Experience

ActiveVideo

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO & President

  • Jul 2005 - Mar 2023

  San Jose, CA Joining ActiveVideo in 2000 as SVP of Engineering I led the product and engineering teams as they created HeadendWare, a cloud-based client/server architecture for providing web-based apps and search/discovery operations for cable and IPTV set top boxes. In 2003, with the blessing of ActiveVideo investors, co-founded Switched Media to create new technologies for cloud-based MPEG compressed domain processing and overlays. In 2005 ActiveVideo acquired Switched Media and I was appointed CEO… Show more Joining ActiveVideo in 2000 as SVP of Engineering I led the product and engineering teams as they created HeadendWare, a cloud-based client/server architecture for providing web-based apps and search/discovery operations for cable and IPTV set top boxes. In 2003, with the blessing of ActiveVideo investors, co-founded Switched Media to create new technologies for cloud-based MPEG compressed domain processing and overlays. In 2005 ActiveVideo acquired Switched Media and I was appointed CEO of the combined operations. Negotiated the acquisition of Avinity Systems in 2009 and Tag Networks in 2010, successfully integrating the teams and technologies to create the CloudTV product for delivering HTML5 applications from the cloud to cable and IPTV set top boxes without browser capabilities. Ultimately delivered guides, search & discovery, and HTML5 apps including Hulu, YouTube, Facebook and games to over 20M set top boxes and connected TVs worldwide and delivered billions of user sessions per month to millions of video viewers. In 2015, I negotiated and closed the acquisition of ActiveVideo by a joint venture between Charter Communications and ARRIS for $135M. ActiveVideo continued to operate as an independent company and I continued as CEO as we developed and sold CloudTV to customers worldwide. In 2019 we announced the development of AppCloud, a public cloud-based virtual Android platform to deliver Android streaming apps from the cloud to any device with a GPU regardless of processor and memory resources or operating system. Deployed AppCloud to 4M customers in 2020 delivering top tier streaming apps entirely from AWS. In 2023, ActiveVideo operations were absorbed into CommScope. During these years, I kept the company financed and led it from pre-revenue through profitability, oversaw the creation of a powerful IP portfolio including dozens of patents and led a successful patent litigation against a Fortune 50 company that led to a large damages award and payout.

• Board Member

  • Jul 2005 - May 2015

  Member of the board of directors of ActiveVideo from 2005 until its acquisition by Charter Communications and ARRIS in 2015.

• Senior Vice President of Engineering

  • Jun 2000 - Jul 2005



ActiveVideo Networks B.V.

• Netherlands
• Business Consulting and Services

• Board Member

  • May 2009 - Feb 2023

  Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands Member of the board of directors for the NL subsidiary of ActiveVideo from its inception through its absorption by CommScope in 2023.



TAG Networks, Inc

• Board Member

  • May 2008 - Jun 2010

  Mountain View, California, United States Member of the board of directors of Tag Networks, a leading interactive game channel for television. Tag was acquired by ActiveVideo in 2010.



SMART Modular Technologies

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP Consulting Engineering & Applications

  • Aug 1996 - Jun 2000

  Fremont, CA RISQ was acquired by Smart Modular Technologies in 1996 becoming its embedded computer group. Grew the group to over $100M in revenue before SMART was acquired by Solectron Corporation in 1999 for over $2B. The embedded computer group merged with the Force Computers, a division of Solectron.



RISQ Modular Systems

• Co-founder & President

  • Mar 1991 - Aug 1996

  Fremont, CA Co-founded and served as president of RISQ Modular Systems, an embedded computer system design and manufacturing company for reduced instruction set processor platforms developing and supplying products in the networking telecommunications, financial, and other embedded computer applications. After 5 years of profitable growth, RISQ was acquired in 1996 by Smart Modular (SMOD).

• Board Member

  • Mar 1991 - Aug 1996

  Fremont, California, United States



Performance Semiconductor

• Applications Engineering Manager

  • Sep 1988 - Mar 1991

  Sunnyvale, CA Became an industry expert in RISC microprocessors, particularly those designed by MIPS Computer Systems, and served as consultant for numerous companies using that microprocessor including Silicon Graphics, Nintendo and Digital Equipment Co.



Delco Systems Operations

• Project Manager

  • May 1983 - Sep 1988

  Santa Barbara, CA Served as computer designer and project manager for numerous projects involving flight control and targeting systems for military jets.