Andy Addis, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Hillcrest Labs

Andy Addis is responsible for marketing, product development and business development for Hillcrest Labs and its groundbreaking technology that re-invents how content is presented and navigated on the television and across a host of consumer electronic products.

Andy brings to Hillcrest more than 20 years of marketing and product management experience, much of it focused on the launch of innovative new products. Prior to Hillcrest, Andy was a senior vice president at Comcast, responsible for marketing and new products. While there he played a lead role in new product strategy as well as development, deployment and marketing for Comcast’s most innovative video products, including video-on-demand (VOD), high definition television (HDTV), and digital video recorders (DVRs). He was also involved with Comcast’s user interface strategy and requirements definition.

He has also managed established businesses and launched new products at Kraft Foods and AT&T. He has been recognized numerous times in his career for leadership and innovation, including CableFax’s “100 Most Influential People (2004),” Cable and Telecommunications Marketing Association’s TAMI Award (2003), and Advertising Age’s “Top 100 Marketers (1991).” Andy earned a Bachelor’s in Economics from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Mary Coller Albert is responsible for leading all product marketing and company branding efforts at Movielink. A seasoned Internet marketing and media executive, she oversees all company consumer, business and partner marketing initiatives from brand communication and product planning and positioning to customer acquisition and retention strategies. Mary also oversees all content acquisition and management, production and programming.

Previously Mary served as Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures Digital where she was head of Programming for Sony Connect Video as well as Senior Vice President, General Manager, of SoapCity. In the five years that Mary was at the helm SoapCity, her leadership was instrumental in making SoapCity the Internet’s foremost distributor of content on soap operas and one of the largest female oriented websites, leading to the launch of SoapCity’s download, the first video download service offering full-length, day and date network television broadcasting over the Internet. Before joining Sony Pictures Digital, Mary was vice president and co-founder of Beatnik Inc., an interactive audio software and music development company she started with musician Thomas Dolby. Mary was responsible for taking the company through creative concept, to raising venture capital, and onto maintaining the day-to-day operations including music and software licensing. In addition, she developed, negotiated and oversaw all business relationships for Beatnik, including deals with such major technology companies as Netscape, Microsoft’s WebTV, Sun Microsystems and others. Prior to Beatnik, she managed the careers of musicians and artists as the owner of Mary Coller Management, a personal management company she established in 1990.

Mary has worked in the Telecommunications industry for the past eight years with the past three years dedicated to the Broadband over Powerline (BPL) market. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from Loyola University in Chicago.

She has held positions in marketing as well as strategy, channel management and business development over her twenty year career -- having served verticals ranging from healthcare to heavy equipment manufacturing with a focus on business-to-business market development. She has leveraged this experience at Motorola to lead a team dedicated to the successful launch of an innovative new BPL product called Powerline MU.

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

Will 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 including MPEG4, home networking, and STB security for Dish Network and their international partners.

Duncan Bees is a Technical Advisor for PMC-Sierra’s Communication Products Division. He is active the DSL Forum and is the deputy chair of the Home Gateway Initiative’s QoS Group. At PMC-Sierra since 1999, Mr. Bees’ responsibilities include working with carriers to identify deployment scenarios and service requirements for DSL and optical residential gateways, and technical requirements for the chips that go in them. Previously he worked with Nortel, managing a development group in the wireless products division.

He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.

Mark Bell is currently the Director CHSI Product Management within the Strategy and Product Management group of Cox Communications.

In his current position, Mark is responsible for the Product Management of Cox’s CHSI product line. He manages Cox’s Program Management group which supports the HSI product portfolio and new product development initiatives He is responsible for assessing new technologies associated with numerous broadband product and applications. Under Mark’s development, Cox has introduced network based anti-spam/anti-virus solutions, Home Networking strategy, Self Registration platform, and has helped incubate and launch several small company solutions. He also introduced one of the first free integrated security suites within the broadband service provider market.

He manages Cox’s Program Management group which supports the HSI product portfolio and new product development initiatives.

Prior to his position at Cox, Mark was with BellSouth Internet Services where he was the Portal Services Product Development Manager. While there, he was responsible for the development and deployment of BellSouth’s first Internet Appliance product.

Mark is a member of CTAM and a member of the CableHome technical and business subcommittees. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University.

Ilya Billig, Vice President, Business Development, Lagotek Corp.

Responsible for technological partnerships of Lagotek, Ilya Billig drives product strategy and builds long terms relationships with market leaders in the areas of Home Automation and computer networking.

Mr. Billig has spent more than ten years in various management positions at Microsoft both in Europe and in the United States. He was the third employee of Microsoft Russia and was master of ceremonies during Bill Gates’ presentation in the Kremlin. He has a Masters Degree in computer science and over 15 years of international marketing, PR and business development experience.

Lagotek Corporation was founded in 2004 with the vision of bringing automation to every home to improve the quality of people’s lives. Powered by dual-wireless technology Lagotek’s Home Intelligence platform makes the luxury of whole home control available to everyone. Distributed and supported by a network of Lagotek Certified Professional Installers, Lagotek’s system equally suits both new construction and existing homes.

Lagotek’s Home Intelligence platform is an open architecture that empowers third-party developers to build their own Home Automation solutions.

John is recognized as a digital video industry expert. He has been featured as a speaker and expert panelist at numerous worldwide events including DV Expo, Digital Hollywood, National Association of Broadcasters annual conference (NAB), Streaming Media East/West/Europe tradeshows and RealNetworks Conferences. Prior to joining Inlet, John served as the Director of Business Development and Product Management for Osprey Technologies (acquired by ViewCast Corporation). There, he identified and developed key market opportunities resulting in multiple consecutive revenue growth quarters, despite global economic downturn. His other accomplishments at Osprey include: generating sales tools and collateral that reduced overall costs of sales by $1M over 3 years, developing and managing strategic business relationships with Microsoft, RealNetworks and HP, and successfully launching e-commerce initiatives, netting an overall increase of 800% in direct sales. He has authored white papers, web content, press releases and industry presentations, affirming industry leadership position in technology, partnerships, overall ecosystem and people. Prior to Osprey, John spent three years at IBM where he served as a product engineer with IBM's Aptiva PC Division. He currently serves on the board of directors at Accordent Technologies, based in Hermosa Beach California, and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Mr. Bowles has 20+ years in the semiconductor and high-technology industry. He has been involved in the formation and funding of five technology start-ups and has successfully raised 12 rounds of Venture Capital financing, totaling more than $130M raised from more than two dozen VC funds. Prior to co-founding Staccato in 2002 he was most recently co-founder, president, COO and director of BOPS, Inc. (sold to Altera), a broadband DSP cores and tools company. Prior to BOPS, he was instrumental in forming and funding a number of successful start-ups including Power Computing (sold to Apple in 1996); Panorama Designs (sold to Motorola in 1996); and BlueSteel Networks (sold to Broadcom in 2000). Mr. Bowles also spent six years at Motorola Semiconductor where he held various distribution management, sales and market development positions; he left in 1996 as vice president MSPI of PowerPC market development.

Mark has established global sales, marketing, business development, and distribution organizations multiple times for multiple companies. He is also currently very active in UWB standards-setting bodies and has been a key participant in IEEE 802.15.3a, 802.15.4a (founding member), MBOA (founder and marketing committee chair) WiMedia Alliance (Board member, Liaison to WiMedia China Chapter), and the Wireless USB Promoter Group (active member, key contributor). Mr. Bowles has authored 4 patent applications in UWB technology.

Mark is a regular industry speaker and author and also a regular guest lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at Duke University, and has been a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Harvard and Stanford.

Mr. Bowles holds an undergraduate engineering degree from Texas A&M and a Master of Science degree in technology management (E-MBA) from Pepperdine University.

Mr. Bridges is responsible for discovering, initiating and deploying new services for AT&T Business Development, a newly formed organization that quickly delivers new innovations and communications capabilities to business and residential customers . As an example, in 2006, he successfully led the deployment of AT&T Remote Monitor - a service that integrates cellular and DSL and help customers stay more connected to their homes and families while they are away. He has responsibility for both consumer and small business services.

Before moving to Business Development, Mr. Bridges was responsible for initiating and analyzing corporate opportunities and the development of corporate strategy from the network and business marketing perspectives. He also led the development and coordination of AT&T’s strategy on wireless and wireline convergence.

Prior to this, he led SBC’s Business Marketing Strategy and Indirect Channel teams. Marketing Strategy has responsibilities for identifying, assessing, and developing appropriate action plans for strategic opportunities that will impact SBC’s products and services for business customers. Indirect Channels included development and implementation of new channel opportunities for SBC’s business products including retail, agents, and e-commerce.

Mr. Bridges has also lead the Product Design team with responsibilities for defining the specifics of how new services will work and be integrated into the network and for performing approval for use and acceptance testing on the hardware and software for new CPE products.

Mr. Bridges began his career as an engineer with Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1982. In 1987, he was appointed a member of the technical staff at Bellcore in Morristown, NJ. In 1990, he joined SBC Technology Resources, Inc. (now AT&T Labs) concentrating in wireless service development and International M&A activities. In 1999, he joined the marketing organization.

Mr. Bridges earned a bachelor’s degree (1981) and master’s degree (1982) in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University and master’s degree in business from the University of Texas in 1999. He became a Registered Professional Engineer in 1984.

He and his wife, Cheryl, have one son and his hobbies include coaching and golf.

Entertainment technology pioneer and award-winning DVD artist Chris Brown co-founded Metabeam in 2005. He established his reputation during 15 years working with digital media, particularly at the intersection where Hollywood meets the Internet.

In 1995, Chris co-founded InterActual Technologies, Inc. (www.interactual.com), which produced the technology standard for enhanced DVD-ROM. Chris served as both Hollywood evangelist and executive creative director, and helped successfully launch VideoSaver, PCFriendly and InterActual Player. In 2004, InterActual was acquired by digital media leader Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ-SNIC – www.sonic.com).

Known for his innovative vision, Chris specializes in bringing together artists and fans through technology. Chris received a Discus Award for his work on The Matrix Virtual Theater, blending group DVD screenings with live chat interviews of film directors and crew. Chris enjoys the distinction of having created the only DVD-ROM feature ever nominated for a DVD Exclusive Award: Terminator 2 Extreme Effects Studio, which enabled users to input their own pictures, then use actual film assets and effects to generate “cyborg” or “liquid metal” versions.

Chris has contributed to many entertainment franchises including Austin Powers, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Paul McCartney, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Spider-Man, Shrek and many others.

In addition to his duties as Metabeam CEO, Chris currently serves as marketing chair for the Media Experience Trade Association (www.mediaexperience.org). He has lent his services to the industry as a frequent event panelist, and was a charter member of the Content Committee for the Digital Entertainment Group (www.dvdinformation.com).

Lew Brown is the Executive Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Brown joins Zensys after serving as Director of Strategic Business Development at Monster Cable, a renowned CE accessory manufacturer. He also previously held the position of CEO at Mobilworks and was President and Chief Marketing Officer of Collaborative Media, an Internet-based content website serving the CE industry.

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.

Brian Burch is director of the Managed Home program that drives HP’s strategic intent to “digitize” the home and provide compelling and intuitive experiences in every room and while people are on the go. He works across all of HP’s consumer-focused business units in the company’s Personal Systems Group to drive a consistent hardware, software and services roadmap.

From 1998 to 2006, Burch was senior vice president of marketing for Insight, a major Internet and telesales reseller. He also served as vice president of marketing at an enterprise software start-up company, Aveo, which attracted $60 million in investor funding. He also held roles as the executive vice president of marketing and consumer/small office-home office sales at MicroWarehouse and the chief marketing officer at a leading web and audio conferencing company, Raindance, which was acquired by Intercall in early 2006.

Burch first joined HP in 1995 as one of the founding members of the Home Products Division, which developed and launched the HP Pavilion PC product line and achieved market share leadership among PCs sold through the retail channel within two years. Following that success, he became the company’s first worldwide consumer brand manager, a role in which he devised and deployed successful consumer-centric brand positioning for HP around the world.

Burch earned bachelor’s degrees in both journalism/advertising and psychology from the University of Kansas. He has served on multiple advisory boards and currently serves in that capacity for Incentive Logic, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based customer and employee rewards company.

Dr. Lars Buttler is a Founder and the CEO of Trion World Network, Inc., the publisher and developer of original entertainment and games for the broadband era. Dr. Buttler helms strategy and business direction for Trion as the company sets out to define the future of entertainment. Under his leadership, Trion develops groundbreaking new capabilities and content for broadband, the greatest entertainment and mass media platform.

“With ubiquitous broadband, online means leisure: people express themselves in social networks and experience interactive entertainment and games in massively connected worlds. We started Trion to leverage all inherent broadband capabilities, provide original broadband entertainment, and redefine the future of media in the global broadband era”  - Dr. Lars Buttler

Prior to founding Trion, Dr. Buttler was the Vice President for Global Online at Electronic Arts, the world’s largest independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Dr. Buttler led EA’s strategy for online games and services and ran EA’s Online Studio, home to the pioneering Ultima Online MMOG franchise.

Before EA, Dr. Buttler served as Vice President for Leveraged Buyouts at the Carlyle Group, the premier global private equity firm, focusing on large-scale investments in entertainment, media, and telecommunications.

Prior to Carlyle, Dr. Buttler served as President of Wingcast Europe, a joint venture of QUALCOMM & Ford Motor Co., and a leading wireless in-vehicle media platform & interactive service network. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Dortmund University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and earned an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

As Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at TANDBERG Television, Martijn Lopes Cardozo oversees the Company’s strategic partnerships – including ecosystem partners and resellers. He is also responsible for equity transactions and the Company’s initial entry into new markets. Mr. Lopes Cardozo is particularly focused on TANDBERG Television’s IPTV segment, which provides telecom operators market leading compression, on-demand, and interactive television solutions.

Mr. Lopes Cardozo joined TTV through the acquisition of interactive television provider GoldPocket Interactive. As Executive Vice President of Distribution and Partnerships, he oversaw the distribution of GoldPocket’s ITV technologies to operators and was responsible for developing and managing key strategic partnerships. During his tenure at GoldPocket, Mr. Lopes Cardozo led the Company's entry into the IPTV, wireless, and cable and satellite segments.

Prior to GoldPocket, Mr. Lopes Cardozo was a Senior Product Manager at Akamai Technologies, where he arranged and coordinated reseller agreements including a critical arrangement with WebTrends. He previously worked with Unilever in Germany and OC&C Strategy Consultants in the Netherlands.

Mr. Lopes Cardozo holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Applied Physics from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Charles Cerino leads a team of futurist 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 sub-committee 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.

Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, EchoStar Satellite LLC.

Tom Cullen serves as executive vice president of Corporate Development for EchoStar, and oversees business development functions including sourcing, evaluation, structure and closure of potential acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. He also is responsible for EchoStar’s ISP strategy and implementation, as well as accelerating the company’s broadband opportunities and customer introduction of new broadband-related products. Before joining EchoStar, Cullen served as President of TensorComm, a venture-backed wireless technology company focused on wireless interference issues. Prior to TensorComm, Cullen held senior leadership roles at Charter Communications and MediaOne. Cullen graduated from the University of Colorado with a master’s degree in Business Administration, and received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University.

Mr. Cutting is the Founder and CEO of Niveus Media, whose Media Server line of products have won numerous awards since their introduction in 2003, including numerous Innovations Design and Engineering Awards. Well known as a company that has pioneered the Windows Media Center platform into the living room, Niveus and Cutting have been instrumental in working with both Microsoft and Intel to develop their vision of how the media center can meet the needs of the custom installer channel. In 2006, Niveus Media became an Intel Portfolio Company.

Prior to Niveus Media, Cutting worked in New Product Introduction (NPI) for Sun Microsystems. Cutting holds an M.B.A. degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and a B.A. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Joe Dada, CEO, SmartLabs, Inc.

Joe Dada founded SmartLabs, Inc., in 1992 and has helped SmartLabs grow from one of the world’s largest distributors of home automation products to improve the home to an integrated technology company creating the next generation of home control products and systems. Under Dada’s direction, the company reorganized in late 2005 to better reflect the direction of the company as a home automation think tank, while at the same time creating the only company in the home control industry to offer technology, product development and a direct distribution channel.

Under Dada’s leadership, SmartLabs Technology, one of the company’s three divisions, developed the award-winning INSTEON™ wireless home control networking technology based on over 13 years of consumer intelligence about how people want to control their homes. The INSTEON technology is easy for consumers to use and is affordable, making it readily available to the mass market. Today, the company is working with over 1,000 developers to embed the INSTEON home control technology in consumer devices.

A home automation visionary, Dada is often asked to speak at conferences, including the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), National Hardware Show, International Wireless Symposium, Parks Associates CONNECTIONS, Electronic House Expo and The Networked Home. Dada is involved in the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), is a director of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and has been nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.

Wayne Davis was most recently Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Charter Communications, Inc. serving over six million subscribers. He had responsibility for company-wide network engineering and technology strategy related to data, voice, and video, together with technical operations, Information Technology, purchasing and the deployment of new technology. He has more than 25 years of experience in cable engineering, technical operations, and operations management.

A Charter employee since December 2001, Mr. Davis was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations, and prior to that was Vice President of Management Services, serving as assistant to Charter’s President and CEO. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering for the company's Western Division serving over four million subscribers.

Before joining Charter, Mr. Davis held the position of Vice President of Engineering for Comcast. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of Engineering for Jones Intercable where he began his MSO career in 1982.

Mr. Davis was included as one of cable's 100 most influential people by CableFax in 2005. He is an advisory board member of several broadband technology companies including; BroadLogic Network Technologies, Cedar Point Communications, and Visionael Corporation. Mr Davis is a longtime member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. He received his education at the State University of New York.

Mr. Davis is based in Denver.

David Debrecht is the Director for Broadband Wireless Access in NA for Nokia Siemens Networks. David has worked in the of wireless systems field for more than 18 years, the last 12 at Nokia in various parts of the organization including R&D, Sales, Marketing and Product Management. His current focus is WiMAX solutions and WiMAX product development.

Jay is a founding employee of Casero Inc. and is responsible for ensuring that Casero's product offerings are innovative and easily adopted to best suit the needs of Casero customers. Jay's rich experience in software development includes Product Architect at Amdocs Canada and a senior member of the Professional Servies Organization at Solect Technology Group. Jay's extensive background includes consumer level software with roles at Delrina, where he worked on products such as WinFax Pro and WinComm, and at Symantec, where he was a part of the Consumer Software Development Team.

Nick Desai, Chairman, Founder and CCO, Juice Wireless, Inc.

Nick Desai is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Juice Wireless. He co-invented Juice’s flagship, award-winning mobile social media product -- JuiceCaster.

For Juice, Nick has led strategy, sales, and business development securing customers and partners including Conde Nast, Cellular South, MidWest Wireless, FHM Magazine, Gillette, AOL, Glamour Magazine, Epicurious.com, Sony and many others.

Nick has also led product invention of JuiceCaster – Juice’s groundbreaking and award winning application enabling users to do rich media social networking on their mobile phone. Nick led the definition and realization of the JuiceCaster vision and cu its business development with leading wireless operators around the world.

In addition to JuiceCaster, Nick invented Juice’s innovative mobile products, including MobileBday.com – a free SMS based birthday reminder service, the award-winning Epi-To-Go mobile grocery list application and many others.

Nick is a proven serial technology, Internet and wireless industry entrepreneur and has been a thought leader in the evolution of mobile data services since their inception.

Prior to Juice Wireless, Nick was a consultant to leading mobile data companies including Sennari (which build Jamdat’s hugely successful bowling game), Vibe Magazine, British Telecom and various others.

In 2002, Nick co-founded Lemko Corporation (www.lemko.com), a market leader in IP based cellular infrastructure solutions. For Lemko, Nick led business development with top-tier carriers, including Cingular, Reliance, Sprint PCS and Bharti Telecom.

Prior to Lemko, in 1998, Nick was Founder and CEO of Zkey.com – a multi-award winning market leader and early trailblazer in consumer mobile applications. Zkey was the first mobile address book and email WAP site available in the US, launching in 1999. Amongst many other awards and accolades, Zkey was named PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice and Top 100 sites on the internet two years in a row.

Nick is a frequent invited industry and author. He has been an invited speaker at venues ranging from the IAB MIXX Conference to CTIA to the Under the Radar Technology Event to the Harvard Business School and many others. From 2001 to 2004, Nick wrote a regular column called the CEO Diary for California CEO Magazine.

Nick holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine. He resides in Redondo Beach, California and enjoys cooking, surfing and playing with his incredibly cute nephew in his rare free time.

Rodger Desai is the CEO and co-founder of Rave Wireless, Inc. Rave revolutionizes college campuses with mobile phone software that strengthens communities, enhances learning and increases student safety.

Prior to starting Rave Wireless, Rodger was co-founder and CEO of the Vettro Corporation, a leading mobile business applications company. Rodger started his career as an executive in Accenture’s telecom practice and in engineering management positions at ExxonMobil and GE.

Rodger balances his work with non-profit initiatives that leverage the use of mobile phone technology in the developing world. He has helped USAID and the Department of Defense with disease surveillance in Iraq and Grameen Bank with their micro-financed based Village Phone program. He also serves as an advisor and investor to numerous startups including Fotolog.com and Kiva.org.

Rodger holds a degree in engineering from Rensselaer. He is on-leave from the MBA program at Harvard Business School.

Bill Diamond, President, Xanboo, Inc.

William Diamond was previously President, CEO, and 50% equity holder in RDI, Incorporated, an ISO900 electronics engineering and manufacturing company that owns and operates a 90,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China, employing over 900 people. William co-founded Diamond Properties, which over the past decade has acquired over 3,000,000 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.

Chris Dobrec, Sr. Director of Strategy, Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems Inc.

Chris Dobrec is the Senior Director World Wide Strategy & Business Development for Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems. Chris is responsible for world wide Linksys corporate strategy, business development, and new-market development initiatives. He identifies specific new areas of growth for Linksys, both organic and through partnerships and M & A. In addition, Chris is responsible for partnering with Linksys product development and sales leaders to identify unique growth opportunities and building associated "go-to-market" strategies.

In his career, Chris has defined corporate strategies and navigated new market transitions. He also has a technical background in network design, architecture and engineering as well as product development and management. In addition, he has published numerous articles and papers supporting various new technologies.

Most recently, Chris was a Director of Business Development reporting directly to Cisco's Chief Development Officer, in a cross-company leadership role covering both service provider and consumer market development, while leading go-to-market activities impacting Cisco’s development organization. Prior to that, he held the position of senior manager of strategic alliances in the service provider and small business/commercial market segments. In his 13 year tenure at Cisco he has also held leadership positions in channel operations and technical marketing.

In addition to his time at Cisco, Chris has held several senior leadership positions at successful startup organizations such as Kalpana and Ipsilon Networks, and larger organizations such as AT&T Bell Labs in the areas of sales, marketing, and engineering. Chris had a double major at the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Paul Ferris is a founding General Partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in communications and systems technologies. His current active board memberships include Calix Networks and Personeta, and he is a board observer at Medsphere. Other representative investments include Innovance Networks and World Wide Packets. Prior successful investments include Com21 (IPO in 1998) and Phone.com (IPO in 1999).

Prior to Azure, Paul worked at several investment banks, including Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was the Global Head of the Communications Investment Banking Group, and at Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley, where he focused on communications infrastructure and hardware companies.

Over the course of his career, Paul has provided strategic and investment advice to numerous leading communications infrastructure companies. Notable firms include ADC Telecommunications, Broadcom, Carrier Access, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Com21, Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), Lucent Technologies, Next Level Communications, New Focus, Nortel Networks, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), Phone.com, Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Siemens and Xros (acquired by Nortel Networks).

Paul received his B.A. degrees in Computer Science and English from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Mike Fidler is chief executive officer of Digeo, Inc., bringing a strong background in consumer electronics and cable technologies. Fidler is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company and implementing key initiatives to drive Digeo’s evolution from a successful technology start-up to a well-established company with clear leadership positions in software, silicon and hardware.

Previously, Fidler was senior vice president of Sony Electronics' (SEL) Home Products Division, where he was responsible for directing the marketing of Sony's TV, home audio/video, and IT displays business. He also served as senior vice president, Blu-ray Disc Group, responsible for promoting the Blu-ray Disc format to relevant industries including motion picture studios, music labels, consumer electronics manufacturers, information technology companies, optical replication and post-production houses. Prior to that, Fidler served as senior vice president of the Digital Platform Division of America. Before joining Sony, Fidler held the positions of senior vice president, New Technologies and senior vice president, Marketing at Pioneer Electronics.

Fidler is a founding member and vice president of the DVD Entertainment Group, an industry-funded nonprofit organization that provides updated information about DVD to media and retailers. He has served on various committees established by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that focused on providing the necessary marketing support for launching new technology products.

Fidler graduated from Pace University in New York with a Bachelor of business administration in marketing.

Currently a worldwide home networking and IEEE1394 business development manager for Texas Instruments (TI), Zephra Freeman is responsible for developing the home networking business strategy of TI’s +$250M digital Interface business unit (DIBU). DIBU includes high-speed, digital-based interface solutions such as IEEE1394(Firewire), USB Hubs, UARTs, PCI Express Bridges and PHYs, FlashMedia Controllers, PCI CardBus controllers and DVI Transmitter/Receivers.

Zephra has held various marketing, business development, manufacturing engineering and management positions during his 23-year career at TI. His disciplines span across many areas including DLP Business Development, Strategic Marketing, Product Marketing, automation and tooling, small business development, manufacturing technology engineering, and small form factor LCD displays. During his career he’s had the opportunity to work with development programs across multiple application spaces, including: military program technology development, digital photo printing, automotive lighting and high speed buses, small form factor displays, DLP new business applications and mixed signal IC solutions.

Zephra has a bachelor’s of science in Engineering from Prairie View A&M University and a master’s of business from the University of Dallas.

He also received “Black Engineer of the Year award” from Career Magazine in 1996. He is a Board Member and Vice-Chairman of the 1394 Trade Association. He is also a Board Member for HANA, the High Definition Audio-Video Networking Alliance.

Noam Geri is Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of AMIMON Inc. Geri co-founded AMIMON in 2004 following a 12-year career in communication technology holding various marketing, business development and technical positions. Until 2003 Geri served as strategic marketing and business development manager at Texas Instruments, Cable Broadband Communications business unit, with responsibility for marketing and business development of new technologies and standards in the broadband access and home networking space. Geri joined Texas Instruments through the 1999 acquisition of Libit Signal Processing Ltd., a semiconductor startup developing cable modem chipsets. Prior to Libit, Geri served five years in an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds an M.B.A from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, as well as an M.Sc and a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

Jeremiah Golston is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments and Chief Technical Officer for the Digital Entertainment Products Business. He is responsible for TI's device architecture roadmap for emerging markets in IPTV and media convergence in the connected home. Golston led the definition of the TMS320C64x instruction set extensions for video and broadband communications. He was chief architect for the DM64x digital media processor family and one of the lead architects for the DaVinci media processing SOC platform. He initiated video codec development on the 64x platform demonstrating several industry firsts including real-time embedded H.264 main profile decoding and VC-1/WMV9 encoding.

Golston received bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He holds 20 patents in media processor architecture and optimized algorithm implementations.

Michael Gordon co-founded Limelight Networks in 2001. As Limelight’s Chief Strategy Officer, he works with many of the world’s leading media companies to align Limelight’s services with their current and emerging business models.

Roger Gregory is the marketing director of the Telco and Operator group in the Home business unit at NXP Semiconductors.

Roger is responsible for leading the global marketing and business development activities for IP-set-top box (STB), satellite pay system STB solutions and wireless audio products. The global marketing team he leads is focused on bringing advanced solutions to customers that meet the requirements of these new, emerging markets.

Roger started his career at NXP in 1994, as an engineer, and then a systems architect for the Philips optical drive solutions based in the United Kingdom. In 2000, he became the international marketing manager of DVD Recoding systems. Following a year in corporate strategy, Roger moved to the U.S. in 2005 to lead the marketing activities for IP-STB solutions.

Roger holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Salford, England.

A seasoned marketing executive, Haaser has over 20 years of hi tech experience in the area of control and data networks, enterprise storage, customer relationship management, and home and building automation. Mr. Haaser is currently the Senior Director, LONWORKS Infrastructure Business with Echelon Corporation. He is responsible for business development, training and management of programs that support the design, development, sale and integration of solutions using the LONWORKS platform industry. Previously Mr. Haaser was the Executive Director of LONMARK International, a global trade organization supporting the development of technical standards and marketing programs to facilitate the adoption of open, interoperable solutions. Mr. Haaser spun the LonMark Association out of Echelon and established it as an independent corporation where he grew membership from 250 over 500 members worldwide. Mr. Haaser was previously the Vice President of Marketing at Alacritech, a provider of network and storage acceleration solutions, where he defined and managed the company’s marketing activities, including business development, product marketing and marketing communications. Prior to joining Alacritech, Haaser was Director of Marketing Communications at Saratoga Systems, a leading customer relationship management solutions provider, where he led efforts to reposition the company, launch new products, and reinvigorate marketing programs for the company’s full suite of customer, sales and marketing software. Previously, Haaser spent 11 years with Echelon Corporation where he held a variety of marketing and management positions. While at Echelon he co-authored the company’s business plan, orchestrated its launch, participated in various standards and industry initiatives, established its marketing presence in Europe, and assisted with its IPO. Prior to Echelon, Haaser worked for the industry research firms Dataquest and Gnostic Concepts. Haaser is an experienced speaker, having presented at numerous conferences and events worldwide on subjects including home and building automation, utility metering, industrial control and communication network architectures. Haaser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University.

Karen Hanley is a 22-year veteran of the electronics industry. Before joining the staff of the Wi-Fi Alliance, she enjoyed roles in engineering, marketing/strategy and communications at Texas Instruments, Motorola, and Freescale Semiconductor, where she led the marketing IPO launch team. A graduate of the Texas A&M University School of Engineering, Karen resides in the hill country of central Texas with her charming family and a cat named Bob.

Patrick Harr, president and CEO of Streamload, brings 13 years of executive leadership in storage, security and content delivery to the company. Previously, Patrick served as entrepreneur-in-residence with Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, CEO of Preventsys (acquired by McAfee in 2006), VP of enterprise products at McDATA and GM of Novell Content Delivery Services. Patrick received a master's in business administration degree in marketing and entrepreneurial studies from the University of Maryland and his B.A. from Tulane in political economy and Russian.

Andrew Hartsfield is chief executive officer and co-founder of WiLife. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction and leading its growth as the premier provider of video security products. Prior to founding WiLife in 2002, Andrew served as chief financial officer of Omniture (formerly MyComputer.com), where he led the company's successful strategic repositioning from a free, advertising-based consumer service provider to a subscription-based enterprise service provider that included clients such as eBay (EBAY), Microsoft (MSFT), and AOL Time Warner (AOL). During this same period, Andrew raised nearly $15 million of institutional and angel growth capital from companies such as from Verisign (VRSN), NetObjects (NSOL), and Silicon Valley Bank.

Andrew also served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of business development for Zuka Juice, a retailer of nutritional food products. In just two-and-a-half years, Andrew played a key role in growing Zuka Juice from three retail stores to 108 stores and nearly $50 million in system wide annualized sales, then lead the sale of Zuka Juice to Jamba Juice (JMBA).

His past accomplishments also include working in the corporate finance departments of Evans & Sutherland (ESCC) in Salt Lake City and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York City, where Andrew specialized in mergers & acquisitions and initial public offerings of primary health care and Latin American companies.

Andrew graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Accounting.

As General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft TV, Christine Heckart is responsible for the division’s worldwide marketing, partnership and ecosystem management, as well as for helping to develop and implement its overall business strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, Ms. Heckart served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Juniper Networks and as President of the strategic consulting firm TeleChoice, Inc.

Ms. Heckart is the author of The Guide to Frame Relay Networking and is co-author of ATM for Dummies. She is an acknowledged industry thought leader and was named one of Network World’s “Top 10 Power Thinkers,” as well as one of the “50 Most Powerful People in the Industry.”

Christine Heckart holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado.

Keith has been a key player in driving new technologies such as copper-based broadband access, frame relay and ATM into the carrier marketplace. He was VP Worldwide Marketing for Copper Mountain Networks and held senior marketing positions at Stratacom, a provider of ATM and frame relay WAN solutions that was acquired by Cisco in 1996 for $4 billion.

John Hoctor, vice president of business development and marketing, brings a unique mixture of engineering expertise and business experience to the Navic management team. John has been with Navic for over five years, and during this time has participated in nearly all facets of growing the company. Currently John is responsible for setting Navic's strategic direction and executing on a number of Navic's strategic initiatives. As part of this role, John is responsible for securing partnerships with programmers, distributors, and national advertisers. John also oversees all of Navic's marketing activities. Prior to joining Navic, John was a founding partner at StartingPoint Venture Partners. At StartingPoint, John invested in numerous early-stage companies, while also serving as a board member and advisor to a number of StartingPoint's portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, John worked in the Emerging Technology division of AXA Assurance in Paris, France and at Product Genesis in Cambridge, MA. John holds an MBA from Le College des Ingenieurs and both an SM and SB in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wes Hoffman brings 2Wire nearly 30 years of management experience with innovative, high tech companies. As vice president and general manager of 2Wire’s media business unit, Wes oversees all product management, product marketing, engineering, and operations for the Company’s media product line. Prior to joining 2Wire in 2006, Wes was an executive vice president and general manager of OpenTV, a publicly held company that develops and distributes middleware for set-top boxes. Prior to OpenTV he was of president and CEO of ICTV, a developer of centralized, interactive television systems for cable operators. Prior to that, Wes spent 17 years with General Instrument Corporation where he held the positions of president and COO of AmTote International and president of American Totalisator Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of AmTote International. Wes holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics from the University of Delaware.

Bill Holmes is the Vice President of Business Development & Strategy for DivX, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for developing emerging market opportunities and directing DivX's long-term strategic product development and marketing efforts. Prior to this, Bill ran the consumer electronics business at DivX including the launch of the highly successful DivX Certified program. Prior to DivX, Bill served as senior director of product development for Digital Entertainment Solutions, Hollywood where he directed the company's digital media infrastructure providing encoding, content management and networked media distribution for major studio clients. Most recently, Bill served as director of product management and product marketing for YottaYotta where he was responsible for the development and marketing of carrier-class networked storage arrays.

Bill Holmes is an accomplished speaker and is recognized as an industry expert on digital media, interoperability, and the future of the digital home. His previous speaking experience spans a wide range of events such as “Connections,” “Digital Hollywood,” “DisplaySearch HDTV,” and the “Optical Storage Technology Association,” among many other top tier conferences.

Faraz Hoodbhoy, CEO, PixSense, Inc.

Faraz Hoodbhoy is the Founder and CEO of PixSense. He most recently served as Vice President of Business Development at NextBrick Solutions, Ltd., and was responsible for its Enterprise Search practice. Prior to NextBrick, Faraz served as Director of Technical Sales at Clickmarks, Inc., where he developed key relationships around Clickmarks' mobile integration platform with carriers in North and South America. As Director of Global Solutions at Unisys Corporation, he created and implemented technology strategy for Unisys' mobile and wireless field-force solutions offerings. At Cap-Gemini Ernst and Young, Faraz was part of the Center for Business Innovation where his research focus was on corporate performance measurement. Faraz started his career at Microsoft on the team responsible for building the XML 1.0 standard. He is co-author of the book, "Applied XML - A Toolkit for Programmers" and holds a BS in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer.

Rick comes to Zodiac Interactive with over 30 years in Cable and Broadband. Joining the predecessor company of Time Warner Cable immediately after college, Rick spent six years in cable operations and marketing before moving to the Showtime Networks (a division of Viacom) for twelve years, ending as Senior Vice President Affiliate Marketing. He left Showtime for a three-year non-profit sabbatical, returning to the industry in 1994. Since then, as Chief Alchemist for Winstone Management, he has launched nearly two dozen start-up cable programming networks and technology providers. He brings to Zodiac Interactive an encyclopedic knowledge of the industry, along with direct product development and marketing experience with cable and satellite operators, basic and pay programming networks, Interactive Program Guides, Set Top Box Middleware, iTV Applications, Video on Demand and IPTV.

Dan Illowsky, CTO and Founder, DARTdevices

Dan started his career by writing some early best selling video games for the original Apple II and IBM personal computers in the early 80's. Acting as a independent top-tier Silicon Valley consultant for more than 20 years, Dan worked on major projects with Intel (custom speech and handwriting chip), Microsoft (parts of the core Windows 95 OS), RSA (optimization of their BSAFE libraries), Xerox PARC (digital picture processing algorithms), Diva Systems (the first video on demand set-top-box), and Zoran (DSP audio and DVD playback software). In 2000 Dan co-founded Storymail, Inc. which created a new super-rich media format. Storymail was sold to Gemstar-TV Guide in 2002.

As chief cable architect at BigBand Networks, Doug is responsible for the strategic and technical direction of the company’s solutions for the cable market. Throughout the course of a 20-year career, Jones has been a significant contributor to some of the cable industry’s most significant standardization efforts, including pioneering development work on the early CableLabs®’ DOCSIS® and CableHome® specifications. Doug’s work with CableLabs included work on certification of some of the first DOCSIS products in 1999 and paved the way for significant advances in home networking.

Doug’s recent efforts to advance Modular-CMTS and DOCSIS 3.0 functionality can set the stage for the delivery of converged video, voice and data services over an entirely IP infrastructure; one of the next great technology milestones for the industry. In January, Jones received the IP Innovator award from the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. The prestigious award recognizes an individual each year who has displayed innovative achievement and creativity in the advancement and development of IP networking.

Doug holds a bachelors of science degree in medical technology from the State University of New York at Albany, as well as a bachelors of science degree in electrical engineering and a masters of science in engineering from the University of Texas.

Jim's investment focus is in semiconductor and MEMS components and enterprise systems. Jim joined Scale Venture Partners in 2000 and currently sits on the boards of Auvitek, CipherMax, Discera, Entone, Enuclia, NComputing, and Xceive. Jim was also responsible for ScaleVP's investment in Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ: MPWR).

Prior to Scale Venture Partners, Jim led product management, product marketing, and business development groups at 3Com Corporation, where he managed a diverse $1.2 billion product line. He also spearheaded the company's entry into and market leadership of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet solutions as well as its foray into the home networking market. Prior to 3Com, Jim worked in integrated circuit development and marketing with National Semiconductor, focusing on analog, ATM, FDDI, and Ethernet controller and transceiver solutions.

Jim holds a BSEE from the University of California, Davis.

John is Senior Director of New Business Development at Samsung Information Systems America. He previously held positions within Samsung heading up business development activities in North America for set-top box terminals and cable modems. He has also held various positions with management consulting firms, the Disney Channel, and AT&T. He has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College.

Sukhwant Khanuja is the CEO of Carematix which develops wireless solutions to provide “sustained outcome improvements” through remote patient monitoring solutions for various disease states like CHF, Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes, and COPD. The solutions have the lowest total cost and the highest compliance in the industry. The solutions are being used today by companies like FedEx, Toyota, United Health, Veterans Administration and University of Chicago Home Care.

Dr. Khanuja received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University after receiving his MS from University of Notre Dame and BS from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has received a number of design excellence awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and has published refereed papers in the area of product development. He was also a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. where he has worked extensively in the areas of strategy and operations, including product development and product strategy.

Keith Kocho founded ExtendMedia (then Digital Renaissance) in 1991 and brings to the company his 15 years of executive experience in a startup / high growth environment. Under his leadership, the company has been recognized for numerous awards including The Fast 50, Canada's Fastest Growing Companies, Profit 100, and others, and he has personally received such awards as the BDC's Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Today Extend clients include Showtime, ClickStar, Hewlett-Packard, Cablevision, Nelvana Entertainment, Bell Canada, and more. These firms use ExtendMedia’s software to power digital media commerce, with support for the automation of content delivery systems; large-scale integration projects; embedded systems; TV delivery standards/processes; and support for flexible business models in their online offerings. Keith has been an advisor to Apple Computer, consultant to leading telecommunications and technology companies such as Intel, IBM and Microsoft, and has served on the advisory boards of several Colleges and Universities. His industry roles have included board participation on ITAC, CANARIE and the Canadian Film Centre. Prior to starting the company, Keith co-developed the first PC-based offline video editing system, EnSuite, in 1990. He is a graduate of Ryerson University with a degree in Radio and Television Arts.

Dr. Krishnamoorthy founded Tzero in 2003. He has spent nearly two decades creating, developing, and commercializing novel, advanced wireless communications systems. At Tzero he architected and oversaw the development of the company's wireless solution optimized for delivery of broadcast quality video data.

Prior to founding TZero, Mr. Krishnamoorthy was VP of Technology at Iospan Wireless (acquired by Intel) where he was responsible for developing the first commercially available multiple-antenna (MIMO) wireless systems. Previously he led MIMO research at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey. Krishnamoorthy began his career at Bell Labs working in the area of wireless communication. At AT&T Krishnamoorthy spent several years in the wireless LAN division in the Netherlands (later to become Lucent, then Agere) where he played a key role in the development of the first commercially available 802.11 (WiFi) chipset. This chipset enabled the first widely deployed wireless LAN network in the form of the Apple Airport product. During his time in the Netherlands, Mr. Krishnamoorthy also co-invented and developed the high-speed version of the system that resulted in the 802.11b standard.

Mr. Krishnamoorthy is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Electrical Engineering department. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. from Cornell in electrical engineering.

With his deep engineering experience and networking expertise, David Ladd serves as Mayfield's communications & VoIP expert.

David, a successful former entrepreneur, sits on the boards of Casabi, LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Pure Networks, and Sylantro Systems. David's notable past investments include Orative.

David was an early engineer at ROLM Corporation. After eight years at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company. In 1994, VMX merged with Octel Communications and David became CTO. After Lucent Technologies acquired Octel in 1997, David joined Mayfield part-time while continuing to help Lucent form spin-out companies based on Bell Labs technology. David joined Mayfield full-time in May 1999.

David holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

He is an avid sailor and can be found frequently on his boat in the San Francisco Bay.

Keith Laepple leads consumer electronics industry partnerships for Microsoft’s eHome Division, provider of connected entertainment through Windows™ Media Center PCs, Extender devices, and online content services.

With over fifteen years of Microsoft product and business development experience, Laepple has previously led Windows consumer PC and home networking industry initiatives in the Windows operating system division, and from 1990 to 1995 was a technical program manager for Windows hardware support.

Laepple holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His technical and professional background includes PC platform design, home networking and wireless, A/V device interoperability, past Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) board member and certification committee chair, and Universal Plug and Play founding contributor.

Ed Lee, Vice President of Business Development, Akimbo

With over 18 years of experience in business development, strategy and sales, Ed Lee cultivates key platform relationships to expand the distribution of the Akimbo Service and guides all sales efforts for Akimbo’s direct products. Before joining Akimbo, Ed led technology licensing efforts for ReplayTV. Prior to ReplayTV, Ed worked at Netopia as director of business development, where he was responsible for enterprise software sales to service providers targeting small and medium sized businesses. Ed began his career in the advertising business, working in both New York and San Francisco, directing new business acquisition efforts and managing media buying and planning for several Fortune 500 clients. Ed holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Tulane University.

Hestia Lei, Executive Director, U-verse Member Marketing & Programmer Management, is responsible for the marketing development and strategy for all AT&T U-verseSM TV member communications and initiatives. She also serves as the company’s primary point of contact for developing programmer relationships.

AT&T U-verse TV is delivered by Project Lightspeed, the company’s initiative to expand its fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T Yahoo!® High Speed Internet U-verse Enabled and, in the future, Voice over IP services. AT&T expects to reach approximately 19 million households by the end of 2008 as part of its initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technologies.

In her role, Lei oversees strategy and management for all U-verse TV member communications including development of upgrade, loyalty and retention programs designed to drive revenue and mitigate customer and premium subscription churn.

Before joining AT&T, Lei most recently served as director of marketing and new product development for DIRECTV, Inc., with responsibility for the strategic marketing development and implementation for all DIRECTV new content and sponsorship initiatives and co-marketing partnerships. Lei served in a variety of roles at DIRECTV leading pricing and packaging strategy, discounted programming offers, and local channel rollout initiatives, among other strategic efforts.

Prior to that, Lei served as senior brand manager at DIRECTV and director of strategic marketing for YES! CARD.COM. Lei began her career at Cable One, Inc., where she received the industry CTAM Mark Award for Excellence.

Lei previously served as a board director and volunteer for the non-profit agency, Mama’s Kitchen (MK) and currently helps to grant wishes for children with life threatening diseases through the Make a Wish Foundation (MAWF). Lei is also a member of Women in Cable & Telecommunications (WICT), Women in Film (WIF), and the Cable & Television Association for Marketing (CTAM).

Lei holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a dual emphasis in Marketing and Management Organizational Design from the University of San Diego, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of Arizona.

William O. Leszinske, Jr., General Manager, Intel Consumer Electronics Group, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.

William Leszinske is the General Manager of the Consumer Electronics Group within Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. He previously served as the Intel® Viiv™ Technology Platform Manager.

Mr. Leszinske has an extensive background in sales and marketing. In 2004, he formed the Digital Home marketing team within Intel's Desktop Products Group. He also served as director of Chipset and Software Marketing for the same group.

Mr. Leszinske joined Intel in 1989, and holds a B.S. 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.

Steve Lidberg, CFA Director of Research, joined Pacific Crest in 1998 and coordinates and facilitates the firm’s research efforts. Prior to joining Pacific Crest, Mr. Lidberg was a research analyst at Sutro & Company. Mr. Lidberg most recently served as associate director of research and senior research analyst heading up the digital media tools practice at Pacific Crest. He has made many appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and is frequently quoted in financial and industry publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Barron’s, The New York Times and Forbes. He is a member of the Portland Society of Financial Analysts, Digital Media Alliance, Association for Information and Image Management and the Washington Software Association. Mr. Lidberg earned a BA in finance from Portland State University.

Ellis Lindsay leads the Connected Home activities for Alcatel-Lucent's North American Strategy Group and is based in Canada at Alcatel-Lucent's Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As the Connected Home lead, Mr. Lindsay is Alcatel-Lucent's primary liaison to the consumer electronics and home control communities.

Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. Lindsay was Associate Director, Consumer Services Development at Bell Canada where he was instrumental in the development of Bell Canada's Voice over IP services capabilities. His contributions to Bell Canada's communications technology and application strategies bring a wealth of integrated services knowledge and experience to the organization.

Prior to Bell Canada, Mr. Lindsay was Director of Strategic Alliances for Ubiquity Software, a SIP infrastructure company, where he built key business relationships with service providers and solution partners. Joining Ubiquity in 2001, he was an early participant in the evolution of SIP products and implementations within the service provider community. Mr. Lindsay has also worked as a consultant to communications product companies, and early in his career, Mr. Lindsay gained extensive experience in the Consumer and Enterprise software markets at Corel Corporation and Cognos Inc. where he held Product Management roles.

Mr. Lindsay has a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Jon Linkous is the executive director of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), the largest membership-based organization in the world focusing exclusively on providing health and medical care through telecommunications technology. ATA’s annual meeting and trade show are among the fastest growing in the country. The Association advocates for changes in public laws that promote the deployment of telemedicine throughout the world. As the chief staff executive of ATA, Mr. Linkous has spoken and written extensively in the U.S. and in other countries on policy issues, emerging applications and market trends affecting telemedicine.

Mr. Linkous has over 20 years experience in the nation’s capital working in corporate and public sectors. He served as a senior consultant with Issue Dynamics Inc. (IDI), a Washington DC consulting firm specializing in telecommunications and technology policy. While at IDI, Mr. Linkous assisted in the early formation of ATA. For five years he was a leader in the aging services community as the Executive Director of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. His principle interest in this position was in using telecommunications and adaptive technology to assist older Americans and their caregivers. Mr. Linkous was also involved for many years in regional planning and economic development, serving as the Deputy Executive Director of the National Association of Regional Councils and at the Appalachian Regional Commission as Director of District Programs. In his early career, he was also active in broadcast and cable television in Ohio.

Mr. Linkous holds a Masters of Public Administration from the School of Government and Public Affairs at the American University in Washington, D.C. and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio with additional postgraduate work at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas.

Dan Littmann is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice and focuses on corporate and competitive strategy. Dan has over 8 years of industry experience. He has worked with numerous clients, including start-ups and established companies to define and accelerate the launch of new products and services. He also specializes in helping companies develop flexible strategies capable of adapting to the rapid pace of technological, competitive, and regulatory change within the telecommunications and media industries.

Dan’s project experience includes strategy development, marketing effectiveness, process design / implementation, new product development, customer analytics, and organizational design. Dan has worked with new entrant entertainment services providers to develop differentiated product and service offerings based on non-linear content, interactive applications, and targeted advertising models. He has led projects in the areas of video content strategy, content negotiations strategy, advanced advertising business models, and interactive television. Dan has also led numerous projects to help companies store, analyze, and report on customer data.

Dan has published articles, spoken, and led primary research efforts on the shifting competitive environment and emerging value chain of the converged media, telecom, and technology industries. Dan holds an MBA and BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Oleg Logvinov is President and CEO of Arkados, Inc. (OTC BB: AKDS), a fabless semiconductor company bringing powerline communication solutions for audio and video applications in the home networking and broadband powerline (BPL) markets. He also serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. Oleg’s areas of expertise include optical networking, broadband access, VoIP, and networking. Previously, Oleg held senior positions with CyberPath Inc, NITECH Inc, and CEM Corporation. He also spent a number of years on research and development of control and process modeling solutions for large-scale high and medium voltage power distribution networks. Oleg has co-founded, built, and sold Academy, Ltd, a technology consulting and service company. Oleg holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Ukraine (KPI). He has also worked for an R&D laboratory at the University of Kiev and the Ukraine Department of Energy.

Tara Maitra serves as Vice President, General Manager of Programming for TiVo. In this role, Maitra is responsible for cultivating relationships with content companies and unique content offerings for delivery via broadband.

Previously, Maitra served as Senior Director of content development at Comcast, where she was responsible for day-to-day operations of Select on Demand, a collection of new niche non-linear networks delivered via video on-demand and broadband. Maitra helped to create new channels through partnerships, acquisitions and original programming.

Prior to Comcast, Maitra was Executive Vice President, General Manager of Primedia Digital Video, where she developed on-demand and broadband video businesses for Primedia's established print franchises. Her accomplishments include launching video services on Comcast and Real Networks.

Ms. Maitra also held a series of editorial and management positions at NBC, including Vice President, General Manager of CNBC/Dow Jones Business Video, a joint venture of NBC, Microsoft and Dow Jones. There she led the development and managed one of the first profitable streaming video web sites to offer financial content thru both subscription and syndication models. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, located in Lexington, Virginia, Ms. Maitra holds a B.A. in Journalism and Psychology.

Matthew Marnik is a Director of Marketing for the Multiplay group at Juniper. He also brings a wealth of broadband experience to the Broadband Services Forum, for which he has served on the Board of Directors and as its Vice President of Marketing. Previously with Nortel, he launched the industry's first Optical Ethernet solution, introduced Nortel's Ethernet switching portfolio to the service provider market, and developed the enterprise market for broadband IP services. Prior to his work at Nortel Networks, Matthew was a management consultant with Price Waterhouse. Matthew is a graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the College of the Holy Cross.

Christopher Mauzy is director of business development for Best Buy For Business, the small-business technology solutions unit of Best Buy Co., Inc. He is responsible for managing and executing the sales strategy for the company’s home builder channel and its home automation product ConnectedLife.Home.

Prior to joining Best Buy For Business in 2005, Mauzy was director of builder services for Ultimate Electronics, based in Thornton, Colorado. Over the course of two years, he grew his segment of the company from five people and $650,000 in annual sales to $25 million and 210 employees.

Mauzy held a number of consulting and management positions with Ultimate Electronics over seven years with the company, including serving as a system consultant for Oracle implementations, a regional installation manager and a home installation manager. Previously he was a regional sales manager for Sound on Wheels stores across all of Colorado.

Mauzy is a member of the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) and is a Mobile Electronic Certified Professional. He attended the University of Colorado at Denver, where he studied business and mechanical engineering.

Clint McClellan, Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing, QUALCOMM

Clint McClellan is currently the senior director of strategic marketing for QUALCOMM Incorporated. McClellan’s current responsibilities include global messaging, overseeing industry relations, market analysis and market research. McClellan joined QUALCOMM in December of 1997 as director of strategic marketing.

McClellan brings a wealth of wireless industry analysis experience to QUALCOMM. Prior to joining the Company, McClellan most recently served as a senior analyst for Gartner Group/Dataquest's Telecommunications Group in its personal communications wireless program. While he was at Dataquest, McClellan served as a news anchor for two years on the Good Morning San Jose show at KNTV, an ABC affiliate, where he presented analysis and commentary on daily news events affecting high-technology industries. Previously, McClellan worked as a marketing specialist at Telephone House Nippo in Kobe, Japan and for CH2M Hill Consulting Engineers in Oakland, California.

McClellan's notable accomplishments include consulting projects with the Communications Minister of Australia about the deregulation of the Australian communications market. He has also provided strategic direction for a major Japanese cellular operator regarding its selection of the second generation digital standard and equipment manufacturers.

McClellan received a Bachelor of Science degree in political economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Fred McIntyre is Senior Vice President of AOL Video, where he directs the team that leads and executes AOL's comprehensive strategy for video and operates AOL's video products across AOL's network of Web properties. McIntyre joined AOL in 1999 and has worked in a variety of capacities, including most recently Vice President of Programming & Media Networks for AOL for Broadband. He also spent several years as Vice President of Business Development for AOL Entertainment where his responsibilities included mapping and implementing the strategy that established AOL as a premier online destination and industry partner for Games, Movies, Music, Radio, Television, and Ticketing. Prior to AOL, McIntyre held senior management positions at Spinner.com, VIBE Magazine and SPIN Magazine.

Kevin Meagher, CEO, Intamac Systems Ltd

Kevin Meagher is one of the recognised pioneers of the digital home market. He founded Intamac Systems Ltd, which he has grown to become the world’s leading provider of home monitoring and security services. The Company has platforms on 3 continents and with Telco’s, Utilities and Insurance companies. Partners that have launched new products and services using the Intamac platform include Bell Canada, British Telecom, Cisco/Linksys and KPN Telecom.

With the advent of the Internet, Kevin had a vision. He believed the real value of the Internet was going to be in more that just content. He saw how the Internet could be used to network and control systems in devices in new ways and how remote server platforms could be used to integrate devices in the home to deliver a wide range of benefits to consumers. It was out of this work that his vision for the digital home was born.

Thanks to Kevin’s vision and commitment, Intamac has developed a flexible and robust web platform that provides the key foundation stone to growth in services to the digital home. Intamac use their platform to offer clients a turnkey solution that enables corporate partners to exploit broadband and bundle exciting new home monitoring services with their traditional consumer products to generate new revenue streams that increase ARPU and reduce churn.

Andy Melder joined Intellon as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development in April 2004. With more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Andy has a proven record of technology company growth.

Andy is a recognized expert in the communications and consumer electronics market and a frequently sought commentator on industry issues. He has spoken at a wide variety of venture and financial summits, educational forums, industry conferences, service provider forums and trade shows.

Prior to joining Intellon, Andy was Chief Operating Officer of Clarisay, Inc., a developer of uniquely manufactured integrated 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, which targeted the automotive, home networking and consumer electronics markets.

During his tenure at Microtune, Melder was Vice President of Sales & Marketing and later, Vice President of Business Development. Part of his responsibilities included identifying new technology platforms for the company’s strong RF and mixed-signal core competencies, as well as corporate growth through the identification of strategic merger and acquisition opportunities. While at Microtune, the company expanded its presence in the cable infrastructure and home markets, as well as the wireless networking and consumer electronics sectors.

Additionally, Andy also served as Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Corporate Business Development of Tripath Technology, Inc. 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.

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

As AMD’s Corporate Vice President for Consumer Business activity, Joe Menard is responsible for the solutions, strategies, sales, and marketing efforts for AMD’s processor businesses serving the consumer market segment. Previously, Mr. Menard headed as AMD’s Software Strategy and Alliances unit, defining and driving the company’s software strategies and partnerships. Prior to joining AMD, he was founder, chairman, and CEO of WebGain Inc., a privately held provider of Java software for Fortune 500 companies.

Joe Menard holds a master of business administration degree from Babson College, and a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

As Director, Product Management, Kirk Munroe is responsible for Radialpoint’sValue-Added Services (VAS) management and delivery solution. This solution includes messaging and awareness, business and service intelligence, end-user experience and the VAS subscription-to-activation process. Prior to joining Radialpoint, Kirk spent 6 years at Cognos, Canada’s largest software company, where most recently he was director of product management responsible for driving broader user adoption of performance management software through business scorecards and dashboards, search, mobile access and integration with MS Office.

Responsible for overseeing the development of the OnForce platform and implementation of programs to communicate OnForce products and services across America, Paul Nadjarian is OnForce’s top marketing and product officer. Nadjarian was an executive at eBay, responsible for the growth of the eBay Motors Parts & Accessories business, which he rapidly grew to become the world’s largest on-line marketplace for parts and accessories. Earlier, he held several positions in sales and marketing within Ford Motor Company where he ran Ford’s lead-management solution team. During his time at Ford, Nadjarian was co-founder of GreenLeaf, Inc., an automotive recycling venture within Ford.

Sheau has been with the digital revolution from the start, contributing to MPEG, ATSC, DVD, and various technical standards activities. His career spans from compression research to product development in consumer electronics, semiconductors, and content/media industries. He was an contributing member of the Grand Alliance team, working at Sarnoff in late 80s. In early 90s, Sheau was part of Toshiba’s DVD team, where he helped build the world’s first DVD encoder. While at Toshiba, he also chaired the DAVIC 1.0 Technical Committee. Later, he was the architect of Philips first consumer HDTV on the ATSC market. At Philips, and later on at ATI, he was responsible for the software architecture of their DTV system-on-chip solutions. Sheau is now a vice president at NBC Universal, with responsibility in the areas of consumer and broadcast technology, standards, and policy. He chairs the Content Protection Task Group in the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA). He is an active member at the CEA IPTV OCC, and many other industry groups. He is focusing his attention on making digital entertainment a worldwide reality.

Sheau holds graduate degrees from M.I.T., and had done post-graduate work at Princeton University. He also attended the executive MBA program at INSEAD. He currently holds over 30 patents worldwide. He lives in Boston with his wife and two children.

Romain Nouzareth, Founder and CEO, Boonty

Romain Nouzareth co-founded Boonty, one of the world’s leading providers of casual gaming solutions, in 2001. He is currently based in New York, where he oversees the Company’s North American operations.

Prior to founding Boonty, Romain founded e-business consulting firm Web Concept with his brother Mathieu in 1995. Romain held the position of Managing Director, remaining in that role with the company after its sale to Sweden’s IconMedialab (Euronext: icon) in 1999. He continued to develop and enlarge the agency until April 2001.

Romain was a member of the Jury at the Cannes Lion Festival in 2000 and is a frequent speaker at various events. He earned a law degree from the University of Paris II Assas, and is an investor in several start-ups as well as an active member of many non-profit associations.

Stephen Palm is currently Technical Director with the Broadband Communication Group of Broadcom Corporation. He chairs and participates in committees of Wi-Fi Alliance, DLNA, UPnP, IEEE 802.11, ITU-T SG9, ITU-T SG15 and CableLabs with particular interest in Home Networking and Quality of Service. He holds a BS EE from the University of California, Irvine, an MS ECE from Carnegie Mellon, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include Quality of Service and multi-media processing.

Tricia Parks, CEO and Founder, Parks Associates

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

Parks Associates began Wiring America, the Habitech Institute, and now hosts multiple fall events, 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.

Mark Pascarella is President and CEO of Gotuit Media Corp. As one of Gotuit’s founding investors, Mark has been a member of the company’s Board of Directors since inception and joined Gotuit full-time in 2001. Under Pascarella’s direction, Gotuit has pioneered video search / navigation and has become the leading provider of on demand video products for multiple platforms including: cable, broadband and mobile.

Before joining Gotuit Media, Pascarella teamed up with Sidney Topol, the former Chairman and CEO of Scientific-Atlanta (SFA), to found The Topol Group, an early-stage investment firm. In addition to Gotuit, The Topol Group's investments include broadband router manufacturer RiverDelta Networks (Motorola), cable services provider Navic Networks, VoIP switch maker Cedar Point Communications, and the multimedia semiconductor company Lumic, where Pascarella served on the Board of Directors. From 1992 to 1997, Pascarella worked in Business Development at Procter & Gamble.

He holds a BS in Management from Bucknell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Pascarella is an experienced speaker having recently presented in 2006 at ETRE Barcelona, Digital Music Forum, Digital Hollywood and Red Herring East.

Duane Paulson, President, Sequel Technologies, LLC

Paulson has two decades of executive level business experience, including 15 years in the security industry. He is one of the best known and most widely respected marketing minds in the security industry.

Most recently, Paulson served as President of Gibson Audio, the consumer electronics division of Gibson Guitar Corporation. Combining this operating experience in the consumer electronics space with his extensive security industry experience, Paulson brings to Sequel Technologies world-class marketing skills and contacts in virtually every level of both the consumer electronics and security industries.

Paulson began his security industry career in 1991 as a marketing executive for Interlogix, the leading provider of wireless security systems, with responsibility for a stable of the industry’s top brands – ITI, Sentrol, Caddx, Kalatel, GE Smart, and Aritech. Following GE’s acquisition of Interlogix in 2001, he became Vice President of Global Residential Marketing for GE Security.

During his security industry career Paulson led product management efforts that yielded scores of award-winning products. He also created and implemented marketing programs that generated unprecedented loyalty among dealers, home builders and utilities. The Security Pro dealer program created by Paulson at Interlogix became a model for the industry.

Paulson has served on the boards of several important industry associations, including serving on the board and the executive committee of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), producer of the International Consumer Electronics Show, serving for several years on the Security Industry Association (SIA) board of directors, and serving as president of the Home Automation and Networking Association (HANA). He remains active with CEA and currently sits on the CEA Small Business Council.

Peter Percosan, Executive Director Broadband Strategy, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Percosan has served as the director broadband strategy for Texas Instruments Residential Gateway business 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 RGES 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 science from the University of California at San Diego.

As Vice President Strategic Engineering Mr. Pillai plays an integral role in the strategic technology planning and assessments for service convergence of platforms including voice, video, data and wireless.

Mr. Pillai joined Bresnan in 2006 following seven years as Vice President of Advanced Engineering for Charter Communications, Inc. In that post, his responsibilities included digital video network architectures, system engineering, system integration and technology assessments.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Science in Telecommunications from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri. In addition, he completed graduate work in Telecommunications Management at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Pillai is also a graduate of the NAMIC –Executive Leadership Development Program at Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Mr. Pillai has received numerous professional honors and industry accolades. In 2006 he was named one of CableWorld magazine’s “50 Most Influential Minorities,” was listed in Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40,” and received NAMIC’s “Next Generation Leader” Award. He has also been named among Multichannel News’ 2004 “Cable’s Next Generation of Innovators” and received SCTE’s 2003 “Young Engineer Award” and IEEE’s 2002 “Young Engineer Award” for St. Louis. Mr. Pillai has co-authored multiple industry articles on digital video technology and operations and has participated in multiple industry technical panels and sessions.

Kumu Puri is a Partner in Accenture’s Communications & High Tech Strategy practice. She has been with Accenture for ten years, working extensively with our large clients on business strategy topics spanning M&A, market entry, product/solution marketing, new service development, and channel strategy.

Kumu currently leads our Consumer Technology industry program, working with executives in the consumer electronics, media, and communications industries on their strategic initiatives to penetrate the home with compelling consumer value propositions. Her focus is on helping these clients: architect Digital Home solutions that cross content, software, hardware, services and the network; establish the right go-to-market ecosystem to sell the solutions; and expand services to improve the consumer experience.

Prior to joining Accenture, Kumu worked at Nortel in product development and launch. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and enjoys the hiking trails and great restaurants of the San Francisco Bay area.

After spending nearly three decades working inside both public and private companies, Len Rand joined Granite Ventures in 2002. His deep interest in digital entertainment and digital home technologies has made him a sought-after resource, and his opinions have been featured in publications such as CE Vision, Dow Jones, eWeek, PC Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Len brings entrepreneurial spirit to Granite with a record that includes steering four companies through successful acquisitions as their CEO. Prior to joining Granite, Len was General Manager of Strategic Marketing and Global Alliances for the Intel Communications Group (ICG) at Intel Corporation.

Len joined Intel after serving as CEO and Founder of NetBoost Corporation (acquired by Intel Corporation in 1999), the developer of network processor silicon, subsystems and software development systems. Granite Ventures was a lead investor in the company. Prior to NetBoost, Len was Co-founder of Internet Middleware, Inc., an Internet proxy caching company acquired by Network Appliance, Inc. in 1997, and CEO of The Whitewater Group (acquired by Symantec). Len was also CEO at the Rand Group (acquired by Intergraph Corporation), and Vice President & General Manager at both Intergraph Corporation and Autodesk, Inc.

Len has extensive technical and operational background in the semiconductor and communications industries, and focuses his investments in communications and components companies. He serves on the Boards of Directors for Aspen Avionics, H-Stream Wireless, and PowerGenix.

Len holds several degrees including a B.S. degree in Building Sciences, a B.S. degree in Engineering, a BArch degree in Architecture, and an M.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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

Robert Rodenbucher is acting as Director of Business Development at AwoX, the European leader in middleware technologies for the aggregation of digital entertainment contents on a home network.

Starting in the early 80s as lab engineer at Wandel & Goldtermann France then at Thomson Simulators, he pursued, for more than 6 years, its career in robotics as team leader for the digital control command at Renault Automation. After he abandoned the technical world and moved into marketing functions being TV-Europe Product Manager and Business Manager for Eastern Europe & Russia, then World Wide Manager for Components for Optical Recording at Thomson.

Robert Rodenbucher is a graduate engineer in electronics ISEP (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris) and followed a course of marketing for high-tech products at ESCL (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon).

Bill Rose is President and founder of WJR Consulting Inc. advising manufacturers and technology development companies on product and business development, market strategies, and standards relating to the Consumer Electronics and entertainment networking industries. Engaged in the Home Networking industry for 15 years, Bill’s clients include wired, wireless, coaxial, and powerline carrier networking technology development companies, and Consumer Electronics manufacturers such as Samsung, a founding member of HANA, the High Definition Audio/Video Network Alliance. On behalf of Samsung, Bill is actively engaged in Technical, Business, and PR activities at HANA.

Bill chairs the Consumer Electronics Association’s Home Networking Committee (R7), is a member of CEA’s Technology and Standards Council, IPTV Oversight and Coordination Committee, and chairs a Task Group within the IEEE 802.22 WG on Wireless Regional Area Networking. He has spoken at over 30 conferences including CES, CEDIA, Connections, EHExpo, 802.11 Planet, NAB, and was a Keynote speaker at several UPnP Forums.

Matt Sanchez began his entrepreneurial career as a junior in high school when he founded a computer consulting group in his hometown of Pendleton, OR. Sanchez later spent several summers while at Yale working as a technical account manager for Intel’s Mobile Product Group. Before VideoEgg, Sanchez was co-founder and COO of MediaLiquid. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University in 2003.

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 developed a 1 Gbps UWB chipset supporting both wireless and wired applications for the secure seamless distribution of HDTV, multi-channel audio and digital content throughout the home.

Pulse~LINK is the first semiconductor company to deliver a solution capable of Whole- Home, High-Data-Rate networking with deterministic Quality-of-Service (QoS). The Company’s award-winning CWave™ Ultra Wideband (UWB) solution enables a hybrid wired/wireless network for room-to-room distribution of HD content over the existing in-home coax cabling and wireless connectivity within each room- all from the same chipset. CWave enables devices such as Set-Top Boxes, HDTVs, DVRs, DVD players, Gaming Devices, Media Center PCs, and other multimedia equipment to distribute digital content to wherever consumers choose throughout the home with a “No-New-Wires” solution.

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. Mr. Santhoff was the first recipient of EE Times’ high-acclaimed “Innovator of the Year” award and was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2005.

Tushar Saxena, Director, Home Networking Technologies, Verizon Communications

Tushar Saxena is the Director of Home Networking Technologies at Verizon Communications, where he is responsible for developing and executing the next generation digital home strategy for broadband services including FiOS and DSL. His group also represents Verizon on industry and standards forums such as the MoCA Alliance, DSL Forum and DLNA. Tushar was also the chief architect of VoiceWing, Verizon's consumer VoIP service launched in 2004.

Prior to Verizon, Tushar held key positions at GE Global Research and BBN Technologies where he was responsible for the development of a number of key innovative government and military solutions using emerging IP networking technologies

Tushar holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Albany and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Michael S. Seamons is a founding partner and Vice President of Marketing for Exceptional Innovation, the software development company whose Lifeware home control software is changing the way home control dealers and integrators serve their customers. Lifeware is standards-based smart home software that creates a unified, partner-inclusive home entertainment and control solution. Seamons brings best-of-breed control partners into compatibility, identifies and analyzes user experience platforms, and oversees a network of custom installation and distribution partners.

Considered an industry expert on Windows XP Media Center since its inception, Seamons has integrated hundreds of digital entertainment systems and trained over one hundred custom installers on advanced Media Center installation techniques. While President of veteran installation company Custom Home Control, Seamons oversaw the integration of the most advanced, open architecture automation systems available. He has been a core partner with Microsoft in the NextGen demonstration home for the past three years.

Seamons has been a digital entertainment specialist and guest editor for industry magazines. He has been a featured speaker at Big Builder, Digital Home, KBIS, PARA, CES, EH Expo, Media Center Boot Camp, and the Digital Convergence Boot Camp. Seamons was the first to provide advanced Media Center integration training, both for Tweeter retail stores and for Microsoft directly.

Seamons is an influential industry executive who keeps a constant and close eye on the overall health of the CE industry. One of the first to recognize the tremendous platform provided by Windows Media Center Edition, Seamons has worked tirelessly to educate, inform and promote a digital vision for CE, one that is swift, effective and profitable. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University.

Bhupen Shah has over 22 years of experience in technology development, product development, and engineering management in embedded digital media and communication solutions at Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and others. Over his career, Bhupen has on four occasions successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations.

Bhupen joins Sling Media as a co-founder following the acquisition of DiTango by Sling Media. Prior to founding DiTango, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. Bhupen played a key role in building and managing development team in Bangalore, India. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Later as CTO and VP of Marketing, Bhupen focused in technology evangelism, marketing and pre-sales activities resulting in design wins with tier-1 OEMs worldwide.

Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices for the consumer market at retail. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.

Bhupen holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Tony Shakib, CEO, Zensys

Tony Shakib is the president and CEO of Zensys, a leading provider of wireless networking technology for home control.

Tony has been key to the continued growth of the Z-Wave Alliance, a consortium of more than 125 leading companies in the home technology space dedicated to solidifying Z-Wave as the standard for wireless home and entertainment control products. Under his leadership, Zensys moved its global headquarters to Silicon Valley, secured strategic funding from Cisco and Intel Capital, and added some significant companies to the Z-Wave Alliance including Monster and Intel.

Before joining Zensys, Tony served as the general manager for the access and networking business units at Centillium Communications, a communication IC company focusing on the development of technological solutions that expand communication bandwidth to the Internet. Prior to that he was president & CEO of AOptix Technologies and spent 16 years with Nortel Networks holding several executive positions ranging from general management and strategic business development to advanced technology development and systems architecture roles. Tony completed his tenure with Nortel as the general manager of the Broadband access division.

Tony received a B.S. with Honors in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from McMaster and Brock Universities in Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Sharma is responsible for various aspects of corporate strategy for Alvarion Ltd. His experience covers a broad spectrum of roles in business development, marketing, strategy and R&D. Mr. Sharma also handles the strategy and business development for WiMAX Forum. Prior to Alvarion, Mr. Sharma served as a Director of Business Development for Ericsson where he helped grow Ericsson’s business in several key regions. Before Ericsson, Mr. Sharma was with Qualcomm where he helped develop some of the early CDMA systems. Mr. Sharma holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of District of Columbia, a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University and a Masters of Business Administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Having 16 years’ experience in consumer electronics and strategic marketing, Petro Shimonishi leverages her extensive classical marketing expertise to lead the NetStreams’ marketing team. From developing product and marketing strategies to a solid understanding of international marketing issues, Petro focuses her efforts on making channel and end-user customers a first priority.

Petro brings to NetStreams an outstanding understanding of the industry. Petro has worked in the home electronics field for most of her career and is passionate about music and technology. Instrumental in launching new technologies like DVD-Audio and the first hard disc drive music server/system controller, Petro has served as Director of Marketing for Sonance, Marketing Strategy Manager for the Car and Home Electronics Division of Kenwood, and Assistant Product Manager for the Consumer Audio Division of Pioneer Electronics among others.

Petro currently sits on the board for both the CEA Multi-Room Audio Video Council and the CEA Audio Division. She holds a Master in Business Administration from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management in Arizona, and a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Union College in Ohio.

Julie Shumaker, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Double Fusion, Inc.

Formerly EA’s National Director of Sales, Videogame Advertising, Shumaker established EA as the number one direct seller of integrated advertising placements in games. During her five year tenure, she increased year-on-year revenues by more than 60%. Shumaker’s successes include the implementation of a five-title advertising program with Procter & Gamble, a revolutionary sponsorship program with Daimler Chrysler around Madden NFL, and the industry’s first seven-figure product placement deals with McDonald’s and Intel in Electronic Art’s (EA) The Sims franchise. Prior to her work at EA, Shumaker drove sponsorships and advertising sales on Yahoo! Inc.’s FIFA World cup site (www.fifaworldcup.com). Before joining Yahoo, Shumaker was director of sponsorship sales for Quokka Sports and its joint venture with NBC. Shumaker’s experience in sports and sports marketing was established early on in her career, with three years as a professional golfer on the Asian and US tours. In 2005, Shumaker was featured in the “The Ad Age 2005 Women To Watch Report: Twenty-Five Executives Who Made A Difference,” underscoring her success in building videogames as a viable advertising channel.

Eric Smith, Chief Technical Officer, 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 home automation solutions that are 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 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.

Eric holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Michael Stich is the director of service provider strategy for Texas Instruments DSP Systems. Stich provides strategic planning, manages service provider relationships and market research for the group.

Previously, he was the Director of Strategic Marketing for TI’s Broadband Communications Group. Before joining TI in 2002, Stich was a senior associate at McKinsey & Company, where he developed growth strategies for executives in telecommunications, venture capital and equipment manufacturing. Prior to joining McKinsey, Stich founded Dell Ventures Asia, where he led several investments in Asian technology companies for Dell. Stich also served Dell’s senior vice president of Personal Systems in a wide range of product management, strategy and marketing projects.

Stich holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and a master’s of business administration with a Marketing focus from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Matt is the overall owner of Intel’s powerline initiative and works out of the Intel Digital Home Group. In this capacity, he is tasked with defining Intel’s powerline strategy and tactical plan. He is also a key member of a small group of people defining Intel’s digital home strategic plan and vision. Matt also acts as President of the HomePlug Alliance.

Over the last 8 years at Intel, Matt has held various senior roles driving technology initiatives and managing businesses. In addition to currently acting as the President of the HomePlug Alliance, Matt has also acted as Director, PCI Express Programs where he was co-lead of the Intel PCI Express marketing and ecosystem development team; Technology Initiative Manager for the Advanced Switching initiative; Director, I/O Translator Operation where he managed a business which delivered silicon products bridging different types of I/O; Director, PCI-PCI Bridge Product Operation which had #1 market segment share in the industry.

Prior to joining Intel, Matt also held marketing and sales management and engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corp and several start-ups. Matt holds a BSME from Northeastern University and an MBA from Rivier College.

John Ulm is Fellow of the Technical Staff, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. In this role Mr. Ulm is responsible for investigating areas including advanced converged services; broadband access networks and bandwidth expansion; and seamless mobility for in-home and metro area multimedia distribution.

Ulm joined Motorola in 2006 as a member of the Technology Office reporting to the Connected Home Solutions 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. Ulm 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, Ulm was heavily involved in networking development at Hewlett Packard, Apollo Computer and Burroughs Corp.

Ulm holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has several patents to his name.

Ofer Vilenski co-founded Jungo in 1998, and led the company from initial product development to today’s market leader position in the residential and small business gateway market. Prior to Jungo, Ofer worked for Check Point Software Technologies, a global leader in Internet security solutions, and served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. Ofer graduated Cum Laude in Computer Science from the Technion Institute of Science in Israel.

Bruce Watkins is the primary architect of Pulse~LINK’s business plan and corporate models, bringing together the resources to guide and achieve corporate formation, capitalization, patent development and operations. He oversees day-to-day operations of the company and successfully led Pulse~LINK from start-up and development to being a well-funded leader in UWB communications.

Pulse~LINK is the first semiconductor company to deliver a solution capable of Whole- Home, High-Data-Rate networking with deterministic Quality-of-Service (QoS). This capability enables the seamless distribution of interactive High Definition content, multi-channel audio and high-speed data networking throughout the home. Pulse-LINK’s award-winning CWave™ Ultra Wideband (UWB) solution enables a hybrid wired/wireless network using the in-home coax cabling for room-to-room distribution of HD content with wireless connectivity in each room- all from the same chipset. Devices enabled with the CWave™ chipset are capable of distributing digital content to wherever consumers choose within the home at data rates up to 1 Gbps. CWave enables the networking of Set-Top Boxes, HDTVs, DVRs, DVD players, Gaming Devices, Media Center PCs, and other multimedia equipment with a “No-New-Wires” solution.

Mr. Watkins brings with him over twenty-five years of Business Development experience. He is on the board of directors for Pulse~LINK and actively involved in various industry groups including HANA, DLNA, the 1394 Trade Association.

John Welch is a co-founder and the President and CEO of PlayFirst, the leading publisher of highly-original games made for casual gamers wherever they play. One of the most visible figures in the casual games industry today, John is responsible for the strategic direction of the company. Prior to forming PlayFirst, John spent five years at Shockwave.com (now owned by Viacom) as the company's Vice President of Games and Product where he drove the product strategy and acquisitions for Shockwave.com. While at Shockwave.com, John helped build the site into one of the Internet's top games portals and discovered some of the top independent game developers in the world. Prior to this, John worked at SEGA where he led the specification effort for the Sega Dreamcast Network. He has also served as a steering committee member of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Online Games, and Casual Games groups. John launched his career as a systems integration consultant at Andersen Consulting, then co-founded his own firm which specialized in enterprise solutions. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.

Michelle Wu, CEO, MediaZone

Michelle Wu, Ph. D. is CEO of MediaZone. She is credited with pioneering a new way of delivering video online called “Social TV” which is disruptive to the traditional TV business, and building the media network.

Under Dr. Wu’s direction, MediaZone has grown from conception into a recognized leader in broadband video programming, delivering more than 2000 premier sports, entertainment and cultural events a year, including the Wimbledon Championships, the New York Marathon and the FIBA Basketball World Championships, exclusively worldwide. The company has also developed long term exclusive partnerships with major media brands including NBC Sports, AOL and Shanghai Media Group.

Prior to MediaZone, she was the founder, Chairman and CEO of China Internet Group (CIG), a leading incubator for technology companies in China. She also served as CTO, VP of engineering and VP of sales and marketing at Why Not Creations, a leading online rich media entertainment company.