Tuesday, September 20 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Track III: Behind the Digital Home & Mobile Consumer: Chips, Microprocessors & Optical Technology Define the Future of Entertainment - from DVDs, MP3s, HD & Set-Tops to Games, PDAs and PCs The advancements being made in the basic technologies which are the foundations of our consumer electronics, PC, mobile and games devices are coming about now more quickly and abundantly than ever. Whoever said that the progress we’ve made in the past ten years will be doubled or tripled in the coming decade may have underestimated the technology timetable. From chip sets to hard drives, our entire CE and entertainment future is about to empowered. We are pleased to welcome the technical experts to this session who will explain what our future holds. Sandip H. Mandera, Product Manager, Digital Media Products and Infrastructure, Intel Corporation Vincent Sollitto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Brillian Corporation Nikhil Balram, Chief Technology Officer, Displays Group, National Semiconductor Dan Steere, Vice President Of Sales of Marketing, Matrix Semiconductor Rutton Ruttonsha, Vice President and General Manager, Business Line Personal Entertainment Solutions, Philips Semiconductors Todd Moore, Director, Product Marketing and Sales, PortalPlayer Alexander Wong, Partner, IT/Telecom Group, Apax Partners, Moderator Sandip H. Mandera, Product Manager, Digital Media Products and Infrastructure, Intel Corporation. He is responsible for enabling ISVs on digital home technologies (UPnP, DTCP/IP), developing enabling strategies and evangelizing digital home technologies. He has over 8 years of experience in software and technical marketing combined. In the past, he led Intel's marketing representation on Web services standards - UDDI.org and later OASIS UDDI during 2002 and 2003. He has spoken at leading conferences like Software Development Conference & Web Services World XML and Web Services Conference, contributed to a book chapter in the notable XML Handbook (5th edition) and his articles have appeared in leading magazines like IDS, DevX and JavaWorld. He holds an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and a B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India. Rutton Ruttonsha, Vice President and General Manager, Business Line Personal Entertainment Solutions, Philips Semiconductors: Rutton Ruttonsha was appointed vice president and general manager of the Business Line Personal Entertainment Solutions within Philips Semiconductors in January 2003. Prior to taking over the responsibility for the Personal Entertainment Solutions business, Ruttonsha held the position of vice president and general manager of the Business Line Audio Solutions. He has held a number of senior management positions at Philips Semiconductors between 1998 and 2001, including business design manager for the Consumer business and commercial manager for Discrete Semiconductors. Ruttonsha joined Philips in 1983 and worked in various positions in Philips Components and Amperex. Prior to joining Philips he worked at International Rectifier. Ruttonsha holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) from Walchand College of Engineering, India and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from The University of Southern California. Dan Steere, Vice President Of Sales of Marketing. Matrix Semiconductor: Dan Steere is responsible for all of Matrix's sales and marketing activities and oversees the Company's strategic relationships since joining the company in February 1999. Steere frequently speaks at industry conferences regarding mobile content, and most recently presented at the TIA Toy Fair 2005 on the topic of designing portable interactive multimedia toys, and at CONNECTIONS 2005 on the subject mobile content portability. During his tenure at Intel, Steere held a series of marketing positions focused on mobile computing. As Director, Strategic Integration Operation, he cultivated Intel's corporate strategy for the consumer electronics industry. Following Intel, Steere was Business Unit Manager at pcOrder.com, managing the Company's key computer manufacturer relationships and for re-launching the Company's core service, TechBuyer Online. He holds a B.A in computer science from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford University. Nikhil Balram, Chief Technology Officer, Displays Group, National Semiconductor: Nikhil Balram has over 16 years of experience in the area of digital signal/image/video/display processing and is a well-recognized figure in the display and consumer electronics industries. He has served as an executive and officer of 4 public companies in these industries - Faroudja, Sage, Genesis Microchip, and SONICblue. He began his career at IBM where he worked as a Video/Graphics VLSI architect developing next-generation multimedia processors. After IBM, he worked at Kaiser Electronics as a Video/Graphics Architect. Next, he joined S3 Inc., where he occupied various technical and marketing roles including Director of Systems Architecture and Manager of the Video Group. He left S3 to join Faroudja Laboratories as Vice President of Advanced Technology. He was responsible for conceiving and driving the company strategy to transform Faroudja from a high-end niche video systems provider to a mainstream consumer IC vendor. While at Faroudja, he played a major role in the creation of Video2000, the first comprehensive video benchmark in the PC industry, launched in February 2000. The video quality test patterns authored by him have become a defacto benchmark widely used in the consumer electronics and display industries. After Sage Inc, merged with Faroudja, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the newly formed Consumer Products group. Under his tenure, the company developed 4 product families including the FLI2200 and FLI23xx, and achieved design wins in over 80 products from over 20 top CE OEMs, such as Samsung, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, Mitsubishi, Kenwood, Denon, LG, Toshiba, Epson, InFocus, Nintaus, Xoceco, Skyworth and others, in DVD players, flat panel LCD and Plasma TVs, digital TVs, and digital projectors. He conceived and launched the highly successful DCDi&Mac250; branding strategy, which is now used by many leading OEMs. He also conceived and launched the Faroudja certification program and the Faroudja patent licensing program. After Genesis Microchip's merger with Sage Inc., he briefly served as Vice President of Consumer Products, responsible for defining and driving consumer ICs for the joint company. After leaving Genesis, he joined SONICblue as Vice President for Connected Home Products. He was responsible for the P&L for Connected Home products that included the acclaimed ReplayTV product-line. He managed and successfully launched SONICblue's first mass-market Digital Video Recorder, the RTV5000 series. He is currently employed at National Semiconductor as Chief Technology Officer of the Displays Group. He has a BS, MS. and Ph.D in electrical engineering, all from Carnegie Mellon University. Alexander Wong, Partner, IT/Telecom Group, Apax Partners: Alexander Wong is a partner in the IT/Telecom Group and has more than fifteen years of investment and operational experience spanning display, nanotechnology, and semiconductor companies. He currently focuses on these areas for the consumer, energy, computing, media and communications markets. Prior to joining Apax Partners in 2001, Alex was a managing director at Intel Capital, where he led the technology group responsible for investments, mergers, and acquisitions in semiconductors and emerging technologies. He pioneered Intel’s investments in nanotechnologies, displays, microsystems, and biotechnology, and also launched Intel’s internal programs in these areas. He has also served as chief of staff to the president of Intel Capital, a role that encompassed a wide range of operational and strategic activities in venture investment, corporate research and development, and government affairs. He has held senior technical and consulting roles at Intel, Motorola, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Alex currently serves on the advisory boards of the NanoBusiness Alliance and the California NanoSystems Institute. He is also a member of Congressman Mike Honda’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on nanotechnology. Alex holds PhD and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a BS in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Todd Moore, Director, Product Marketing and Sales, PortalPlayer: As PortalPlayer’s director of product marketing and sales, Todd advises and participates in PortalPlayer’s business development and overall marketing strategy. Todd works closely with product engineering, marketing and sales to drive the development and launch of PortalPlayer’s semiconductor, firmware and software solutions. Additionally, he heads the company’s sales efforts for North America and Japan, where he helps System OEMs build feature-rich portable media devices. Todd has nearly 15 years of experience in the consumer electronics and semiconductor markets. In 1998 Todd co-founded RioPort.com, the world’s first commercially viable online music service provider where he worked as director of product marketing for four years before joining PortalPlayer in 2001. Prior to RioPort.com, Todd worked as product line manager at Diamond Multimedia and senior product manager at National Semiconductor. He is currently a member of advisory boards of several consumer-related start-ups and has been an active member of ICCE and PMA. Moore holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Colorado.