Jas Saini

Prior to joining UDcast, Saini served as Vice President for consumer devices for NDS Ltd. where he was responsible for coordinating the company strategy and establishing strategic alliances in relation to consumer devices necessary to provide end-to-end solutions. He also established and managed the NDS R&D facility in Bangalore, India. In addition, he was the chairman of the Secure Video Processor (SVP) Alliance - a group of media and technology industry leaders committed to the widespread use of digital content on consumer devices.

Before joining NDS Ltd., Saini was the technical director of Irdeto, during which time Irdeto was transformed from a relatively small internal engineering company into a leading digital conditional access provider. Saini also spent many years at Thomson Multimedia where he was responsible for the European and Asian digital businesses for Thomson Multimedia as vice president. He was also responsible for Thomson's world-wide digital product development, overseeing the development for DSS (DirecTV) decoders, DVB decoders, DVD players and Internet products. Prior to Thomson Multimedia, Saini was with Sinclair Research Ltd in Winchester designing communication devices.

Saini holds a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton (UK).

Patrick Cipière

Chief Architect DVB-H and co-founder
As Chief Architect DVB-H and one of UDcast's co-founders, Patrick Cipière has been working since 2002 on the definition of pre-standard DVB-X, which became the DVB-H standard. He continues to bring his expertise to this standard for the new needs related to commercial deployments.

Cipière was previously involved in Ensim, an Internet company based in California, where he was a member of the technical team bringing IPStack expertise. Prior to that, at INRIA, a major French research institute, he was a software engineer in the Rodeo project and was in charge of IP developments.

Cipière was also manager of operational network security of all of INRIA's sites in France and led the implementation of Linux throughout the INRIA. He represented INRIA at the IETF and drove the development of the UDLR protocol (RFC 3077). Cipière co-founded another INRIA start-up, ISTAR, a company dedicated to satellite image processing for civil and military applications. The company is still performing in the EADS group.

Cipière earned a doctorate in computer science and master's degrees in physics and computer science from Bordeaux University.

Antoine Clerget

Antoine Clerget is vice president engineering and a co-founder of UDcast. He has created and managed the UDcast product development team and is a key element in the designing and development of the company's technology offering.

Before UDcast, Clerget joined the Rodeo project at INRIA where he began to work on his doctorate. His research work has focused on multicast routing and transport protocols in heterogeneous environments, such as networks with satellite links or dynamic networks.

Clerget graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, where he followed graduate studies in mathematics, physics and computer science, entering the Corps des Télécommunications in 1995. Clerget holds PhD in telecommunications and computer science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris

Emmanuel Duros

Chaiman of the Board and co-founder
Emmanuel Duros is a chairman of UDcast, which he co-founded in June 2000. Today he is a Networking Director inside the UDcast R & D department, bringing his expertise to the software development based on the UDLR (UniDirectional Link Routing) protocol, which optimally eases multimedia delivery by using satellite links in the Internet.

As an active participant on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), he is the main author of UDLR technology which is now standardized. He designed, made the technical decisions for and implemented the mechanism, which supports UniDirectional links in the Internet. Previously, Duros served as an engineer at INRIA, a national research institute in computing. He has also worked in a research laboratory at the Sydney University of Technology in Australia where he participated in the implementation of the IP mobile protocol.

Duros obtained a bachelor's degree from the Bristol University of West of England (UK) and a master's degree in computer science and telecommunication from Paris VI University (France).

Simon Gazikian

Simon Gazikian manages global sales activities of UDcast. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile and telecommunications industry.

His last position was CEO of Tedemis, a French start-up specializing in mobile services provision for brands and communities. Previously to that he was Vice President Global Sales for Esmertec, where he rapidly increased sales to make Esmertec a dominant player in embedded Java machines. In this position, he played a key role in the introduction of the company on the stock exchange in 2005. Before that, between 2001 and 2003, he was Vice-President Europe/Latin America with Axiom Systems, and, between 1998 and 2001, Director Southern Europe with Micromuse (later bought by IBM). He has also held various posts with Compuware and Unisys.

Gazikian is an engineering graduate of INSA Lyon, and a Master of Business Administration from the University Paris-la Sorbonne.

Filip Gluszak

Filip Gluszak is a marketing veteran in telecommunication applications and technologies and drives global marketing strategy and communications activities of UDcast.

Before joining UDcast, Gluszak headed the wireless marketing strategy department at Philips Consumer Electronics. There he pioneered definition and development of successful mobile products and content platforms and served in a number of international marketing and business development positions. Prior to this, Filip Gluszak contributed to the networking research projects, enabling innovative approach to super-computing at NEC Research Institute in the U.S.

Gluszak holds an international MS engineering degree in computer science and telecommunications from Ecole Franco-Polonaise (Poznan) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris), as well as an MBA degree of Programme Copernic (Ecole des Mines de Paris, Ponts et Chaussées, Institut d'Etudes Politiques), followed by several executive management programs.

Luc Ottavj

As Chief Scientist and co-founder at UDcast, Luc Ottavj plays an instrumental role in UDcast's technology innovation, ensuring that the company's core technology is cutting-edge and responsive to customer needs.

Ottavj is considered to be one of the fathers of the French Internet. While at INRIA research center, he was a leading member of the team that introduced IP and the Internet to France. The team worked closely with the regional government and France Telecom and advised the French government on the development of networks and Internet in France. Ottavj was previously at the French Ministry of Equipment where a held a variety of positions including software development, technical team management and computer center management.

Ottavj has an engineering degree from Ecole des Travaux Publics de l'Etat and a doctorate in information management from Institut du Management de l'Information of Paris and Université de Technologie of Compiègne.

David Richardson

David Richardson contributes to the development of new products, market channels and alliances in the rapidly developing fields of Mobile TV and WiMAX.

Richardson has over 20 years of broadcasting and media industry experience and was previously the Director of Business Development at NDS in North America. As part of his activities at NDS, he was a co-inventor of NDS’s DVR technology – XTV, which is now known as the most widely deployed DVR solution in the world. For this contribution, Cable & Satellite Europe recognized him as one of the leaders in European broadband and pay TV broadcasting in 2005. Most recently Richardson served as the NDS liaison for News Corp, its corporate parent, as well as with the US entertainment industry. Richardson has also participated in the development of satellite data broadcasting technologies, IP multicast and interactive applications including new forms of advertising and electronic program guides. He has contributed a number of granted and filed patents in his time at NDS.

Prior to that, Richardson founded and managed his own company that specialized in pre-press systems integration and content workflow. He has an academic background in economics, history and law and came to telecommunications and systems via the Israeli Air Force where he was trained in communications and security. His media experience he gained in the newspaper industry as a reporter, editor, publisher and systems developer before entering the digital television technology sector.

Roland Schaller

Roland Schaller is a Senior Engineer in telecommunications, IP (Internet Protocol) and Mobile technologies and globally drives Product Management at UDcast. Prior to his role as Vice President Product Mananagement, Schaller leads the Presales Team and built up the Training activities at UDcast since early 2004.

Before joining UDcast, Roland Schaller lead the Operations Support group at the Lucent Technologies European Technical Support Center, after a career at Lucent which evolved from Technical Support Engineer, Technical Support Expert to Regional Support Manager. Prior to that, Schaller has been with Bay Networks as Product Marketing Expert where he started his career in 1994.

Roland Schaller holds an international Masters Degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) in Electrical Engineering from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen, Germany), as well as Master in Management from the CERAM business school (France), followed by several management trainings.