Sam Takagi, CEO and Director
Mr. Takagi is a seasoned high-tech veteran with over 25 years of industry experience, he has extensive network skills in developing international business between companies in the US and Japan. He was a co-founder, CEO and board member of Digital Stream-USA. Mr. Takagi was also former board member of Ravisent Technologies, which at one time captured 70% of world's PC DVD market. During that time he also served as the General Manager for Ravisent Japan. Earlier Mr. Takagi was CEO of THEOS Japan, and before that was CEO of WordPerfect Corp. Japan. Mr. Takagi graduated from University Utah, Graduate School.
Albert Lam, General Manager
Albert Lam has over 25 years of experience in the areas of digital media compression and transmission, Internet appliances, VLSI, and IC-CAD. 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. Mr. Lam has also held numerous senior technical management positions at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cadence Design Systems, Aptix Corporation, Optivision Corporation, and FutureTel, Inc. 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.
Steve Law, Executive Vice President, System Engineering
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 DigitalStream-USA, 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.
Ilya Asnis, Engineering Director
Mr. Asnis has over 15 years of programming experience with particular expertise in design, implementation and optimization of video compression algorithms. His responsibilities included advancing XVD™ compression technology and leading development project teams in the US and Russia. Mr. Asnis held a similar position for DigitalStream-USA, and before that 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.
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