James Brailean, PhD - Co-Founder and CEO, PacketVideo
Inspired by a vision of powerful multimedia devices enabling new forms of mobile person-to-person communications, Brailean founded PacketVideo in 1998. Under Dr. Brailean's leadership, PacketVideo launched the world's first commercial end-to-end wireless mobile media delivery platform in 2000, and helped create a new industry for wireless multimedia communications. Now focused on software development for multimedia device innovation, PacketVideo has become the number one supplier of embedded multimedia solutions for mobile phones and other devices in the world.

Dr. Brailean received his doctorate of philosophy in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. He holds a master MSEE from USC and a BSEE from the University of Michigan - Dearborn. Dr. Brailean is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum for his contributions to the acceleration of the development and adoption of mobile multimedia services worldwide. Currently, he sits on the Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering Advisory Board. Previously he served as a director on Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SONC) board DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX) board NextWave (NASDAQ: WAVE) board, and the Advisory Board for DOCOMO Labs, USA.

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