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Robert Reams : Co-Founder, Senior Fellow Emeritus Robert Reams is a 30-year veteran of the audio industry. He has developed over 35 products for various world-class companies and the user list of his developments reads like a Who's Who of the music industry. He is a published author and lecturer in the fields of transducers, human perception, neural processes, spectrum analysis and signal processing. His work has included ultrasound interferometry research for the medical industry, human emotional response to audio stimulus and computer controlled re-synthesis of modeled sounds for General Electric, American Airlines Training Corporation, Flight Safety and Motion Servo (ILM). His sound models were the first in the world to be rated "Phase II", the highest level of realism in that era. He is presently researching the application of neural nets to data compression. Robert has a BS/EE degree from University of Oklahoma. He is on the advisory board of ITTI and HTEI Institute and has lectured for The Audio Engineering Society since 1977. Mr. Reams is currently an active member of AES, IEEE, ASA, SAE and SMPTE. |
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Paul Hubert : Co-Founder, Chairman Paul Hubert is Neural Audio’s resident Golden Ear and ensures that all Neural Audio solutions hold the highest standard with respect to audio quality. Prior to co-founding Neural Audio, Mr. Hubert owned and operated a major recording studio in Seattle and was the lead mastering, recording or mix engineer for hundreds of major and independent label recordings. Prior to his studio business, Mr. Hubert helped launch the Apple Programmers and Developers Association, an Apple Computer-sanctioned distribution arm for Apple's technical and developer products which later, Microsoft used as a model for the Microsoft Developer Network. Mr. Hubert is a world-class musician and an active member of AES and SMPTE. |
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Geir Skaaden : CEO, Neural Audio Corp. Under Mr. Skaaden¹s leadership, Neural Audio has reached 70% penetration for its Neural-THX® Surround brand in the consumer electronics market and has emerged as the #1 technology and content provider for surround sound radio broadcasting . In addition, Neural¹s success as a technology leader in television has led to a worldwide DTV product roll-out with stereo and surround sound interoperability and volume leveling solutions to over 150 television stations in 4 countries including affiliates of all major US networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. Mr. Skaaden received a BA in Finance from the University of Oregon, a Business degree from the Norwegian School of Management and an MBA from the University of Washington. Prior to joining Neural Audio, Mr. Skaaden was a Venture Capital Partner serving emerging technology companies in the Seattle market with a focus on software and new media technologies. Mr. Skaaden is an active member of NAMM, AES and SMPTE. |
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Mark Seigle : President & COO As President and Chief Operating Officer, Mark Seigle oversees Neural Audio’s business development, marketing and day–to-day operations of the company. Since 2000, Seigle has played an instrumental role in the strategic planning, partner relations and direction of Neural Audio’s market presence in DTV, Radio, Game, Auto and Mobile. Mr. Seigle received his BA in Marketing from the University of Puget Sound. His extensive background in sales and marketing includes positions in the Telecommunications, Internet, Entertainment, Publishing and Hospitality industries. Mr. Seigle is a member of AES, SMPTE, SBE, SCTE, NAMM, NRSC and ATSC. |
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James D. (JJ) Johnston : Chief
Scientist Mr. James D. "JJ" Johnston has been called the father of perceptual audio coding for his pioneering contributions that revolutionized digital audio. His accomplishments during a 26-year career at AT&T Bell Labs have, among other achievements, allowed for the distribution of digital music and digital audio over the Internet. As a technology leader at AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey, he invented a number of basic techniques used in perceptual audio coding, especially in MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) and MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). He also created the standards used for coding audio-visual information in movies, video and music formats in a digital compressed format. Mr. Johnston retired from AT&T Labs in 2002 and has worked as Audio Architect at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington since. His most recent accomplishment at Microsoft was designing and implementing all audio post processing functions for the Vista operating platform. Johnston is an IEEE Fellow, the recipient of the 2006 James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and is a co-recipient of the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award. He also is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, has published more than 50 technical papers, and has been awarded more than 20 U.S. patents. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, both in electrical engineering. |
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