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Moderators/Panelists
For your convenience, you can click on any conference
track of interest in the list below to view panelist
biographies. Our session moderators are listed below.
Check back regularly for additions to our roster of
presenters.
• On Demand & Interactive
TV
• IPTV Tech
• Broadband
Mobility
• The Broadband
Future
Moderators:
Jeff Baumgartner
Conference Chairperson/Editor-in-Chief
CED
Jeff Baumgartner, formerly the broadband editor of
Multichannel News, now devotes his expertise full-time
to CED. Prior to his stint at Multichannel News, Jeff
covered emerging technologies at CED. Before that,
he was Denver bureau chief of CableFAX Daily, produced
corporate communications for Jones Education Networks
and trade industry reporting for the Encore Media
Group. Jeff is responsible for the day-to-day editorial
operations of CED and its ancillary products.
Brian Santo
Senior Editor
CED
Brian Santo, a veteran broadband and technolgy editor
and analyst, joined CED in March 2006 as senior editor.
In that role, Brian researches and writes in-depth
features and other articles for the monthly edition
of CED, contributes to the magazine's daily electronic
newsletter, CED Broadband Direct, covers trade shows
and other industry-related events, and contributes
to other print and electronic products under the CED
umbrella. Santo joined CED with more than 20 years
of covering the cable, broadband and technology industries.
Most recently, Santo served as an analyst at Kagan
Research, where he researched and wrote weekly and
monthly reports on broadband technologies linked to
cable, the telcos and DBS. His coverage also expanded
into the wireless technology arena, primarily in the
unlicensed spectrum realm of WiFi, WiMAX and Bluetooth.
Prior to that, Santo was the technology editor of
CableWorld, where, his beat coverage included home
networking, interactive television and digital TV.
During his journalism career, Santo has also served
as an editor of Electronic Engineering Times, the
associate editor of IEEE Spectrum, and the editor
of Electronic News.
Santo is based in his home office in Portland, Ore.
Leslie Ellis
Independent Analyst/Contributing Editor
CED
Leslie has written extensively about broadband communications
since 1987. She writes the "Translation Please" column
for Multichannel News to "de-mystify" cable
engineering terms for non-technical readers. She wrote
the A-to-Z dictionary "Definitive Broadband" and co-authored
"The Field Guide to Broadband." With Roger Brown and
Stewart Schley, she co-authored "Planet Broadband,"
the tale of cable modem inventor Rouzbeh Yassini and
his vision for telecommunications. Ms. Ellis is also
a contributing research analyst for Bear Stearns Inc.,
and a senior technology advisor to CTAM.
Gary Arlen
President
Arlen Communications, Inc
Gary heads a Washington-area research and analysis
firm and is a partner in the Alwyn Group LLC, a strategic
consulting organization. He specializes in converging
media, telecommunications and information services.
His primary focus is on new applications and policy
implications of broadband and digital TV services,
including the "triple play." Mr. Arlen’s
current work focuses on interactive systems, including
IPTV, Voice over IP and the applications they delivery.
He is a frequent contributor to media and telecommunications
periodicals, and wrote an analytical column for nearly
eight years in Multichannel News.
Keynote:
Marwan Fawaz
Executive Vice President & Chief Technical Officer
Charter Communications Inc.
Marwan Fawaz joined Charter in March of 2006 as Chief
Technology Officer and has more than 20 years of experience
in the broadband communications industry encompassing
engineering, technical operations and business development.
He most recently served as Senior Vice President and
Chief Technology Officer of Adelphia Communications,
where he was responsible for the company’s overall
technology development and deployment.
He started his career as a design engineer at Times
Mirror Cable Television and later joined Continental
Cablevision as a Vice President of Engineering for
the Western region. He also worked at MediaOne as
a Vice President of Operations and Engineering, served
as an Executive-In-Residence at Pilot House Ventures,
managed the Northwest region for Charter Communications
as the Regional Vice President, and worked for Vulcan
Inc., a Paul Allen company, as a Technology Investment
Analyst.
Marwan holds a BS degree in electrical engineering
and MS degree in telecommunications specializing in
satellite communications. He is a long time member
of the SCTE, an IEEE member, and a CTAM-U graduate.
He has published several articles in cable publications
and participated in some of the early HFC broadband
architecture standard setting work. In addition he
serves on Diego’s board of directors and as
an advisory board member for broadband technology
companies.
On Demand & Interactive TV
Panelists:
Basil Badawiyeh
Vice President of On Demand Strategy
C-COR
Basil Badawiyeh currently serves as vice president
of on demand strategy where he is responsible for
setting and implementing C-COR's on demand directives
comprising the company's hardware, software and advanced
on demand advertising platforms.
Prior to C-COR, Badawiyeh served as manger of advanced
video engineering and development at Adelphia Communications,
where he architected and deployed digital simulcast
and digital ad insertion throughout 11 markets. He
also implemented a corporate strategy addressing the
convergence of video, voice and data networks using
scalable packet-based IP transport solutions and set
the company's strategy for HFC bandwidth management.
Badawiyeh previously held engineering and management
roles at PC Expanders, Inc, and ClientLogic Corporation.
Badawiyeh is a regular contributor to the Society
of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) conferences
and was named "2004 Young Engineer of the Year" by
SCTE. He has contributed to the CableLabs CableHome
Certification Board, SCTE and its DVS standards body,
and the IEEE.
Robert G. Benya
Senior Vice President
VOD & ITV Product Management
Time Warner Cable
As Senior Vice President of VOD & ITV, Bob oversees
Time Warner Cable’s rapidly growing Video on
Demand and Interactive Television businesses.
Mr. Benya has had a highly diverse and distinguished
cable television career spanning 25 years. He’s
held senior executive positions at Manhattan Cable
TV, ATC, Group W, Paragon Communications and Time
Warner Cable with oversight of large cable clusters.
Bob has also been at the forefront of TWC’s
new product innovation efforts overseeing digital
cable, video on demand, interactive television and
high speed internet residential and commercial service
development. He is one of the founders of Road Runner,
Time Warner’s flagship broadband service with
almost 5 million customers and over $2 billion in
annual revenues. Recently, Mr. Benya directed the
successful introduction of “Start Over”,
“Quick Clips” and “Photo Show TV”
which are TWC’s latest video on demand product
innovations.
A native New Yorker, Benya earned his bachelors degree
in marketing from New York University. Bob is currently
on the board of directors for iNDEMAND, the industry’s
leading VOD/PPV content development, aggregation and
distribution firm. He also co-chairs the cable industry’s
CTAM Video on Demand Consortium and has served on
CTAM’s New Revenue and High Speed Internet Committees
and the board of directors for the Better Business
Bureau Online. During his career, Benya has received
numerous industry awards as well as Marketing Executive
of the Year awards at Group W and ATC, and Paragon
Communications’ prestigious President’s
Award.
Eric Roberts
Senior Product Manager, Product Strategy & Management
Home Entertainment Initiatives, Subscriber Networks
Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Eric Roberts currently serves as Senior Product Manager
within the Home Entertainment Initiatives Division
of the Product Strategy & Management Group at
Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company.
In this role, he is responsible for the development
and implementation of business and product strategy
for Scientific Atlanta’s next generation set-top
software, including Scientific Atlanta’s Axiom™
OCAP Middleware and MultiStream CableCARD. Prior to
joining Scientific Atlanta, Roberts served in various
system engineering, product development and manufacturing
positions for technology and defense companies including
Thomson, Inc.
Roberts holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of New Mexico and
an MBA from Indiana University.
Charles “Kip” Compton
Senior Director, Video & IPTV Development
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Kip leads various development efforts within Cisco
Systems’ video and Internet Protocol Television
(IPTV) market segments, with a focus on transforming
the TV experience within a convergent multi-device
environment, delivered via advanced IP networks and
applications platforms. He is responsible for strategic
direction, product development, product partnerships
and introducing leading-edge technologies and competitive
products.
With more than 12 years of senior leadership experience
with several publicly-held data and telecommunications
equipment and service provider companies, Kip brings
a wealth of knowledge and expertise to Cisco and its
cable operations.
Communications as their vice president of video and
media engineering. In that role, he oversaw a team
of 100 engineers responsible for developing Comcast’s
digital cable, business and streaming media products
and services.
He served his first tenure with Cisco from 1998 to
2001 as director of technology strategy and director
of entertainment solutions, responsible for defining
Cisco’s technology strategy in several areas
including cable, digital video and XML/Web services.
Before joining Cisco in March 1998, Kip served as
director of Internet Systems and Services for MediaOne
Group, a cable operator purchased by AT&T. Prior
to that, Kip was a manager of strategic technology
and programs for AT&T New Media Services. Earlier
in his career he worked for SNET/SBC as lead for their
internet and video services development. Prior to
SNET/SBC, Kip was a researcher at MIT doing research
on networked multimedia, with sponsorship by IBM and
Turner Broadcasting.
Kip earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer
science and a Master of Engineering degree in electrical
engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Don Dulchinos
Senior Vice President
Advanced Platforms and Services
CableLabs
Donald P. Dulchinos is Senior Vice President, Advanced
Platforms and Services, for Cable Television Laboratories,
Inc. (CableLabs®). Mr. Dulchinos directs and manages
the OpenCable™ project, an initiative of the
cable television industry being managed through CableLabs
with a goal of defining a family of advanced, interactive
digital devices which support the range of current
and future digital cable product offerings. The family
of devices includes set-top boxes, digital televisions,
personal computers, and more. Product offerings include
interactive program guides, video on demand, interactive
television, and more.
Mr. Dulchinos oversees the development of OpenCable
hardware specifications in cooperation with cable
companies and consumer electronics manufacturers,
and also coordinates input from the Hollywood production
community, the Federal Communications Commission,
and national retailers such as Circuit City. He manages
an effort to define a common software environment
for retail set-top and other OpenCable devices, called
the OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP™),
with the goal of supporting a range of interactive
television applications and services.
Mr. Dulchinos manages the Advanced Platforms and
Services Department within CableLabs, with a staff
of twenty-four full time technical, business development
and software professionals.
Before joining CableLabs®, Mr. Dulchinos spent
seven years as director of research with the National
Cable Television Association, where he specialized
in technology assessment and strategic analysis of
other telecommunications and information industries.
Prior to that, he was an analyst at National Economic
Research Associates in Washington D.C., and before
that he was a technical information specialist in
the Congressional Research Service at the Library
of Congress.
Mr. Dulchinos holds a master’s degree in public
administration from the Graduate School of Business
and Public Management at the University of Denver,
and a B.A. in economics from Union College in Schenectady,
NY.
Rick Loechler
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Motorola, Inc. Connected Home Solutions
Rick Loechler is Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Motorola,
Inc., Connected Home Solutions. Mr. Loechler oversees
the roll-out of the Open Cable Applications Platform
(OCAP) software platform for Motorola’s family
of cable set-tops. He works to develop feature requirements,
manage partner relationships, develop marketing collateral
and drive product launch.
Rick Loechler has over 20 years of experience in
development engineering and product management with
software products. Prior to joining Motorola, Loechler
was a product manager at Unisys Corp with responsibility
for systems management software delivered with Unisys
Windows based enterprise servers. Loechler also spent
time at Moore Products Co., where he held software
engineering and product marketing roles for the company’s
family of industrial automation equipment.
Mr. Loechler has a BS in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance
from Temple University. Past speaking engagements
include Unisys User Group conferences and the Garter
Consulting Spring Symposium.
Michael Hicks
Senior Product Manager Access Control Systems
Motorola Connect Home Solutions
Motorola Inc.
As Sr. Product Manager for Access Control System for
Motorola CHS, Michael Hicks is responsible for the
company’s initiatives for delivering viable,
state-of-the-art Access Control technology to the
Digital Video Market.
Prior to joining Motorola, Hicks was a partner in
M2 Innovative Solutions, a start-up technology company
that developed and sold Control Systems for Ultra
Pure Manufacturing Water Systems to the Pharmaceutical
Industry. He was also partner at Semper Fideles Systems
that provided Network Computerized Accounting solutions
to small and medium sized business.
A member of the SCTE, he is an experienced speaker
at SCTE regional and national events. Hicks earned
a bachelor of science degree in Computer Information
Systems Management from Penn State University.
Rick Rioboli
Vice President of Design & Development
National Engineering and Technical Operations Group
Comcast
Rick Rioboli is Vice President of Design and Development
within the National Engineering and Technical Operations
group at Comcast. In this role, Mr. Rioboli is responsible
for managing the design and development of voice,
video, and data products. Prior to joining Comcast
in 2005, he held several positions at RCN from 1997
to 2004, including his last position as Senior Vice
President of Products and Technology, with responsibility
for the engineering, product development and IT functions.
Mr. Rioboli has been in the cable and telcom industry
for over 15 years.
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for each session
IPTV
Tech
Panelists:
Ray Milius
Senior Vice President
Programming Operations
Starz Entertainment
Ray Milius is senior vice president of programming
operations at Starz Entertainment where he is responsible
for managing teams in broadcast operations, post-production,
engineering, transmission, media encoding and on-demand,
as well as planning and implementing technological
growth and change.
Before joining Starz Entertainment in 1996, Milius
spent 33 years in the television industry including
time with NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates where he worked
in all technical areas including commercial production,
editing, directing and filming televised sporting
and live news events.
Milius is a member of several industry organizations
including the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and
the Cable & Telecommunications Association for
Marketing. In 1992, he received the McGraw-Hill Presidents
Award for excellence in management, as well as several
silver and gold awards for commercials and for directing
and has also been honored with the Broadcast Engineering
Excellence Award.
A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Milius currently
resides in Littleton, Colo.
with his wife Sheran.
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service
provider operating in the United States. It offers
16 movie channels including the flagship Starz®
and Encore® brands with approximately 14.9 million
and 26.6 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment
airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay
TV channels and offers advanced services including
Starz HD, Starz On Demand and VongoSM. Starz Entertainment
is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation that
is attributed to Liberty Capital Group,
www.starz.com.
Chris Dinallo
Vice President of Technology
Pace Micro Technology Americas
Chris Dinallo joined Pace in 2001 as Chief Technologist
to focus on U.S. cable digital set-top box development.
Today, his responsibilities include set-top box engineering,
future technological directions, and participation
in standard bodies. Prior to Pace, Chris was Engineering
Director at Netspeak Corporation, a Voice over IP
(VoIP) software provider. Earlier in his career, Chris
was the Software Engineering Director and Site Manager
at Oak Technology’s Software Design Center,
and held various senior engineering roles at IBM.
Since 1984, Chris’ engineering disciplines have
been in the areas of operating systems, multimedia
subsystems, MPEG video, DVD, and Voice over IP developments.
Highlights of Chris’ career include many of
the world’s first innovations such as: the rotational
firmware for the world’s first 2 ½”
disk drive; co-developing the IBM DOS kernel that
surpassed the 640KB memory barrier; audio architect
of IBM’s OS/2 Multimedia Subsystem; multimedia
architect for the object-oriented subsystem residing
beneath the Taligent OS; Dynamic boot-loader of the
MACH microkernel as implemented in IBM’s Workplace
OS; world’s first 32bit software-only DVD 1.0
compliant playback system built for personal computers;
and development of telephony ‘soft-switches’
for VoIP initiatives using H.323, MGCP and SIP protocols.
Chris is a Computer Science
graduate from the University of Florida and holds
four U.S. patents in the multimedia/DVD arena. He
has also written numerous white papers for industry
trade publications, including the more recent digital-cable
related articles as published in CED and Communication
Technologies magazines. Chris is an advocate of employing
open standards and Linux initiatives for set-top box
developments.
Mitch Weinraub
Senior Director
New Media Initiatives and Implementation
Comcast Media Center
Mitchell J. Weinraub is Senior Director, New Media
Initiatives for the Comcast Media Center. In this
role, he is responsible for all of the Comcast Media
Center's production and new media services including
the national VOD platform, studios, post-production,
live events, web streaming, store and forward delivery
and video over IP at the Denver-area facility.
Weinraub has 17 years of experience designing facilities,
systems and processes for the purpose of managing
technology. Before his current assignment, he held
roles at PRIMESTAR, DIRECTV, National College Television
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from The American
University, and an M.A. in broadcasting, telecommunications,
and mass media from Temple University.
Weinraub is co-author of Universal Access to On-line
Services: An Examination of the Issue, published as
Chapter 6 in The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or
Creating a Myth by MIT Press, August 2001.
Rahul Sonnad
Vice President of Business Development
thePlatform
Rahul Sonnad co-founded thePlatform with solid
experience in digital media services. He managed some
of the first backend solutions for digital media delivery
and commerce integration while with Microsoft's Digital
Media Division’s Research and Development, and
later joined WindowsMedia.com to develop digital media
strategies. Rahul’s vision for thePlatform from
the outset was to provide a solid foundation from
which content owners and publishers could get a head
start on executing their media publishing plans. Since
thePlatform’s inception, “our development
team has outdone themselves in creating a system that
can effectively support a broad range of the largest
broadband video services in the world,” says
Rahul. “In conjunction with Comcast, we will
enable unprecedented access to video content in a
consumer friendly manner, and meet the needs of content
owners and distributors at the same time.”
Rahul’s background includes managing Asian versions
of MS Office, innovating Microsoft Word features,
and engineering at Adobe Systems. He has a master's
degree in Computer Science and Technical Japanese
from the University of Washington.
Rahul is interested in music (particularly Pearl Jam
concerts), yoga at the studio he co-founded, and sustainable
community development.
Jim Strothman
Director, Product Strategy & Management
Home Entertainment Initiatives
Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Jim Strothmann is Director, Product Strategy
& Management, for Home Entertainment Initiatives
at Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company. In his role,
Jim is responsible for managing and charting the future
course of the digital video delivery platforms which
include the Explorer? 8000™ and 8000HD™
Home Entertainment Servers and the MCP-100™
DVR with DVD player and recorder.
Prior to coming to Scientific Atlanta in 2004, Jim
held various engineering and marketing positions at
Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA, GE, and ProScan
brands), including Hardware Design Manager for RCA
DVD Players and system engineer for DirecTV video
decoders. He later managed worldwide connectivity
for Thomson digital televisions.
Jim began his career working for IBM as a design
engineer in Lexington, KY.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Illinois in 1990, and an MBA
from Indiana University in 1999.
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for each session
Broadband
Mobility
Panelists:
Dave Park
Vice President of Product Marketing
BelAir Networks
Dave Park is an accomplished speaker with an extensive
background in wireless industry. Dave recently worked
directly on BelAir Network’s latest product
releases including the industry’s first wireless
mesh products designed for the cable industry and
the first converged multi-service wireless node, combining
cellular, Wi-Fi, and wireless mesh on a converged
platform.
Prior to joining BelAir Networks, Dave held senior
engineering and management positions with Marconi
Communications, STC technology, Bell Northern Research,
and Nortel Networks. He has worked on most some of
the commercially successful wireless standards of
the last decade and has designed and engineered cellular
base stations, pico-cellular systems, in-building
wireless systems and fixed wireless access terminals.
He has three patents with four pending in wireless
and optical systems.
Mark Chinn
Vice President of Marketing & Product Management
RCN Corp.
At RCN, Mark is responsible for marketing programs
and brand management, product development and life
cycle management, retail pricing, and web services.
Prior to joining RCN in October 2005, Mr. Chinn spent
seven years at Nextel where he held several positions,
most recently as Sr. Director of Planning and Pricing.
During his final year with Nextel, Mr. Chinn also
served as Marketing lead for Nextel's merger with
Sprint. Mr. Chinn holds an M.B.A. from the College
of William and Mary and a B.A. in Foreign Affairs
from the University of Virginia.
Ed Heuck
Chief Technology Officer
Hargray Communications
Ed Heuck first started his civilian career in 1976
as a technician with GE Cablevision. He then moved
to Chief Technician for United Cablevision in Illinois.
In 1980 Ed moved to Atlanta where he became the Regional
Project Engineer for Warner Amex. In 1983 Ed Moved
to Hilton Head Island, SC where he is the Chief Technology
Officer for Hargray Communications Group. Ed received
his electronics training from the Aerospace College
of the United States Air Force in 1973.
Kevin Packingham
Vice President of Product Development
Sprint/MSO Joint Venture
Kevin Packingham is the Vice President of Product
Development for the joint venture between Sprint,
Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Advance Newhouse. He
is leading the effort to develop converged services
that span the capabilities of the JV partners and
deliver a customer experience that is truly differentiated
from existing products.
Drawing on his extensive experience in marketing
and technology development, Packingham is focused
on the analysis, validation, design, and deployment
of innovative new products where cable and wireless
intersect. His responsibilities span the entire portfolio
of products, including voice and data services for
both the wireless and wireline networks.
Packingham is a frequent speaker at technology events
and has a diversified background that includes marketing,
product development, and user interface design.
During his seven-year career at Sprint, he has played
a major role in the development of the PCS Vision
data network, PCS Business Connection wireless email,
the Voice Command speech recognition platform, and
a variety of leading edge converged devices. In fact,
Packingham has submitted 10 patents on new technologies
that he has helped develop while at Sprint.
Packingham received his Bachelor of Science Degree
from Evangel University, a Master of Arts Degree from
the University of Dayton and he completed his doctoral
work at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
Louise Wasilewski
Vice President of Business
Development
Narad Networks
Wasilewski, an 18-year television industry veteran,
is Vice President of Sales at Narad Networks. She
most recently served as director of business development
at Scientific-Atlanta where she led worldwide efforts
in IPTV business development with top tier telecommunications
providers. During her tenure she introduced and promoted
profitable and operationally efficient architectures
and products at all levels of customer organizations.
Prior to joining Scientific-Atlanta, Wasilewski was
sales director at N2 Broadband, a provider of solutions
for on-demand services, where she led sales efforts
for professional services, customer software development
and compliance testing with leading MSOs. Wasilewski
also held a director level position in BearingPoint’s
content and communications sector where her client
list included Adelphia Communications, AOL, Cox Communications,
Cablevision, AT&T Broadband, Microsoft. As a consultant,
she led implementations and advised broadcasting,
cable and network operators on acquisition, financial,
operations and product management strategies.
Ms. Wasilewski has participated in a number of standards
setting and regulatory bodies in the television and
communications industry, including: FCC, RA; ETSI;
ITU-R; DVB; Video Services Forum; EBU-JTC; and the
MPEG-2 Committee. Ms. Wasilewski has a bachelor’s
of science in engineering in aerospace systems from
the University of Southampton in the UK.
Kai Mao
Principal Product Manager
Fujitsu Network Communications
Kai Mao is principal product manager at Fujitsu Network
Communications and is responsible for developing wireless
access products. In this role, Kai oversees the wireless
market strategy, sales support and services coordination
in addition to serving as a wireless network designer
and consultant on municipal deployments and managing
Fujitsu wireless products. Kai also represents Fujitsu
as a contributing and voting member of the WiMAX Forum.
Kai has over 12 years of experience in wide-area
networking, including nine years at Fujitsu where
he has also served as principal software engineer
for the FLASHWAVE product line. Previously, Kai worked
as a software engineer developing protocols for transport
products at Nortel.
Kai holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada.
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The
Broadband Future
Panelists:
Mike Hayashi
Senior Vice President of Advanced Engineering and
Technology
Time Warner Cable
Mike Hayashi was appointed
Vice President Advanced Engineering and Subscriber
Technology for Time Warner Cable in June of 1993.
In this role Mike has managed the selection and negotiated
the purchase of over 1.5 million digital set-tops
per year. He has transformed Time Warner Cable’s
advanced services suite to include more than 4 million
installed digital units across Time Warner Cable’s
footprint. He is currently responsible for all engineering
development activities within Time Warner Cable.
Mike joined Time Warner Cable in 1992 as Vice President
International Development where he guided external
technology partners in advanced technology product
development as part of the then newly-formed Time
Warner Entertainment unit.
Prior to joining Time Warner Cable Mike held various
positions at Scientific-Atlanta in Georgia including
Vice President Video Product Line and Marketing Director
Interdiction and International markets. There he developed
requirements for the first integrated electronic program
guide and achieved the #1 market share slot in the
UK and the #3 slot in Japan. Mike started his career
at Pioneer Communications of America as staff engineer
for Warner Cable’s Qube project.
Mike graduated from St Joseph College in Yokohama,
Japan in 1974, earned a BS in Engineering from Harvey
Mudd College in Claremont, California in 1978 and
an MBA from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
in 1986.
Mike is a member of CableLabs “OpenCable”
initiative and Chairman of the “OpenCable”
Certification Board.
Mike resides in Evergreen, Colorado with his wife
and two daughters.
Dave Clark
Director, Product Strategy & Management
Home Entertainment Products, Subscriber Networks
Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Dave Clark is Director, Product Strategy & Management,
for Home Entertainment Products at Scientific Atlanta,
a Cisco Company. He has responsibility for managing
and charting the future course of the DVR platform
which includes the Explorer? line of Home Entertainment
Servers, as well as Multi-Room™ DVR products
and the MCP-100 DVR with built in DVD Recorder/Player.
Prior to coming to Scientific-Atlanta in January,
2001, Clark held various engineering and marketing
positions at Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA, GE,
and ProScan brands). The last engineering position
he held was as Project Engineering Coordinator for
DirecTv set-top units. He then moved into product
management where he managed various product lines
including digital cameras, camcorders, and 19”-36”
televisions.
Clark started his career working
in the Defense industry for what is now Raytheon,
working as a project engineer on weapon and avionic
systems for Navy aircraft. He received a Bachelor
of Science in Engineering Degree from Purdue University
in 1990.
Paul Glist
Partner, Cole
Raywid & Braverman
Paul Glist is a Cole, Raywid & Braverman partner
who has been specializing in cable television and
telecommunications law and policy since 1978, working
extensively with NCTA, CableLabs, major cable companies
and State cable associations on the legal, regulatory
and strategic issues that have emerged as the industry
has developed.
For the past five years he has served as part of the
cable team in the negotiations between the cable industry
and the consumer electronics and IT industries, leading
to the “plug-and-play” and licensing agreements
with the consumer electronics industry and the agreement
with Microsoft to deliver cable services securely
to PCs. He is now working on the arrangements for
“bi-directional” plug-and-play televisions
and next-generation downloadable security.
His work has covered all aspects of cable regulation,
including rates, copyright and signal carriage, franchising,
the 1984 and 1992 Cable Acts, the 1996 Telecommunications
Act, state telecommunications legislation, pole attachments
and privacy. He facilitated the economical deployment
of coax and then fiber by successfully resisting pole
attachment overcharges and abuses through key cases
at the FCC, in US Courts of Appeal and the US Supreme
Court. He obtained the first FCC and court rulings
that cable television operators could deliver telecommunications
without losing their favorable status as “cable.”
He worked with the Florida Cable Television Association
team negotiating and writing the first state “level
playing field” franchise law, and was part of
the NCTA legal team to steer the industry through
re-regulation under the 1992 Cable Act.
Paul has appeared frequently as an expert witness
before State Public Service Commissions, state legislatures,
and in court on a variety of cable telecommunications
matters, such as rates, overbuilds, poles, and forced
access.
He has lectured and published extensively on cable
television and communications law. Since 1984, he
has served as a faculty member for the Practising
Law Institute’s annual course on cable television
and communications law. He is also a frequent speaker,
lecturer, and panelist for other university, law school
and communications industry programs.
Paul is a graduate of Cornell University (A.B. 1975,
with honors, Phi Beta Kappa) and Stanford Law School
(J.D. 1978).
Among his community activities, Paul is Chairman
of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
of Alexandria, Virginia; Secretary of the City of
Alexandria’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Planning Committee; and a Member of the Advisory Board
of the Tahirih Justice Center, a prominent advocacy
organization defending the rights of women and girls
who face gender-based violence. He has served as co-President
of the Alexandria Interfaith Association and is a
member of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan
Washington.
David Goodwin
Product Manager
Connected Home Solutions
Motorola, Inc.
David Goodwin is Product Manager, Motorola Connected
Home Solutions. In this role, Mr. Goodwin is responsible
for managing the product development for Motorola's
DCH Host family of digital cable set-tops.
Goodwin earned his bachelor’s of science, computer
engineering degree from Pennsylvania State and a master’s
of science, engineering management from Drexel University.
He also holds three patents in digital television.
Doug Jones
Chief Architect
BigBand Networks
Doug is Chief Architect with BigBand Networks where
he works directly with cable operators and the BigBand
Networks R&D and Product Marketing organizations
to develop architectures to deliver advanced cable
broadband services.
Prior to BigBand Networks, Doug worked with YAS Broadband
in several roles, including at CableLabs on many of
their projects. Previous to YAS, Doug was with MediaOne
where he worked on early cable modem deployments and
before that with U S WEST on their Video on Demand
trial in Omaha, Nebraska.
In summary, Doug has 20 years in the communications
industry spanning voice, video and data and is now
concentrating on integrating those services on a common
platform.
Michael Cookish
Director of Product Management
Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions
In this role, Michael is responsible for most aspects
of internal and external marketing of Motorola’s
market-leading BSR (Broadband Service Router) CMTS/Edge
Router as well as their OSS and Network Management
solutions. Michael has been active in the Cable industry
for many years starting with RiverDelta. Michael’s
key focus is to assure that the worldwide MSO marketplace
receives the highest quality solution with the right
tools to easily offer advanced services to their subscribers
and as a result generate addition, incremental revenues.
Michael is also responsible for driving Motorola’s
Modular-CMTS strategy that involves the creation and
development of Motorola’s next generation CMTS
solutions.
Previously Michael held the position of Vice President
of Marketing at Cayman Systems, a provider of intelligent
broadband gateways. He was also a Director of Marketing
for Network and Policy Management at 3Com Corporation.
Prior to joining 3Com Michael was a Product Manager
for a Switching Hub Vendor focusing on RMON and network
management and has also worked for one of the first
LAN Monitoring and Analysis companies.
Jeremy Bennington
Business Development Manager
Symmetricom Inc.
Jeremy Bennington is responsible for business development
of several next generation synchronization technologies
and markets for Symmetricom. His work includes development
of the new DOCSIS Timing Interface cable synchronization
standard and several other synchronization technologies
for the broader communication market including IEEE1588,
Synchronous Ethernet and the Universal Timing Interface.
Over the past four years he has served in several
capacities for Symmetricom in the US, Europe and Asia,
developing new product entries within the wireline,
wireless and cable telecommunication markets. Mr.
Bennington has also served as a member of Symmetricom’s
strategic working group and taken active rolls in
industry standards bodies including CableLabs. Mr.
Bennington has extensive experience developing and
bringing to market software and hardware products
for the telecommunications, academic and high-tech
consumer product industries domestically and internationally.
Prior to Symmetricom, Mr. Bennington held various
positions at Intel, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI),
and Purdue University. Having begun his early career
in the cable market at TCI (Tele-Communications Inc.,)
and X*Press information Services, Jeremy continued
his career at Intel and Purdue University. He holds
a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering and a Master’s
of Science in Management from Purdue University.
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