Ralph Ackerman, Ralph Ackerman Founder and Director, International Short Film Association

Since 1963, Ackerman has commanded a diverse and successful career in media. He is a champion of alternative-independent media and is a "working" filmmaker. He made his first film in 1963 which was picked as a highlight of the Ann Arbor Film Festival and sent on a national tour. In 1971, he published an activist book, entitled Media. In addition to receiving kudos from critics, the book sold out. He holds workshops and consults on independent filmmaking. He wrote break-thru articles on digital production and distribution for Release Print magazine. He has a chapter in the new book published by Focal Press, Swimming UpStream, A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution.

In 2002 he founded the educational, Film Program Cannes held annually in Cannes, France during the film festival. The program was in response to the growing need to arm emerging filmmakers, film professionals, film students and migrating professionals from other fields such as law and finance with the essential skills to fund, acquire worldwide distribution and marketing of independent films. In response to the growing need for short films as a result of their use on the Internet and portable viewing devices he founded and became the director of the International Short Film Association.

Ackerman has been a film judge at many film festivals, has won several film awards, and has been involved in film conferences and workshops through out his career. His first feature, Rock-it Box, was the first Super8 film to be transferred to "broadcast video" using the then new digital transfer method in 1980. His multi-format experimental feature film, Zoo Liquid Prototype shot in 16mm Black & White, was premiered in New York in 1997. His most recent feature, Hold True was shot using wide format digital video. Currently is his concentrating on the distribution of socially progressive films, e.g., the Death of Two Sons released by Netflix in 2007.

Ackerman was President and then on the Board of Directors of the independent film distributor, the New American Cinema: "Film-Makers' Cooperative" of New York. He has worked with the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA New York) Film Department (Film Study Center) archiving the Coop's extensive files.

During 2008 Ackerman will launch his Ackerman Image Archive (AIA) web site featuring his 40 + years of still and motion images giving access to his archive to other filmmakers. His working studio is in the Chelsea art district of New York City.

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Ade Bamigboye, CTO, Intamac Systems Ltd

Ade is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Intamac Systems Ltd.

Ade has 20 years experience of developing and commercialising emerging technology. His career has included roles in Research, Consulting and Business Development. In 2001 he became CTO and a Director of United Clearing where he was responsible for developing an industry leading Clearing and Settlement platform for the mobile sector. The business enjoyed a successful AIM listing in 2004. Ade founded Wireless Matters in 2004 to develop eHealth solutions that utilised wireless and Web 2.0 technology for monitoring and managing a range of chronic conditions. Ade has a degree in Applied Chemistry, a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence and an MBA from the Henley Management College where he also founded and chaired the e-commerce special interest group.

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Paul R. Brody, Partner, IBM Global Business Services; Global Lead, IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice

Paul Brody is a Partner with IBM Global Business Services. He brings a decade of consulting experience to the position as the global leader of the electronics industry strategy practice. Mr. Brody has worked extensively with business strategy, supply chain management and product life cycle management, including planning & scheduling, logistics, and procurement solutions. His experience includes the full range of activities from value assessment/business case development through business process change, software implementation, and joint software development. Paul’s main industry experience includes discrete manufacturing, high tech electronics, semiconductors, and logistics and healthcare.

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Marc Canter, CEO, Broadband Mechanics

Marc Canter, CEO of Broadband Mechanics, is a 20+ year veteran of the software business.

Marc was the founder of MacroMind which became Macromedia. Marc helped invent the first multiple player, the first cross-platform authoring system and is considered one of the ‘fathers’ of the multimedia industry. Broadband Mechanics provides a white label social networking and blogging platform called PeopleAggregator. The company has developed a number of networks for leading clients, such as: a major telco, Sacramento Kings, Cyama, GTChannel, and Picture Marketing, to name a few. Broadband Mechanics has been working towards establishing open standards for inter-connecting social networks and blogging platforms together. The company is completely virtual with development centers in India, New Zealand, Italy, Germany and the Bay Area.

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As the vice president of worldwide marketing, Brian Caskey oversees all aspects of marketing at UTStarcom, Inc. Caskey has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and IP networking industry and extensive experience in the successfully design of large, IP-based voice and data networks for Fortune 500 companies and telecommunications service providers. Caskey began his career with UTStarcom as vice president of strategic technical marketing in 2003, responsible for lecture and consultation on the design and implementation of large-scale Voice over IP (VoIP) and next-generation networks.

A frequent featured lecturer at telecommunications and networking conferences around the world, Caskey's professional career includes an extensive array of telecommunications expertise with more than 12 years in the satellite communications industry at GTE SpaceNet and AscomTimeplex designing Voice, TDM and SS7 networks for some of the largest service providers and enterprises in the world and over 10 years at 3Com/CommWorks in various executive, technical marketing and strategic technical advisory rolls.

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Eric Chan, Director, Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Media Solutions Group

Eric Chan is the Director of Strategy and Marketing for the Cisco Media Solutions Group (CMSG), which develops and markets infrastructure software that bridges the gap between media-content owners and consumers. He is responsible for all products and marketing within this organization. CMSG was incubated by Chan and SVP/GM, Dan Scheinman, in December 2006, and currently has over 50 employees.

Prior to CMSG, Eric Chan led the Consumer practice of Cisco's Corporate Business Development group, which handles all strategy, acquisitions and venture investments for the company. Chan also sat on various boards for early stage technology and media companies.

Chan is a graduate of Harvard Business School, with an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

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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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A technologist and multimedia maven, Jonathan has been a long-time creator of technologies that power online media. As General Manager of KWUR 90.3 FM in St. Louis, he developed an early Internet audio streaming system in 1996, realizing the global power and reach of the Web.

In 2000, Jonathan founded and launched one of the first geographically distributed real-time Internet radio stations, which allowed users to broadcast their show on low-bandwidth connections and interact with their audience.

He has held numerous senior engineering positions in a number of Silicon Valley startups, most recently as Senior Software Architect for Covalent Technologies, an enterprise-class software and services company.

He has also played integral roles in starting and running several start-ups including Hyperic Software, producers of HQ, a popular IT management software system.

A frequent speaker, Jonathan has presented at industry events including the Portable Media Expo, the Corporate Podcasting Summit and AlwaysOn’s OnHollywood.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

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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.

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Victor Dominguez, Director of Sales & Business Development and a co-founde, DS2

Victor Dominguez Richards , VP for Sales and Business Development is a co-founder of DS2, the leading technology innovator and global provider of high-speed silicon solutions in the Powerline communications market. Prior to joining DS2, Victor held several research and lecturing positions at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the area of microelectronics systems design for high performance communications. As Director of Business Development, he is responsible for promoting DS2 technologies into new markets worldwide, focusing especially on the IPTV and Consumer markets. Victor currently holds the chairmanship of the Powerline Committee in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

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Jeff Erwin, President and CEO, Pure Networks

Jeff joined Pure Networks with over 26 years in the high-tech and software industry, with experience in a variety of fields and roles. Previously, Jeff founded and ran three different high-tech companies (including ProTools and Kaspia) that were successfully acquired, and has served at the Vice President level at two different public companies (Network General and Visio). Jeff’s employment history also includes five years at Microsoft, where he served as General Manager for the Network Management Group & the Visio product line and was also the Director of Incubation for Microsoft Research in the wireless mesh networking space. Immediately prior to Pure Networks, Jeff was the President and CEO of Experticity, the leading developer of "the next-generation of customer information systems." Jeff has filed eight patents, shipped seven products at Microsoft, and has board-level experience with multiple VC-backed startups.

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Karen Hanley, Senior Director, Wi-Fi Alliance

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.

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Jeff McCrea is vice president and general manager of the Consumer PC Platform Group. He is responsible for delivering Intel's consumer PC products including definition, development and marketing of Intel's desktop platform solutions.

McCrea has held several sales and marketing management positions since joining Intel in 1991. From 2004 through 2006, he served as co-president for Intel Americas Inc., where he was responsible for all sales and marketing activities in North America and South America. In 2003, he was responsible for coordinating Intel's worldwide sales and marketing efforts focused on re-energizing the sales of client PCs to businesses and on aligning the industry behind driving client PC replacements. From 1999-2002, he served as vice president and director of desktop platform marketing, responsible for worldwide product marketing and applications engineering for the desktop products including CPUs, chipsets and software.

Prior to joining Intel, McCrea was an engineering consultant for Ebasco Services Inc.

McCrea earned an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1991. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1987.

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Andy Melder, SVP Strategic Business Development, HomePlug PowerLine Alliance

Andy Melder joined Intellon as Senior Vice President, 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. Prior to joining Intellon, Andy was Chief Operating Officer of Clarisay, Inc., a developer of uniquely manufactured integrated SAW filter modules for the cellular handset market.

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

Additionally, Andy has also served as Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Corporate Business Development of Tripath Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRPH). He was also a management team member, which led the company to its IPO in 2000. He was the Director of Business Development of Cirrus Logic Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CRUS) graphics business from 1995 to 1996, through an acquisition of Pixel Semiconductor, where he was also Director of Business Development.

Andy is a recognized expert in the communications, consumer electronics and digital media and content markets and a frequently sought commentator on industry issues. He is uniquely qualified to speak to Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street executives on topics that are germane to each of these respective industries. He has spoken at a wide variety of venture & financial summits, educational forums, industry conferences and trade shows including: CES, Connections, Smart Home, Comdex, Digital Hollywood, the Networked Home, UWB World and the National Cable Show.

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

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As Millennial Media’s president and CEO, Paul is an evangelist for mobile advertising opportunities for brands, and for the evolution of mobile media business models. A well-known pioneer and industry leader in the global mobile entertainment and data marketplace, Paul led many of the industry’s groundbreaking efforts while at Verizon Wireless. His leadership resulted in new and successful business models and sub-economies that have led to rapid growth in mobile media.

Referred to as a “Content Guru” by Wireless Week magazine, Paul has held key management roles with mobile and new media companies at various stages of growth, including Advertising.com, Tessco Technologies and American Personal Communications (now SprintNextel). Most recently, Paul was a venture partner with Acta Wireless. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Networks In Motion, Intercasting and Mobile Greetings.

Paul lives in Maryland with his wife and two children.

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Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology Officer, Home Gateway Initiative

Paolo Pastorino holds a degree in Physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino, ITALY, and a Master in Telecommunications and Information Technology from COREP/SSGRR, Italy. He is currently on leave from Telecom Italia to cover the challenging role of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Business Officer of the Home Gateway Initiative.

For his current activity he relies on his experience ranging from the design of optoelectronic devices to the design of broadband access network architectures and advanced residential/SOHO broadband networking and service solutions.

He managed several national and international projects in the broadband home networking domain and he is author of papers about the broadband home and speaker to several international conferences.

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Kate Purmal is GM and SVP of Digital Content Solutions for SanDisk. She was formerly CEO of U3 and has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate executive and independent consultant with Adobe, CBS MarketWatch, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Palm and Handspring, and many start-ups.

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John Reister, chief architect for IPTV of BigBand Networks, is responsible for the strategic and technical direction of the company’s IPTV offerings. Before BigBand Networks, John was chief technology officer with leading DSL access platform vendor Copper Mountain Networks, and he has also held positions at Sun Microsystems and Bain and Company.

John holds a bachelor’s of science degree from Pennsylvania State University, a master’s of science in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University, and a master’s of business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ronald A. Renjilian is the co-Founder and CEO of Peak8 Solutions located in Boulder Co. Peak8’s customer service and support suite “Supportal” enables leading broadband service providers, home automation equipment manufactures and consumer electronics companies a platform for delivering premium technical support services to their customers. Supportal is a destination and community for Digital Lifestyle end users to find one stop resolutions to all their technical support needs. Whether the end user chooses to use Supportal’s intelligent self-help and interactive assistance tools, or opts to have live technical support representatives supporting them, Supportal promises to take ownership of the problem until its successful resolution without technical finger pointing.

Ron enjoys working with early stage technology companies. Prior to Peak8, he has led sales and business development at a number of early stage software companies where he is credited with establishing those companies’ first reference accounts and distribution relationships. He also helped lead the reorganization of Level 3 Communications sales force in 2001 as a Senior Vice President of Sales.

Ron started his career in New York City as a sales trainee for the IBM Corporation. In his 18 years with IBM he held a number of sales and sales management positions including Client Executive on NYNEX; Administrative Assistant to the IBM General Manager of General and Public sector; Direct Marketing Executive for Global Telecommunications and Media industries, ultimately taking over the position as North American Executive responsible for Wireless Service Providers, CLECs and ISPs.

Ron Graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, with a B.S. in Business Administration, with High Honors.

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William T. Schafer, Director, Product and Channel Development, Crestron Electronics, Inc.

Bill Schafer, a 22 year veteran in the home automation AV marketplace has enjoyed a career that has grown as much as the industry itself. His experience in the home market began in the Midwest in the mid 1980s. Bill worked his way through all phases of home electronics with roles that ranged from installation manager to custom salesman, system designer to national sales manager.

His current position as the Director of Product and Channel Development of Crestron is the culmination of all the expertise that he gained in the trenches and on the road. As Regional Sales Manager in Crestron’s Midwest office in Chicago, Bill contributed to the considerable growth in Crestron Home sales from 1999 to 2002. He took on the challenging role as National Sales Manager in 2003, coordinating an entire new Crestron Home sales team structure.

Today, Bill's focus is on emerging new markets and products within the Crestron organization. Solutions like lighting control and MDU are experience tremendous growth under his direction and leadership.

Bill is a first-class salesman of Crestron solutions who brings a valuable and informed voice to the professional A/V market. He has been instrumental in spear-heading an intensive training initiative that not only emphasizes the technical aspects of selling home automations, but also focuses on salesmanship and best practices in business. Bill conducts over 20 Crestron product and sales trainings each year.

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Ray Sokola, Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Vice President, Motorola, Inc.

Ray Sokola is chief technology officer (CTO) for Motorola's Connected Home Solutions business. In this position, Ray leads the Connected Home Solutions technology team to drive profitable growth through visible technology and innovation leadership, IP creation and timely integration of new technologies that create new business opportunities.

A 26-year Motorolan, Ray previously held the position of corporate vice president and chief technology officer of the Integrated Electronics Systems Sector of Motorola.

Prior to that role, he was general manager of Motorola's Telematics Group, which supplied the in-vehicle equipment for OnStar and other security and information services for drivers. In addition, he was general manager of the ceramic filter business, and spent his first 10 years at Motorola developing cellular mobile and handset technology.

Ray holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware. A recipient of 16 patents, he has been awarded three Motorola Patent of the Year Awards and received Motorola's Distinguished Innovator Award.

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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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Sebastiano Tevarotto, Vice President and General Manager, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Hewlett-Packard Company

As Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME), Sebastiano Tevarotto is responsible worldwide for managing HP's unparalleled range of technologies, solutions and integration services for wireless and wireline service providers, network equipment providers, and content creators and distributors.

For several years HP has focused its activities on enabling the transformation of a voice-centric industry into an industry with a broader portfolio of “services”, managed through the full lifecycle, and where the customer experience is critical to sustainable competitive advantage. Taking advantage of the new trend toward digitized content, HP has added a specific focus on the remarkable opportunities that this digitized content represents for two important contributors – the telecommunications industry and the media & entertainment industry.

Prior to his current role, Tevarotto was vice president and general manager of the Network and Service Provider Business Field Organization for HP where he led sales and delivery activities for the service provider market. He previously served as general manager of Enterprise Global Marketing for HP and was involved in field marketing, alliance management and global accounts program management. Additionally, he was a member of the initial team that developed and began implementation of HP's e-Services strategy. Prior to this role he was enterprise marketing general manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Tevarotto was also general manager of HP's Enterprise Organization in Southern Europe, covering Italy, Spain and Portugal. Prior to regional management, he successfully ran the Italy business unit, and served as area sales manager for the Telecommunication Industry in Italy.

He started his career working at HP Santa Rosa, CA, Microwave Technology Research Center. Tevarotto holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Padova, Italy.

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Yoav Tzruya, EVP & CMO, Exent Technologies, Ltd.

As CMO, Tzruya is in charge of Exent’s strategy, marketing, product management & marketing, strategic business development and corporate development. With over 15 years experience in software development and marketing, Tzruya is a recognized industry expert in the fields of broadband value-added services and business support systems. Previously, Tzruya was COO of Exent, in charge of managing Exent’s global operations, including marketing, R&D, technical operations and new business development. Earlier, Tzruya fulfilled the position of VP Products & Markets Strategy at Exent, responsible for evaluating potential markets, defining product strategy and roadmaps, and leading strategic business development activities. Tzruya joined Exent in 2003, coming from TeleKnowledge, a billing & customer care software vendor. During his tenure at TeleKnowledge, Tzruya held several executive level positions in the areas of product management, sales, marketing and business development. Previously, Tzruya served 6 years with the Israeli Air Force. Tzruya holds a B.S Computer Science and Mathematics (cum laude) and a M.S in Computer Science (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University.

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As an expert in the IPTV space, Chris Wagner has been a driving force in the technology industry for over 20 years and has a firm handle on future trends in media and technology. As Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of NeuLion, he targets the revolution currently underway as the television and internet video industries converge.

Chris has held numerous executive positions in the technology sector including Executive Vice President and General Manager of Computer Associates. During his 16 year career with CA, Chris was responsible for building the company's Government, Partner Program and Global Consulting Business.

He has also worked with several private equity and venture capital firms as their Chief Executive Officer, which includes Metiom, MetaMatrix, Exchange Applications and Digital Harbor. Chris has been on the Board of Directors of all of these companies.

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Ben Weinberger, CEO, Digitalsmiths Corporation

Ben Weinberger co-founded Digitalsmiths in 1998, and has grown the operation from a two-person college business into a market-leading technology company. Digitalsmiths entered the entertainment industry in 2001 when it introduced its proprietary technology platform, Media Access Pro®, a ground-breaking software platform allowing clients to search massive amounts of film and television content in a simple and methodical way. The technology underlying Media Access Pro has enabled Digitalsmiths to develop Videosense, an innovative system used to create contextual advertising opportunities related to broadband video. Videosense has propelled Digitalsmiths to the cutting edge of online advertising and marketing technology. Weinberger graduated with honors from Southern Illinois University, and serves on the board of directors for the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University.

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Steve Wildstrom, Technology & You columnist, BusinessWeek

Steve Wildstrom created BusinessWeek's Technology & You column in 1994. The goal of the column, which appears weekly with regular supplements at BusinessWeek Online (www.businessweek.com/technology/), is to help readers understand and use personal technology to enhance their jobs and their lives.

Before starting Technology & You, Steve served as senior news editor in BusinessWeek's Washington bureau and edited the Washington Outlook column. Since joining the magazine in 1972, he has served in variety of capacities, covering politics, economics, and labor in Washington and Detroit and was also deeply involved in the computerization of editorial operations in the 1980s.

Steve also has deep interests in education and the arts. He is a founderboard member of the Children's Chorus of Washington. He served as a member of local arrangements committee and as the volunteer publicity director for the International Math Olympiad 2001.

A native of Detroit, Steve is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He lives with his wife Susan, a mathematics teacher, in Kensington, Maryland. They have two children, Jonathan, a software engineer in Austin, Tex., and David, a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego.

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Michael co-founded HiWired in spring of 2004, after an eight-year career in management and consulting for major consumer electronics companies and start-ups. While working with clients like Philips, Sharp, Panasonic and IBM, and as technology advisor to the Wexler family, Michael identified a need among consumers for brand-agnostic, personal digital technology support. From these observations, his vision for HiWired sprang.

Michael is an avid traveler and sailor. His accomplishments include leading a group of college friends on a sailing circumnavigation of the globe. Michael is a 1995 graduate of Dartmouth College.

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