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Agenda | Biographies

Angela Abshier, Producer - Las Vegas, The 48 Hour Film Project

Angela is an intellectual property attorney in Las Vegas with a passion for music and film. Angela's involvement with the 48 Hour Film Project began as a participant in 2000 while living in Washington DC. The mission of the 48 Hour Film Project is to energize local filmmaking communities and is successful because it gives aspiring and
experienced filmmakers a reason and the opportunity to make a film. In the process filmmakers are introduced to one another and the quality and creativity of one another's work. Angela's support of this mission compelled her to take on the roll of Producer in Las Vegas in 2005.

Angela holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Telecommunications from the University of Wyoming and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore. She produces the 48 Hour Film Project in Las Vegas and Maui and serves as a judge for the National Film Challenge. Angela is currently Vice President and General Counsel for Richard Fiore & Associates, a third party game development company.

Mary Coller Albert, President, Delight Networks

Mary’s broad range of experience spans the last 15 years building consumer brands on the Internet. As SVP and General Manager at Sony Pictures Digital, she was head of programming for Sony Connect Video and in charge of SoapCity, a cross media brand. In 2003 she launched the first digital subscription service of network television video content over IP, SoapCity Download. Mary was personally responsible for all aspects of the business from content acquisition and licensing to the platform creation and customer service.

Before joining Sony, Mary was vice president and co-founder of Beatnik, Inc. (aka Headspace) a popular interactive audio software and music development company based in Silicon Valley that she founded with musician, Thomas Dolby. Mary was responsible for taking the company through creative concept, to raising venture capital, and onto maintaining the day-to-day operations, licensing, finance, marketing, publicity and staff. Prior to Beatnik, Mary managed the careers of musicians and artists as the owner of Mary Coller Management, a personal management company she established in 1990.

Mitch Berman, Corporate VP Global Marketing, C-Cor

Mitchell Berman joined C-COR as Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing in June 2004. In this position, he has oversight of the Company's global marketing strategy, communications, and new business activities.

Mitchell Berman came to C-COR after serving as Chief Marketing Officer of OSS provider, Alopa Networks, Inc. His 22 years as an industry executive includes Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Operations for the start-up and IPO of interactive TV software provider, OpenTV; Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development for the start-up of FOXTEL in Australia, Director of Marketing for the start-up of Sky Network Television in New Zealand, Vice President for the start-up
E! Entertainment Television and Regional Manager for sales and marketing at Home Box Office (HBO). In these positions, Mitchell Berman has successfully applied marketing strategy with innovation to achieve increased market penetration that has lead to millions of new subscribers and multi-million dollar annual revenues.

Paul Bertino, Director of Sales and Marketing, Hickory Tech

Biography not available at time of publication.

Frank Chindamo, President & CEO, Fun Little Movies (FLM)

Frank Chindamo is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Fun Little Movies. "FLM" specializes in producing original, live-action mobile comedy. They are now a channel of entertainment in the US on Sprint, Microsoft and Smart Video phones, and in 28 other countries around the world.

FLM’s “Fun Funny Phone Films” have won 20 awards including 2 American Cine Golden Eagles, A finalist’s place for Best Short at the Cannes Film Festival, and CTIA's "World Smallest Film Festival." View FLM’s mobile comedy on the Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Service, Microsoft’s new PMC (Portable Media Center) and on Smartphones using SmartVideo. www.FunLittleMovies.com .

Our shows include humorous headlines in “Comedy USA,” “The MiniBikers,” where little people on little motorcycles fight crime a little at a time, or “Love Bytes,” the romantic comedy about 21st century dating that’s so cool, it can actually get you a date. The films have played on HBO, Showtime, CBS, PBS, Playboy, MTV and Comedy Central in the US, Britian’s Channel Four, Canada’s CBC and worldwide.

Frank Chindamo is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California in the School of Cinema & Television. There he created the Student Script Library and teaches short and mobile film screenwriting.

Fun Little Movies has been the subject of cover stories in Forbes Magazine and the L.A. Times, and stories in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, CBS Radio, Wired Magazine, CBS TV’s Inside Edition, The Chicago Tribune, and several other outlets. See website for articles.

Francois Cosquer, Chief Security Architect, Alcatel North America

Francois Cosquer is Chief Security Architect for Alcatel North America where he currently coordinates the security effort for Alcatel Strategic Solutions. Francois is acting chair of the ATIS TOPS Council Focus Group on Network Security and recently appointed Technical Editor for the DRM taskforce of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). He has been speaker and chair for security sessions at USTA Telecom, Supercomm, VON, CTIA Tower Summit, Global Mobile Enterprise, Wireless Industry Congress, Globecom and Broadband Services Forum. Francois came to Ottawa in 2001 to lead the Corporate Security Research Center.

Prior to joining Alcatel, he worked in Europe for a number of Research Institutions, Equipment Vendors and Telecom Operators. Francois' 15 years experience covers networking, operating systems, middleware and multimedia applications. He is author of several international publications and co-author of LNCS book on Advances in Distributed Systems. He is Advisory Board Member at the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering and for the European Commission Security & Dependability Task Force. Francois graduated in Electronics and Computing and holds an MSc in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.

Steve Curran, VP of Sales, ViewNow

For the past 17 years, Steve has specialized in developing telephony/CATV strategic plans, IP/Voice over Packet (VoP) Telephony Implementation, and developing product management strategies for local access providers. In 1995 Steve founded Curran Communications, which specialized in product development for Telecommunications companies throughout the United States. Clients of Curran Communications included over 100 independently owned Local Exchange Operators as well as Cable TV companies. Steve has also held management positions with Pacific Telecom and the National Telephone Cooperative Association (NTCA) in Washington, DC. Steve holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Willamette University.

Todd Daniels, VP/GM IPTV Solutions, Eagle Broadband

Todd Daniels is Vice President of IPTV Solutions for Eagle Broadband. He manages the Eagle's sales and operations for IPTVComplete, a turnkey IPTV service offered to incumbent and competitive carriers jointly with Eagle's partner; GlobeCast, a wholly owned subsidiary of France Telecom.

Daniels brings more than 20 years of proven senior sales management and operations experience in telecommunications, networking and broadband. He joined Eagle from nextgen Class 5 and VoIP telecommunications equipment provider Taqua, Inc., where he led Taqua's sales organization as Vice President, Sales until the company's acquisition by Tekelec. Prior to Taqua, Daniels spent more than 8 years at Nortel Networks where he held a variety of senior sales management positions including Sales Vice President, for the IOC market. He also held various sales management and sales engineering positions at telecom equipment provider Siemens Stromberg-Carlson and the fiber engineering and construction services subsidiary of Centel Corporation. Daniels holds a B.S. in Marketing from Eastern Illinois University.

Dave Davies, Vice President, Strategy and Product Management, Subscriber Networks Scientific Atlanta

Dave Davies is Vice President of Strategy and Product Marketing for Subscriber Networks at Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. In this role, Davies is responsible for Scientific-Atlanta’s business and market strategy, new business development activities, and new product marketing support for subscriber products including the Explorer? line of digital interactive set-tops, IPTV set-tops, and data and voice modems.

In addition, Davies is responsible for the consumer marketing strategy for the most popular video services including digital video recording (DVR), Multi-Room™ DVR, high-definition television (HDTV) and video on demand (VOD), working closely with Scientific-Atlanta customers in their initial launch and roll-out of those new services.

Prior to assuming his current position at Scientific Atlanta, he was a Senior Associate with Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc, a leading global strategy and management consulting firm, where he focused on both corporate and operations strategy. He also has prior experience in the areas of system engineering and product development and manufacturing at various technology companies.

A member of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM)and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Davies has recently spoken at several industry conferences including Digital Hollywood, Kagan, CTAM, and CES.

Davies has an M.B.A. from Harvard University Graduate School of Business, an M.S./M.E. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S./M.E. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bill DeMuth, VP & CTO, SureWest Communications

Bill DeMuth began his career at Roseville Telephone Company in 1976. DeMuth assesses new technologies, oversees corporate technology initiatives, develops technology strategies and oversees SureWest's Information Technology (IT) department. He serves on the United States Telecom Association's technical tactics committee, is a member of the Board of Directors for ATIS, a technical planning and standards development organization, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Placer County Child Abuse Prevention Council. DeMuth holds a master's degree in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University and a bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology from California State Polytechnic University.

Allison Dollar, CEO, The Interactive Television Alliance

Allison is a founder and CEO of the Interactive Television Alliance, a non-profit trade association whose broad constituency is committed to accelerating ITV in the U.S. She is also a principal in 2degree Partners, a management consultancy focused on ITV, specializing in alliance packaging, cross-platform marketing and digital services integration.

A longtime champion of ubiquitous interactivity, she co-founded eTV World, Hollyweb Live!, iNNOVATORS™ venture pitch series, and chaired NAB’s Executive Committee to launch Multimedia World. Some clients have included IBM’s eBusiness (American Express, Bell Atlantic, Mail Boxes Etc.), AOL, Liberty Media, SimplyTV, Web TV, WB, Creative Planet, Stan Lee Media, Vi[z]Rt (virtual sets), Envivio (MPEG-4), Digital Containers and Homerun Entertainment(Scripps).

For Webcasts.com she was CSO and a founding board member (IPO as iBEAM Internet Broadcasting Corp). Previously, for Phillips Business Information she led business/content development with over 30 trade publications. Titles included Interactive Video News, Interactive Marketing News, Internet Week, CableFAX, Multimedia Week, E-Commerce News, Film & Video Magazine, A/V Video magazine, Via Satellite. While Editorial Director of In Motion she created sponsor packages with Sony, SGI, PacBell, Autodesk, AOL, HBO, Kodak and Sprint. These anticipated the impact of 3D effects, advertainment, DBS, broadband, VOD and wireless devices.

She worked with Oscar-nominee documentarian Ross Spears, CBS News, the Maryland Film Commission. A founding board member of Maryland’s WIFV, she received ASAE’s Golden Circle award, held advisory board positions for CINE and the US Film&Video Festival. She holds a M.A. from the University of Virginia and Phi Beta Kappa B.A. from Goucher College in Baltimore, and has been interviewed by National Public Radio, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Hot Wired, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, BizTalk1, Millimeter, Digitrends, Broadcasting & Cable, New YorkDaily Post and other outlets on interactive entertainment. Her book on ITV, Interactive Television: Tracking and Preparing for an Emerging Market, analyzes the historic reworking of the television business model.

Mark Ellison, Sr. VP Legal and Business Affairs – National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative

Currently, Mark directs development of NRTC’s telco video initiative and is leading efforts to secure IP / MPEG-4 programming distribution rights. He recently led negotiations for NRTC’s relationship with SES-AMERICOM for the IP Prime transport service. Additionally, Mark provides strategic advice, counsel and support on NRTC business ventures and opportunities and heads the NRTC’s Industry and Government Relations division.

Mark has nearly 25 years of experience representing clients in satellite, cable, Internet, and media-related law and business. He has served as vice president / general counsel of Primestar Satellite, Senior Vice President of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association, and in in-house counsel positions with Turner Broadcasting and U.S. Telecom.

Mark holds a juris doctorate degree from the University of Miami and is a member of the bars of Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia as well as the Federal Communications Bar.

LuJack Ewell, Chief Network Architect, Conklin-Intracom

As Chief Network Architect for Conklin-Intracom, LuJack has been responsible for long-term product definition for the past 5 years, forecasting industry trends through exhaustive in-depth research. His first hand knowledge of network convergence issues and challenges has contributed to the development of fs|cdn, a fully integrated, software-based, IP content delivery system. He has spent the last 20 years with Conklin-Intracom developing products and chips for varied Wide Area Networking technologies. Prior to joining Conklin-Intracom, he was a member of Scientific Atlanta's Inmarsat team. LuJack is a Georgia Tech alumnus whose lifelong fascination with electronics began during a stay in the remote jungles of South America where, as a child, he wondered how a TV was able to pluck images out of thin air.

Douglas Frazier, Co-founder/Co-Chairman, Urban Telephone & Video (UTV)

G Douglas Frazier is the co-founder and Co-Chairman of Urban Telephone & Video (UTV), a franchised broadband service provider based in New York City. In that capacity Mr. Frazier has been responsible for shaping the technological development of the services offered by the company, including the IP video and telephony platforms deployed by UTV. In addition to management of the company’s technology, Doug has been the driving force in developing the marketing plans for Urban Telephone & Video.

Prior to his founding of Urban Communications Transport, the parent company of UTV, in 1993 with his partner Stuart Reid, Frazier co-founded and managed a private cable company headquartered in the South Bronx that delivered nearly 100 addressable video channels to a community eight (8) years ahead of when the franchised operator said it was feasible to service this neighborhood.

Concurrent with the building and operation of the SMATV system in the Bronx, Mr. Frazier co-founded and ran his own cable construction company. From 1987 to 1992 he supervised and managed the cable wiring of over 20,000 apartment units and the installation of over 150,000 cable customers working for Gateway Cable (Newark, NJ), Time Warner (Queens, NY) and Comcast (Philadelphia, PA). Prior to forming his own cable operating and contracting companies, Mr. Frazier worked as an installer and headend technician with Cooper Wireless Cable in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and as a technician with New York Telephone in Manhattan.

Douglas Frazier is a Harlem native, and earned a B.S. in psychology from the College of New Rochelle (1980). Mr. Frazier has also completed graduate study in telecommunications at New York University Graduate School of Telecommunications.

Gary Hatch, CEO, ATCI

Gary Hatch has professionally analyzed the satellite communications and electronic media industries since 1981. He is a noted consultant, public speaker, conference moderator, CEO, analyst and investor.

As a recognized industry leader in satellite communications, Mr. Hatch has extensive experience in satellite communications, cable television, broadband, telephone, Internet, and the broadcast entertainment industries with vast experience in the international multimedia entertainment markets. He has been involved throughout his career in domestic and international satellite digital television, voice, Internet and data communications projects.

Mr. Hatch speaks or moderates on a number of different topics and can also represent any position in any panel.  His areas of expertise and his recent speaking engagements have focused primarily on the following topics: Cable Versus Satellite, How to Launch a Satellite TV Channel, Secure Content Creation and Management, Channel Finance Modeling, Business Modeling for Media Ventures, Making Money in Media Markets, Next Generation Business Modeling, Teleport Formation, New Market Opportunities, Mobile/Temporary Satellite Communications, Teleport Operators Building Value Add Businesses around their Teleport Infrastructure, Satellite Marketplace Consolidation/Competition, Satellite-Delivered Consumer Services, DTV, DSL, HDTV and Profitable Teleport Niche Services.

Mr. Hatch currently serves as President and CEO of ATCi and its predecessor company ATC, a satellite-engineering firm, from 1986 to the present. In 1997 he negotiated a buyout and became The Company's principal shareholder prior to a recent multi- million-dollar equity investment he brought into ATCi. Mr. Hatch serves on the board of ESI (an Asian satellite direct-to-home entertainment network) and SkyWay Connect a multi media entertainment company.

Prior to joining joining ATCi, Mr. Hatch served as an international executive and engineer for Motorola, an electronics company and Telecommunications Inc./Liberty Media, one of the largest entertainment companies in the world.

A sought-after speaker, fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, Mr. Hatch has addressed leading international conferences such as NAB, ViaSat World Satellite Conference, ISCe, IBC, ITU, NATPE, MIPCOM, The Paris DTH World Summit, Cable Labs Conference and Cable Tec Expo, to name just a few.

Steve Hawley, Principal Consulting Analyst, Advanced Media Strategies

Steven Hawley is an independent industry analyst, researcher and consultant, serving the telecommunications and digital media industries. His consulting practice, Advanced Media Strategies LLC (AMS), provides business and technology subject matter expertise in the area of Internet Protocol Television. IPTV is quickly evolving into the delivery of interactive digital video and media content-based services to “any consumer electronics device, anytime, anywhere." Mr. Hawley contributes regularly to Telephony Online and to Cable & Satellite International magazine. In addition, he is author of a series of reports on IPTV published by Tracy Swedlow’s InteractiveTV Today [itvt] and of Delivering Interactive Media to the Home: Service and Revenue Opportunities for Broadband Network Operators, a 700-page report published in 2001 by Parks Associates.

He has appeared as speaker or panel moderator at a variety of industry events, including the annual conferences of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB, 2005), the United States Telecom Association (USTA, 2004, 2005), the TelcoTV conference and other events in the US and Europe. Mr. Hawley has delivered more than twenty technology products to market, including IPTV middlewareapplications platforms, Web-based commerce platforms, content design and production tools, digital media content management tools, personal videoconferencing, integrated messaging and other multimedia communications solutions.

Functionally, Mr. Hawley contributes in areas of business strategy, product strategy and product management, strategic marketing and positioning, partnerships, business development and tactical marketing program development. In addition to his work for more than two dozen IPTV industry clients through Advanced Media Strategies, Mr. Hawley has served in management and team-member roles for some of the world’s top technology companies, including Northern Telecom (now Nortel Networks), Myrio Corporation (now a business unit of Siemens) and Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has more than 25 years’ hands-on industry experience and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.

Bruce Haymes, Sr. VP, Corporate Development and Strategy PanAm Sat Corp

Bruce A. Haymes is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy for PanAmSat Corporation. PanAmSat is one of the world's largest satellite operators. With revenues at close to $1 billion and backlog of over $4 billion, the company distributes more television channels than any other company in the world. In the U.S. it is the largest supplier of wireless broadband services. The company's long-term customers include TV channels owned by News Corp., Disney, Viacom, Liberty and Time Warner, among others.

Mr. Haymes is responsible for overseeing the company's merger, acquisition and investment activities, including all strategic transactions, joint ventures and product development. He heads up the company's New Ventures organization, which is exclusively focused on business growth through non-core activities. Based at the company's global headquarters in Wilton, Connecticut, Mr. Haymes' mandate is to expand PanAmSat's position in fixed-satellite services and related businesses, including the integration of terrestrial offerings. Mr. Haymes is a member of the corporation's senior management team. Mr. Haymes holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and a J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University.

William Helmly, President, Home Telephone

William Helmly has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Home Telephone Company, an independent telephone, cable television, and Internet service provider in South Carolina. Prior to becoming President, Mr. Helmly has served in a variety of capacities, including Vice President of Engineering and most recently Executive Vice President. During his tenure, Mr. Helmly has been responsible for research, development, and implementation of new technologies, product lines, and services as well as development and implementation of product, technology, and business strategies.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Telephone Association, PalmettoNet, and Pond Branch Telephone Company. Mr. Helmly is actively involved in several civic and community organization.

Prior to joining Home Telephone Company in 1992, Mr. Helmly worked at the Charleston Naval Shipyard for six years. Mr. Helmly holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina.

Sean Henry, VP Program Planning & Scheduling, iNDEMAND

Sean Henry has been with In Demand since 1995, and has been involved in the creation and scheduling of In Demand’s pay-per-view, video on demand, and HDTV services which are distributed to over 28 million U.S. homes. In Demand distributes well over 20,000 hours of programming monthly, including the Emmy Award-winning NASCAR In Car, motion pictures from all the major studios, WWE, the NBA, the NHL, MLB and will soon be offering Howard Stern On Demand.

Prior to In Demand, Sean Henry had a decade of experience at On Command and at Spectradyne, where he was involved in the rollout of pay-per-view, VOD and interactive entertainment services for the lodging industry. Sean started out in the entertainment industry doing Cable TV and VCR usage studies for A.C. Nielsen.

Sean Henry’s undergraduate work was at Southern Methodist University on a National Merit Scholarship; with his graduate work in Artificial Intelligence at the Johns Hopkins University.

Amy Hendrickson, Sr. VP Sales & Marketing, The Outdoor Channel

Amy Hendrickson, Senior Vice President of Affiliate Sales & Marketing joined The Outdoor Channel in July 1998. She served as Director of Affiliate Sales & Marketing from December of 1998 until her promotion to Vice President in February of 2000. Promoted to her current position in April of 2003, Amy directs the affiliate sales effort and was actively involved in the July 2005 launch of Outdoor Channel 2 HD, a distinct second network for outdoor enthusiasts featuring 100% real high definition content.

Prior to joining The Outdoor Channel, Amy worked in the National Sales Department of a broadcast station owned by Cox Communications. She began her career in television as a Traffic Manager for a pair of broadcast stations owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications. Amy studied Political Science and Communications at Eastern Michigan University. She is currently working toward an MBA at Pepperdine University.

Amy recently turned 35 and resides in Murrieta, California with two very spoiled dogs, Einstein and Shakespeare.

Scott Holmes, President, United Future

Scott has spent the last 15 years focused on building brand equity and digital innovation and Co-Founded of UNITED^FUTURE, an Interactive Marketing & Development company specializing in experience design and application development for broadband & television environments. Scott has worked with fortune 1000 clients such as; Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, General Motors, T-Mobile, Avery Dennison, ALPINE, Autodesk, Caesar’s Entertainment, and many others.

Prior to co-founding UNITED^FUTURE, Scott was instrumental in developing Zentropy Partners, a McCann Erickson Worldgroup company, into a Top 10 interactive agency ranked by Adweek. Developing new business opportunities, he fostered the broadband, mobile and interactive television divisions.

Scott is an acting Chairman of the New Media Peer Group within the Academy of Television Arts, & Sciences (www.emmys.org), and executive board director for the Interactive Television Alliance (ITA).

Leon Hofer, Vice President Network Operations, Iowa Network Services

Leon Hofer is the Vice President of Network Operations for Iowa Network Services, an Iowa-based company doing business with 148 Independent Operating Telephone Companies that provide access services, long distance, internet, digital video and other services to rural customers in Iowa. In addition to managing the company’s fiber network, switching and control center operations, Mr. Hofer has been involved in managing digital video head end services to telephone companies using multiple local distribution networks that include ATM, DSL, FTTH, IP and HFC. Mr. Hofer’s career spans more than 30 years in the telecommunications field. Prior to joining Iowa Network Services in 1994, he spent nearly 20 years at Northwestern Bell, then US WEST, in a variety of engineering roles. During that span, Mr. Hofer served on ANSI standards committees in the areas of network interfaces for wireline and wireless PCS services and performance standards for voice, data and video services. He has served as ANSI editor on several occasions and has received a Committee T1 Outstanding Achievement Award.

Mr. Hofer holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa.

Charlie Jablonski, Media & Technology Consultant

Charlie current serves as an industry consultant to various media, technology and investment funds. Charlie has served as Executive Chairman of Myrio a company delivering middleware and systems enabling the telephone industry to deliver consumer quality digital video into the home. Previously he was their President and CEO. Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer of Geocast Network Systems a data broadcasting startup based in the Silicon Valley. He serves on several Boards, including Azcar, a broadcast systems technology company based in Toronto, Visible World a company focused on technology and systems delivering customized ads advertising for cable, broadcast and satellite providers and Alloptic a GPON based passive optical network company.

Prior to that he spent 16 years at NBC where he was Vice President of Engineering and Technology where he had responsibility for Owned Stations Operations and Engineering, Strategic Technology, Network Distribution and Engineering, International Operations and the Olympics for which he has been awarded three Emmys. NBC used its Olympics efforts to drive the development and practical implication of long term technology implementation in the areas of; The First use of a Digital Production Environment (Seoul 1988), first serial digital infrastructure and development of motion compensated standards converters (Barcelona 1992), and the first remote located graphics editing and production center in NY for the Atlanta games (1996). This center in NY now serves as the Network Distribution Center for all of NBC and was the model for central casting widely used by all major station groups.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, which he is past president and Chairs the Emmy Awards Committee for Science and Technology. He also serves on the advisory board of Omneon. He has been awarded four Emmys for his work on the Olympics.

Mike Kazmier, President, Auroras TV

Mike Kazmier is the President and Chief Technology Officer for Auroras Entertainment. As a founder of Auroras, Mike used his experience in systems and network engineering as well as convergent technology to design the most robust, advanced and reliable solution for IPTV. After nearly a decade of systems and network engineering in 24/7 computing and Internet environments, Mike has spent the last 5 years working with convergence technologies including MPEG4. Mike is advocate of the next generation of media entertainment - Everything on Demand. Central to this belief is that the telecom infrastructure, with its individual connections to each and every household, is the ultimate platform to deploy this advancing technology.

Stephen Klein, Director Video Solutions Marketing, Zhone Technologies

Steve has been involved with IPTV and DSL for more than 10 years, and has 23 years experience in telecommunications. Prior to Zhone, he served as VP Business Development for Tut Systems and Next Level Communications. During this time, he played an active role in numerous triple play deployments worldwide, as well as working with technology partners and content providers. Steve also served on international committees such as FS VDSL contributing to functional specifications and standards for delivering video over carrier networks.

Marty Lafferty, CEO, DCIA (Distributed Computing Industry Association)

Marty is a new media industry leader with a track record of multi-business collaboration in pioneering distribution of content via new technologies. Prior to DCIA, he was CEO of Zoom Culture, which he transformed from a dotcom into a thriving digital television firm with partners NBC and Apple.

Previously, as CMO for StreamSearch, he teamed with Paramount and the Sundance Film Festival. During his tenure as Microsoft TV VP of Corporate & Service Marketing, he supported the strategic refocusing of WebTV. As President of FutureVision, he supervised the first switched-digital-network service offering and the company’s acquisition by Verizon.

Marty also was CEO of NBC’s Olympics joint venture, where he led multiple vendors to develop alternative security solutions for a satellite-delivered mini-subscription PPV service. Finally, as VP of TDBS, he led Turner Broadcasting’s internal and GI engineering teams to deploy the industry’s first signal-scrambling security technology for basic programming services.

Marty has served as Membership Chairman of the Interactive Services Association and co-founded the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association, serving as its first Vice Chairman. Marty holds a Master’s degree from Yale and a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College. He has received the NCTA’s President’s Award and a CTAM TAMI Award for industry service.

Ed Lee, Director of Business Development, Akimbo

Ed serves as Director of Platform Distribution for Akimbo. Ed oversees all activities related to business development efforts pertaining to the licensing of the Akimbo Service and software on third party devices as well as the development of Akimbo's channel sales strategy. Prior to Akimbo, Ed served as Director of Business Development for ReplayTV in a similar role. Before ReplayTV, Ed spent 10 years in the advertising industry in various roles including media planning and buying, account management and new business development.

Ian Locke, VP of Strategic Alliances at Envivio Inc.

Ian Locke is the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Envivio and is responsible for creating and supporting new business to Network Operators. In particular, he is developing opportunities for IP Television residential video services. Prior to Envivio, Mr. Locke was the Director of Market Development for Minerva Networks where he developed the iTVManager IP Television middleware and sold MPEG-2 systems to Telcos and
Utility companies around the world. Prior to this, Mr. Locke was an entrepreneur with Axon Technology Pty. Ltd. Consulting and marketing for 12 years in digital video production, multimedia production, video conferencing and network design and implementation. Mr. Locke is a frequent video and technology speaker in government and tertiary institutions. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Medical Science from Sydney University.

Ned Mountain, COO & President, Wegener

Ned Mountain is President and Chief Operating Officer of Wegener Communications in Atlanta, Ga. He has been with Wegener for the past 24 years serving in numerous domestic and international sales, marketing, and management positions. He has served on the NCTA engineering committee as co-chair of the Quality Sound subcommittee. He has been involved in numerous cable and satellite related projects including the satellite digital network control system currently in use by major programmers as well as the satellite system used by the Fox Broadcast Network most of the Fox Sports Networks. Prior to joining Wegener, Ned was a corporate Senior Engineer with the former UA-Columbia Cablevision. Ned has a BSEE from the University of Pittsburgh.

Stan Moyer, Executive Director, Telcordia

Stan Moyer (stanm@research.telcordia.com) is Executive Director and strategic research program manager in the Applied Research area of Telcordia Technologies, where he has worked since 1990. Recently, he led research in the area of network architectures, protocols, and management for supporting home networking and networked devices and appliances. On these topics, Stan was a frequent speaker at events such as the IETF, The Broadband Home conferences, IEEE’s International Conference on Communications (ICC), and other technical workshops. In the past he has worked on ATM switch hardware, broadband network architectures and protocols, middleware, Internet network and application security, Internet QoS, and voice over IP.

Stan is currently a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communications Society. He is co-editor of the Consumer Communications and Networking series in IEEE Communications Magazine, vice-chair of the IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC) steering committee, a member at large of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, and a member of the board of directors and secretary for the OSGi Alliance.

Les Ottolenghi, CEO, INTENT MediaWorks

Les Ottolenghi, Founding Partner & CEO, INTENT MediaWorks: Les Ottolenghi has more than 20 years of experience in executive management, information technology and marketing with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to founding Intent MediaWorks, Ottolenghi was CEO of AgentWare, Ottolenghi, responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of the company as well as managing all major contract relationships. Prior to co-founding AgentWare, Ottolenghi served as Vice President of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce for Carlson Wagonlit Travel. His accomplishments at Carlson included leading a team that custom-designed critical middleware for networking 10,000 travel agents over the Internet. Ottolenghi is also a former executive at Holiday Inn Worldwide, where he led the successful launch of the first Internet-based reservations system in the travel industry. In 1998, Information Week and Microsoft nominated Ottolenghi for CIO of the Year. Ottolenghi has served as the chief strategist for the Greater 15 Nations (G15) of the United Nations, and is on the board of directors for the Berkeley Center for Marketing and Technology. Ottolenghi is an undergraduate of Duke University and M.B.A. graduate of Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, where he received a Woodruff Fellowship and graduated Beta Gamma Sigma. He continues his relationship with Emory by serving as an adjunct professor and writing a book regarding technology and business strategy.

Ken Pyle, President, Viodi, LLC

Ken Pyle is co-founder of Viodi, LLC and is Managing Editor of the Viodi View, an online newsletter with a focus on independent telcos and their efforts to offer video services. He produced the Video Solutions for Independence interactive CD-ROM, edited and produced interactive CD-ROMs for organizations such as NTCA and is the co-producer of the IP Video Conference series in conjunction with USTA and is producer of Viodi’s Local Content Workshop.

Jim Rennard, Vice President of Finance, Canby Telephone Association

Jim is Vice President, Finance and Regulatory for Canby Telephone Association in Canby, OR. He began in the telecommunications industry in 1989 when he began working for a regional CPA firm specializing in independent telephone companies. He has extensive experience on the audit and tax side before moving into cost consulting. Jim is a Certified Public Accountant and began working as Canby Telephone’s CFO in 1998. He has a BA in American History from Middlebury College and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Jim serves on the Oregon Telecommunications Association Regulatory and Industry Relations Committee and is actively involved in Rotary and other community service and business organizations.

Jim Riley, EVP Sales and Business Development, TVN

As Executive Vice President, Jim Riley directs all Sales and Business Development for TVN Entertainment. Focused on managing client partnerships and driving new revenue from over 40 Broadcast & Cable Networks, as well as VOD Affiliations with Cable MSOs, Telco, DSL and DBS providers, Riley is also responsible for crafting new distribution and VOD service agreements with VOD-specific programming and advertising clients.

Prior to TVN, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Guthy-Renker TV, Riley established the largest national direct-response advertising network with a reach of over 45 million households by forging agreements with every major MSO. He also crafted partnerships to provide transactional opportunities for mainstream advertising clients through the use of "infotainment" formats within the cable network model.

Riley served as Vice President of Affiliate Relations and later as Vice President of New Technologies at E! Entertainment Television where he built distribution and advertising deals with cable, DBS, and MMDS partners. During that period, Riley is also credited with creating the CTAM award-winning E! Clips affinity marketing program in support of MSO Affiliate's PPV marketing objectives. He also served on the development team for E! Online, helping to build its successful web site that delivers entertainment content to Internet users.

Preceding his tenure with E! Entertainment TV, Riley served in various sales, business affairs and marketing roles on behalf of Rainbow Programming Networks Group.

This 18-year television executive is a graduate of New York's Fordham University, with a degree in Mass Communications and Philosophy. Riley is a member of NCTA, CAB, ICTA and CTAM and has served on the boards of numerous cable and regional telecommunications associations.

Jay Schiller, VP Business Development, Atlas on Demand

Jay Schiller is vice president of business development for Atlas On Demand where he is responsible for business activities and strategy with operators, programmers, and technology partners. Schiller is a core member of the Atlas On Demand management team collaboratively setting the overall product and business strategy.

Schiller joined Atlas from C-COR where he was most recently in charge of market development for the company’s On Demand television and digital advertising solutions, and their convergence. Schiller brings more than 15 years experience in the cable and telecommunications industry, including roles at nCUBE, now C-COR, where he was responsible for product management for their On Demand and digital ad insertion product lines; and at TCI, now Comcast, where he was responsible for advertising sales’ technical operations for the Western U.S

An established patent holder, Schiller earned an M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford.

Dimtry Shapiro, CEO, Veoh

Dmitry Shapiro is a world recognized thought leader and visionary in electronic communications, peer-to-peer networking, online community, and computer security. Mr. Shapiro is a frequent speaker at major technology and business events, and is widely quoted in the press, including InfoWorld, PCWorld, Computer World, eWeek, Internet World, and other publications.

Prior to founding Veoh Networks in 2004, Mr. Shapiro founded Akonix Systems, Inc. Under his vision and leadership, Akonix Systems pioneered the technologies that are now standard corporate requirements for IM and P2P management. With over 1,000,000 enterprise seats deployed, Akonix's P2P management solution is the world's corporate standard in P2P security. Akonix's products are deployed at media companies such as MTV, Fox News, 20th Century Fox, Viacom, and Disney as well as hundreds of other recognizable brand names across all major vertical markets.

Prior to founding Akonix, Mr. Shapiro led technology development for CollegeClub.com, at that time the world's largest community of college students, which provided innovative real-time communications to its community of over four million users. CollegeClub.com was a recognized pioneer in integrating presence, Instant Messaging, and other collaborative technologies into a comprehensive communications infrastructure. His visionary work on presence integration into web infrastructures has been the basis for the "Who's Online" functions now implemented across major industries, including e-commerce, call centers, online personals, and others.

Before CollegeClub.com, Mr. Shapiro led the Internet technology group at Fujitsu Business Communication Systems.

Prior to that, Mr. Shapiro was a key player in Fujitsu's systems engineering team where he helped lead Fujitsu's entry into the Computer Telephony Integration space.

Mr. Shapiro holds a BS in Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In his spare time, Mr. Shapiro is a hobbyist videographer, activist, and philanthropist.

Jay Stark, EVP Sales & Marketing, Broadstream

Mr. Stark currently serves as Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing of Broadstream, responsible for all sales, marketing, product development and
customer care activity. Mr. Stark brings over a decade of experience in the
media, data communications and service provider industries. Prior to his involvement with Broadstream, Mr. Stark served in a variety of management positions within leading edge product and services companies including, broadband fixed wireless, RBOC, IXC, IP digital narrowcasting and advertising, and satellite based media distribution.

Mr. Stark holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of South Florida and a
Masters of International Management from THUNDERBIRD, the Garvin School of International Management.

Steve Stebbins, EVP, RightsLine

Prior to his Global VP of Sales role with RightsLine - a leader in enterprise content rights management, Steve Stebbins has spent over 25 years in selling information technology. Stebbins has led high performance sales teams and held senior sales management roles at both large enterprise software firms like Oracle and CA as well as emerging growth software firms like SynQuest. Stebbins brings a breadth of industry experience to solve the dynamic issues around digital content distribution today. His teams have helped solve not only the highly complex issues facing M & E organizations but also have been involved in solving issues facing manufacturing, retailing, and finance organizations. Stebbins teams’ successes can be attributed to the collaborative relationships he builds with clients focused on addressing their business drivers and to the synergy he creates with partners to deliver the simplified solutions clients need today and for the future. Stebbins has a BA Degree in Business from the University of Washington. He is active in his local community organizations.

Chip Venters, CEO, Digital Containers

Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalContainers, Inc., is a career entrepreneur with experience in the startup, product development and marketing of information services and software. DigitalContainers has technologies and patents that enable an entirely new digital content distribution and sales system where all intellectual property has a profitable business model. With this system, the creators of digital media, documents, software, games and other intellectual property can quickly and easily monetize their digital goods by creating, packaging, registering and releasing them into the global market in just a few easy steps. Previously he was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of SiteScape, Inc., a start-up teamware and community software company that grew to a position of industry leadership and 350 enterprise customers in just 18 months. Chip authored numerous white papers and was a frequent presenter at international conferences on teamware and communities of practice while at SiteScape. Chip was a founder of DeskGate Technologies, the original inventors of the DigitalContainers technology. DeskGate’s pioneering systems for the sale of digital goods, lead to major industry awards within the first two years of the company’s inception, (Best New Company, Internet World, 1998). Many of DigitalContainers patents are based on the technologies developed by Deskgate. Venters was the founder of Smart Communications, an electronic communication service bureau serving the trade associating industry. Smart was parent company of TotalFax, a major provider of enhanced fax services, which was sold to Premiere Communications, Inc., TotalAccess Communications, another Smart company was an Internet service provider in DC who combined with Interpath, now owned by Progress Energy.

Jim Welch, Sr. Consulting Engineer, IneoQuest

James Welch is a Senior Consulting Engineer with IneoQuest Technologies developing video over IP measurement and monitoring equipment solutions. He has worked with many of today’s leading video over IP service providers and OEMs in evaluating products, commissioning networks, and developing real time streaming media monitoring solutions. Before joining IneoQuest, he was Vice President of Engineering for UB Networks and Newbridge Networks. James has led the hardware and software development of a range of copper and fiber based networking equipment using both packet-based and ATM technologies used in mission critical applications for Fortune 100 companies for over 15 years.

James holds BSEE and MS degrees from the State University of NY at Buffalo and Boston University.

Russell Zack, Chief Operations Officer, Cauldron Solutions

Russell Zack is the chief operations officer at Cauldron Solutions where he is responsible for the overall day to day management of the company. Before co-founding Cauldron, he built several technology companies focused on large vertical industries such as automotive, media and entertainment and telecommunications. Previous industry-related experience includes his time spent as president and CEO of DragonFly
Mobile Inc, a mobile data optimization and application company and interactive media company, Sigma6, founded in 1994 and acquired in 1999.

He holds a BA/BS degree in Digital Multi-Media from the University of Michigan based on a unique first-of-a-kind curriculum.