Verizon Communications

Ivan Seidenberg was the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications. He is also the current Chairman of the Business Roundtable. Effective Aug. 1 2011, Lowell McAdam, fomer President and COO of Verizon Communications, succeeded Seidenberg as CEO. Seidenberg continues to serve as chairman to... facilitate the transition. Seidenberg rose through the ranks from an entry level out of high school becoming CEO of NYNEX in 1994. He oversaw the mergers as it became Bell Atlantic in 1997 followed by the merger with GTE in 2000 to form Verizon. He stepped down as CEO in 2011 but maintains the chairman position. Seidenberg began his career in telecommunications as a lineman's assistant straight from high school. He was wounded in Vietnam, and subsequently earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City University of New York and an MBA from Pace University. Seidenberg started his career as a cable splicer's assistant at New York Telephone, eventually becoming head of NYNEX in 1994. He took a senior position in Bell Atlantic after that company merged with NYNEX. When Bell Atlantic became Verizon, Seidenberg was sole CEO of the company.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages could be spoken in New York, making it one of most linguistically diverse city in the World.
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Entropic Communications is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home entertainment. Our technology significantly changes the way high-definition television quality video, or HD video, and other multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. Entropic is a pioneer of key technologies that enable connected home... networking of digital entertainment over existing coax and is a founding member of MoCA, a global home networking consortium that sets standards for the distribution of video and other multimedia entertainment over coax.Entropic products include: home networking chipsets based on the MoCA standardhigh-speed broadband access chipsetsintegrated circuits, or ICs, that simplify digital broadcast satellite, or DBS, servicessilicon TV tuner ICs.These products allow telecommunication carriers, or telcos, cable multiple service operators, or MSOs, and DBS service providers to enhance and expand their service offerings and reduce deployment costs in an increasingly competitive environment. Entropic's home networking solutions capitalize on the worldwide conversion of multimedia content from analog to digital. Multimedia content is now easy to store on DVRs, gaming consoles, DVD recorders and PCs. The ability to store this content on various devices has created "islands" of digital entertainment within the home. Our products bridge these islands and allow consumers to access their multimedia content throughout the home. Today, we are the only high-volume supplier of MoCA-compliant chipsets, which can be embedded in a wide variety of consumer electronic devices. Service providers can employ our solutions to offer consumer applications such as multi-room DVR, multi-room and online gaming, PC to TV personal content sharing, and streaming of downloaded movies stored on a PC to any TV. Founded in January 2001, Entropic has assembled a team with vast expertise in video communications, networking algorithms and protocols, system-on-a-chip, or SoC, design, embedded software, mixed signal and RF_IC design, and communications and RF systems. We use our considerable experience with service provider-based deployments to create solutions that address the complex requirements associated with delivering multiple streams of HD video into and throughout the home, while seamlessly coexisting with video, voice and data services using the same coax infrastructure. Entropic's investors include: Anthem Venture Partners; Cisco Systems; CMEA Ventures; Comcast Interactive Capital; Conexant; Cox Communications; The Dow Employees Pension Plan; EchoStar Satellite LLC; Freescale Semiconductor; Focus Ventures; Granite Ventures; Intel Capital; Liberty Associated Partners, LP; Mission Ventures; Motorola; Mototech; Panasonic; Redpoint Ventures; Revolution Ventures; Saints Capital Belvedere, LP; ST; Texas Instruments; Time Warner; Verizon and; YAS Broadband Ventures.
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