Executive Team

The DigitalStream-USA™ team brings a wealth of industry experience in technology development, sales, marketing and manufacturing functions in the digital video, display, consumer electronics, and PC markets with startups, private acquisitions, and public corporations at all levels of management.

Alan McCann, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. McCann is a seasoned senior-level executive who has been involved in the management of organizations pioneering new technologies for more than 18 years. He has led new business initiatives in multiple organizations where technology was a change agent in digital media including on-demand printing, consumer electronics (DVD, HDTV, Streaming Video), and computer gaming (3D PC and Console games). Mr. McCann was most recently Sr. VP and GM of Marketing at Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Prior to joining Phoenix, he was VP & GM of Ravisent Technologies where he sold its core consumer electronics business to ST Microelectronics. Mr. McCann earlier held various executive and marketing management positions at ATI Technologies Inc., QMS Inc, Xerox Canada Inc. and IBM Canada Inc. He earned a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada and an MBA from York University, Canada.

Albert Lam, Chief Technology Officer

Albert Lam has over 25 years of experience in the areas of VLSI testing, IC-CAD, field-programmable system emulation, Internet appliance and digital media compression and transmission. Since 1977, Mr. Lam has held numerous senior technical management positions at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cadence Design Systems, Aptix Corporation, Optivision Corporation, and FutureTel, Inc. Since 2000, he held the position Senior VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Ravisent Technologies, Inc., Phoenix Technologies, Inc. and The Right Bits, Inc., specializing in the development of highly efficient audio and video codec technologies, Internet appliances and set top boxes, and digital media recording and streaming products. Mr. Lam studied the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a MSEE from the University of Southern California, a BSEE from the California Institute of Technology and a bachelor degree in Physics from Occidental College.

David Brott, Vice President, Corporate Development

Mr. Brott has over 10 years experience in Technical Sales and Technology Marketing. Mr. Brott led strategic marketing and licensing efforts at emerging technology companies such as Interactual and Ravisent Technologies. While at Ravisent, he was Director of Business Development with worldwide responsibility for technology licensing and business alliances with companies such as Intel, AMD, ATI, ST Microelectronics, Dolby Laboratories and others. Mr. Brott also held tactical communications and mission planning roles as a member of Seal Team Three, United States Navy. Mr. Brott received his BA from the University of California at San Diego, with advanced coursework at Wharton Executive Education and the Center For Creative Leadership.

Steve Law, Executive Vice President, System Engineering and Manufacturing

Dr. Law has over 26 years of engineering and management experience in hardware, software and ASIC development. Over the past eight years, he held Vice President positions at The Right Bits, Alaris Corporation and Optivision with responsibilities ranging for ASIC and product development, chip production, development of high-end video/audio encoding and decoding systems and OEM sales. In 1990, Dr. Law co-founded and served as COO of Aptix Corp., where he was responsible for the invention and development of the FPIC programmable interconnect systems. From 1983 to 1990 he was a co-founder and R&D director at Cadence Design Systems. Starting his career at Bell Labs, Dr. Law invented the Gate Matrix approach to IC design and layout, co-invented Domino CMOS logic, and contributed to the design of the first 32-bit CMOS microprocessors. In 2000, he received the prestigious IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award for IC design innovations and their impacts to the IC Design field. Dr. Law received a BS, MS, M Phil, and PhD all in EE from Columbia University in New York.

Joe Lam, Director of Hardware Engineering

Mr. Lam brings a wealth of experience in hardware system design and ASIC development for audio/video applications to DigitalStream. He was a co-founder of Alaris Corporation where he was Vice President of Operations. In this role, Mr. Lam had taken several novel consumer audio/video products successfully from concept into production and developed OEM business with Philips, SonicBlue, Compaq and Earthlink. He also was involved in ASIC designs for hardware implementation of video codec and worked with IBM and Nexgen to help bring their proprietary processors to the market. Earlier he worked in hardware system design at British Telecom, National Semiconductor and Everex Systems. Mr. Lam holds a BSc (Hon) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Ilya Asnis, Director of Software Engineering

Mr. Asnis has over 15 years of programming experience with particular expertise in design, implementation and optimization of video compression algorithms. His responsibilities include advancing XVD™ compression technology and leading DigitalStream’s development project teams in the US and Russia. Before joining DigitalStream, he was a Senior Software Developer for Alaris Corporation where he was responsible for development of proprietary audio and video compression algorithms, Java multimedia broadcasting, Videoconferencing software, DSP porting and performance optimization. Earlier Mr. Asnis was project leader and software engineer at the State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in St.-Petersburg, Russia where he developed video compression, error-correcting codes and public-key cryptography. Mr. Asnis has an MS in Computer Science from the State University of Aerospace Instrumentation where he studied as a Ph.D candidate.