Executive Team
Board of Directors
Advisory Board

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Paul Shen
CEO
Paul Shen is an expert in the digital video area and a successful serial entrepreneur.  Paul was the founder and CEO at Imedia Corporation, a leader in digital video communication that was acquired by Terayon in 1999. Imedia Corporation delivered the first statistical re-multiplexer, CherryPicker, which played a central role in digital television distribution in cable and satellite TV services.  Previously, Paul defined the hardware architecture for General Instrument's first all-digital television system and the first digital high definition television (HDTV) system. He served as a General Instrument representative to the MPEG Committee, where he chaired the MPEG4 Syntax Group and led the effort to define a new object-oriented descriptive language. Paul holds 10 patents. Paul's most recent U.S. company, Open Harbor, where he was co-founder and CEO, provided web-based services for international trade facilitation.  Paul has a B.S. from the New York Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree from M.I.T., under well-known professor William Schreiber. 

Jay Shen
Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of TVU networks China
Jay co-founded Open Harbor, which provides a platform to facilitate international trade for Global 1000 companies. He was the founding Chief Technology Officer. Prior to co-founding Open Harbor, Jay co-founded Billpoint, an Internet payment leader that was acquired by eBay in April 1999. Previously, he was Chief Architect for GE Nuclear Energy, a $1 billion dollar division of General Electric. Jay also served as the Chief Technology Officer at the California Space Institute.  Jay has a B.A. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Albany.

Bob Creager
EVP Corporate Development
Bob Creager was the founder and CEO of MagiNet Corporation which pioneered video-on-demand and broadband Internet services for the hospitality industry in Asia-Pacific, and is the dominant company in its industry in that region.  He also co-founded and was CEO of AMG MediaVision, Inc., which advised its Japanese systems integration parent on investment candidates among complementary technology companies and on building integrated video-on-demand and broadband businesses within the acquisitions.  Bob is a Silicon Valley veteran and has held senior executive or legal counsel positions in various companies including HP, Itel and Zilog.  He is a member of the California State Bar Association and holds a J.D. from the University of California and a B.A. in Business Administration from Pacific Union College.

Kap Shin
EVP Business Development
Kap Shin founded Zing networks, an early online photo sharing and rich-media community site that partnered with Hewlett Packard, Sony, Canon, Casio, Nikon, and Konica.   Winner of several awards including Forbes Favorite, CNET #1 Photosite, and Fortune Magazine Cool Company, Zing was acquired by Sony ImageStation.  After Zing, Kap went on to be CTO at AirPrism, Inc., a mobile device management solution provider.  He led the design effort of a new class of enterprise software for mobile device management to allow corporate IT to centrally manage a large number of mobile devices (PDAs, laptops, smartphones) over wireless networks (802.11, GPRS, CDMA).  Product recognitions include Planet PDA Product of the Year 2003 and Mobility Award 2004.  Kap was also VP of Strategic Technology Sourcing at JPMorgan Chase and Management Consultant at Bain & Co.  Kap earned a B.A. in Computer Science from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard.

Dan Lofgren
VP of Marketing and Product Management
Dan Lofgren's career spans over 20 years in Silicon Valley high technology companies, first as a software engineer and engineering manager, then as a product manager.  He's worked for both software and hardware companies, in Internet services, telecommunications, e-commerce, and digital video.  Dan was most recently head of a consulting company, Numerate Solutions, providing quantitative marketing solutions including pricing, ROI, and business models.  Dan spent four years as VP of Product Management at Open Harbor (web services for international trade facilitation); before that, he was Director of Product Management at Beyond.com, an e-commerce company.  Dan also worked at Winnov (video conferencing hardware and software) as a product manager and evangelist to the user community.  Dan has a B.S. in Applied Math from Yale. 

David Robertson
VP of Sports Media
Based in New York City, David Robertson brings to TVU networks solid sales and sales management experience, with a strong specialization in media, entertainment and sports spanning the last 20 years.  Dave started his career in television, at Cox Broadcasting and then ABC, before joining Turner Broadcasting as VP Sponsorship Sales Turner Sports where he was responsible for all sponsorship revenues, and later VP of Sales CNN Interactive.  Most recently David was Director of National Media Sales for PGA Tour.com and VP of Sales at Collegiate Images.  David is a graduate of Northwestern University with a BA in Communication.        

Mika Saitoh
VP of Partner Relations
Mika Saitoh comes to TVU networks with 20 years of business development, marketing and strategic alliance management experience with a focus the last decade in video, IPTV, Internet TV, rich media and streaming solutions.  Mika got her start in tech at Frame Technology (Adobe Corp.), and counts amongst her achievements groundbreaking commercial deployments with Sun, IBM, Cisco, NEC and Panasonic, and the management of multi-partner software projects with Samsung, HP, Oracle, Hitachi and AT&T Solutions.  As VP of Marketing at MagiNet, Mika drove concept-through-completion launches of Internet TV and broadband connectivity products amongst its client base of 400 five-star hotels in 15 countries. At Kasenna, Mika led the strategic initiatives in building a consortium of ten partners to create a digital VOD system through a network of 3,400 apartment buildings, the largest such system in the world.  Mika has a B.A. in Communications from the University of San Francisco, with a minor in French and Spanish.  

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alec Hsu
Alec is a General Partner of Serra Venture Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley.  He has been an angel investor in Silicon Valley for over ten years and has started multiple businesses over the years.  He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from U.C. San Diego.

Byung-Pyo "B.P." Kim
B.P. is Chairman and CEO of Juwon, Inc., a commercial real estate development firm based in Seoul, Korea.  He also serves as a Trustee of East Asia Institute, a prominent research think-tank in Korea and previously was a Standing Director of Infra Korea and Executive Director of Pan Pacifix Corporation. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and M.A. and M.Ph. in Economics from Columbia University.

Eric Newhouse
Eric is a General Partner of Serra Venture Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley.  Previously he held management positions at Google and Electronic Arts.  He received a B.A. from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Paul Shen
Paul is the founder and CEO of TVU networks.  Please see his bio under "Executive Team".

ADVISORY BOARD

Robert Earle
Robert is Vice President at JPMorgan Chase in the Strategic Sourcing Group.  Previously, he was CEO at Dexterus, a Financial Services ASP that provided data center and software services to financial institutions in London.  Robert was also a Managing Director at Pricewaterhouse Coopers where he co-founded the Outsourcing Practice and led the US and Europe Practice for Procurement Outsourcing.  At Pepsi Cola Company, he was Senior Industry Manager and managed a $1 billion supplier portfolio.  Early in his career, he served as a Lieutenant Commander for US Navy, Submarines.  Robert's academic degrees include: B.S. in Physics & Engineering, Washington & Lee University; Nuclear Engineering, US Navy; and M.B.A., Harvard Business School.

Helge Petermann
Helge is a Director in the Business Development team of Capital Dynamics. Helge has over 13 years of experience in financial advisory and corporate finance working with US and international clients. Before joining Capital Dynamics, Helge was a director in Equity Capital Markets with Rothschild / ABN AMRO Rothschild and held various investment banking positions with Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in New York. Helge earned his MBA from the Columbia Business School and holds a diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Jerry Solomon
Jerry is President and CEO of Star Games. He has been one of America's top sports marketing executives for more than 20 years.  Following his graduation from Columbia University in 1978 with a Master's degree in International Business, Jerry was recruited by the Colgate-Palmolive Company to serve as its liaison to the men's and women's professional tennis tours. In 1980, he moved to Washington D.C. and joined ProServ, the second largest sports marketing and management company in the world.  He was named Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of ProServ in 1987 and was elected President in 1990.  He left ProServ in 1994 and moved to Boston to launch StarGames, a sports and entertainment marketing, management and production agency.

André V. Mendes
As Global Chief Information Officer for Special Olympics International, Andre is responsible for all strategic and operational aspects of the global organization's information technology, Internet and media infrastructures. Previously, André was responsible for developing and implementing technology strategy in both Broadcasting Engineering and Information Technology divisions of the Public Broadcasting Service.  He oversaw the daily operations of PBS's entire technology infrastructure. Mr. Mendes had previously served the organization from 1998 to 2001, as Chief Information Technology Officer. He also served as Chief Operating Officer at Pluvita, Inc. a Bethesda, MD based biotechnology and bioinformatics startup.  In May 2001, Andre was named by Computerworld magazine as one of the "Premier 100 IT Leaders" in the U.S and more recently, was named the "2006 IT Executive of the Year" for the Mid-Atlantic region, bestowed a "2006 Mid-Market Leadership Award" by CIO Decisions magazine and a "2005 Technology Leadership Award" by Broadcasting & Cable Magazine.  He is a co-author of the critically acclaimed "CTO Leadership Strategies" from Aspatore Books and an internationally recognized leader in the convergence of broadcasting, IT and new media technologies.