Dave Woodle
Chairman and CEO, C-COR
David A. Woodle was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of C-COR in October 2000 and has been a member of the C-COR Board of Directors since October 1998. Under Mr. Woodle's leadership, C-COR successfully implemented a multi-year strategic plan to tap into the growing worldwide demand for full network life cycle support in delivering two-way voice, video and data to the subscriber. Today, C-COR is a top-tier broadband provider with an installed equipment base of approximately $3 billion and 200-plus software systems deployed worldwide.
Nyla Ahmad
Senior Director, Strategic Partners for Rogers Communications Inc.
Nyla Ahmad is responsible for overseeing and managing key cross-company relationships. This includes managing the Rogers Yahoo! strategic alliance across the entire Rogers group of companies. Previously within Rogers, Ms. Ahmad held roles within Rogers Cable and the Internet division of Rogers Media. As Senior Director of Electronic Channels for Rogers Cable Communications Inc. she was responsible for the product development, online services strategy and customer experience for Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet. As Vice President of Excite Canada, she oversaw the development of consumer online content and services across broadband, narrowband and wireless platforms.
Richard B. (Dick) Anderson
General Manager, Global Media & Entertainment Industry Division, IBM
Richard B. (Dick) Anderson directs the group's strategy, marketing, business development, industry solutions and product offerings. His purview includes IBM's worldwide involvement in the businesses of entertainment, sports, broadcast, cable, publishing and advertising. With his expert team, Mr. Anderson has created, in just several years, a new multi-billion-dollar division of IBM. With more than 20 years' experience in key managerial positions at the company, he is playing a key role in the creation of an IBM division that is having a profound and enviable impact on the media and entertainment industries, as they move toward an all-digital future. Mr. Anderson supervises IBM's work with its diverse portfolio of Media and Entertainment clients throughout the world.
Jeffery Brown
Head of Global Strategy and Development, QUALCOMM MediaFLO Technologies
Jeffery Brown oversees MediaFLO's global strategy and business development on a worldwide basis. Mr. Brown has been working in the broadcasting and media technology industries for over a decade, specifically in the international markets. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, he held the position of the Asia Pacific Managing Director and SVP for OpenTV where he developed expansion into key regional markets and was responsible for all regional operations. Mr. Brown previously served as the President of General Instrument Japan with responsibility for all operations in Japan, Korea and Guam. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and a master's degree in Corporate Finance in the Sloan Fellowship program of the London Business School.
Ralph Brown
CTO, CableLabs®
Ralph Brown is Chief Technology Officer at Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabsŪ), where he is responsible for technology direction for the technical projects. He is also responsible for leading the DOCSISŪ (www.cablemodem.com) and CableHomeT (www.cablelabs.com/projects/cablehome) research and development projects. These efforts include development of cable modem and residential gateway specifications, as well as the interoperability testing and certification of products built to these specifications. CableLabs is a research and development consortium of cable television system operators worldwide. CableLabs plans and funds research and development projects that will help cable companies take advantage of future opportunities and meet future challenges.
Stuart Collingwood
Vice President Europe, Sling Media
Stuart Collingwood joined Sling Media in June 2006 and has responsibility for all of the company's European operations including partnerships, country and territory expansion, and strategic planning. For the last three years Mr. Collingwood advised pay TV providers, digital media companies and technology start-ups on the launch of new digital platforms and technology. He also served as Vice President, EMEA for Liberate and spent eight years at Fujitsu-ICL. Mr. Collingwood is based in London.
Keval Desai
Director of Product Management, Google
Keval Desai is a Director of Product Management at Google. Since joining Google in 2003, Mr. Desai has been the product management lead for several businesses including AdWords and Syndication of Google services to global partners. Currently, he leads Google's efforts in Syndication of Video Search & Advertising on the Internet and TV. Since 1991, he has worked in software development, product management, management consulting and venture capital roles at firms including Tandem Computers (now part of HP), Global Village Communication, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, McKinsey & Co., Onset Ventures and Achex (now part of First Data Corp), where he was a co-founder.
Kenneth (KC) Estenson
Vice President, Digital Media, Disney-ABC Cable Networks Group
KC Estenson is charged with managing and implementing efforts in the digital media arena including video-on-demand, broadband, web-based and mobile platforms and interactive television technologies across the Group's wholly owned domestic channels including ABC Family, Disney Channel, Toon Disney/Jetix and SOAPnet. He is also supporting the implementation of digital media initiatives related to the Group's successful international kids' TV business, which includes 23 Disney Channels, eight Toon Disney channels, eight Playhouse Disney channels and 18 Jetix channels outside the US. Mr. Estenson earned a BA degree in Political Science at St. Mary's College of California and holds a master's degree in Education from Harvard University.
Marwan Fawaz
Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Charter Communications
Marwan Fawaz has over 22 years' experience in the cable industry encompassing engineering, technical operations and business development. He started his career in the industry as a design engineer at Times Mirror Cable Television, where he worked for 10 years. Later he 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.
Lorenz Glatz
CTO, Kabel Deutschland GmbH
Lorenz Glatz joined Kabel Deutschland in October 2006 to drive KDG's network and services upgrade and next-generation product implementation. His particular focus is to accelerate the upgrade of the RF infrastructure as well as to build out a nationwide IP backbone infrastructure in Germany. In parallel his main focus is on creating advanced triple-play services on top of that infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Glatz worked as the Senior Vice President of Network and Systems Design & Architecture for UPC. In this role he was responsible for design and implementation of the end-to-end broadband network and systems infrastructure of the UPC group.
Dennis Hodges
VP Marketing, Sales and Content Strategy, UPC Central Europe Group; Chairman, CTAM Europe
Dennis Hodges CTAM joined UPC in May 2001, leading strategic and creative marketing, sales and content initiatives throughout the region. Mr. Hodges' communications-based career began in 1981 with United Cable Television in corporate and regional marketing management positions. After a number of years as General Manager of cable television operations, he left cable for the competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) Teleport Communications Group where he developed and managed the Omaha market. Later Mr. Hodges founded Nebraska Technology and Telecommunications and is currently chairman of CTAM Europe, which he helped found.
Stephanie Keller-Bottom
Partner and Co-Founder, I2, Innovation Intelligence LLC
Stephanie Keller-Bottom has spent her career instilling, guiding and implementing best-in-class innovation resource practices at Fortune 100 corporations and with a variety of diverse industries throughout North America and Europe. As partner and co-founder of i2, Innovation Intelligence LLC, Ms. Keller-Bottom guides this strategic consulting firm that specializes in working with the entrepreneurial community to accelerate the development of early stage companies. She provides leadership, practical business expertise and tools as well as methodologies to clarify vision while connecting companies toward the extended networks of thought leaders, investors, and alliance partners as she accelerates their time to market.
Michael Lee
Chief Strategy Officer, Rogers Communications Inc.
Michael Lee is Chief Strategy Officer for Rogers Communications Inc. Mr. Lee is responsible for strategy development, business development and strategic partner management for the Rogers Communications group of companies, which include Rogers Cable, Rogers Wireless and Rogers Media. Previously, Mr. Lee held the role of Vice President, Strategy and Development for Rogers Cable where he managed the development of new businesses and services for video, high-speed Internet and telephony.
Michael Pohl
President Global Strategies, C-COR
Michael Pohl joined C-COR in January 2005 when the company acquired nCUBE Corporation, a worldwide provider of on demand media and digital advertising systems, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. At C-COR, Mr. Pohl is responsible for setting the company's sales, marketing and business strategies around the world. Mr. Pohl is an active member of the NCTA, Cable TV Pioneers, Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE).
Tom Rogers
CEO, President and Vice Chairman of the Board, TiVo
Tom Rogers is Chief Executive Officer, President and Vice Chairman of the Board of TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs). With a career that operates at the nexus of where media, technology, advertising and public policy collide for more than two decades, he brings to TiVo a distinctive blend of leadership, investment and corporate strategy experience across multiple faces of the industry. Previously, Mr. Rogers was Chairman and CEO of PRIMEDIA, Inc., the leading targeted media company in the United States. .
Benny Salaets
Product Manager Interactive TV, Telenet
Benny Salaets is responsible for all interactive and content services on the interactive digital TV platform on Telenet (including channels, VOD, interactive applications) and for pctv, a closed broadband video over IP service on Telenet's broadband portal, targeted to the PC. As a marketer, it's his job to turn technology into sticky services.
Manuel Sequeira
Chief Technologist, TV Cabo Portugal
Manuel Sequeira is the Chief Technologist at TV Cabo Portugal, a branch of PT Multimedia, a company of Portugal Telecom, where his main focus is the technology and the strategy for the introduction of new and convergent services for both the IP network and the cable and satellite digital networks. Since 1998, his team planned, designed, engineered and operated the Internet Over Cable deployment, covering in depth all the technical details for the cable network infrastructure, the data network infrastructure, the server infrastructure, the mediation tools, the integration with customer care and billing, as well as the service layering and initial business plans for the project.
Jay Schiller
VP Business Development, Atlas On Demand
Jay Schiller is responsible for business activities and strategy with operators, programmers, and technology partners. 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.
Pascal Thomas
VP NexT.com, Group Strategic Marketing, Orange
An engineering graduate, Pascal Thomas spent his first four years as a developer and an architect with Thomson CSF. He then spent several years as a Consultant and Director of Business Development for Valtech and in 2000 founded Cosmobilis, a start-up specializing in mobility. In 2001, Mr. Thomas joined Orange France Marketing, leading handsets and services for the consumer market in France. Mr. Thomas is now in charge of innovations and disruptive business models within the group's strategic marketing.
Gary Traver
Senior Vice President and COO, Comcast Media Center
Gary Traver is responsible for overall management of the CMC business. Mr. Traver, a 20-year broadcasting veteran, also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of CMC since its acquisition by Comcast in the Fall of 2002. Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, provides a Total Content Solution for cable system operators and members of the content community. CMC's products include its HITS all-digital platform of over 200 linear digital video and audio services; an Advertising Distribution Network (ADN) for centrally managing cross channel promotions and advertising; and a video on demand (VOD) platform serving over 15 million VOD-enabled cable households.
Dr. Thomas Werner
Senior Vice President Mobile Solutions, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Thomas Werner is a Senior Vice President for Mobile Solutions activities within the Nokia Siemens Mobile Networks Division. Dr. Werner is in charge of solutions and products for mobile operators. He has almost 20 years' experience in the telecommunications industry. Before his current assignment he was in charge of Business Development for the Siemens Mobile Networks Division. In his career he has been responsible for different management positions in the marketing and project management area, both in fixed and mobile communications. Prior to joining Siemens he worked for Philips Communication Systems in IT, R&D and corporate development functions in Germany and Belgium. Dr. Werner holds an MSc in T elecommunications and a PhD in Communications Engineering.