SPEAKER BIOS:

Derek Harrar, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Video and Entertainment Services, Comcast Cable

Derek Harrar serves as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Video and Entertainment Services for Comcast Cable.  He is responsible for all aspects of the company’s video business, including basic and digital cable subscriptions, high-definition and digital video recorder services as well as management of the On Demand product for the Company’s 23.6 million customers.   Mr. Harrar joined Comcast in 2004 as Vice President of Business Development, responsible for aligning the company's strategic, operational and financial goals across all business units.  He also served as Vice President of Subscriber Equipment before being named Vice President of Video Product Management.

Mr. Harrar's career began with eight years as an investment banker, primarily with Morgan Stanley in Silicon Valley and New York.  He advised clients such as HP, KKR, Grupo Televisa, @Home, LSI Logic and VeriSign, on 45 announced transactions aggregating over $60 billion.  Immediately prior to joining Comcast, Mr. Harrar served as co-founder and VP Business Development of MegaSense, a venture-funded communications startup in Silicon Valley. Mr. Harrar holds a B.S. with Special Attainments in Commerce from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA.  He resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two daughters.

Eisuke Tsuyuzaki , Chief Technology Officer, Panasonic Corporation of North America
He was named Chief Technology Officer of Panasonic Corporation of North America on July 1, 2009.  In addition to his responsibilities as Panasonic’s technology leader in this region, as CTO he will direct Panasonic’s efforts in technical standards-making and corporate development, including strategic alliance building especially with the motion picture studios and content creators.

Prior to taking on this role, Mr. Tsuyuzaki served as managing director of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory and concurrently as Vice President, Corporate Development of Panasonic R&D Company of America since February 2005.  Both the Hollywood Laboratory and Panasonic R&D Company of America are units of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal U.S. subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation. (NYSE: PC).

In these positions Mr. Tsuyuzaki oversaw research and development including technology standardization operations of the Hollywood Laboratory, directed Panasonic’s Blu-ray Disc and Full HD 3D format promotion in North America and acted as the principal liaison for Panasonic with the Hollywood creative and entertainment production communities, including directing Panasonic’s relationship with 20th Century Fox’s upcoming 3D epic adventure, James Cameron’s AVATAR.   

Prior to joining Panasonic, Mr. Tsuyuzaki served in leadership positions within the corporate strategy and business development functions of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia-Tristar Motion Pictures.   Mr. Tsuyuzaki holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Sophia University in Tokyo and certificates from University of California, Los Angeles in Film, Television, Video & New Media as well as marketing and management of entertainment products. He has also attended Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh Business School, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.  Mr. Tsuyuzaki is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Bob Wilson, Vice President and General Manager, Networked Video Solutions Group, Motorola
Wilson’s (NVS) business focuses on the large and growing global opportunities in supplying complete video infrastructure solutions to service providers in the cable, satellite, telco and programmer marketplace.  The NVS portfolio includes network equipment for ad insertion, encoding, IRDs and modular uplinks as well as video on demand and switched digital video solutions.

Prior to joining Motorola, Wilson was the chairman and CEO of Modulus Video, a leading innovator of MPEG-4 AVC video encoding systems that was acquired by Motorola in July 2007. During his tenure, the company grew from its startup phase into the word’s leading provider of advanced video encoding solutions for the burgeoning IPTV market.  Wilson’s extensive experience in the television technologies includes seven years as an executive of Pinnacle Systems including president of the Broadcast Solutions Division. Wilson served as executive vice president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer and as a member of the board of Accom, Inc., another pioneering video company. He also served as president and chief executive officer of The Grass Valley Group. Early in his career, Wilson held a variety of senior executive level positions in general management, finance, marketing, and sales for Ampex Corporation.  Wilson also served as vice president of Merchant Banking for investment bank Wasserstein Perella. Mr. Wilson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.