Board of Directors

Wayne C. Luplow, Chairman, is Vice President, HDTV Standards and Promotion, for Zenith Electronics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics. Active in the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Luplow currently serves as Chairman of the Video Systems Engineering Committee, Chairman of the CEA Technology and Standards Council, and member of the Video Division Board. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the ATSC Forum. Luplow was Zenith's primary representative for the 'Digital HDTV Grand Alliance' research consortium, formed in 1993 to develop the industry-standard digital television broadcast system. His experience includes six years as head of the company's HDTV research program, leading the Zenith-AT&T technical team that developed the original 'Digital Spectrum Compatible' HDTV system. He also played a leading role in the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Services. A Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Luplow is a 2006 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. He also is an elected member of the administrative committee of IEEE's Consumer Electronics Society and has been publications chairman for the Society since 1976, and serves as editor of the IEEE's Transactions on Consumer Electronics.

In his four-decade Zenith career, Luplow's technology management experience has included director of quality, reliability and safety engineering; executive director of electronic systems R&D; division VP, research and development - advanced television systems; and vice president, consumer electronics engineering. Before joining Zenith, he was employed by RCA at the David Sarnoff Research Laboratories in Princeton, N.J.

Luplow earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1962 and a Master of Science degree, also in electrical engineering, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. A native of Milwaukee, Wisc., Luplow and his wife, Judy, live in Green Oaks, Ill. They have four adult children.

Wendy Aylsworth is Engineering Vice President of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In this volunteer role, Wendy directs the Society's standards activities, liaising with a wide variety of other standards organizations. In 2008, she restructured the Technology Committees to better align with the standards work with the new digital production and distribution chains used for audio/video content in the 21st century. As the former Chair of SMPTE's D-Cinema Technology Committee, she oversaw the creation of the first 24 standards for D-Cinema, and their later adoption by the International Standards Organization.

As Senior Vice President of Technology for Warner Bros. Technical Operations, Wendy oversees the establishment of new technologies for Warner Bros. production divisions and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on content creation and distribution. Her department participates in national and international technical standards and trade organizations to promote commonality for the benefit of the entertainment sector.

Wendy started here career with fifteen years in the aerospace industry; designing and developing computing systems for operational military aircraft at Lockheed Aircraft Co. and managing software departments in R&D and military training simulators and Honeywell Inc. Wendy moved to the entertainment industry in 1989 managing the software department for theme park rides and directing the engineering efforts for animation at The Walt Disney Co. Wendy joined Warner Bros. in 1994, establishing all-digital production operations for a newly created Feature Animation division before moving to Technical Operations in 1999. The digital distribution of the WB television network led to Wendy's involvement in such standards activities at the ATSC, CableLabs, SMPTE, and led to her Vice Chairmanship of the Radiocommunication Broadcasting Multimedia Working Party at the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland.

Wendy is a widely quoted expert in entertainment/animation technology, has sat on many technology panels, and has published papers on training devices and asset management. She was awarded SMPTE Fellowship and has received the YWCA award for Outstanding Woman of the Year in Engineering. Wendy devotes her private life to her family, focusing much energy on education. She has served on many non-profit Boards, including acting as President of High Point Academy, Vice-President of the Honeywell Federal Credit Union, and Chair of the Klimke Endowment Fund. She holds an MS/MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) in Managerial Sciences/Strategic Planning from the University of Southern California. Her BS is in Computer Sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Jay Adrick, a 44+ year veteran of the broadcast industry, is a leader in the design and integration of digital broadcasting systems.

In his current position at Harris, he is leading the development of the MPH In-Band Mobile DTV system, providing strategic guidance for the development of new broadcast products and representing Harris in the world of broadcast standards.

Earlier in his career at Harris, Jay led the teams that designed and built many of the leading broadcast facilities including The Golf Channel, The Weather Channel, The Discovery Channel, National Public Radio, The Voice of America, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Iraqi Media Network and many other broadcast facilities. He also led the product development for the Harris FlexiCoder, MasterPlus and MonitorPlus products during the US digital rollout as well as leading the technical team that designed the Harris/PBS DTV Express.

In addition to his Harris duties, Jay is member of the board of directors and former Vice Chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee and is currently a board member of the ATSC Forum. In addition, he has served on both of the FCC Media Security and Recovery Councils.

A member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, he has authored and presented a large number of technical papers and chaired various technical presentations. Prior to joining Harris, he was a professor of Communications at Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) for eight years and also taught broadcasting courses at the University of Cincinnati. While at Xavier, he served as the director of radio and television and was a founder of public radio station WVXU-FM. His broadcast career began in radio engineering in Cincinnati and he has worked for several radio and television stations in the Cincinnati market, serving in various engineering, production, on air and management roles.

Mr. Adrick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in communication arts and a Masters degree in educational communications from Xavier University.

Anthony Caruso is a professional Engineer and Director of New Broadcast Technologies at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. . In 1982, Mr. Caruso joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as RF Spectrum Engineer, and was later promoted to Senior Standards Engineer responsible for the development of CBC specifications and standards, and thereafter to Director of New Broadcast Technologies. Mr. Caruso has been actively involved in writing and presenting original scientific papers on new developments on broadcast technologies to the various international conferences namely IBC, NAB, SMPTE, and making substantial contributions to international standards and standards organizations, such as ITU, SMPTE, AES, WBU. Since the early 90’s he had been involved with the ATSC and HDTV organizing the first HDTV satellite transmission between Tokyo and Ottawa. He was an active member of the Canadian DTV (former CDTV) group and ABSOC (Advanced broadcasting systems committee) working in the early development of HDTV in Canada. Caruso represents the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at the Engineering Committees at SMPTE, ATSC, NABA, WBU and other international organizations. He is currently Chair of the Digital Mobile TV Group in Canada, and the Vice-Chair of the North American Broadcasting Association - Technical Committee (NABA-TC). Furthermore, Mr Caruso is the Editor-in Chief of the “CBC Technology Review Magazine”, a semi-annual online magazine that showcases CBC developments and innovations in broadcast technology (http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/technologyreview/).

Lynn Claudy is Senior Vice President of Science and Technology for the National Association of Broadcasters, where he is responsible for representation of the NAB in all radio and television technical matters. He joined NAB in 1988 as a staff engineer and held positions of Director of Advanced Engineering and Technology and Vice President before assuming his present position in February 1995. Prior to joining NAB, he was employed by Hoppmann Corporation, a communications systems integration firm where he held a variety of technical and management positions. Previous to that, he was a development engineer at Shure Brothers Inc., a manufacturer of audio equipment. He has a bachelor of arts degree from Oberlin College, a BSEE from Washington University in St. Louis and an MSEE degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a member of IEEE, SMPTE, SBE and AES, and is on the Board of Directors for the Advanced Television Systems Committee.

Sterling Davis is Vice President, Engineering for Cox Broadcasting, a veteran of over 40 years of broadcasting experience.

After graduating from Taylor University with a Bachelors degree in Physics and Math, he became an officer in the U.S. Navy serving as assistant chief engineer on a fleet tanker. Once his duty was completed, Davis began his broadcasting career as an audio engineer for ABC network and then KTTV in Hollywood for five years. Following 3 years as operations manager for The Vidtronics Company, he returned to Metrotape (KTTV) as chief engineer responsible for operational and production responsibilities for six network sitcoms per week. In early 1978 he became Vice-President, Operations, for one of the original post-production houses in Hollywood: The Vidtronics Company division of Technicolor. In 1978, Telemation Productions in Seattle where as chief engineer; he designed and rebuilt their facility. In 1982 he joined Cox Broadcasting's KTVU in Oakland as director of operations, managing all aspects of engineering and production including E.N.G., editing, and traffic. He also began producing. He was the executive producer for the MDA and Easter Seal Telethons, Giants' Baseball, and the Chinese New Years Parade among others. Promoted in 1998 to vice president of engineering for Cox Broadcasting in Atlanta, he assumed responsibility for 15 television and 80 radio stations.

He also is responsible for shepherding Cox's transition to digital for both television and radio stations. Sterling has been involved with every step of production to distribution, participating in moving the television and radio industry into the digital age.

Sterling has been serving as the chair of MSTV's Engineering Committee. For three years he chaired the ATSC Planning Committee, is a member of the ATSC Board of Directors and participates in several technical committees. He and has been active in digital radio standardization in the NRSC. He is also leading the technical group of the Open Mobile Video Coalition. Davis is also a member of IEEE, SMPTE, AES, RTNDA and SBE.

Dr. Joseph Flaherty received his degree in Physics from Rockhurst College, Kansas, City, Missouri, in 1952. During 1953-1954 he served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and in 1955 joined NBC in New York City as a Television Engineer.

In 1957, he joined CBS as a Television Design Engineer. In 1959, he became the Network's Director of Technical Facilities Planning, and in 1967 was promoted to General Manager, and subsequently appointed Vice President and General Manager, of the Engineering and Development Department, a position that he held for 23 years. In this position he was responsible for many innovations in television technology including Electronic News Gathering (ENG), Electronic Cinematography, and the introduction of off-line videotape editing, one-inch videotape, Plumbicon cameras, miniature color cameras, and HDTV. Dr. Flaherty is presently Senior Vice President, Technology for CBS Broadcasting.

Dr. Flaherty is a member of the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), a Vice President of the International Academy of Broadcasting (IAB). Dr. Flaherty is past Chairman of the Technical Committee of the North American Broadcasters Association and Past Chairman of the World Broadcast Unions Technical Committee (WBU-TC). He was Chairman of the Planning Subcommittee of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service and Co-chairman of its Technical Subgroup that developed the ATSC HDTV standard. Dr. Flaherty is a Vice Chairman of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)-R Study Group 6 on Broadcasting, and Chairman of the ITU-R Task Group 6/9 on Large Screen Digital Imagery (LSDI). He is an Honorary Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and was its Vice President for Television Affairs, Financial Vice President, and Executive Vice President. He is a Fellow of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), a Fellow of the Royal Television Society of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, an Honorary Member of the German engineering society Fernseh-Kinotechnischen Gesellschaft (FKTG), a member of the French Societe des Electriciens et des Radiolectriciens (SEE), one of the five International Honorary Members of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan, and a member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC,.

Dr. Flaherty is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations, including many awards from SMPTE, and several Emmys. He is also decorated as a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur by President Mitterand of the Republic of France. In October 1994, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Dr. Flaherty a Personal Emmy Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Contributions to the Development and Improvement of the Science and Technology of Television". He was inducted as one of the first 60 Charter Members of the Broadcasting & Cable Magazine Hall of Fame in 1991. In June 1993 he received the International Electronic Cinema Festival "Pioneers" award in Montreux, Switzerland for his pioneering work in High Definition Television Production, and in received an Honorary Membership in the SMPTE in 1993 - that Society's highest award. In April of 1998 Dr. Flaherty received the first Digital Television Pioneer Award from the Broadcasting & Cable and Digital Television magazines. Dr. Flaherty is a frequent lecturer on television technology and High Definition Television (HDTV), and he has published over a 150 technical articles on various aspects of television broadcasting.

John Godfrey is Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for Samsung Information Systems America, a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. He directs Samsung's Washington, D.C., activities related to consumer electronics and represents Samsung in external relations with government and industry, focusing on digital television, broadband, content protection, environment, and other areas.

An active participant in the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Godfrey is chair of CEA's Video Division and a past chair of CEA's Government Affairs Council. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the primary standards developing organization for digital television broadcasting in the United States.

Prior to joining Samsung, Godfrey was vice president of government affairs with Pioneer North America, representing Pioneer in Washington; and previously, he was director of government affairs for Sony Electronics, also in Washington. Earlier, he was with the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade association of leading information technology companies; the National Research Council, the policy research arm of the National Academies of Science and Engineering; and SRI International.

Godfrey has a master's degree in telecommunications from George Washington University and a master's degree in East Asian studies from Stanford University. He also holds a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Texas.

James Kutzner is Chief Engineer at PBS where he oversees the Engineering and Technical Support groups within PBS, including technical planning, development, and support of current and future operational systems. Kutzner has held several roles in the development of television broadcast and production standards and facilities including at the Advanced Television Technology Center and Thales.

Kutzner is the Vice Chair of the ATSC Planning Committee and has participated in DTV development activities since 1990. He is also Vice Chair of the OMVC Technical Advisory Group. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of SMPTE and a member of the IEEE.

Adam Goldberg is the Vice President, Government and Industry Relations at Pioneer North America. In that role, he is Pioneer's Washington-based liaison to the Federal Government, industry associations and trade groups.

He has been involved in various digital television and digital telecommunications activities, including the over-the-air digital transition, cable television and home entertainment in general for two decades. Mr. Goldberg has been intimately involved with many aspects of digital television, including receivers, receiver silicon and broadcast equipment. Adam has been instrumental in many ATSC technical activities for more than 10 years.

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

Michael Isnardi received his doctorate from MIT's Media Laboratory in 1986. That same year, he joined the David Sarnoff Research Center (now called Sarnoff Corporation), as a Member of Technical Staff, where he developed the Advanced Compatible Television System, the first advanced TV system tested by the FCC. As a member of the technical staff and as a technical manager, he developed technologies and led projects in video compression, watermarking and Digital TV for commercial and government applications. He is now a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sarnoff.

Dr. Isnardi's early work included development of the DIRECTV system and Sarnoff's Compliance Bitstreams product, which received a Technical Emmy Award. In June 2000, he received the David Sarnoff Award, which is the Sarnoff Corporation's highest award for technical achievement. He led several NIST-cofunded projects, including 'HDTV Broadcast Technology', 'Secure, Robust, Forensic Watermarking' and 'Reference-Free Video Quality Measurement'. Most recently, he was Principal Investigator on the NIST 'Video Enhanced DSL' project with AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent and Thomson.

Dr. Isnardi has been awarded 31 U.S. patents. He is an active member of the ATSC, SMPTE, INCITS, MPEG, JVT and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He represents the IEEE on the ATSC Board of Directors and is on the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Dr. Isnardi has presented many papers, presentations and tutorials on compression and Digital TV to the broadcast, consumer electronics and related industries.

Glenn Reitmeier, Chairman, is Vice President of Technology Standards, Policy & Strategy at NBC Universal. Since joining NBC in 2002, he was involved in the creation and launch of NBC's high-definition cable channel, Universal-HD, and the NBC Weather Plus DTV multicast channel. He currently leads NBC Universal's team that contributes to industry standards committees, provides technology input on policy issues and handles the technical aspects of the company's commercial agreements. Glenn is also the Chairman of the Board of the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) and actively involved in its activities to create standards for DTV broadcasting to mobile and handheld devices. He is also a Board member of NABA (North American Broadcasters Association) and a Vice-Chair of NABA's Technical Committee.

Prior to joining NBC Universal, he spent 25 years in digital video research and development at Sarnoff Labs. Glenn is widely recognized as a pioneering visionary, creator and architect of digital television. Early in his career, he was instrumental in establishing the ITU 601 component digital video standard, which is currently in worldwide use as the backbone of modern television broadcasting and production facilities. During the competitive phase of HDTV standardization, Glenn lead the Sarnoff-Thomson-Philips-NBC development of Advanced Digital HDTV, which pioneered the use of MPEG compression, packetized transport, and multiple video formats. Glenn was a key member of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, taking a leadership role in its formation and in all of its all technical decisions, communications with government and industry, and interoperability efforts that lead to establishing the ATSC digital television standard.

Glenn is the recipient of the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Progress Medal and the Leitch Gold Medal, and is an inaugural member of the CEA's (Consumer Electronics Association) Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. He holds over 50 patents in digital video technology and is recognized in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

Brian Markwalter is Vice President of Technology and Standards for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a trade association with more than 2200 members representing the $161 billion U.S. consumer technology industry. Mr. Markwalter is responsible for overseeing CEA's ANSI-accredited standards development operation and provides key engineering support to the association and its membership groups. Under Mr. Markwalter's direction, CEA hosts more than 70 committees, subcommittees and working groups that produce standards used in millions of consumer devices. CEA standards are referenced by EPA, FCC and other government agencies. In addition, CEA was awarded a Technology Emmy for its closed caption standards that help millions of hearing impaired viewers. Mr. Markwalter represents CEA's technical interests in industry and international venues related to digital television, spectrum management, standards and intellectual property, and energy efficiency. Mr. Markwalter has participated in joint U.S.-China development programs on standards and presented at FCC workshops on a variety of subjects.

Mr. Markwalter has a long history of standards activities, including participation in ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 SC 25 on home electronic systems and IEC TC100 on Multimedia Systems. CEA administers the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for IEC TC100 on Multimedia Systems. Mr. Markwalter also participates in standards activities in the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, and Advanced Television Systems Committee. Mr. Markwalter is currently on the ATSC Board of Directors.

Prior to joining CEA, Mr. Markwalter worked as Director at Intellon Corporation, a semiconductor company specializing in power line communications. In this role, he helped develop and launch the technology adopted by the HomePlug Powerline Alliance for data networking over residential power lines and holds several patents in this area. Mr. Markwalter holds BS and MS EE degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a licensed professional engineer.

Andy Scott is Vice President of Engineering for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA). NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry. Its members provide video programming, broadband Internet access, wireline and wireless phone, and other services throughout the United States. Mr. Scott is responsible for analyzing and evaluating technical and engineering issues on behalf of the industry that arise in federal regulatory and legislative proceedings. Mr. Scott also represents the industry in standards and specifications development organizations in furtherance of public policy objectives, particularly in the areas of cable system architecture and design, field engineering and operations.

Mr. Scott joined the cable industry in 1978, where he has held a number of positions in engineering and deployment of advanced communications services to residential, business, and governmental cable customers.

Mr. Scott has served as NCTA representative to the National Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC) and the Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC). He presently serves on the Communications Sector Coordinating Council and the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee's Industry Executive subcommittee (NSTAC IES).

Mr. Scott also serves on the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Engineering Committee. Mr. Scott holds an MS degree in Computer Science.

Victor Tawil is Senior Vice President of the Association for Maximum Service Television (MSTV), providing technology and telecommunication policy guidance and support to MSTV and its more than 400 member television stations. He served as Chairman of the Digital Television Station Project (WHD-TV), sponsored by the television and consumer electronics manufacturing industries and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).

Prior to joining MSTV in 1988, Mr. Tawil was with the Federal Communication Commission for fourteen years. He held various positions in a number of Bureaus and the Office of Science and Technology, specializing in the fields of spectrum management, tropospheric propagation and system engineering. He has worked extensively in the areas of broadcasting, satellite, wireless communications and new communication technologies. During his tenure at the FCC, he served as a US delegate on a number of International and ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences, and bilateral negotiations.

Mr. Tawil holds an MSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a BSE from New York University. He is a member of the International Union of Radio Scientist (URSI), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and Tau Beta Pi.

Craig Todd's involvement with multichannel sound spans more than 25 years, beginning with his initial work on Dolby Surround sound in 1977. Since 1992 he has focused his efforts on bringing multichannel digital audio to the consumer. He was instrumental in establishing Dolby Digital in DTV, CATV, and DVD formats, and has most recently made major technical contributions to the technology strategy and systems architecture of Dolby's Digital Cinema system.

A holder of more than 20 patents, Craig has participated in standards-setting activities for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is a Fellow of both the AES and SMPTE, and in 2002 was awarded the SMPTE Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal for contributions to motion picture sound.

Craig holds a BS degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology.