| Joel Espelien
General Counsel
Joel Espelien is general counsel and vice president of strategic relationships for PacketVideo. He is responsible for formulating company strategy and supporting the company's corporate development activities. Prior to joining PV in May 1999, Mr. Espelien was a corporate and licensing attorney in the Information Technology Group of Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto and San Diego. Joel Espelien received a bachelor of arts in Spanish, German and Political Science from St. Olaf College and a juris doctorate and master of laws in international and comparative law from Duke University. He is a member of the Bar of the state of California.
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 | Corbett Kull
Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales and Market Development
Corbett started with PacketVideo in 2000 after the acquisition of 911 Consulting. He established the Chicago operations for PV with the acquistion. He is responsible for global sales and market development, which include carrier relationships with Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone, Telefonica and Orange. His team also manages OEM relationships with Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, HTC and LG.
Before working at PacketVideo, Corbett founded 911 Consulting to provide DSP software and services in the wireless communications industry. He started his career at Motorola in Schaumburg working on the Iridium satellite system as a Digital Signal Processing software engineer.
Corbett received his Masters in Business Administration in Marketing at the Illinois Institute of Techonology in Chicago specializing in international trade in emerging markets. Corbett received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Corbett sits on the Industrial Advisory Board of the Engineering School at Northern Illinois University. He also sits on the board of Holy Family Catholic Academy in Inverness, Illinois.
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| Mark R. Banham, Ph.D
Executive Vice President of Engineering, Media Service Products
Mark Banham, Ph.D, is senior vice president of engineering, media service products, at PacketVideo, where he currently oversees the development of software products for PV's OEM customers and manages the resources and operation of the engineering department. He joined PV in 1998 as one of the original members of the engineering team and helped CEO Jim Brailean establish and grow the company. Before transitioning into his current role leading the development of embedded software products, Banham was director of development for PV's platform and infrastructure solutions, which now operates as a separate business.
Prior to joining PacketVideo, Banham worked on wireless transmission of low bitrate video at Motorola's Corporate Research Labs. During that time, he also participated in both the ISO MPEG-4 committee and ITU-T Study Group 16. Banham is a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the author of many journal articles and conference papers in the field of image and video processing He holds seven patents in the area of wireless multimedia communication.
Mark Banham received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Drexel University and master of science and doctorate of philosophy in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.
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| Barbara Emond
Executive Vice President of Engineering, Customer Products
Barbara Emond is senior vice president of engineering, customer products at PacketVideo. She joined PV in 2000, established PV's customer products department and philosophy, and runs a strong customer products team focused on customer satisfaction and achieving corporate ROI goals. In 2002, she established PV's offshore developer center relationships, and is responsible for resource management of offshore teams.
Prior to joining PV, Emond was a principal program manager at Motorola's Internet and Networking Division in Mansfield, Massachusetts, where she managed the next generation router development effort. Previous to Motorola, she held positions at American Science and Engineering, Raytheon, and the Naval Underwater Systems Center.
Barbara Emond received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont, and a master of business administration from Babson College.
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| Cheuk Chan, Ph.D
Executive Vice President of Engineering, CORE™ Client Products
Cheuk Chan, Ph.D, is senior vice president of engineering, CORE client products, at PacketVideo. He is responsible for the development of technology and multimedia applications for embedded devices. He joined PV in 1998 as one of the original members of the engineering team and helped CEO James Brailean establish the company. He led advanced product concepts for embedded devices and large scale systems performance analysis of the company's multimedia server and infrastructure products.
Prior to joining PV, Chan was on the staff of PAR Government Systems in La Jolla, working on real-time target detection and tracking algorithms for advanced IR, multispectral, and imaging sensors. Cheuk Chan received a bachelor of science, summa cum laude, from Tulane University and a master of science and doctorate of philosophy in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.
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| Kazunori Takagi
President, PacketVideo Japan
Kazunori Takagi is president of PacketVideo Japan. He is responsible for managing PV Japan's operations and driving its business expansion. Mr. Takagi joined PV in 2001 and helped CEO Jim Brailean establish business in Japan. He has been working in the in telecom industry for 23 years. Prior to joining PV, Mr. Takagi held a senior sales position at Lucent Technologies Japan in wireless and optical infrastructure equipment for four years, and sales positions at NEC Corporation's overseas sales group for wireless/fixed terminal equipment for 13 years. Mr. Takagi received a bachelor of arts in business administration from Nanzan University, Nagoya in Japan.
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