Synacor's premium partners. Prior to Synacor, Buckley was a founding employee and principal of Shelter Capital Partners, a $200 million technology venture capital firm. While at Shelter, he led efforts in wireless and media technology investments. Before Shelter Capital Partners, Buckley was the vice president of business development for iXL, a leading Web strategy and development firm. At iXL, he ran business development for the west coast and managed $50 million of annual revenue for over three years. Buckley began his career at AT&T and before departing was the regional marketing manager for AT&T Media and Entertainment Vertical. He has an MBA in finance from The University of Southern California and a BBA from Southern Methodist University.

Jack Buser, Director, Consumer Electronics, Dolby Laboratories

Jack Buser directs the consumer electronics business segment at Dolby Laboratories. Buser led Dolby's efforts in the game industry, securing Dolby technology in every major game console. In addition, Jack has worked closely with content developers to include support for Dolby's surround-sound technologies. Currently, Buser is working with both hardware licensees and content developers as the consumer electronics industry migrates to both next-generation blue laser media formats known as HD DVD and Blu-ray. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales & Marketing, Metalink

Mr. Cates joined Metalink as associate vice president of sales and business development, assuming his current position in 2005. Mr. Cates has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry, holding various executive-level positions, including vice president and general manager of the Broadband Access Business Unit at Connexant Systems and vice president of worldwide sales at Peregrine Semiconductor. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Bill Correll, Director, Corporate Development, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Bill is responsible for strategic alliances, business development, and investments across a range of substantive areas at Sun, including broadband and wireless entertainment services and telecommunications infrastructure. A fifteen-year veteran of the industry, he has spearheaded Sun's market and product efforts in digital television, video-over-IP, online games and music, digital rights management, and content workflow.

Bill has appeared on numerous industry panels and forums as an expert in digital media and telecommunication trends, technology, and business models.

Tom Cullen, Co-founder & Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Sonos, Inc.

Tom leads product management, marketing, and sales at Sonos. Tom draws on previous experience with Apple Computer, Software.com, and Openwave Systems to effect the development and launch of the Sonos Digital Music System. Previously he served as the senior vice president of corporate development at Openwave and senior vice president of sales & marketing at Software.com. Tom began his career at Apple, launching the Macintosh computer in 25 countries.

Matt Cuson, Vice President, Marketing, Minerva Networks, Inc.

Matt Cuson is vice president of marketing for Minerva Networks, the leading provider of open-platform, carrier-class solutions for the delivery of television services over broadband IP networks. Mr. Cuson has over 25 years experience in defining and marketing networked enterprise systems, storage solutions, and business and consumer application software. His diverse background spans many of the key markets and technologies that uniquely characterize the IPTV market space.

Aaron Dagan, President and CEO, PsiNaptic Inc.

Aaron, a PsiNaptic co-founder, has in-depth knowledge in pervasive computing and the effects on our wireless society. Over the past five years, Aaron has promoted the vision of seamless device connectivity, spearheading the development of autonomous solutions for homes, vehicles, and handheld devices.

Aaron has extensive experience in management, marketing, and operations at a senior level in the international arena. Over the past 20 years he has marketed products and technologies to a wide range of industries.

Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.

William Diamond co-founded Xanboo in 1999 and, in addition to running day-to-day activities for the company, works closely with the company's network operator and service provider partners. Xanboo's strategic focus is to maintain its lead as the industry's solution for monitoring and controlling a home, fast-food restaurant, gas station, or convenience store via a cell phone. In addition to its marketing lead, Xanboo holds seven important technology patents for its solution. William Diamond was previously president, CEO, and 50% equity holder in RDI, Incorporated, an ISO9000 electronics engineering and manufacturing company that owns and operates a 90,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China, employing over 700 people. William co-founded Diamond Properties, which over the past decade has acquired over 2,000,000 square feet of Class A and Class B commercial space in New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. William graduated from St. Paul's School in 1987 and from Amherst College in 1991.

Udo Eberlein, President, Nero Inc.

Udo Eberlein, founder and president of Nero Inc., has successfully launched Nero products in North America since May 2001. Nero’s product line includes its flagship product Nero 6, the ultimate digital media solution; SIPPS VoIP telephony software for business and personal use; Nero Digital, the complete MPEG-4 audio/video solution; and Nero Photoshow Deluxe, the photo management and editing application. Mr. Eberlein’s drive and determination were crucial in helping to transform and elevate Nero from a high-quality CD/DVD burning application into one of the industry’s premier digital media solutions. Nero is now ranked among the top three digital media solutions nationwide. Prior to joining Nero, Mr. Eberlein was an executive at ABX Logistics, where he oversaw product development, sales, and marketing. Mr. Eberlein is a multilingual professional with work experience in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He obtained a master’s degree in logistics and business administration from The Academy of Business in Germany.

Mike Einstein, Vice President, Corporate Innovation, Intermatic, Inc.

With more than 15 years of experience in the lighting control market, Mike Einstein is the vice president of corporate innovation for Intermatic, Inc. Intermatic, known for timers and Malibu landscape lighting, is one of the six founding members of the Z-Wave Alliance. The Alliance was established in 2005 to proclaim Z-Wave as the de facto standard for home control and automation. Einstein currently serves as spokesperson for the Alliance, charged with spreading the good news of Z-Wave technology—that it’s reliable, interoperable, affordable, and available—to the mass market.

During his career with Intermatic, Einstein was instrumental in his team’s quest to drive product cost down. His responsibilities include identification and strategic planning for new business and market development. Einstein travels extensively, investigating market innovations and lighting solutions in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Through Einstein’s determination for increased market share, Intermatic’s Home Protection & Controls Strategic Business grew from $18 million to $60 million in only six years.

Prior to his successful career with Intermatic, Einstein was a founder and partner in a start-up surge protection company. With Einstein’s strategic direction, CPS Electronics grew to more than $4 million in sales in less than five years.

Ken Fairbanks joined SmartLabs in 2003. He currently is the director of business development where his responsibilities include the sales and marketing of SmartLabs’ INSTEON™ technologies. Previously, Fairbanks held numerous senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard where he was responsible for the development of several innovative new business initiatives and programs. Most recently he was a founding principal of ISC consulting. Fairbanks holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Doug Glen, Chief Marketing Officer, Zetera

Douglas Glen has over twenty-five years operating experience as a technology, media, and entertainment operating executive.

Currently, Mr. Glen is chief marketing officer of Zetera Corporation, developer and licensor of innovative network storage solutions. Previously, he was managing partner of ProVen Private Equity, a U.K.-based family of private equity funds.

In the mid-1990s, Mr. Glen was chief strategy officer of Mattel Toys, where we was responsible for building new businesses including a girls’ software line and a tech toy joint venture with Intel. Prior to Mattel, he was group vice president, business development and strategic planning of Sega of America, where he was responsible for the company’s new products and distribution channels. Before joining Sega, Mr. Glen was general manager of LucasArts Entertainment, the video game division of Lucasfilm Ltd.

Mr. Glen completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA and PhD from Somerset University.

John Graham, Vice President, Marketing, Entropic Communications

Mr. Graham has more than 20 years of executive sales, marketing, and management experience in the semiconductor industry. He was vice president of worldwide sales for wireless chip company picoChip prior to joining Entropic, positioning the company for fast growth in the emerging Wi-Max market. Before that he co-founded and was named CEO of Transitive Technologies, developers of technologies to allow software compiled for one CPU to run on a different CPU with no performance penalty, where he closed $11 million in customer deals. Mr. Graham served as vice president of marketing for Conexant in the late '90s, responsible for the company's video and broadband chips, growing sales from single digits to more than $140 million in three years to a "who's who" of consumer electronics companies including NEC, Microsoft, Sony, DIRECTV, and Samsung, among others. He also managed the graphics business unit for Brooktree Corporation and held marketing and engineering positions with Precision Monolithics and Ferranti Microelectronics early in his career. Mr. Graham grew up in England and holds a bachelor's degree in science from the University of Nottingham and an MBA from the University of San Diego.

Pete Griffin is the director of corporate technology for RadioShack's New Business Development Group. The NBD reports directly to the Chairman's Office of RadioShack. His responsibilities include the identification of future technologies that impact the consumer electronic business and fit within RadioShack's business model.

He started his career with RadioShack over 25 years ago as director of engineering, and he has been at the forefront in developing (and introducing) such products/technologies as the personal computer, laptops, direct-to-home satellite, telephones, cellular phones, direct conversion pagers, and hundreds of accessories.

He holds a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. (abd) in physics. His undergraduate studies were at Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. His graduate work was completed at TCU.

Manish Gupta, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Aperto Networks

Manish Gupta is vice president of marketing and alliances for Aperto Networks, a leading WiMAX systems provider. A seasoned executive with an extensive track record in corporate strategy, marketing, and business development spanning multiple segments of the communications industry, Mr. Gupta leads all marketing functions including product management, product marketing, marketing strategy, public relations, and marketing communications. He also is responsible for Aperto’s partnerships in the evolving WiMAX ecosystem.

Mr. Gupta’s leadership experience spans the communication and media segments of mobile network infrastructure, DSL, VoIP, e-commerce, webcasting, interactive television, and satellite communications. He has held global executive-level positions in marketing, business development, and sales with Megisto Systems – serving mobile operators, Jetstream Communications – serving DSL operators, Cyberstar, a satellite data services company, Apple Computer, and National Semiconductor.

Mr. Gupta received his BSEE and MSEE from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Santa Clara University in California.

John Hannan, Director, Business Development, Qualcomm

John Hannan has been working in the wireless communications sector for the past ten years. Currently, he holds the position of director, business development at Qualcomm Inc., where he is responsible for assessing business opportunities for emerging wireless technologies. In the past, he has also been active in the area of technology assessment and economic modeling of 3G wireless systems. Hannan joined the company in 1998 as a senior network planner. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, he worked as a senior RF engineer for Sprint PCS deploying its CDMA wireless network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hannan holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Bucknell University and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from The University of Arizona.

QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2005 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.

David Hanson, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business Development, Promptu (formerly AgileTV)

At AgileTV Mr. Hanson draws on his 35 years of executive cable experience working for companies such as CBS, Viacom, and Showtime to identify and lead the development of AgileTV’s relationships with the cable industry.

Prior to AgileTV, Mr. Hanson was senior vice president, business development at DIVA where he helped oversee the company’s transformation from a technology start-up to a recognized world leader in video-on-demand. Prior to joining DIVA, he founded Hanson & Associates, specializing in the merger, acquisition, divestiture, and financing of cable television and entertainment companies where he held the position of CEO for over 15 years. Mr. Hanson played a major role in the start-up of the Showtime Entertainment Network as its first vice president of marketing and affiliate relations. Mr. Hanson served in various senior positions at Viacom Cable, including general manager of Viacom’s largest cable system, vice president of marketing, and vice president of new market development.

Mr. Hanson is a founding member of the Board of Directors of CTAM, one of the cable television industry’s largest trade organizations. In 1999, he was recognized for his achievements in and contributions to the cable television industry by being inducted as one of the industry’s Cable Television Pioneers.

Frank Hanzlik, Managing Director, Wi-Fi Alliance

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 multistandard 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. 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.

Bill Holmes, Vice President, Consumer Electronics, DivX, Inc.

Mr. Holmes is responsible for directing product affairs for DivX, Inc.'s consumer electronics (CE) business unit. These duties include the development of overall CE business strategy, management of product launches and product delivery, as well as general management of the DivX CE unit. Mr. Holmes has extensive experience in creating, developing, and marketing first-generation product offerings.

Prior to working at DivX, Mr. Holmes served as director, product management & marketing at Yotta Yotta, a technology company in the forefront of high-capacity distributed data storage. At Yotta Yotta, Mr. Holmes provided oversight in all phases of product development, working directly with prospects, clients, customers, OEMs, marketing, business development, and engineering to carry out the company's implementation of the newly developed high-capacity storage platform. Previous to his work at Yotta Yotta, Mr. Holmes was executive director, product development & marketing at Digital Entertainment Solutions (DES), a privately funded company that provides digital media solutions to major entertainment industry clientele. At DES, Mr. Holmes' chief responsibility was to direct product development for the company's global broadband content delivery platform. Mr. Holmes has also consulted in digital media, streaming media, and Website development. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and graduated cum laude from Trinity University.

Nasser Iravani, Director, Americas, Forum Nokia

Nasser Iravani is a veteran in the mobile wireless and network computing industries, with over 15 years of international experience in ISV business development and strategic alliance management. He has been a pioneer of creating and leading global developer community and partnership initiatives for Java and wireless technologies. Iravani currently serves as the director of Americas in Forum Nokia, where he leads a team responsible for all aspects of Nokia's third-party software developer activities in North America. His area of responsibility at Forum Nokia includes the development and expansion of technology and business alliances with key platform, application, and content developers in the United States, Latin America, and Canada.

Iravani joined Nokia in 2004 and has been instrumental in the continued success of the Forum Nokia PRO community in North America as well as the launch of the Preminet solution, an end-to-end mobile content distribution and transaction system.

Previously, Iravani spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, most recently as the senior director of corporate strategy, where he was responsible for helping drive the execution of several key product, alliance, and market portfolio issues. At Sun, Iravani also led teams responsible for the success of key market development initiatives, including iForce wireless ISV and global Authorized Java Center teams. He has contributed significantly to establishing a global developer community for Java particularly in wireless and mobility markets.

Iravani has spoken at various industry conferences, including CTIA, Asia Telecom, CeBiT, JavaONE, Enterprise Wireless Forum, and numerous Nokia and Sun developer/partner events.

Iravani earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UCLA.

Greg Jones is the general manager of Texas Instruments’ Service Provider Strategic Marketing organization within the DSP Systems organization. He is responsible for establishing key relationships with providers worldwide in order to define the roadmap for exciting new convergence products.

Prior to this position, Mr. Jones was the general manager of TI’s Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Business Unit within the company’s Broadband Communications Group. He is responsible for customer engagement strategy, product definition, and worldwide marketing of TI products for DSL modem applications. Through his leadership, the company achieved tremendous marketshare growth and is currently positioned as the industry leader in DSL.

Mr. Jones has more than 20 years of proven experience in product development, operations, sales, and marketing of technology products. Prior to joining TI, he was founder, chairman, president, and CEO of Broadband Gateways, Inc., a company focused on technologies in the broadband edge device marketplace. Previously, Mr. Jones held several senior management positions at Uniden including vice president of the Internet Products Division, director of international sales, vice president of operations, and vice president of the Wireless Data Division. He has also held several positions at AmeriCom, where he was a founding engineer for new protocols and switching systems for the land mobile radio industry.

Mr. Jones received his Bachelor of Science in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Telecom Industry Association (TIA) as the chairman of the International Committee.

Tasos Kaiafas, Games Strategist, Intel Corp.

Tasos Kaiafas has been driving Intel's game strategy for more than five years. During this time, Tasos has successfully led Intel to increase its investment in the game industry and is widely considered Intel’s resident expert on PC and video games. In 2004, Tasos was named Intel’s gaming strategic planner in the Digital Home Group, in which he is responsible for long-term strategies and plans in the areas of gaming and graphics. His vision and leadership are instrumental in defining Intel’s future as a platform company in the game industry. Prior to coming to Intel, Tasos worked for seven years as an editor at several gaming magazines and Websites, including editor-in-chief of Incite PC Gaming magazine, features editor at Gamespot.com, and editor of Computer Game Review magazine. He is very passionate about the game industry and its place as a rapidly advancing entertainment medium worldwide.

David Kaiserman, President, Lennar Communications Ventures

David J. Kaiserman is president of Lennar Communications Ventures (LCV), the division of Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations, which oversees the company’s national interests and activities with providers of telephone, television, and Internet services. In this capacity, Mr. Kaiserman also oversees the activities of Lennar’s wholly owned cable operator, Strategic Technologies, Inc.

Prior to joining Lennar, Mr. Kaiserman was a member of Saybrook Capital LLC, a firm focused on financial restructurings, complex real estate finance, and fund management. While at Saybrook, Mr. Kaiserman co-founded the firm’s merchant banking group through which he actively pursued investment opportunities in real estate, technology, and the intersection of those sectors. Previously he was a member of the firm's investment banking group, where he provided both strategic and financial advisory services to a wide array of clients in the real estate, technology, and healthcare industries.

Keith Laepple, Director, Consumer Electronics Partner Team, Windows eHome Division (Media Center), Microsoft Corp.

Keith Laepple leads consumer electronics partner strategy and business development for Microsoft’s eHome Division, the product group extending the Windows® platform to distributed home entertainment through Windows™ Media Center PCs and Media Center Extender Technology.

With over fifteen years of Microsoft product and business development experience, Laepple now enjoys pursuing PC and consumer electronics industry partnerships for the digital home. Prior to eHome, Laepple led Windows consumer PC and home networking initiatives in the Windows operating system division and from 1990 to 1995 was a technical program manager for Windows 95 hardware platform support.

Laepple holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Virginia Tech. He is an experienced presenter at industry events including the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, CES, Parks Forum, and Digital Hollywood.

Laepple’s technical and professional background includes Windows Media Center PC and Extender technology, home networking and wireless, A/V device connectivity and interoperability, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) board member and compliance & certification committee chair, and Universal Plug and Play founding contributor.

Ron Levin, Home Networking Marketing Manager, ECI Telecom Ltd.

Ron Levin is currently home networking marketing manager within ECI Telecom’s Broadband Access Division (www.ecitele.com), where he is responsible for ECI’s home networking solutions. Prior to ECI, Mr. Levin was product manager at Jungo Software Technologies (www.jungo.com), a developer of software for home and small business gateways. Mr. Levin is a contributing member of the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) (www.homegateway.org). Mr. Levin holds an MSc in management from the University of Tel Aviv and a BSc in computer science from the Technion, Haifa.

Al Lizza has been with HS&CE for 12 years working in marketing and product development for hybrid and wireless security systems and home control products.

Bob Long, Vice President of Sales, Vantage Controls

Bob joined Vantage in August of 2004 in a sales, management, and consulting role and was appointed vice president of sales in May of 2005. Bob served as a business consultant to Vantage and its sister company Trans Era for the last 26 years. Prior to joining Vantage, Bob was in the financial services industry in insurance planning, estate planning, and wealth management. Bob worked as managing director for Northwestern Financial Network and served on the Board of Directors and president of the Managing Directors Association for ten years. Over the past decade, Bob has been a frequent guest lecturer at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University on the topics of sales management and financial planning.

Vincent Luciano, Vice President, Marketing, OpenPeak, Inc.

Vinny Luciano is responsible for marketing and product management at OpenPeak, a company that creates innovative software and devices that enable a simple user experience for control of consumer electronics and home systems as well as management, control, and playback of digital media and Internet content. The company's Thinking Homes® product line includes a series of smart remote controls, WiFi bridges including IR and Z-Wave, and lightweight embedded server software with an emphasis on simple setup, usability, auto-discovery, and an intuitive user interface. OEMs benefit from OpenPeak's portable architecture, hardware reference designs, and turnkey solutions that allow quick and cost-effective integration of advanced control and VoIP technology into their platforms.

Prior to OpenPeak, Vinny was vice president of product management at Symbol Technologies, focused on handheld computing solutions for vertical market applications.

Ted Malone, Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Marketing, Digital Deck

As vice president of corporate strategy & marketing for Digital Deck, Ted is responsible for the creation of the overall product and service strategy for the company as well as corporate marketing activities. Prior to joining Digital Deck, Ted led product marketing activities for TiVo. During his six-year tenure at TiVo, he was responsible for determining market requirements, product features, configuration, pricing, and competitive analysis for a variety of stand-alone and integrated DVR products. For part of his time at TiVo, Ted also managed the user experience team, including user research. He was also responsible for development of the TiVo products and service that were released in the U.K. in late 2000. Prior to joining TiVo, Ted was a senior engineering manager at Alias/Wavefront, where he developed the product requirements and managed the development team for the creation of two versions of the Zap!iT digital video software line. Before that, he led the studio production group of Silicon Graphic’s Silicon Studio division, designing and building the Silicon Graphics Entertainment Technology Center and managing a team through the creation of animation, video, and performance animation projects. Ted has also been an instructor at the Academy of Art College, teaching various courses on special effects for film and video. Ted holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University.

Steve Martin, Vice President, Engineering, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.

With more than 15 years of engineering experience in the networking industry with companies such as Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), UTStarcom, 3Com, and US Robotics Corporation, Martin is an expert in networking hardware and software design and development as well as lifecycle product management. He is known for developing state-of-the-art wireless technologies and successfully bringing those technologies to market. Before joining Ruckus, Martin was an engineering executive within Cisco’s wireless networking group. Prior to that, Martin was VP of hardware and engineering for Airespace. Additionally, he held several senior management positions with CommWorks Corporation, which was acquired by UTStarcom in 2003. Martin holds a Master of Science in telecommunications systems from DePaul University. He loves standup comedy, funny movies, and Bernadette Peters.

Mick McManus, President and CEO, MAYA Design

Mick McManus is president and CEO of MAYA Design, Inc., a technology design lab and consultancy that specializes in making complex technology easier to use. However, he prefers to think of himself as MAYA’s chief mad scientist. Since joining MAYA in 2001, Mick has led a highly skilled, interdisciplinary team that creates innovative ways to integrate information and technology into a satisfying user experience.

In 2005, Mick spearheaded the launch of MAYA's Pervasive Computing Practice, which focuses on ways to design information objects so that all sorts of data can flow easily among vastly distributed devices, many hidden in the environment. This "information liquidity" will empower consumers to gain access to information through ever-increasing types of devices––without frustration from technology constraints.

At age 12, Mick careened through the hallways of his school on a vacuum-cleaner-powered hovercraft (really) that would later get him the coveted eighth-grade science fair grand prize d'Or. While attending the University of Illinois in Chicago, he discovered that a bachelor's degree of mad science was not yet available. He settled for graduating with honors from the School of Art and Architecture with a BFA in industrial design and extended studies in communication design and mathematics.

Before Mick stumbled upon MAYAn culture, he was co-founder and senior vice president of creative vision and strategy at Elan Communications, an integrated communications consultancy for clients that included Bristol Myers Squibb, MasterCard, Samsung, Nortel Networks, TiVO, and Janssen Pharmaceutica.

At Elan, Mick built the creative team that managed the concept, design, and production of the Samsung Electronics pavilion at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The wireless telecommunications rendezvous became a destination for more than a million visitors and was listed as one of the top ten destinations during the games.

For Janssen, Mick's creative team designed a virtual world where practitioners could experience the symptoms of schizophrenia and become educated on the impact of the disease. This virtual world was featured on "20/20" with Barbara Walters.

Mick's numerous design awards include a CES award for innovation in the Integrated Home Systems category, two Addy Awards for advertising and video production, the AIGA Communications Show Judge's Choice Award, SuperComm 2000 Best of Show in Design, and the Exhibitor Award for Best Conceptual Design. His articles and work have been published in Innovations, Graphis, and Space magazines.

Mick has lectured on experience design for the Industrial Designers Society of America at its national convention and at the New Millennium Seminar at the International Design School for Advanced Studies in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he was a keynote speaker at the 2005 M2M (Machine to Machine) conferences in Dallas, Texas, and Amsterdam.

Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, Intellon

Andy Melder joined Intellon as senior vice president of 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 corporate 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 has also served as vice president of 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 markets 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, CONNECTIONS™, Smart Home, Comdex, Digital Hollywood, the Networked Home, and the National Cable Show.

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

Ted Michaud, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola, Inc.

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.

Philippe Mora, Director, Marketing and Business Development, PortalPlayer, Inc.

Philippe Mora is director of marketing and business development at PortalPlayer. He joined the company in 2005 and has since been instrumental in defining, positioning, and managing silicon and software product platforms as well as facilitating relationships with key players in the wireless ecosystem including carriers, content providers, and content aggregators and with major media organizations that provide video, audio, games, and more.

Prior to joining PortalPlayer, Mr. Mora spent four years with Spatializer Audio Laboratories as a senior product manger and software architect. He also held positions as senior software architect at C-Cube Microsystems (acquired by LSI Logic) and as a software engineer at Digital Video Systems. Mr. Mora has an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MSc in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and ESIEE Paris, and is fluent in English, French, and German and conversant in Russian.

Malachy Moynihan, Vice President & General Manager, Home Networking, Linksys Division of Cisco Systems

Malachy Moynihan is the vice president and general manager of the Home Networking Business Unit at Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc. He leads several departments at Linksys, including Product Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, and Training. Linksys technology focus includes new technologies for the home networking market, small business, service provider access, and voice technologies. Moynihan is developing the Linksys technology capability in existing and new areas.

Moynihan joined Cisco in June 2000 through the acquisition of Infogear Technology Corp., an early technology provider in consumer and service provider Internet appliance products, where he was vice president of operations – responsible for operations, ODM management, hardware product development, network infrastructure, and technical support. At Cisco, he worked on this technology and with several groups to introduce ODM relationships to their capabilities. For the past two years, he worked on the development of a consumer product strategy that culminated in the Linksys acquisition and took responsibility for products at Linksys as part of the acquisition.

Prior to Infogear, Moynihan was the director of operations for the Performa (Consumer) product group at Apple Computer, responsible for all consumer and educational product operations and external product development. Over his 10-year career at Apple Computer, he worked in Europe and the U.S. and was responsible for introducing Apple to Asian and international ODM management. Earlier in his career, he worked in research and business development for several international companies and the Irish government.

Moynihan holds a degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Ireland and has completed post-graduate studies in technology, business, and finance at INSEAD, France, and Ohio State University.

Scott Nelson, Director, Business Development, Business Products and Services, RealNetworks, Inc.

Scott Nelson is responsible for enabling devices and applications with Real’s universal digital media Helix technology as well as managing Real’s relationships with distribution partners for the RealPlayer for Linux. Mr. Nelson has been with Real since 2001 in sales and business development roles working with developers and partners of Real. Prior to joining Real, Mr. Nelson was the media & entertainment manager at SGI and director of sales at one of the first Web-hosting companies that later became Global Crossing. Prior to this he was the regional sales manager at Alias/Wavefront. He’s also managed special government projects for Tektronix. Mr. Nelson received a BS in computer science from California State University, Chico.

Richard Nesin, Vice President, Marketing, CopperGate Communications

Richard Nesin is the vice president of marketing at Coppergate Communications where he is responsible for marketing CopperGate’s HomePNA 3 compatible multimedia home networking chipset products. Richard is also president of HomePNA, the industry organization responsible for developing, promoting, and successfully driving ITU standardization of the HomePNA specifications.

Richard 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 where he also created and directed Agere's industry-leading Storage IC product line.

Richard is a recognized expert in the home networking electronics market and has spoken at a variety of venture summits, educational forums, industry conferences, and trade shows including CES, CONNECTIONS™, Digital Hollywood, IP-Trends Summit, and the Broadband World Forum. He holds a BSEE from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Jeff Oscodar, CEO, HandHeld Entertainment, Inc.

Jeff Oscodar has been director, president, and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment (OTC BB: HNDH) since November 2004. Prior to joining HandHeld Entertainment, Oscodar founded and ran Rule 168 Advisors from July 1999 to November 2004, a consulting firm focused on the commercialization of new technology. At Rule 168, he advised Raytheon on how to turn defense industry applications into valuable commercial operations. Previously, he co-founded InfoGear Technology Corporation, which produced the first Web-enabled telephone and was sold to Cisco Systems in March 2000 for $301 million. While at InfoGear, Oscodar developed content partnerships with companies such as Amazon.com, eToys, Time Inc., USA Today, and Yahoo!, among others.

Peter Percosan, Executive Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments

Percosan has served as the 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 cable broadband topic at numerous technical seminars.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of California at San Diego.

Adam Powers, Chief Technical Officer, Coaxsys Inc.

Prior to working at Coaxsys, Adam worked at Intel (formerly Nuron) where he was the architect for a TCP Offload Engine and implemented various device drivers, protocols, and encryption algorithms. Adam helped design and architect Telocity's DSL Gateway and earned a patent for the Auto Configuration of a DSL Modem. Adam attended Simon's Rock College of Bard and California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo where he studied computer engineering.

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 Raji, CEO & President, iControl Networks

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 U.S. patents. He received a BSEE from State University of New York at Stony Brook and an MSEE from Cornell University.

Stephen Reeder, Executive Director, Product Strategy, ANT Software Limited

Stephen Reeder is ANT’s executive director of product strategy with global responsibility for product and partnership management. Prior to this, Stephen held the position of director of sales and marketing. Since joining, Stephen has helped secure ANT's position as the leading software client supplier to the TV-over-IP market and has been responsible for growing sales into the TV and consumer electronic devices space.

Stephen has over 17 years of technical and commercial experience in the telecommunications and IT marketplace. As an account director with Lucent Technologies, he was responsible for global account development and management for optical transport and VoIP products. Prior to this Stephen headed up new product development for Concert's ASP hosting, after joining from BT where he had held various commercial and technical roles in the Cable TV Services and Consumer Products Divisions.

Stephen holds a First in Electronic Systems Engineering and an Executive MBA from the London Business School.

Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, NVIDIA Corporation

Bill Rehbock has been director of developer relations at NVIDIA since December 2001, heading up the marketing and business relationship teams that work with software developers and publishers worldwide, ensuring that games and applications are well-aligned with NVIDIA graphics and platform hardware. Previously, Bill was the vice president of R&D and technical support at Sony Computer Entertainment America and was responsible for the North American PlayStation library development, Development Support, and Peripherals Licensing groups.

Prior to Sony, Mr. Rehbock worked for Atari Corporation as vice president of software business development. Mr. Rehbock attended the Illinois Institute of Technology, studying electrical engineering and computer science.

Stefan Roever, CEO, Navio Systems

Navio founder and CEO Stefan Roever has never been one to shy away from tackling big issues.

Before even graduating from high school in Germany, Stefan was writing educational software for IBM. While still enrolled at University of Tübingen, Stefan founded his first technology venture, which ultimately helped to fund Brokat Technologies.

As CEO of Brokat, Stefan began with a five-person operation and grew the company into a leading provider of Internet banking software and infrastructure for wireless applications. Brokat employed 1,400 employees in 17 countries. Stefan took Brokat public in 1998 on Neuer Markt, the technology sector of the Frankfurt stock exchange, and on the NASDAQ in 2000.

During a critical period in the growth of international e-commerce, Brokat devised and delivered the only practical way for banking institutions to offer secure Internet transactions outside of the U.S. In helping to remove ineffective U.S. trade restrictions on encryption technology, Stefan became a leading authority on electronic commerce and security.

Between 1999 and 2001, Stefan was named “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, testified as an industry expert before an advisory council to the Clinton Presidential Administration on encryption policy issues, was named to Time Magazine’s “Digital 25 A-Lists,” was appointed to the German Federal Monopoly and Deregulation Commission, and was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young.

Stefan founded Navio Systems, Inc. in 2002. The Navio challenge is equally ambitious: creating an e-commerce platform for the transaction of digital content based on rights, not files. Rights-based commerce is the revolutionary idea that traditional economic notions of physical ownership are inadequate when that content is in digital form.

David Sandford, Director, Product Marketing, Service Provider Division, TiVo Inc.

David leads product marketing for TiVo’s service provider division, where he is responsible for defining and marketing TiVo solutions for cable, satellite, and other service providers.

David joined TiVo in 2002. Previously, David was director of business development for TiVo’s technology licensing business, where he formed strategic partnerships with some of the world’s leading consumer electronics and set-top box companies to integrate the TiVo service into a range of consumer products.

David has over 10 years of experience in business development and marketing in the consumer electronics, broadband, and networking industries. Before joining TiVo, David was director of product management at Jetstream Communications, where he was responsible for building a family of broadband voice solutions and developing the company’s partner and licensing programs. Prior to that, David led 3Com’s home networking initiative and drove the technology and product strategy for the company’s first home networking product line in partnership with Microsoft.

David also speaks Japanese and has lived and worked in Japan. He holds a BA from Williams College and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

John Santhoff, CTO, Pulse~LINK, Inc.

John Santhoff is the architect of Pulse~LINK’s Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, with over thirty years experience in electronics and communications. He founded Pulse~LINK in June 2000 and currently serves as the as chief technology officer and board member of the company. Under Mr. Santhoff’s technical vision and guidance, Pulse~LINK has pioneered and developed a 1 Gbps UWB chipset supporting both wireless and wired applications for the secure seamless distribution of HDTV, multichannel audio, and digital content throughout the home using wireless, in-home coax cable, and power line communications.

Mr. Santhoff has been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences and has been an active participant in the IEEE standards process for 802.11, 802.15.3, and 802.22. He is the author of over 100 patents filed globally on UWB technology and the originator of several significant developments within the UWB industry such as the “Common Signaling Mode” for UWB and UWB over band limited wired channels. Mr. Santhoff served as a member of the U.S. government’s delegation to the ITU representing the United States on regulatory issues related to international global deployment of UWB technology. He was named EE Times “Innovator of the Year” for 2005 and was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2005.

As vice president of IPTV Solutions at OpenTV, Esteban Sardera is responsible for the marketing and development efforts for OpenTV’s IP Television (IPTV) product line and is a respected industry expert and frequent speaker on the topic. Prior to joining OpenTV, Esteban held product marketing and product management positions at Microsoft, working in the Microsoft TV division, and software development positions focusing on push technology and wireless initiatives at PointCast and IBM's Lotus division. Esteban holds a computer science degree from Northeastern University and is the author of several patents (pending) in the field of interactive television.

Jim Sekinger, Director, Business Development, Digital Systems, Philips Lighting Electronics

Jim is the director of business development, digital systems for Philips Lighting Electronics, a global manufacturer of lighting power supplies based in Rosemont, Il. Jim has 15 years experience with Philips developing market strategy, business development, and sales. Jim is responsible for defining and executing the strategy that generates products and services for the global market based on wireless digital technology. He is responsible for analyzing trends and market opportunities, determining product range definition, driving relevant standardization activities, developing key customer and partner alliances, influencing research and design, and driving all other issues relevant to growth within the commercial, industrial and institutional building market place. Philips sells their products through OEMs, electrical wholesalers, and DIYs.

Matthew Shoemake, Founder, CEO, & President, WiQuest Communications

Matthew B. Shoemake is the founder, CEO, and president of WiQuest Communications, Inc. As the founder of WiQuest, Dr. Shoemake has driven the process and strategy of making WiQuest a true UWB industry pioneer, with a focus on building advanced technologies that reinforce and amplify the UWB technology opportunity.

Dr. Shoemake most recently served as director of advanced technology for Texas Instruments WLAN Business Unit. Shoemake was an initial team member at Alantro Communications which was acquired for $300M by Texas Instruments in 2000. Shoemake’s tenure at Texas Instruments and Alantro Communications spanned eight years.

Dr. Shoemake served the IEEE 802.11 Working Group for over five years in various capacities including chairing the 400-plus member IEEE 802.11n Task Group that is setting the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi products and chairing the IEEE 802.11g Task Group, which extends Wi-Fi data rates to 54 Mbps. Dr. Shoemake is co-inventor of the high-performance option (PBCC) in the 802.11b and 802.11g standards, and he was a lead designer of TI’s IEEE 802.11b compliant processors.

Dr. Shoemake earned his doctorate and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Texas A&M University. Dr. Shoemake has 23 patents that are issued or pending and is the author of numerous articles and publications.

Dan Simpkins, Founder & CEO, Hillcrest Labs

Dan Simpkins founded Hillcrest Labs in 2001 with a team of experienced technical and business professionals to create a revolution in entertainment. Prior to Hillcrest, Dan was vice president and general manager of the SALIX Switching Division of Tellabs, Inc., which was established in 2000 when Dan sold voice-over-IP leader SALIX Technologies to Tellabs for $300 million. Dan founded SALIX in 1990 and continued as president and CEO through the sale. Dan currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Cornell University’s BR Ventures and is a member of the prestigious Cornell University Council. Currently he also sits on the Board of Advisors of several high-tech companies and is a member of CTAM. Dan served as an executive in residence for New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the country’s premier VC firms. He is a frequent speaker at industry and business events and has authored many papers on both technical and business subjects. Dan was awarded both a Master of Engineering in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Melissa Simpler, CEO, Affinegy

Melissa Simpler has a rich and diversified background with proven results in business development, strategic planning, marketing, product development, and applications engineering. She co-founded Affinegy in March of 2003 and leads business strategy, marketing, sales, and external relationships. As CEO, Melissa provided the vision for ease-of-use that is the foundation for Affinegy's InstaLAN and Airkit software that makes networking instant and easy. She has closed business and sales agreements with leading broadband and networking companies including Time Warner, Cox, Charter, Airimba, SMC, Netgear, and Linksys.

Prior to Affinegy, Melissa led the next-generation development of Motorola's triple-play Streamaster gateway system and negotiated sales and technology license agreements resulting in global deployments of Streamaster and more than $20M in sales revenues from top telecommunications and system integration companies. She brings over 10 years of start-up and corporate business and engineering management experience from Entregate, Motorola, Dell, and National Instruments. Melissa has a BSEE, cum laude, and MBA from the University of Texas. She serves on the board of UT’s Executive Alumni Association and chairs the Member Renewal Subcommittee of the Austin Wireless Alliance.

Eric Smith, CTO, Control4

As Control4's chief technology officer and one of the company's co-founders, Eric Smith is responsible for setting the organization's technology vision and guiding the development of advanced, technically superior home automation solutions that are also practical, affordable, and easy to use.

Eric brings more than 15 years of technology and home automation experience to Control4. Previously, he co-founded STSN, the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers. Eric personally developed the intellectual property that made it possible to simplify Internet protocols and offer fast, convenient broadband service to travelers staying in more than 175,000 hotel rooms in 200 cities around the world. Prior to STSN, Eric co-founded PHAST Corporation, which quickly became the leading control system in the residential control systems market.

The father of six children, Eric is actively involved in the charter school movement in Utah, where he currently serves as a member of the Utah State Charter School Board. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Zachary Smith, Director, Software, BM Group

Zachary Smith has been the technical editor of the ZigBee specification and the ZigBee network layer specification, the vice chair of the ZigBee architecture task group, and a member of most of the important committees and working groups within ZigBee, as well as a participant in IEEE 802.1.5.4b. As CTO of BM Group, he is responsible for formulating and implementing the company's technology strategy. His career includes positions as chief software architect and founder of the seminal Ember Corporation, six years surfing the .com bubble with vivid Studios and Rare Medium, a five-year stint as a professional rock musician, and engineering work in a wide variety of areas, including automated placement and routing tools for PC-CAD systems, GUI development frameworks in LISP, and, perhaps his most enduring accomplishment, the home-video version of Donkey Kong for ColecoVision. He has a bachelor's degree in music from Hampshire College and a master's in computer science from the University of Massachusetts.

Young-Sae Song, Director, Corporate Marketing, Redback Networks

As the director of corporate marketing for Redback Networks, Young-Sae Song is responsible for marketing and branding for Redback and the SmartEdge product line, focusing on next-generation networks for delivering triple-play services. In addition, Mr. Song is responsible for analyzing customer and market needs for new and existing broadband services. Mr. Song joined Redback in 2005 from Microsoft, where he led a sales team in the Real Time Collaboration Group. Prior to Microsoft, he held management positions at Alcatel and Riverstone Networks. Mr. Song also served as an associate at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, an international management and technology consulting firm. Mr. Song received his MBA from the University of Chicago and his BS in industrial engineering from Northwestern University.

Michael Stelts, President, CEPCA

Michael Stelts is president of the Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance or “CEPCA.” He has been active in powerline carrier standardization for the past six years, chairing a CEA powerline standards committee and managing Easyplug Corporation, a joint venture between Schneider Electric and Thomson.

Mike is also active in several other home-networking groups. He chairs the DLNA Industry Liaison committee and serves as an alternate on its board of directors. He also participates in UPnP, CEA, and IEEE standardization activities. Mr. Stelts earned an Executive MBA degree from the University of Wisconsin and two degrees from the University of Illinois – a BS in electrical engineering and a BA in music.

Sean Storin, President, TechConnectors

Sean Storin is co-owner and president of Tech.Connectors LLC. After 10 years in the IT solutions & staffing business Sean set out to start his own venture. Mr. Storin took time off to complete his MBA at the University of Notre Dame; while doing so he developed a business plan for a product-neutral “Home Technology Service Provider.” Shortly after graduation Sean purchased “Future Homes” of Canada (2004) and teamed with Kirk Chisholm to build the Chicago-based company. Tech.Connectors is now expanding into Indiana and Wisconsin.

Jonathan Symonds, Vice President, Product and Distribution, TANDBERG Television

As vice president of product and distribution for GoldPocket Interactive, a TANDBERG Television company, Jonathan Symonds is responsible for creating distribution opportunities for next-generation delivery platforms such as IPTV and advanced wireless, as well as enhancing the company’s core offering to its existing operator partners through applications and integrations.

Mr. Symonds has over seven years experience in the ITV industry, most recently as vice president of marketing and business development for ICTV, where he was responsible for product and corporate marketing and business development. Previously, he served in a variety of strategic planning and product development roles for On Command, a Liberty Media subsidiary focused on providing interactive television products to the hospitality industry.

Mr. Symonds has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Audit, Assurance and Business Advisory Services Group in San Francisco and served in the Department of State’s Office of Legislative Affairs during the administration of George H.W. Bush. He holds an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business and a BA in political science from Washington and Lee University.

Steve Tranter, Director, Interactive and Broadband Delivery, NDS

Steve Tranter is responsible for the design, delivery, and support of NDS's interactive products and systems for North and South America. He relocated to NDS's U.S. office in California six years ago from the NDS headquarters near London in the U.K. Steve has a degree in physics from the University of Leeds in the U.K. and has experience in systems design and integration from a variety of industries, including analytical scientific instrumentation, photographic reproduction, database technology, and digital broadcasting. Steve has been with NDS for 10 years and has been involved in the design and implementation of some of the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast systems.

John Traynor, Director, Business Segment Marketing, Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Devices, Microsoft

John Traynor is director, business segment marketing in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Group at Microsoft Corp. In this role, John leads a team responsible for identifying and delivering Windows Mobile-based solutions worldwide to customers ranging from enterprises to mid-caps to small businesses.

Prior to joining the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, John led a team that developed the Windows Server System brand, as well he managed the company’s U.S. retail sales organization. While with Microsoft Canada, John held positions in product and channel marketing, finance and operations, technical support, and consulting as well as sales. Before joining Microsoft, John held positions in management and information technology consulting in both the retail and manufacturing sectors. Early in his career, John co-founded a consumer software company that was later sold. John holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from King’s College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, along with a MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

Steve Troyer, Vice President, Marketing, Zensys

Steve joined Zensys as vice president of marketing in January 2006. Prior to Zensys, he spent 14 years in the networking industry with companies including Cisco Systems, Linksys, and Juniper Networks. In 1996 he joined Cisco, where he worked in product management and marketing roles. He was part of the core team that prepared the business case and led the acquisition of Linksys as the home networking division of Cisco. From 2003-2004 he served as director of product marketing for Linksys. He has a BA from Williams College in Massachusetts and MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Yoav Tzruya, COO, Exent

Yoav Tzruya, COO for Exent Technologies, has more than 15 years of experience in software development and marketing and is responsible for evaluating potential markets for Exent, defining product strategy and roadmaps, and bringing Exent's messages and products to the market. Tzruya has spoken at every major industry event, and as a frequent speaker, Tzruya is a recognized expert in the field of broadband value-added services and digital distribution of software.

Tzruya came to Exent from TeleKnowledge, a billing and customer-care software vendor. During his tenure at TeleKnowledge, Tzruya was responsible for product strategy, marketing, product management, and other areas, serving as vice president product strategy, marketing and product management.

John Ulm, Fellow of Technical Staff, Connected Home Solutions, Technology Office, Motorola, Inc.

John recently joined Motorola as a member of the Technology Office reporting to the Connected Home Solution CTO. He has been an active part of the broadband industry for over 15 years, being a designer, architect, and MAC protocol developer for the first cable modem systems. John was a primary author for the Cable Industry’s DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.1 specifications that drove the cable modem success. He also spent time as a network processor architect for Nortel and as a consultant to the broadband industry with YAS Corp.

Prior to the early cable modem work, John was heavily involved in networking development at Hewlett-Packard, Apollo Computer, and Burrough’s Corp. John graduated with BS and master’s degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jocelyn Vigreux, President, TomTom, Inc.

Jocelyn Vigreux runs U.S. operations for TomTom USA and is responsible for developing and expanding all U.S. business opportunities.

Prior to joining TomTom, Vigreux played a key role on the marketing team in the U.S. office of Psion, a handheld computer developer/manufacturer. Switching his focus to sales, Vigreux was sales manager for Psion and then Psion Tekiogix as a mobile sales manager. He successfully negotiated deals with numerous partners in the handheld technology industry.

He currently possesses a decade of hands-on experience in handheld technologies, encompassing operating systems, handheld-based solution implementation, and wireless communication.

Jocelyn Vigreux received a degree from Lincoln International Business School in Paris, France, with a Bachelor of Science in marketing and international trades. He is a member of the Association of Field Service Management International.

Ofer Vilenski, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Jungo

Born and raised in the U.S., Ofer Vilenski moved to Israel in his youth. After several years serving as an Air Force pilot in the elite Israel Air Force, he commenced studies and thereafter graduated Cum Laude in computer sciences from the Haifa Technion. Following a number of years as a senior developer at Checkpoint Software Technologies, one of Israel’s most successful high-tech companies specializing in Internet security solutions, he co-founded Jungo Software Technologies, a leading force in the residential gateway market, and serves today as its chief executive officer and president.

In early 2000, Jungo began developing a software platform for the still nascent residential gateway market, called OpenRG - a Linux-based embedded software platform for integrated access devices (IADs) and residential gateways. OpenRG is a hardware-independent, embedded software enabling technology that integrates seamlessly with many of the leading hardware platforms and supports DSL, cable, wireless, satellite, and fiber-optic WAN interfaces.

Mr. Vilenski also serves as the president of Israel’s Home Networking Forum, a non-profit organization formed to encourage ongoing discussion for the advancement of home networking technologies.

Mark Walters, Chairman of the Developer Forum, Z-Wave Alliance; Director, Business Development, Leviton Integrated Networks

As a member of the Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls Division of Leviton Manufacturing Inc., Mark is responsible for technology strategy and development, business development, and technical customer support. Products of the division include residential structured wiring, automated lightning and controls, security, and distributed audio and entertainment solutions.

Mark joined Leviton in 2000 as director of engineering and information technology for the Voice and Data Division and moved to the Integrated Networks and Controls Division in 2003.

Prior to working for Leviton, Mark held engineering and operations positions in various companies that supply the automotive and heavy vehicle industries and at Carver Corporation, a manufacturer of high-end audio equipment.

Mark holds degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master’s in business administration from City University.

Stephen Whalley, Manager, Business Development, Consumer PC Platforms, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.

Stephen Whalley is the business development manager for Consumer PC Platforms within the Digital Home Group at Intel Corporation. In this capacity, Steve is responsible for strategic business deals in support of consumer and advanced clients and Intel Viiv™ Technology platforms.

Previously, Whalley has managed numerous technology-enabling activities and several industry initiatives while at Intel and served on the Board of Directors of the UPnP™ Implementers Corporation and UPnP™ Forum Steering Committee. He was also the chairman of the USB Implementers Forum from 1996 to 1998.

Moving to Chandler, Arizona, in 1990, Whalley has managed various product development and marketing programs in various areas of Intel. He joined Intel in February 1988, working as a European marketing manager in the United Kingdom. Whalley earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, graduating with honors from the University of Salford, England. He also received a master’s degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (‘Thunderbird’), Arizona. Whalley lives in Arizona with his wife and two daughters.

Raoul Wijgergangs, Vice President, North American Business Development, Zensys

Raoul Wijgergangs is Zensys' vice president for North American business development. Before joining Zensys, Raoul worked at Philips for 10 years in various countries and positions, most recently as senior director of global sales and marketing for WiFi and Bluetooth, and in the creation of Arcadyan, Philips' joint venture with Accton. Raoul holds an MBA as well as a B. Eng. degree in computer science.

Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and Founder, Digiticians

Anne Marie Biernacki is currently founder and CTO at The Digiticians, a leader in providing software and automated remote managed services dedicated to simplifying people’s digital lives and manage personal technology. She brings over 20 years experience in technology leadership positions in venture-based start-up companies and was selected as one of ten “Women to Watch” in 2005 in high tech in the 2005” by Mass High Tech. She was recently the lead presenter at the Springboard: New England 2005 Venture Capital Forum.

Prior to the Digiticians, she was VP/CTO and member of the original management team of a venture-backed online B-to-B exchange and supply chain enabler in the energy products sector called Fuelspot. She architected the scalable, fault tolerant, robust B2B commodities exchange that debuted after a six-month development trajectory in the summer of 2000. 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. She held numerous roles including product design. Prior to Avicenna, she consulted to numerous Federal research programs in optical signal processing for companies including The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC) and Photon Research Associates. She also was actively engaged as a researcher in small entrepreneurial ventures (Fairlead Systems, Optron Systems Inc., Aztec Systems Corp.) focused on the commercialization of analog and nonlinear optical signal technologies funded through the government’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant program.

Anne 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. Biernacki has been an active member of The Commonwealth Institute as well as other industry organizations and standards groups over time, including the New England Women Business Owners association, Mass eComm, and the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange of the American Petroleum Institute. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Art Association and the Board of Governors and other committees of St Botolph Club in Boston and is active in the arts community in Boston. She was honoured by Mass High tech in 2005 as one of their Top 10 Women to Watch in the greater Boston tech community and was the leading presenter at the Springboard New England Venture forum in November 2005.

Rich Caballero, Director, Digital Services Product Marketing, SupportSoft

Rich Caballero joined SupportSoft in November 2004 and is currently director of digital services products. His responsibilities include product development, business development, marketing, and strategy for SupportSoft’s activation and home networking solutions targeted to digital service providers worldwide.

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. He also has been interviewed for several publications including Converge! Network Digest, Telephony, Phone+, Xchange, and Business Week.

John Fisher, CTO, Peak8 Solutions

John Fisher maintains the role of CTO for Peak8 Solutions and is the primary software and technology architect for the company. He leads the product management and development teams in their creation of the Peak8 Solutions' service desk offerings. Most recent to his role with Peak8 Solutions, he was responsible for the development of a major consumer and OEM tech support and service desk solution that won both PC Magazine and Comdex Awards.

Historically, Mr. Fisher was vice president, product development for Tactical Marketing Ventures, and Visiand, Inc., one being an international marketing and consulting firm and the other being a marketing automation enterprise software company. As part of this endeavor Mr. Fisher dealt with the complexities of integration into CRM, PRM, and enterprise service and support applications, such as that provided by Siebel, Epiphany, and providing data analysis via business intelligence tools like COGNOS. Prior to this Mr. Fisher was the executive vice president and COO for RMI.NET Solutions, a national Web solutions and connectivity company. In addition he also had the role of vice president for new product development with a focus on e-commerce and e-business solutions. Mr. Fisher oversaw the development of an e-business platform and commerce applications including a major release of an object-oriented and component-based architecture and platform. Mr. Fisher has worked extensively with companies such as Borland, Net Objects, Symantec, Netscape, and Microsoft in the development and QA of some of their major publicly distributed products and in the selling and implementation of products and services for such companies as SBT Accounting Systems and SYMIX ERP Systems. Mr. Fisher has a bachelor’s in theology and a dual MBA in business management and marketing.

M. Fahim Siddiqui, CEO, Sereniti

Over the past 18 years, M. Fahim Siddiqui has held senior technical and business executive leadership positions where he has demonstrated strong entrepreneurial capability in the envisioning and rapid delivery of technology solutions at companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100. The common thread has been Fahim’s passion in applying emerging computer technologies to solve complex problems in new and developing industry segments, which in many instances formed the core of the businesses. Many software systems developed under Fahim’s leadership and direct technical guidance are currently utilized by some of the largest telecommunications networks including Sprint/Nextel, MCI/Verizon, Chicago Stock Exchange, New York Board of Trade, and National Security Agency.

Currently founder and CEO of Sereniti, Inc., Fahim is the visionary for a first-of-its-kind home service and appliance that simplifies connectivity of computer and consumer electronic devices in the home with a unique remote management capability enabling 24/7 customer support.

Fahim also established K2 Software Group — K2’s rule and workflow-driven system manages the tracking and collection of tolling revenues exceeding 170,000 transactions a day worth $100 million per year.

In 2002, as senior vice president of service delivery at Voyence, Fahim led the development of the company’s IP network configuration management product that has since been adopted by several large carriers and Fortune 100 companies. Fahim has also developed a next-generation optical networking platform for Inara Networks and led the re-architecture of the systems infrastructure at ICG Communications, the U.S.’s largest competitive local exchange provider. From 1998 to 2000, as senior vice president and chief information officer at Enron Energy Services, Fahim supervised the development of the first competitive energy systems platform, one of the first large-scale implementations of J2EE-based software platforms.

As executive director of network systems at MCI from 1996 to 1998, Fahim developed Network Management Systems controlling one of the largest long-distance networks in the world and the world’s largest Internet backbone. His Real Time Restoration System virtually eliminated customer service outages due to fiber cuts.

While heading Information Systems at Time Warner Telecom, Fahim was charged with developing the first systems infrastructure for a competitive local telephone service provider. He leveraged cutting-edge information technologies including SmallTalk to develop enterprise systems crucial to the successful launch of competitive telecommunications services in over 45 cities in less than two years.

During eight years at Sprint, Fahim led the architecture development for the Distributed Intelligent Network Architecture, leading to his design and deployment of the Virtual Private Network service. Fahim was also behind the first object-oriented enterprise solution at Sprint, which extended the management of networks to Sprint’s customers. While at Sprint, Fahim attended the Computer Science Telecommunications Program at UMKC and completed his graduate research in distributed systems management and his master’s thesis in integrated systems management of large telecommunications networks. This formed the basis for Sprint’s ION initiative to provide innovative broadband technology to business and home networks.

Fahim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Bill Ablondi is an information technology market analyst with 25 years experience advising computer and related peripheral manufacturers, software publishers, communication service, and Internet providers. He has directed syndicated advisory services and related custom consulting activities for several leading research firms in addition to Parks Associates.

Bill directs Parks Associates' home systems research program, designed to monitor the adoption of innovative products into upscale America. Recent research has focused on the changing market environment dealers are encountering, end-user adoption of new technologies and dealers' changing business models.

Mr. Ablondi also directs Parks Associates' Builder Insights research of residential home builders in the U.S. This research is designed to assist manufacturers and service providers size the market for their products into the new home market and understand how to do business with builders. 2006 Builder Insights will include case studies of builders' profitably integrating technology into their offerings and forecasts for key product categories.

Bill began his information technology career as an engineer and business development manager at Texas Instruments. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Columbia University with a concentration in management science, emphasizing operations research and finance.

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.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: International Research, Mobile Phones, Digital Music Services, and Portable Digital Music Players

Michael Cai studies developments 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.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Multimedia Networks, Consumers and Mobile Platforms, Gaming, Broadband Services, Business of Bundled Services, Broadband Wireless Technologies/WiMAX, and Storage

Deepa Iyer studies the emerging technologies for delivering triple-play services in the broadband market. She is currently working on the IP video services report, which focuses on the value chain for IPTV. The report also provides consumer and industry data and analyzes the impact on the deployment of IPTV.

Deepa has a Master of Science in marketing research from the University of Texas at Arlington. In addition, she has a Master of Science in electrical engineering with a concentration in RF communication from the same university.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: IP Video Services, HDTV, Digital Voice Services, and Business of Bundled Services

Most recently executive editor of EE Times, Mannion has served in a number of other editorial roles at CMP Media, including editor of both EE Times Design Currents and CommWeek sections and editor-in-chief of Communication Systems Design. Prior to joining CMP Media, he worked as components and then communications editor at Electronic Design and earlier in his career covered computer boards, optoelectronics, displays, components, testing, and measurement for Electronic Products Magazine. Mannion holds electronic engineering degrees from the Sligo Institute of Technology and Dundalk Institute of Technology, both of Ireland.

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 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.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Consumers and Digital Entertainment, Home Networks & Residential Gateways, Wireless Distribution of Video, Media-center PCs, Set-top Boxes & Residential Gateways, and IPTV

Stuart has served technology companies for the past seventeen 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 and the Parks Associates’ team have worked closely with the world’s leading semiconductor, software, telecom equipment, and entertainment companies, assisting these companies with their understanding of consumer adoption of new technologies.

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

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.

Industry EXPERTISE: Digital Rights Management, Portable Multimedia Players & Services, Digital Imaging, Home Health Monitoring, and Advertising