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People at
CineForm
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CineForm, Inc. was founded by a group of seasoned
professionals passionate about video, especially the rapid
migration to high-resolution workflows, from HD through 4K and
beyond. Our team members share an exciting vision for the
future of real-time high-definition video, and have substantial previous
experience with:
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Building successful early-stage digital video companies
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Successfully developing high-revenue markets for innovative
new technologies
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Innovating and optimizing real-time digital video and image
processing algorithms
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Developing and deploying real-time digital video hardware
and software
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David Taylor, Chief Executive Officer
David Taylor has been in the high technology business for 25
years, 18 of those in Silicon Valley. He is a veteran of five
start-up companies, of which three are public today. He has
multiple successes developing young companies from concept to
success through profitable revenue generation. Prior to CineForm, David
was the founding CEO of Dazzle Multimedia, a consumer-focused digital video company that was acquired in 2000
for $100M. As an early employee at C-Cube Microsystems, he built
the Company's broadcast business from $0 to $75M in three years,
which included the video compression technology developed for
and deployed by Thomson Consumer Electronics for the highly
successful DirecTV program. He has a bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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David Newman, Chief Technology Officer
David's desire to make film
and video production fast and flexible - at the highest quality
- is driven by his personal interest in film - whether as a
consumer of independent film (favorites : Pi and Bad Boy Bubby)
or as a filmmaker himself (nothing at the multiplex yet.) While
waiting for that perfect film project, David has spent 14 years
in engineering design and management, developing both hardware
and software solutions in the field of digital video. David
evolved his career from working as an independent contractor in
Perth, Australia to a founder of Applied Magic in San Diego.
Through his seven years at Applied Magic, David grew from
Principal Engineer to CTO, while he headed the development of
four different professional and prosumer audio/video products.
David holds the US patent on the underlying technology that
powers Applied Magic's ScreenPlay turn-key editing products, and
has filed eight more on related video editing technologies.
David continues to use all the tools he designed for his own
side film projects -- which helps keep the fun in his
engineering activities. David has a bachelor's degree in
Electronic Engineering from Curtin University in Perth
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Don Riegle, Vice President of
WorldwideSales
Don
Riegle is a seasoned veteran of the high technology business
with more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and
business development for the digital media and entertainment
industries. He has successfully developed sales channels for
several established digital media technology companies including
Sony and Canopus. Recently Don was Director of Multimedia Sales
for Sony Pictures Digital Networks. He managed the relationships
with Sony sister divisions, key software vendors and OEM
partners on a worldwide basis. At Canopus (Kobe, Japan) Don was
Director of Sales responsible for managing key industry OEM
relationships as well as developing and managing the reseller
and distribution channel. Previously, Don worked for Disney /
MGM and as manager for two top national Avid resellers. Don
brings applied experience collaborating with professionals in
film and digital media with the goal of utilizing technology to
facilitate the creative production process. Don has both a
business management and production background as a business
owner and producer of award winning original creative content.
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Ed O'Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer
Ed has over eighteen years of financial and operational
management experience with technology and life science
companies. He has start up experience as well as Fortune 100
experience. Ed’s past assignments include Nextec Applications,
Inc., a start up company, where he was one of the founding
members of the management team. In his capacity as Chief
Financial Officer, he was responsible for Nextec's global
financial, administrative and manufacturing operations. He also
served on the Board of Directors for Nextec Applications, Pte
Ltd., a Singapore company. Prior to Nextec, Ed served as
Controller, Secretary and Treasurer of Newpoint Corporation, a
subsidiary of Proxima Corporation, a manufacturer of computer
peripheral equipment and liquid crystal display panels where he
was responsible for all financial activities as well as
manufacturing operations. Prior to Newpoint, Ed served as
Director of Finance and Secretary for Fluid Systems Corporation,
a subsidiary of Allied-Signal, Inc. He also served on the Board
of Directors for Fluid Systems Ltd, a United Kingdom company.
Prior to Fluid Systems, Ed served as Chief Financial Officer and
Secretary for Electron Inc., a manufacturer of automated revenue
control and collection systems, where he was responsible for all
financial activities. Ed received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
the University of California San Diego, Revelle College and a
Masters of Business Administration degree, from the University
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Dr. Brian Schunck, Principal Engineer
Brian Schunck received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from MIT for work on motion estimation and
the segmentation of regions of motion. He performed research on
edge detection and active-ranging at General Motors Research
Laboratories, and was a founding member of the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Brian did
research in the fields of fitting contours, surfaces, and
volumetric models to range and CT/MRI data. He has taught
courses in artificial intelligence, machine vision, and computer
graphics. He was Director of Vision Software at Adept Technology
and lead the development of a new vision system on the TI C80
DSP. Brian was a Principal Research Scientist at Tiernan
Communications, optimizing MPEG-2 codecs for Pentium processors. |
Henk Hanselaar, Director
Henk Hanselaar is a Managing Director of Trumpet Partners, LLC,
an investment banking firm located in San Diego, CA. Henk’s
career spans 34 years in banking, venture capital and executive
corporate management, with emphasis in the broadband and
broadcast communications industries. Immediately prior to
joining Trumpet Partners, Henk was a Director, President and CEO
of DIVA Systems Corporation. DIVA has been a pioneer and
industry leader in Video-on-Demand systems over cable networks.
In 1998 he co-founded and was a general partner of Hamilton Apex
Technology Ventures, a $150 million San Diego based venture
capital firm. Henk has served as the workout CEO for two US and
one German company. In 1991 Henk participated in the buy-out of
the communications division of OAK Industries, Inc., where he
became a Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of the
company renamed TV/COM International, Inc. Between 1987 and
1990, he Hanselaar was Senior Vice President of the Enterprises
Division of General Atomics, an international technology company
headquartered in San Diego. Prior to 1987, Henk spent 14 years
at Citibank in Europe and the United States. He graduated from
Nijenrode University in The Netherlands, earned a BBA degree
from the University of Oregon, and MBA from Santa Clara
University. In 1987 he attended the Harvard Business School PMD
program. |
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