Speakers

Fazal Ali
Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Dr. Fazal Ali, senior director of product management at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), leads the development of wireless platforms for connected consumer devices. In this role he works closely with OEMs to bring to market multifunction consumer electronics products with Internet connectivity.

Before joining Qualcomm, he led the engineering and product development of several mobile phones including a S60 Smartphone at Nokia for more than 10 years. Prior to that, Dr. Ali held technical & management positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, HP and Pacific Monolithics. He has 24 years of experience in the wireless communication industry.

Dr. Ali is a recognized leader in the IEEE technical community and was elected a “Fellow” in 1999. He also served as the distinguished national lecturer from 2001 to 2003 for the IEEE on Mobile Phone technologies and Smart Phone applications and as an invited keynote speaker at various international conferences.

Fazal holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. and B.S. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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David Borison
Senior Director, Marketing, TZero Technologies

Dave Borison is Senior Director of Marketing with TZero Technologies, the pioneer and worldwide leader in Ultra Wideband (UWB) and wireless video technology. Before joining TZero, Dave was Director of Product Management with Airgo Networks (acquired by Qualcomm), where he managed 802.11n Wi-Fi chipsets, reference designs, and software solutions. Prior to Airgo, Dave also held Product Management positions at Atheros Communications where he was responsible for the company’s 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi solutions, and at 3Com Corporation where he managed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet products. Dave also spent several years with EMC Corporation in Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management positions, as well as a number of years with Andersen Consulting providing information systems consulting services. Dave holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

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Glenn Broderick
Executive Director, Gaming, AT&T

Glenn Broderick is the Executive Director of Gaming in AT&T’s Converged Services organization. In this role, Glenn is responsible for developing AT&T’s strategic and go to market approach to the convergence of gaming across AT&T’s Platforms.

Glenn comes to AT&T with 13 years of video games experience that ranges from producing games editorial to helping launch some of the industry’s biggest brands. Prior to AT&T, Glenn held management positions in Coca-Cola’s interactive marketing group, Blockbuster’s games group, Best Buy’s new business development group, and GT Interactive’s (now Atari) online marketing group. And before all that, he wrote for various and sundry game pubs including the now-deceased Computer Player, Tips & Tricks, ogr.com, gamecenter.com, and Brady Games.

Glenn holds a BA from Green Mountain College and an MA from Sacred Heart University. He lives in San Antonio with his family and a monster home theater he’s affectionately named HAL 10,000. He enjoys playing video games, motorcycling, reading, playing video games, and talking about himself in the third person.

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Scott Brown
Director, Marketing, Cisco

Scott Brown, director of marketing for the Cisco Media Solutions Group (CMSG), is responsible for the communications, marketing and executive communication activities for the group.

Prior to CMSG, Scott was the executive communications manager for Dan Scheinman, who formerly led Corporate Development at Cisco. Scott joined Dan in the formation of CMSG in December of 2006, and soon expanded his responsibilities to his current role.

Prior to joining Cisco, Scott was the executive communications director for Scott McNealy, Chairman & CEO, Sun Microsystems. He also held a variety of brand strategy and market research roles at Cunningham Communications, supporting high-tech clients such as Cisco, Adobe, Autodesk, Sun Microsystems and PeopleSoft.

Scott was a research principal and co-author of the Net Impact research series, which explored the global economic and productivity impact of Internet technologies. He co-authored an ESOMAR published paper titled, Net Impact: The Role of Technology in Delivering Citizen Services.

Scott holds a Master’s in marketing from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a Bachelor’s from Drake University in Des Moines, IA.

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Richard Bullwinkle
Chief Evangelist, Macrovision

Richard Bullwinkle joined Macrovision in January 2007 after Macrovision acquired Mediabolic, where he had served as vice president of Products and chief evangelist. Since that time Richard has served as Macrovision’s chief evangelist responsible for corporate strategy. In his role, Richard helps define the direction of the company‘s products and technology solutions. He represents Macrovision at numerous industry events to gather market perspectives and understand trends that have an impact on the company’s customers and the end consumer in order to provide recommendations to the senior team. He also works to establish standards and lead the discussions to promote a better consumer experience throughout the CE industry.

With roles at Mediabolic, Rio Audio, and TiVo, Richard is well known in consumer electronics and entertainment industries.

As vice president of Products and chief evangelist at Mediabolic, Richard helped pioneer the connected home strategy of connecting entertainment media devices. As a senior member of Rio Audio's product marketing team, Richard played an instrumental part in the creation of some of the most popular MP3 players in the US. At Tivo, Richard was the company’s chief evangelist and a senior member of TiVo's product marketing team. He helped create and develop the TiVo products and was behind the campaign to make the TiVo product a household name.

Richard graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and Music.

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Chenyi Chiu
Strategic Program Manager, HD-PLC Alliance

Chenyi Chiu is the Strategic Program Manager of HD-PLC Alliance Office of North America located in U.S.A. HD-PLC Alliance Office of North America has devoted 5 years to promote the high-speed PLC technology developed by Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. Chenyi Chiu is also the Technical Engineering Manager of Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. Liaison Office of North America leading wide range of communication technology research projects. With the ten years of experience in networking industry, Chenyi Chiu is now assigned as the leader of Strategic Alliance Project to create the global partnership and business opportunities for HD-PLC Alliance. Chenyi Chiu received his Computer Science Bachelor's degree from Nation Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan in 1997, MBA degree and Master of Engineering Science degree from the California State University of San Jose in 2006.

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Rick Clancy
SVP of Corporate Communications, Sony Electronics

Rick Clancy is senior vice president of corporate communications at Sony Electronics.

In this position, he is responsible for all of the communications and public relations activities for the company’s U.S. electronics business, including a wide variety of corporate issues, new product launches, marketing support, technology developments, third-party relationships, manufacturing activities in the United States and Mexico, crisis communications, media relations and employee communications.

In the rapidly expanding world of social media, Clancy and his team launched the company’s first corporate blog in July 2007, which he hosts, at www.sony.com/electronicsblog.

Clancy joined Sony in 1990 as a director of corporate communications, moving on to become a vice president in 1991. He assumed the senior vice president position in 1997.

Prior to joining Sony, Clancy was vice president, corporate communications, at the investment firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York. Prior to that, he served in various client service and general management positions in the New York and Pittsburgh offices of the Creamer Dickson Basford public relations firm.

Clancy has also held public relations positions at the investment firm of E.F. Hutton and at the J. Walter Thomson advertising agency, where he began his career in 1976 after receiving a B.A. degree, majoring in communications, from Bethany College in West Virginia.

Clancy is a past chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association’s Communications Committee and is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America.

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Luke D’Arcy
VP, Advanced Technology Marketing, CSR

Luke D’Arcy leads the team responsible for setting up new lines of business within CSR. Luke’s current responsibilities include, recruiting and managing technical and commercial teams, defining product specifications and promoting CSR’s technology to top-tier handset manufacturers.

Luke previously held the position of Marketing Manager for CSR’s Wireless Audio Business Unit. As commercial lead for CSR's audio business Luke was responsible for growing CSR's headset business from virtually zero to several hundred million dollars, achieving more than 80% market share. Luke's responsibilities included: defining, marketing and selling products for Bluetooth headsets; setting up and running a software partner program for companies developing code running on CSR chips; and recruiting and managing a team of marketers, engineers and project managers.

Prior to working at CSR, Luke was a Sales and Marketing Engineer at D-Cubed. Luke holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Semiconductor Science and Technology from Imperial College London.

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Robert Eisses
President and CEO, Icron

Mr. Eisses has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and key member of senior management teams of companies focused on emerging technologies, primarily in the wireless data space. He is currently the President and CEO at Icron Technologies, a Vancouver BC, based technology company focused on extending USB beyond the desktop, over wires or wirelessly. He also sits on the board of the BCTIA and AceTech, two BC based organizations focused on the development of technology companies in BC.

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David Foote
CTO, Hitachi USA

Mr. Foote is the Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi Telecom USA. He is currently responsible for strategic product planning, technology strategy, and technical marketing of fiber access, optical transport, data switching, home networking and cellular systems. He has been instrumental in establishing Hitachi’s network systems business with major North American service providers like Sprint, Time Warner, Rocester Tel/Global Crossing, and Norlight. Mr. Foote has been a member, contributor, and committee chairman in leading standards organizations such as ATIS, SCTE, IETF, OIF, IEEE 802, ANSI T1, and the ATM Forum. He is an invited speaker and paper author to various industry conferences and symposiums. Before joining Hitachi, he served as a decorated communications engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force responsible for network design and implementation of various secure telecom and packet data networks including ARPAnet/MILnet.

Mr. Foote received a B.S.E.E. from Georgia Tech in 1980 and a Master’s degree in Management from Webster University/Air Force Institute of Technology in 1982.

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Ed Forman
EVP, Products and Services, ActiveVideo Networks

Ed returned to ActiveVideo Networks in 2006 after having co-founded and served as CEO of Switched Media, a developer of solutions for mass customization of live video streams that merged with ActiveVideo Networks. With Active Video Networks, he has been responsible for shaping the company’s strategic direction in the cable, IPTV and consumer electronics spaces. In his previous engagement with ActiveVideo Networks, from 2001-04, Ed served as senior vice president of marketing and in an executive consulting capacity and was instrumental in launching the company’s HeadendWare product. Previously, Ed had been president and CEO of RealContax, Inc. and vice president of marketing and new ventures for enCommerce, Inc., an Entrust acquisition. From 1996-99, Ed was senior vice president of product development and marketing for Elemental Software, Inc., where he managed the development and launch of “Drumbeat,” the first drag-and-drop tool for active server pages. Ed was instrumental in the acquisition of Elemental Software by Macromedia, and in the sale of Network Innovations, Inc. to Apple Computer earlier in his career. Ed also helped to launch RadioMail, the first mobile wireless e-mail solution. Ed is a graduate of Harvard College, and earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He enjoys cycling, tennis, travel and cross country skiing. As a cyclist, he has been a mentor to Team in Training, an organization that helps individuals achieve personal goals while raising money to find cures for blood cancers.

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Noam Geri
Co-founder, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, AMIMON

Noam 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.

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Jean-Marc Harion
Vice President, Business Development, North America, Orange – France Telecom NA

Mr. Harion brings more than 20 years of leadership and experience to his role as vice president, business development for France Telecom North America, where he is responsible for anticipating opportunities and developing knowledge of the U.S. market for the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s largest telecommunications firms.

Mr. Harion’s pan-European experience includes a broad range of positions: in his previous role as VP of commercial development for France, he conceptualized and implemented the distribution strategy for all FT/Orange products and services in the territory, and was responsible for merchandising processes and new stores concepts across both direct and indirect distribution channels, including more than 1,200 stores.

Prior to that, Mr. Harion was director of multimedia operations and portals for Orange, where he monitored more than €800 million of European IP data traffic and multimedia services per year. He also led cross country planning of direct marketing and CRM operations, pricing architecture and positioning of the OrangeWorld portal, where Orange’s mobile customers can access a range of information and entertainment sites including music, video, games, information and sports content, and the implementation of value-added content services.

From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Harion was director of professional and innovative services for OrangeWorld, where he managed industrial partnerships with the likes of Sun, Intel, Microsoft and others, helped build group customer propositions for SOHO and SMEs and oversaw the development of Orange smartphone applications and user interfaces, including the very first Microsoft-powered SPV smartphone.

Before joining the FT Group, Mr. Harion launched Computer Channel, an Internet and TV company providing training programs and services to companies in 26 countries. Founded in 1991, Computer Channel had 1999 revenues of €11.5 million when it was acquired by the FT Group.

Mr. Harion holds a master’s degree in information management from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a master and post-graduate degree in linguistics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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Ben Huang
Director of Product Management and Marketing, TV Business, Microsoft Corporation

Ben Huang is the Director of Product Management and Marketing in Microsoft’s Connected TV division. In this capacity, he oversees product management, planning, and product marketing for the Microsoft Mediaroom family of products. The award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform is driving the future of television by enabling broadband service providers to deliver new connected TV and entertainment experiences to consumers worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom provides new ways for consumers to experience TV as part of their connected, digital lifestyle while also creating new business opportunities for broadband service providers, hardware manufacturers, content creators, advertisers and application developers.

Mr. Huang joined Microsoft in 2003, where he led various initiatives related to new business opportunities, emerging markets, pricing, and corporate transactions, among other areas.

Prior to joining Microsoft TV, Mr. Huang has worked in various strategic, financial, and marketing leadership roles with a particular focus in the media and telecom industries. He holds MBA and JD degrees from the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Law School, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

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H.P. Jin
President, CEO and Co-Founder, TeleNav

HP Jin co-founded TeleNav in 1999, leveraging his expertise in location and wireless Internet technologies and his years of experience in business management and strategy development. Prior to starting TeleNav, he served as senior strategy consultant for the McKenna Group where he developed business strategies for companies in telecom and IT. Before that, HP worked at McKinsey & Company as a business strategy and management consultant, advising wireless and landline operators on data and wireless strategies. H.P. was also a technical director at LINCSS/Loral, where he was involved in R&D management, strategic alliance initiatives and business model development.

HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

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Stephen Joe
President/CEO, D-Link Systems, Inc.

Steven Joe is president and CEO of D-Link Systems, Inc., where he has for more than 20 years successfully driven revenue growth and channel expansion for America at D-Link Headquarters in Fountain Valley. He spearheads worldwide design and development of cutting edge products that compete in a wide range of mainstream and emerging markets, such as the wireless connectivity, digital home entertainment devices, business wire line networking technology, VoIP telecommunications, advanced security devices and IP Storage market segments.

Steven also is highly recognized as an industry and community leader. The American Electronics Association recognized Steven’s engineering prowess by bestowing awards for technical design, innovation and engineering excellence and he was named Private Company CEO of the Year by the Orange County, Calif. chapter. Steven is currently serving as a member of the UC Irvine Bren School of ICS Dean’s Leadership Council and the UC Irvine Chief Executive Roundtable. He is a UC Irvine Lauds & Laurels award recipient and earned the Advocate of the Year award from the Alumni Associations of the University of California. Steven is married and has two children.

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Doug Jones
Chief Architect, Cable, BigBand Networks

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. In January 2007, Jones received the IP Innovator award from the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). 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.

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Aslam Khader
Chief Product Officer, Ensequence

Aslam Khader's international business experience spans the globe, having lived and worked in India, Japan and the United States throughout his career. He has held positions in engineering, marketing, business development and business management during his 19 years in high technology.

At Ensequence, Khader oversees product development and strategy and builds strategic industry partnerships. In his most recent position as vice president of product marketing at Intertrust Technologies, Khader established product processes, product roadmaps and product requirements that established Intertrust as a pioneer in digital rights management technologies. At IBM and Sequent Computer Systems, he increased revenue to more than $300 million in three years.

A fluent English, Hindi, Bengali and Japanese speaker, Khader has been invited to speak at numerous industry events and has been published in a number of magazines. In Japan, he established a UNIX engineering organization and represented Japanese interests at various X/Open forums. In India, Khader's group played an instrumental role in popularizing UNIX by implementing innovative, cost-effective solutions using UNIX systems. Khader holds a bachelor's in electronics and electrical engineering with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Fred King
VP, Sales & Marketing, PlumChoice, Inc.

Fred has more than two decades of successful management experience in establishing and building highly responsive, customer-focused businesses, and brings an extensive background in the Fortune 1000, Internet and web-based businesses to his role. Most recently, Fred served as the VP and GM of Exclaim’s consumer, reseller and related Web service lines of business. He held key relationships with Adobe, Disney, Earthlink and many other companies domestically and internationally. Prior to this role, Fred was the Chairman and CEO of SoftWatch Ltd., an Israel-based healthcare technology firm focused on web communities for the pharmaceutical and life sciences markets. Prior to Softwatch, Fred was VP of Professional Services for iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions (a Netscape & Sun Microsystems joint venture), where he had responsibility for managing and expanding iPlanet’s professional services business throughout the Americas. In this role he was responsible for the overall construction and subsequent operation of more than 200 web presences for Fortune 1000 firms to venture capital-backed startups. Fred holds a BS in Marketing and is a Candidate for an MBA, Accounting, University of Phoenix. A father of two, water sports enthusiast and sometime golfer, Fred and his wife maintain a horse farm in New York State with a small, but growing, stable of horses.

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Kazuhiro Kitagawa
Vice-Chairman, PUCC

Kazuhiro Kitagawa is an associate professor of the Graduate School of Media & Governance, Keio University, Japan. He is one of the founders and vice-chairman of the Peer-to-peer Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) and its chairman for PUCC Imaging Protocol Working Group. He joined Keio University in April 2000. From April 2000 to March 2005, he also worked for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). He was the chair for W3C’s Mobile Access Interests Group and launched W3C’s Device Independence Activity and Working Group to achieve universal Web access from various types of devices. His research interests are digital media and document dissemination and processing, information filtering and computer network, particularly P2P network for small devices.

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Darren Koenig
Director, Wireless and Internet Markets, Tele Atlas

As Director of Wireless and Internet Markets for Tele Atlas, Darren Koenig manages strategy and marketing for Tele Atlas' mobile, internet and telecom markets in the Americas and is tasked with positioning Tele Atlas in the dynamic mobile LBS space. With more than 17 years of experience in commercializing emerging technologies, Koenig has held key management positions at Sprint-Nextel, Cable and Wireless LLC and MCI Communications, in addition to two years running a startup. Koenig also has held senior level positions in several international consulting roles, including serving as CTO for a global manufacturing company, and at Accenture.

Koenig graduated from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science and holds a Certificate of Management from the University of Maryland. Koenig is a regular speaker at industry events presenting on wireless, LBS and digital mapping trends, including CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment, RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium, Location Intelligence, Dow Jones Wireless Innovations conferences, Sprint's Developer Conference and SiRFecosystem's Location 2.0 Summit.

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Art Lancaster
CTO, Affinegy

Art Lancaster co-founded Affinegy in March 2003 and has served as CTO since, where he is responsible for technology strategy and product development. Affinegy provides unique software solutions that have been architected to easily connect, secure and manage Digital Lifestyle Networks. Spanning – for the first time – both emerging devices and previously installed, networking gear in the consumer home. Affinegy software has been deployed by some of the world’s largest broadband service providers, who use our solutions to deliver “it just works” Digital Lifestyle experiences to their end customers. Prior to Affinegy Art was director of strategy and business development for Motorola's Streamaster business where Art established strategies leading to the world's most advanced interactive broadband gateway system. He has a BSEE, cum laude, from the University of Missouri, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from the University of Texas.

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Michelle Leyden Li
GM of Home Control, Zilog

Michelle Leyden Li is General Manager of Home Control for Zilog. In this role, Michelle is responsible for business development as well as corporate marketing and strategy. She and her team define and drive implementation of innovative marketing strategies around core products, and new strategic initiatives for vertical markets, product segmentation and promoting brand awareness in the market place. Michelle has over 12 years of experience in the semiconductor/high technology industry. Prior to Zilog, Michelle spent over 10 years at Intel Corporation where she held a variety of senior management positions in product marketing, strategic planning and business development. Michelle has a Bachelors Degree from the State University of New York at Purchase, a Masters of Business Administration Degree from U.C. Davis and a Juris Doctorate from King Hall School of Law, U.C. Davis. She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and the California State Bar Association.

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Jeremy Lockhorn
Director of Emerging Media, Avenue A| Razorfish

Jeremy is an emerging media expert at Avenue A | Razorfish where he is also a key leader of the agency’s emerging media practice. The team functions as both a think-tank on next-generation media and an extension of current client teams and is focused on driving innovative marketing solutions for clients. As the marketing landscape continues to fragment and new channels emerge, Jeremy functions as a filter and consultant – helping clients and internal teams to understand, evaluate and roll out strategic pilot programs and analyze the results in an effort to fuel future efforts and broader campaigns. He helps teams take a core idea and extend it to new digital environments, building connections with target audiences in unexpected, yet efficient, ways. This approach goes beyond campaigns; it translates to powerful digital solutions that can transform businesses. While his expertise covers numerous emerging media technologies, his primary focus is on video across all platforms. Jeremy’s efforts to research and assess the landscape ultimately feed global strategy development and uncover unique opportunities for innovative campaigns.

Jeremy is a 15-year advertising industry veteran, having spent time at offline and direct marketing agencies before joining Philadelphia-based digital agency startup i-FRONTIER in 1997 as it’s first employee. He teamed with founder Brad Aronson to grow the business and ultimately join forces with Avenue A | Razorfish. During his tenure at the agency, he has served many roles, but they all meet at the intersection of media, creative insights and technology.

He is a frequent speaker on emerging media, having presented at OMMA Video, Digital Hollywood, Streaming Media East and West, CES, Internet Retailer, the AAAA Media Conference and several others. Jeremy also writes a monthly column for online magazine ClickZ (http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3622705) and regularly publishes whitepapers on a broad range of emerging media topics (http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com/#/ideas/reports-and-papers/white-papers/view-all/).

Jeremy holds a BSJ in Advertising Management from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism, and is currently based at agency headquarters in Seattle, WA.

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John Marshall
Chairman, WirelessHD LLC

Bringing ten years of industry leadership, Marshall led the formation of the WirelessHD™ special interest group focusing on high-definition A/V networking. He currently serves as the Chairman and President of the Consortium. Prior to this, Marshall served as president of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) and on the boards of USC's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and the Association for Interactive Media (AIM). Marshall is also an active participant in IEEE.

Outside of WirelessHD, Marshall is a founder and vice president of sales and marketing for SiBEAM, Inc. Prior to joining SiBEAM, Marshall served as vice president of marketing and business development at 2Wire, Inc., a leading broadband services platform developer. Prior to 2Wire, Marshall co-founded 3Com's Wireless & Home Networking Division. Marshall holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

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Andy Nix
Co-Founder & Director, ProVision Communications

Andrew obtained his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1992. He joined the teaching staff at the University of Bristol in 1993, and was promoted to Reader in 1998 and to Professor of Wireless Communication Systems in 2002. Andrew is also a founder director of Wireless Systems International (1995) and ProVision Communication Technologies Ltd (2001).

Andrew’s research interests are focused around the technical challenges of providing ubiquitous, mass market, low cost wireless solutions using innovative spectrum and power efficient digital wireless technologies. He has managed numerous EU, EPSRC and DTI funded projects and has published in excess of 340 Journal and Conference papers. He was awarded the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 2001 Chester Hall award for one of the best three papers published in the IEEE CES Transactions.

Andrew was an active member of the ETSI RES10 committee (1992-1994) that defined Europe’s first wireless LAN standard (Hiperlan). He published the first papers back in 1993 describing the use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for use in high data rate WLANs. He has published extensively on the performance of IEEE 802.11a/g. Recently he has developed and patented novel packetisation and link-adaptation algorithms to jointly encode and transmit video over MIMO channels.

Andrew has established internationally recognized research groups in wireless digital communications and radiowave propagation modelling. Key research achievements include innovative modulation techniques, low complexity equalisation algorithms, patented high-performance MIMO reception techniques, and radar-cross section inspired site specific propagation models.

To date his work has resulted in 11 patents.

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Rajat Paharia
Founder & CEO, Bunchball

Rajat Paharia is the founder and CEO of Bunchball, creators of Nitro - the platform that's driving user engagement on sites across the internet. Nitro distills concepts from behavioral economics and game design into a web service that major media companies, social networks, ISPs, and others are using to drive user behavior and increase engagement on their web sites.

Rajat's skill set combines a unique understanding of technology and design that stems from a four year career at design firm IDEO where he was co-director of the Software Experiences Practice. While there he worked with clients including AT&T Wireless, Avaya, Microsoft, McDonald's, HP and Philips. Before IDEO, Rajat worked at Philips Consumer Electronics, IBM Research and ViewStar. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a focus on Human Computer Interaction, and an undergraduate degree from the University of California Berkeley.

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Susan Panico
Senior Director of PlayStation Network, Sony Computer Entertainment America

Susan Panico serves as Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior director of PLAYSTATION Network (PSN). Panico leads the team responsible for creating a dynamic hub for online and digital entertainment delivery services for the company. In her role as senior director, Susan oversees the network business strategy, operations, content strategy and marketing across all PSN services, including the PlayStation Store, PlayStation.com and PlayStation Home.

Since joining SCEA in 1994, Panico has served in a variety of different marketing roles. Prior to her current role, Panico served as director of online and product marketing, where she directed marketing activities for entertainment software, hardware and the online community platform. Panico, an industry veteran, also worked on several major campaigns, such as the development of PlayStation Online, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and SCEA’s most successful video game franchise, Gran Turismo™.

Panico received her Bachelor of Arts from University of Southern California.

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Michael Papish
CEO, MediaUnbound

Michael was Chief Engineer of Harvard University’s radio station (WHRB-FM) when he took a leave of absence to co-found MediaUnbound in 2000. As CEO, Michael leads the company’s sales and marketing divisions and helps coordinate the melding of computer engineering and human music analysis which drives MediaUnbound’s technology. Michael has been invited to speak on and moderate numerous industry panels in the US and around the world. He has testified in front of the U.S. Copyright Office on issues regarding webcasting and digital music. Michael serves as a Special Adviser to the Taskforce on Recordkeeping in Noncommercial Webcasting and acts in a pro-bono capacity as policy and technology adviser for WHRB. After returning to school, he graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Astrophysics and Philosophy. At the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, his research focus was on supercomputer simulations of large-scale structure evolution in the universe.

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John Reister
Chief IPTV Architect, BigBand Networks

John Reister is shaping BigBand Networks' IPTV solution. Prior to joining the company, John Reister was chief technology officer with Copper Mountain Networks, a leading DSL access platform vendor. While there he managed video distribution and regulatory strategy, and developed several new technologies. John has also held positions at Bain & Company and Sun Microsystems. He holds a bachelors of science degree from Pennsylvania State University. He also has a masters of science degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University, and a masters of business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ron Richards
Director of Marketing & Product Management, Revision3

Ron Richards is Director of Marketing & Product Management at Revision3 where he leads all marketing efforts for the company, driving advertising, social media and public relations for the Revision3 network. Richards began his partnership with the company when the network launched the Internet TV extension of iFanboy, Richards’ hit comic book website and audio podcast. Simultaneously, Richards established himself as a pioneering Internet marketer and product manager. He worked at Starwood Hotels & Resorts where he ran the marketing and website programs for hotel brands such as the Westin, Sheraton and W Hotels. His early career began during the first Internet boom as manager of website builds for Fortune 500 companies. Richards received his bachelor’s degree in television and media management from Ithaca College.

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Marty Roberts
VP Marketing, thePlatform

Marty Roberts oversees marketing and business development for thePlatform and has more than a decade of diverse experience in product management and marketing. Since joining thePlatform in 2006, Mr. Roberts has helped thePlatform develop and launch a series of new product initiatives, create the industry's largest ecosystem of technology partners for online video publication, and coordinate numerous external communications programs and events. Hundreds of media companies now use thePlatform to manage and monetize billions of professionally-produced videos views annually, including: the Associated Press, BBC, Cablevision, CBS College Sports, CelebTV, CNBC, Comcast, Corus Entertainment, Cox Communications, ExerciseTV, Gannett/USA Today, HIT Entertainment, PBS, Sony BMG, Starz, Time Warner Cable, Hearst Corporation, Verizon Wireless and numerous others. Prior to joining thePlatform, Marty was a Director at GiftCertificates.com, and for years he was an early pioneer in the development of online video and digital media services while in product management at RealNetworks.

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Anthony Rodio
Chief Operating Officer, support.com

Anthony Rodio joined SupportSoft as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer before moving into his current role as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for SupportSoft’s consumer remote tech support brand, support.com. He joined SupportSoft from SideStep, where he was the vice president of product management Prior to SideStep, Rodio was vice president of marketing at StubHub.com, a fast-growing consumer online marketplace for event tickets. Rodio has also held senior positions at Microsoft, where he was responsible for MSN consumer marketing, and at Amazon.com, where he was general manager for the company's zShops and the Computer Store, following brand management experience at Procter & Gamble. Rodio holds a B.S.B.A. from University of Oregon, an M.S. in Economics from Portland State University and an M.B.A. from Washington University.

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Joe Seidel
Director, Global Business Development, Connected TV Devices Business, Microsoft Corporation

Joe Seidel is director of global devices for the Connected TV Business Group, at Microsoft Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing the partner support system required to extend Microsoft’s connected TV platform into a complete end-to-end solution for consumer electronics manufacturers around the world.

As director of the global devices, Joe works directly with consumer electronics manufacturers as well as key suppliers to enable the next generation of connected devices with the magic of software powered by Microsoft’s connected TV platform. Additionally, in close conjunction with silicon manufacturers, he leads Microsoft’s efforts in driving the alignment of the connected TV silicon strategy.

Previously, Joe was responsible for developing strategic worldwide partnerships within the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform ecosystem. These include global partners responsible for encoding, servers, storage, B/OSS, consumer electronics/OEMs, silicon, independent software, and systems integrators. In addition, he played a pivotal role in driving Microsoft Mediaroom’s next generation silicon and OEM strategy.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2001, Joe served as director of business development for ReplayTV, where he brokered several strategic deals with Cable TV providers and consumer OEMs. Preceding ReplayTV, he was a Business Unit manager at Raytheon where he staffed and managed a team responsible for the development of mobile satellite TV found on many RVs and boats today. Joe began his career at Texas Instruments where he held numerous positions in engineering and management.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia and a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

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Loren Shade
VP Marketing, Allegro Software Development Corporation

Loren Shade is Vice President of Marketing at Allegro Software Development Corporation – a premier provider of Internet software toolkits for embedded applications including UPnP™/DLNA®, device management and machine to machine communications. With 20+ years in the embedded industry, Loren has worked with many industrial, military and commercial customers to adopt standards based communications into their embedded products. A long standing networking evangelist, Loren has delivered presentations on various networking topics to customers, partners and technology forums and is excited about enabling connectivity to intelligent embedded devices.

Prior to Allegro, Loren held various management and senior level positions with Interpeak, Wind River Systems, Integrated Systems and Battelle Memorial Institute. Loren holds degrees in Systems Analysis and Physics from Miami University, Industrial Systems Engineering and Feedback and Control from The Ohio State University and Professional Fellow from Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management.

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Eric Smith
Chief Technology Officer, Control4

Eric Smith is Control4's chief technology officer and one of the company's co-founders. Eric 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.

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David Snook
Product Marketing Manager, Digital Frames, Kodak

Over the course of his 20 year career at Kodak, David Snook has held management positions in all marketing disciplines, including product marketing, marketing communications, public relations, sales promotion, and business development. Since 1999, David has been helping Kodak build its consumer digital business by creating and implementing the global marketing plans for inkjet media, digital cameras, camera accessories, snapshot printers and most recently, digital picture frames. With international experience in Tokyo, Geneva, and Beijing, David has lived and worked on three continents. Currently based in Rochester, NY, he is married and has two children.

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Singu Srinivas
Vice President, Premium Support, Radialpoint

Prior to coming on board as Vice President at RP, Singu co-founded HiWired following twelve years of leadership experience in consumer electronics, telecommunications and media, where he witnessed the pain and frustration felt by personal technology users who lacked convenient access to support. Prior to launching HiWired, Singu was a relationship partner leading the Services Strategy practice at IBM Business Consulting Services. While at IBM, Singu advised electronics clients like Philips, Kodak, Cisco and IBM. He also served as the director of strategy development for IBM Global Services, Big Blue’s $48B services arm. In addition, Singu’s background includes four years working with start-up technology and content companies in Europe.

A native New Yorker, Singu has adopted Boston as home, where he spends much of his leisure time restoring his family's 135-year-old, historic house. Singu is a 1996 MBA graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.

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Bill Stanley
Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia

Bill Stanley is the Director of Home Network Assurance for Telcordia Technologies. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including product line management, solutions development and alliances/partnering. In his present role, Bill is leading the development of solutions that Telcordia brings to communications service providers to assist them with their network evolution strategies by leveraging their legacy investments toward new networks and new services. Bill has participated in numerous TM Forum projects including early development of the SID model plus the formulation and delivery of Catalyst showcase projects. Bill began his career with the management of network deployment projects throughout North America and the Asia/Pacific region and in recent years has remained involved in international markets including Europe and Latin America.

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Randy Stude
Director, Intel

Randy Stude, Director of the Gaming Program Office at Intel Corporation. Randy has worked for Intel for 12 years and has spent most of his time working with gaming software vendors to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Quad processors. Randy is responsible for managing the World Wide Gaming & Entertainment Consumer Platform Marketing Strategies for Intel Corporation. Randy is also the President of the PC Gaming Alliance. The PC Gaming Alliance is a non-profit corporation focusing on promoting the PC as the largest most ubiquitous gaming platform world-wide.

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Matt Theall
Technology Strategist, Intel Corporation; President, HomeGrid Forum

Matt is a technology strategist focused on wired home networking and works out of the Digital Home Group. In this capacity, he is tasked with defining Intel’s wired home networking strategy and tactical plan. Matt also acts as President of the HomeGrid Forum, a global non-profit group promoting the International Telecommunications Union’s G.hn standardization efforts for next generation home networking.

Over the last 10 years at Intel, Matt has held various senior roles driving technology initiatives and managing silicon businesses. In addition to currently acting as the President of the HomeGrid Forum, 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.

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Steve Tranter
VP, Interactive and Broadband, NDS

Steve Tranter is responsible for the design, delivery and support of NDS's interactive products and systems for North and South America. He relocated to NDS's Newport Beach office in California five years ago from the NDS headquarters near London in the UK. Steve has a degree in Physics from the University of Leeds in the UK and has experience in systems design and integration from a variety of industries, including analytical scientific instrumentation, photographic reproduction, database technology and digital broadcasting. Steve has been with NDS for 9 years and has been involved in the design and implementation of some of the world's largest and most advanced digital broadcast systems.

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Evan Tree
Chief Products Officer, Logitech

Evan Tree is the Chief Products Officer for the WiLife video security business. The WiLife business was acquired by Logitech in November, 2007 and Mr. Tree was the co-founder of WiLife. At Logitech, he oversees the product vision and strategy for the video security systems. Additionally, he is responsible for business development and being at the forefront of security market trends.

In 2002, Mr. Tree co-founded WiLife after working 17 years in the security industry. Mr. Tree began his career in 1986 as co-founder of Systems Plus in Arizona. Three years later, he founded Double Tree Security, Inc., a commercial, residential and industrial security and fire company in Mohave County, Arizona. Over the next ten years, Mr. Tree grew Double Tree Security to become the largest security dealer in the region.

In 1999, he sold Double Tree Security to Mountain Alarm, a division of Fire Protection Service Co., and the 20th largest security dealer in the United States. Following the sale of Double Tree Security, he opened a commercial sales office for Mountain Alarm servicing oil companies, universities, schools, state and local municipalities, medical companies and Olympic venues in the greater Salt Lake City area.

Mr. Tree attended Brigham Young University and has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah State Burglar and Fire Alarm Association. He is also a frequent speaker at many security-related events.

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Mark Vena
Vice President, PC Business Unit, Synaptics, Inc.

Mark Vena has been the Vice President of Synaptics' PC Business Unit since April 2007. He has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience with many of the technology industry's premier companies. Most recently, Mr. Vena served as the Vice President of Marketing for Alienware Corporation. Prior to joining Dell as the Director of Digital Home and Dimension desktop business in 2002, Mr. Vena was the Director of SMB Product Marketing and Director of North America Access Business Group at Compaq. He had previously been the Director of Compaq's successful Consumer Desktop CTO (Configure to Order) business in the Consumer Products Division. Mr. Vena joined Compaq in February 1993. Prior to Compaq, he held various marketing-oriented positions at Epson America, IBM Corporation and NYNEX. Mr. Vena graduated Cum Laude from Boston College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

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Mike Wodopian
VP, GM Media Processor Solutions, RMI Corp.

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Richard Yeh
Marketing Director, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

As marketing director for Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.’s System LSI business, Richard Yeh has over 15 years of leadership experience in both marketing and engineering roles in high tech industry. His focus is on new business development and strategic alliances for low-power mobile and media System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions.

Yeh authored a comprehensive report with Strategies Unlimited in 2002 on the value proposition of features including MP3, imaging, and GPS in 2.5G and 3G mobile handsets. He also was a key contributing author and editor for chapters on the wireless value chain and applications in the book, “Kellogg on Innovation and Technology.”

Yeh received a B.S. from the University of Illinois, a M.S. from M.I.T., and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Parks Associates Analysts

Jayant Dasari
Research Analyst, Parks Associates

Jayant Dasari joined Parks Associates following a career in telecommunications with both service providers and equipment manufacturers. He earned his B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Nagarjuna University and his MS in Telecommunications from University of Louisiana.

Industry Expertise: Broadband and television infrastructure and services

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Anton Denissov
Research Analyst

Anton Denissov covers developments and strategies in the digital media space. His research aims to help media companies and service providers leverage the potential of the Internet and tie it into existing portfolios to maximize revenues and control for any negative impacts.

Anton’s coverage focuses on Internet video, music, and social media and includes distribution strategies, business models, and new applications and services development.

Prior to joining Parks Associates, Anton worked for the Yankee Group, building out the Internet video and pay television service components of its Media and Entertainment practice.

Anton has an MBA from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management and a dual bachelor’s degree in economics and computer science.

INDUSTRY Expertise: Digital strategies for media companies and service providers, Internet video and music, and social media and interactive applications

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Tricia Parks
Founder and CEO, 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 hosts, in partnership with CEA, CONNECTIONS™, an international conference and showcase for the digital home hosted in the U.S., and CONNECTIONS™ Europe, hosted in Europe focusing on market opportunities for digital products and services in the many nations of Europe. Tricia Parks also developed 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.

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Kurt Scherf
VP & Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Kurt Scherf studies developments in home networks, residential gateways, digital entertainment, technology development in the housing market, and residential and building management and controls. Kurt is the sole author or contributing author/analyst to more than 60 research reports and studies produced by Parks Associates since 1998.

Kurt joined Parks Associates following a career in political research and multi-tenant dwelling management. He earned his BA from The University of Iowa.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Home Networks & Residential Gateways, Home Networking Media (Wi-Fi, UWB, HomePlug, HomePNA, MoCA, etc.), Media Center PCs, Set-top Boxes, Networked Consumer Electronics, Consumer Storage, Media Server Hardware and Software, Consumers and Digital Entertainment, Television Services, Broadband Video, Digital Home Customer Support Issues

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Stuart Sikes
President, Parks Associates

Stuart Sikes is the president of Parks Associates and is responsible for providing Parks Associates’ clients with a business relationship that complements their strategic marketing activities.

Stuart has served technology companies for over twenty years, designing technical service, software, and hardware solutions for companies ranging from global semiconductor manufacturers to one of the nation’s largest airlines. In his positions with companies including AT&T, NCR, OpenConnect Systems, and Intelligraphics, Stuart’s roles have included sales, product marketing, marketing communications, and executive management.

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

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

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Harry Wang
Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates

Harry Wang studies the consumer electronics and entertainment service industries with a focus on portable CE hardware, software, and associated applications and services. He is also the lead analyst for Parks Associates’ digital health research program. Harry has presented his research in numerous industry events including CES, Digital Hollywood, Photo Marketing Association Annual Show, American Telemedicine Association Annual Show, and the World Health Congress as well as Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS™ and Fall Focus conferences.

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

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Digital Health Products and Services, Digital Media and Advertising Technologies, Connected Home Software and Hardware Requirements, Fixed and Portable Consumer Electronics, Digital Imaging Products and Services

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