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Joel Zdepski
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Middleware
Joel joined OpenTV in 1995 and was initially responsible for MPEG and server product development. He later headed the Application Engineering department in the Applications Business Unit from 1999 to 2001. More recently, he worked in the CTO office, functioning in part as CTO for the Asia Pacific region, where he was instrumental in technical evangelizing and selling to FOXTEL, SkyPerfecTV, and J:COM, and most recently network operators in India.
Joel was also part of an Intellectual Property Business Unit looking at models for monetizing OpenTV’s IP portfolio until the company’s business strategy evolved in 2005. He continues to work with the Legal department on prosecution of patents and portfolio renewal where he chairs the OpenTV Innovations Committee.
Prior to joining OpenTV, Joel was Head, Digital Video Communications at Sarnoff, working on MPEG and HDTV system design and design of the DirecTV compression/transmission chain. Joel holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, specializing in Video Compression and Video Communications. He is a named inventor on 30 issued US patents.
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