Entropic Communications

Kenneth Merchant holds the Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, part of the Marshall School of... Business at the University of Southern California. He is the former dean of the Leventhal School. Dr. Merchant is the author of many articles and books on accounting, including the textbooks: Dr. Merchant previously taught at Harvard Business School, and currently serves on eight editorial boards. His Ph.D. is from the University of California at Berkeley. His M.B.A. is from Columbia Business School. His B.S. is from Union College.
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Rouzbeh Yassini is an Iranian-American engineer, who was one of the earliest developers of cable modems. He was the founder of LANcity and helped... establish the cable modem industry standard through Cable Television Laboratories. He now is the CEO of YAS Broadband Ventures LLC. CED Magazine named him “1998 Man of the Year” for creating and fostering the multibillion-dollar cable modem broadband industry. Dr. Yassini is the author of Planet Broadband a humanized look at broadband technology. The NCTA awarded Dr. Yassini with a 2004 Vanguard Award. In the spring of 2008, Dr. Yassini opened the Yassini Broadband Knowledge Center in Boston. YBKC offers $200,000 in grants each year in order to accelerate independent research into advanced broadband technologies.
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Neil invests in both new and existing technology businesses.  Areas of special interest include: Internet and new media; software; consumer... services; and network infrastructure.  He is currently a board member of DECA, Eons, Visible Measures, ViTrue, and ScanScout, a board observer for BrightCove, rPath and Qumas and is actively involved with BlackDuck, ITA Software, and Maven. Neil joined General Catalyst Partners from Time Warner where he was most recently Managing Director, Technology for Time Warner Investments formerly AOL Time Warner Ventures, the early stage private investment vehicle for the world's largest media company. During his four years at Time Warner, Neil worked closely with various operating groups including AOL, HBO, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Turner and Warner Bros. to identify investment opportunities. Neil sourced, led and was actively involved with the boards of several of the companies within the Time Warner Investments portfolio including Arroyo Video Solutions, BigBand Networks, Entropic, Goldpocket Interactive , N2Broadband and Waterfront Media.Prior to joining Time Warner, Neil led Mergers and Acquisitions for CMGI, a diversified technology operating company and venture capital firm. While at CMGI Neil worked on a variety of acquisitions and investments in software, media and networking infrastructure and was actively involved with CMGI companies including Alta Vista , Engage, NaviSite , Ubid , and Yesmail . Previously, Neil was an Associate with Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prior to Goldman, Neil was a senior consultant with Accenture, where he managed project teams on technology focused strategic and process initiatives for Fortune 500 companies.  In addition, Neil was an early employee at Goldenvoice Presents, a diversified media company and was a contributor to the founding of OpenRatings, a venture backed software start-up based in Boston. He has spoken at numerous media and venture capital conferences and is a judge for the Harvard, Wharton and Springboard Business Plan Competitions.Neil holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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