Dr. James C. Brailean, Ph.D

Overview

Dr. Brailean, 46, has served as a director of the Company since May 2007. He is Chief Executive Officer of NextWave Mobile Products. Dr. Brailean was co-founder of PacketVideo and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Under Dr. Brailean's leadership, PacketVideo has become the largest independent supplier of embedded multimedia solutions for mobile phones and other devices in the world. A scientist who led the development of the MPEG-4 standards for transmission of video and audio over wireless networks, Dr. Brailean holds 16 key U.S. patents that enable advanced multimedia communications. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the chairman of the Error Resilience Video Compression Ad Hoc Group within MPEG-4. Prior to co-founding PacketVideo in 1998, Dr. Brailean was a principal staff engineer within Motorola Corporate Research and Development Laboratories in Chicago where he managed the Advanced Video Algorithm Group, responsible for the design and development of advanced video compression and imaging algorithms. He was also a communication system engineer for Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications Group. Dr. Brailean received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. He holds a Master's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.