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Régis André, Avid, Senior Director Product Management
Régis André has been a driver in the creation of major products in the industry around production asset management for sports, studio, and news operations for more than 15 years. In addition, he continues to be a driving force in the workflow-automation news-studio automation systems with a strong interest and focus on user experience design.
André started his career at Avid as a workflow specialist and eventually headed up the design of what is now Interplay Production, among other products. After that he moved to another company for 10 years to head the product management and UI/UX teams for software products. André is now back at AVID looking after the future of Avid’s production and asset-management platforms, as well as news systems.
Tom Blake, Imagen, CEO
Tom was educated in Medical Chemistry, and had an early career in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Sales. He is an MBA graduate from Imperial College and had an accelerated career into strategic marketing within Neurosurgery and ENT sectors. Compelled by the depth of technology and the nascent state of the enterprise video market, Tom took on the evolution of Imagen Ltd from bespoke developers of software to venture backed growth business with a world leading Sports Video Platform selling on 4 continents.
Imagen is now the leading platform for preserving and monetizing large libraries of sports content. Rights holders, federations and governing bodies use Imagen to fully realize the commercial value of their content through B2B licensing and SVOD subscriptions as well as increasing fan engagement and inspiring the next generation of champions.
Imagen’s Global Distribution Network technology uses public cloud infrastructure to replicate media libraries to any number of strategically positioned PoPs around the globe, enabling broadcast quality files to be delivered through a customizable, highly secure web platform.
This key innovation has enabled customers to expand their markets overseas, provide a premium service for clients and deliver a vast library of legacy content to new audiences in new territories.
In 2015 Imagen was recognized as Global Digital Asset Management Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by industry thought leaders Frost and Sullivan.
Scott Bounds, Microsoft, US Media & Cable Industry Lead
Scott Bounds is Microsoft’s US Industry Lead for Media, engaging with enterprise customers in the Media & Entertainment Sector. In this role, Bounds is responsible for identifying trends and opportunities in the industry and working with customers on solutions using Microsoft technologies. Bounds is an 20 year veteran of Microsoft spending over 10 years in the Media Industry in a variety of management and technical roles.
Padraic Boyle, MLBAM, Director, Enterprise Media
Padraic Boyle joined Major League Baseball in February of 2008 as part of the Information Technology Transformation as a Business Relationship Manager. In his role he was responsible with providing technical direction to the Business verticals of the Office of the Commissioner, and a technical liaison to MLB Productions and MLB Network.
Reaching into his rich media background Padraic took on the role as Technical Lead for MLB and architected MLB’s Digital Asset Management system, the DIAMOND Platform, which was nominated for the 2012 Sports Emmy George Wensel Technical Achievement Award. The DIAMOND Platform is hosted in MLB’s Secaucus facility where it serves MLB Productions and MLB Network. DIAMOND also has a Cloud-based presence to facilitate video services for internal departments within the Commissioner’s Office.
Prior to joining Major League Baseball, Padraic was the Vice President of Technology for Veneca. Veneca was a systems integrator with a unique set of applications which primarily addresses Digital Asset Management/Media Asset Management (DAM/MAM) solutions for the broadcast industry. Clientele included Lifetime Television, MTV, Scripps, Turner Broadcasting and the Paley Center for Media.
Before Venaca, Padraic worked for Lifetime Television and was heavily involved in the architecting, development and implementation of Lifetime Television’s Digital Asset Management system from the ground up – ingest and archive to tracking and repurposing content owned and/or purchased for distribution on Lifetime’s networks. Padraic was also the Co-Principal and VP of Technology for DataVision, a Systems Integration and Consulting company in the magazine publishing, financial and television broadcast industries.
Tom Burns, EMC, CTO of Media & Entertainment Division
Tom Burns, EMC/Isilon’s CTO for Media & Entertainment was previously responsible for re-engineering Technicolor’s global file-based workflows, and developed HDR imaging solutions for episodic and feature post-production. He has built a boutique VFX facility in Shanghai, and a CG animated feature studio in Toronto. Prior to that, Burns was the architect of Oxygen Media’s (now NBC/Universal) storage and networking infrastructure in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market. Burns began his career at Silicon Graphics, Inc., developing Maya animation software and managing digital disk recorder products.
Tab Butler, MLB Network, Director, Media Management and Post Production
Tab Butler joined the Major League Baseball Network in June, 2008, as part of the Engineering and IT Department where he was chartered with the facility build-out for the January 1, 2009 MLB Network launch. He currently manages the Media Management team for the MLB Network, and oversees MLB Network post-production.
Butler spent 18 years at the NBC Network where he worked for NBC News, NBC Sports, and NBC Operations and Technical Services. He received two Emmy Awards while at NBC and one Emmy Award while at MLB Network. While in manufacturing, Butler worked in various capacities for Tektronix (Grass Valley Group), EMC, VideoBank, SeaChange International, and IBRIX.
Brian Campanotti, Oracle, Global Director of Business Development
For the past decade, Brian Campanotti has lead innovation and strategy for Front Porch Digital as CTO, leading to their acquisition by Oracle in 2014. He now heads a global business development team focused on advanced on-prem and cloud-based Content Storage Management solutions for archive and preservation, serving many verticals. Campanotti founded several tech start-ups and began his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was one of the primary inventors of the SMPTE Archive eXchange Format (AXF) open-standard and he and his team have won two Emmy® Awards for their work.
Eric Carson, Dalet Digital Media Systems, Senior Business Development Manager
With well over a decade of experience at the cutting edge of media workflows, Eric Carson is passionate about finding new ways to optimize media processes, bridging the gap between the need for quality viewing experiences, and creating additional content monetization paths. Carson has a strong technical background in file-based workflows as the original architect of the (Tektronix) Aurora automated QC software and has contributed significantly to industry projects and groups such as EBU (QC), AMWA, and SMPTE.
With a keen interest in sports, Carson spends much of his time outside of work supporting World Baseball Outreach, using the games of baseball and softball to help children worldwide to not only reach for the dreams of major league ball, but also major league citizenship.
David Clack, CatDV/JB&A, CEO
David Clack leads Square Box, makers of CatDV Media Asset Management products, helping creative professionals make incredible video and audio content, optimize media workflows, and manage the exploding demand for high quality video content. CatDV enables creative teams to manage the huge volume of video, audio, graphics, images and documents involved in program making today. It streamlines the process of planning, shooting, post-production, and distribution of compelling media content.
CatDV is used by a huge range of customers globally, from traditional broadcasters and production houses, across sports, education, non-profit, advertising and corporate sectors. Clack particularly enjoys working with customers, designing media workflows, and transforming video production processes in a rapidly changing industry.
Clack and the team are honored to be the power behind many household names, once in a lifetime events, and major TV and film projects.
After a more technical and consulting oriented start to his career, based around software: build, service, management, sales, and support, Clack discovered this breadth, coupled with exposure to many different industries and customers, was great preparation running and growing businesses. He has run several small to mid sized firms, as well as having senior roles in larger, household name organizations.
Jason Dachman, SVG, Chief Editor
As Chief Editor, Dachman oversees all aspects of SVG’s North American editorial operations, including the thrice-weekly SVG Insider newsletter and SVG’s annual print publications. A member of the SVG team since 2009, Dachman also serves as Program Director for SVG’s Sports Asset Management & Storage (SAMS) Forum, Sports Graphics Forum, and TranSPORT event. Prior to joining SVG, he spent three years covering local sports for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, and spent two years on the production staff of SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s The Ron & Fez Show. Dachman began his career in the Sports Information Department at Northeastern University in Boston, where he also earned a BA in Media Communications and Cinema Studies. A native of Denver, CO, Jason currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
David Dukes, PGA Tour Entertainment, Senior Director, Technical Operations
David Dukes began his career in commercial post production as an assistant editor and then editor for a Cincinnati, OH-based post-production facility more than 20 years ago. Following 8 years in Cincinnati, Dukes joined the PGA TOUR in 1996 as an editor and has held several positions within PGA TOUR Entertainment ever since. In addition to managing all technical operations and staff, his current responsibilities include direct oversight of PGA TOUR Entertainment’s Media Asset Management initiatives as well as strategic technology planning for PGA TOUR Entertainment. Dukes resides in Jacksonville, FL with his wife and son.
Alan Gagliardotto, Sony, Product Marketing Manager, Optical Disc Archive
Alan Gagliardotto currently leads a growing lineup of Optical Disc Archive storage and content management solutions, for both on premise and hybrid cloud. He has more than 18 years of experience managing automated (tape and optical) library systems and integrating with 3rd party software partners. Gagliardotto advises Sony’s Media Backbone team on long term media preservation workflows and helps to define and execute the company’s future product roadmap. He holds a B.S. in engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Nick Gold, Chesapeake Systems, Chief Revenue Officer
Nick Gold is the Chief Revenue Officer for Chesapeake Systems, an East Coast-based IT-centric media systems integrator. Chesapeake Systems specializes in working with large media entities to design, install and maintain video post-production, archive, media asset management, storage, ingest/playout and program delivery systems.
Gold brings to his consultant role an extensive technical knowledge base. His intense curiosity drives him to stay current with the latest developments in the media & IT fields. Complementing that is his uncanny ability to communicate complex technical concepts to the layperson.
Gold is recognized as a leading expert within the realm of Media Asset Management (MAM) and related archive & storage workflows. Within the past year, Gold has moderated three New York City-based symposia concerning MAM, and he presented a MAM primer to SMPTE DC’s “Bits By The Bay” conference.
As video delivery has become synonymous with the internet, Gold has also been interested in exploring the burgeoning role of Over-the-Top internet broadcasting. Within the past two years, he has given presentations on the topic to the SMPTE Sections of DC, Philadelphia, and New York City.
Gold is also co-host of the popular audio podcast series, The Workflow Show, now in its third season. The episodes address overarching trends and specific tech topics to help guide listeners through these challenging yet exciting times of unprecedented change within the realm of digital media workflows.
Jeff Greenwald, HGST, Senior Director, Market Development
Jeff Greenwald is the Senior Director of Market Development for HGST. Jeff‘s focus is to build industry solutions that provide vertical market workflows for various customer use cases. Customers in media, broadcast, health care, high performance computing and other industry sectors need solutions that integrate exactly with ISV and other industry standard software specifically in the workflows of these verticals.
Greenwald has over 25 years experience in these markets, and has lead vertical and product marketing teams at IBM, Sun Microsystems, and most recently, at Hitachi Data Systems where he lead the Alliance and Market Development team in the telecom and M&E market sectors. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA. Greenwald has made customer visits in over 30 countries and has spoken at symposiums, technology conferences, and at industry trade shows from Barcelona, to Singapore, London, Las Vegas and New York.
Chris Halton, NBA, VP, Media & Distribution Technology
Chris Halton serves as Vice President, Media and Distribution Technology, NBA, where he is responsible for leading technical strategies for the league’s digital media acquisition, distribution, and archiving platforms.
Since joining the NBA in April 2014, Halton has implemented new digital and broadcast technologies for NBA statistics and video distribution such as the new Continuous Game Feeds to Global NBA partners as well as introducing NBA’s Content & Audience Network. Halton also played a key role in the creation of the NBA Replay Center which debuted in the 2014-15 season, overseeing all software development for the application.
Before joining the NBA, Halton spent eight years as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for CNBC. While there he oversaw the software design, development and technical support of CNBC’s online, mobile, and on-air platforms, as well as on-air television systems such as CNBC’s Market Data Ticker Plant, real-time on-air graphic systems, and supporting self-service Newsroom Publishing Tools.
Halton began his professional career in 1995 as a design engineer with Sandvik Coromant in Fair Lawn, N.J. He was promoted to technical lead in 1998, responsible for the build-out and management of the company’s e-commerce web offerings.
Halton graduated from Kean University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and design.
Paul Hodges III, Golden State Warriors, Senior Executive Producer
Paul Hodges III serves as the Senior Executive Producer for the Golden State Warriors and leads all video content development and distribution. He oversees Warriors Studio, the in-house group he founded, which is solely responsible for all aspects of video content including overall strategy, creative, technical and infrastructure and which drives delivery of that content across TV, online and in-arena channels. Prior to the Warriors, Hodges III spent the majority of his 16 years of his sports entertainment career with the San Francisco Giants building SFG Productions. He has won 8 Northern California Emmy Awards in the last five years, in addition to the four Championship rings between the SF Giants and the Golden State Warriors. Hodges III received his degree in Broadcasting and Electronic Arts from San Francisco State.
Scott Katzenoff, Ooyala, Head of Media Solutions
Scott is responsible for driving market success for Ooyala’s media logistics platform, Ooyala Flex, in North America. Scott oversees customer driven sales of Ooyala’s video workflow solutions, helping broadcasters and media companies produce premium video with greater efficiency, automation, and analytics to continually measure and improve their video operations. He also supports solution sales of the company’s live platform in North America. Before joining Ooyala, Scott built technology solutions for both file-based and live-streaming solutions first in his own company, Advanced Media Concepts, and later for Haivision Network Video. Early in his career, he provided IPTV across many of today’s global video networks.
Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services
Ken Kerschbaumer is co-executive director of editorial services for the Sports Video Group and SVG Europe. He was a co-founder of SVG along with Paul Gallo and Marty Porter in 2005 and has been writing about how sports networks and leagues use video and audio technology to deliver a quality TV experience since 1991. Kerschbaumer began his career in 1991 at Television Broadcast magazine before joining Cahners where he was founding editor of Digital Broadcasting magazine. In 2000 he joined Broadcasting & Cable magazine as Senior Editor of Technology where he covered all aspects of broadcasting, cable, and Internet content creation and distribution.
Michael King, DDN Storage, Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations
Janet Lafleur, Quantum Corporation, Product Marketing for Media & Entertainment
Janet Lafleur is a Silicon Valley-based technologist focused on workflow storage solutions for the media & entertainment industry. In her product marketing role at Quantum, Lafleur sees major disruptions caused by technology advances, from 4K/8K and HDR to increased content monetization, and focuses on how these technologies benefit people and businesses, going beyond the “faster, cheaper, better” approach. She is fascinated by the creative solutions Quantum customers develop to manage content in their workflows and loves sharing their strategies. Lafleur’s prior experience includes product marketing at Cassatt and 3ware. She began her career as a software developer and holds a degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University.
Nima Malekmanesh, Evertz, Product Marketing Manager and Sr Engineer – DreamCatcher
Nima Malekmanesh has been with Evertz since 2001 and is one of the lead software engineers who developed DreamCatcher. Malekmanesh oversees DreamCatcher marketing, sales, and service worldwide. He also contributes to product direction and development.
Chris May, Digital Strategies, President
Chris May is the president of Digital Strategies, a technology advisory organization that provides strategic business planning, technology road mapping and implementation/post-
Scott McBurney, ACC, Associate Commissioner, Advanced Media
Scott McBurney is entering his 20th year with the Atlantic Coast Conference overseeing video production and distribution in the league office. Hired to impact ACC awareness in local and national sports programming, McBurney has been involved in developing distribution methods to meet the ever expanding role that video can have in spreading the message of the conference and its 15 member institutions.
The Advanced Media department is responsible for disseminating daily content received from the league institutions through its Aspera Faspex platform, known as the ACC Video Clip Service. The platform (AVCS) has over 300 subscribers made up of digital, local, and national sports outlets. Additionally, McBurney has been heavily involved in the league’s live streaming efforts over the past 10 years, producing many of the conference’s championship events not covered by the ACC’s television partners. McBurney has implemented 3 AVID Media Composer edit bays and uses AVID Interplay and Telestream Vantage within the post production workflow. Archiving and asset management workflows are also in place to handle the league office’s video archives.
Before his move to the ACC, McBurney served as Executive Producer of Sports Productions at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina. He spent 11 years at WGHP and prior to that earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Broadcasting/Cinema from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Michelle Munson, Aspera (an IBM Company), CEO
Michelle Munson is co-inventor of Aspera’s Emmy Award-winning FASP transport technology and is responsible for overseeing the company’s direction in collaboration with co-founder Serban Simu. Munson was a software engineer in research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research Center before founding Aspera in 2004.
Grant Nodine, NHL, SVP, Technology
Grant Nodine started his career working as a systems librarian at Editel. He moved on to working as a web developer on sites like Rodale Press’ MensHealth.com. He later co-founded a web development firm called Mercury Seven where he worked as the firm’s chief technologist. Eight-plus years ago Nodine arrived at the NHL where he has been involved in building a technology infrastructure that supports NHL.com and all 30 of the team’s websites, numerous systems to produce and deliver streaming media, and many other large technology implementations.
James Pilott, HBO, Operations & Creative Producer
James Pilott is the Operations and Creative Producer for HBO Sports. He has been responsible for crafting broadcast, edit and storage workflows and solutions for the Sports department since 2012, as well as co-ordinating a multi-platform media management operation for all HBO Sports properties. Pilott is responsible for identifying, means-testing and implementing new technologies aimed at consistently raising production values on HBO Sports shows, and is also currently working on a cross-departmental campaign to archive thousands of hours of legacy footage.
In addition to his Operations duties, Pilott is also a senior member of HBO Sports’ internal creative team. He has produced, shot and edited several shows and features, including Emmy-nominated work on flagship HBO shows such as 24-7 and Live Boxing. Pilott has developed a turnkey system for complete on-location production, which allows high-quality content to be shot, edited and delivered for live broadcast on extremely tight turnarounds.
Michael Raimondo, PGA Tour, Director – Media Asset Management
Michael Raimondo is the Director of Media Asset Management for PGA TOUR Entertainment. Raimondo oversees the PGA TOUR’s Media Asset Management system including the day to day operations of the ingest operators, loggers, library personnel, as well as the media fulfillment division. Raimondo has over 20 years of experience in the broadcast industry. Prior to joining the TOUR, he worked in New York City at MTI – The Image Group (now NEP Studios) as a systems engineer wiring and building studios and edit suites. The company went from one studio in NYC in 1993 to seven studios by 1998. Following MTI, Raimondo was a staff engineer for rental companies (Bexel, Charter and Duke City Video) working events for various television networks including ESPN, ABC, CBS, Channel 9 Australia and Discovery Channel.
Scott Rinehart, University of Notre Dame, Lead Technologist, Fighting Irish Digital Media
Scott Rinehart is the lead technologist with Fighting Irish Media (FIM) at the University of Notre Dame, responsible for providing technical direction for athletics’ multi-media production infrastructure.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Rinehart worked at NASCAR Media Group as the director of internal operations. Before that, he was at PGA TOUR Productions.
Rinehart serves as an advisory board member to the Sports Video Group and SpectraLogic Advisory Council, and has won several awards throughout his career. His accomplishments include the 2008 Computerworld’s Best Practices in Storage Award, and in 2007 he was a member of the Sports Emmy winning team for “Live Event Turnaround”. He has presented at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference on the topic of asset management.
A native of Jacksonville, FL, Rinehart is a graduate of the University of Alabama, with a bachelor of arts degree in communications. While in school, he served as a student trainer under legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant.
Rinehart and his wife Karen reside in South Bend, IN.
David Schleifer, Primestream, COO
A 25-year veteran of the technology industry, David Schleifer previously held the positions of VP of strategic planning for Avid Technology, where he built and managed the business strategy for the media and entertainment market, and VP of broadcast for Avid where he built and managed Avid’s growth into the broadcast market. Over his career, Schleifer has been responsible for the development and introduction of many products – including the revolutionary Avid Interplay, Avid iNEWS Instinct, and products including on-air systems, automation, 3D graphics, and editing solutions. His responsibilities have also included the design, rollout, and management of large complex systems at broadcast networks like CBS and NBC, and in other industries like healthcare, film studios, data storage, and networking.
Kathleen Shannon, Turner Sports Library, Manager
Kathleen Shannon currently leads library and metadata initiatives for Turner Sports, drawing on a decade of experience in public, academic, and corporate libraries. Since joining Turner Sports in September 2009, she has worked to transition its library from a tape-based physical space to a file-based service provider by developing metadata schema, establishing media and data standards, and advising on best practices for search and user experience. Prior to her current position, Shannon earned her Masters degree in Information Science from Florida State University, specializing in information architecture and digital libraries. As a graduate assistant, she implemented a pilot online exhibit of circus posters, handbills, and other ephemera for the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, and co-authored a published study on e-learning instructional design. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA and holds cards for three different public library systems.
Bryan Staffaroni, WWE, Senior Director of Media Asset Management
Bryan Staffaroni has been with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for the past 12 years and is currently Senior Director, Media Asset Management. The groups he oversees include Media Management, Central Ingest, and Media Library Services. He and his team built, manage, and continue to expand the WWE’s 120,000 hour Digital Archive. They also play an integral role supporting WWE’s elite Production team which creates hundreds of hours of content each and every week for the WWE Network, social media outlets, and over 175 countries.
Starting out as the sole member of the WWE Media Management Department in 2006, Staffaroni found no shortage of opportunities to adapt and expand his department to meet the demands of Production. He played a major role in WWE’s transition to HD in 2008 including establishing workflows for WWE’s first Digital Archive within their new Grass Valley editing environment. He also took the role of Process Manager on the WWE Digital Archive project in 2010 where more than 28,000 WWE show masters were ingested, archived, and fully logged within a year’s time. Today, Staffaroni’s teams support and maintain WWE’s Digital Archive and are responsible for all naming conventions, taxonomy, metadata entry, asset tracking, and disaster recovery strategies.
Prior to joining WWE, Staffaroni co-owned and operated Grey Sky Films, LLC. With every intention of pursuing his passion for editing and directing music videos, films, documentaries, and commercials, Bryan found himself gravitating more toward a technical role with researching and purchasing production equipment, building and supporting edit systems, and designing and modifying production workflows.
Shane Warden, ATP Media, Director of Broadcast & Technology
As Director of Broadcast and Technology, Shane Warden is responsible for keeping ATP Media at the leading edge of media technology and excellence, pushing the boundaries of production, distribution, content management and digital to enhance quality, service and value for the global broadcast partners and brands associated with the Tour. This includes detailed involvement in on-site production services and workflows as well as the development of the Asset Management system for Archive and Broadcaster Portal for in-tournament News and Content.
With a Degree in Electronic Communications Engineering specializing in Digital Signal Processing, Warden has over 28 years’ experience in Technical and Operational Management covering all aspects of Sports Media and Broadcasting from Outside Broadcast, Studios, Post Production, Transmission and Distribution, as well as Media Asset Management (MAM / DAM), Sports Data and Digital OTT.
He has held senior management positions within private and FTSE listed organizations and in his past, has earned a vast array of creative Broadcast and Feature Film credits demonstrating creative flair as well as technical competence.
Warden’s reputation in technology and sports media has lead him to become an advisor to many technology and software manufacturers across trending industry challenges such as UHD, Big Data, Workflows and High Speed Broadcast Communications.
In his role as Director of Broadcast and Technology for ATP Media and on behalf of many of the leading manufacturers, Shane been requested to deliver numerous technical and industry perspective presentations worldwide and has served on committees for BAFTA, RTS, DTG, UK Screen and as a specialist HD panel advisor to Ofcom.
Chris Witmayer, NASCAR Productions, Director Of Broadcast, Post Production and New Media Technology
As the Director of Broadcast, Production, and New Media Technology for NASCAR Media Group, Chris Witmayer designed and implemented a completely file-based workflow using an easily expandable open architecture, introduced advanced color correction to the file-based workflow for both completed shows as well as archival material, managed the integration of EVS to the file-based workflow, designed and managed the expansion of the Archive and Production SAN to 1.8PB, and increased the efficiency of the Archival Ingest.
Prior to his current position, Witmayer served as New Media Technologist, Senior Manager for NASCAR, during which time he transitioned NASCAR Media Group to NASCAR Plaza and Hall of Fame, and designed the facility’s technological infrastructure for production, editorial, and archival operations.
Witmayer began his career with NFL Films in 2000 as a New Media Specialist/Avid Unity Administrator.