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Jack Perry is a pioneer in the media technology industry, creating a number of ground-breaking solutions for broadcasters and electronics manufacturers over the course of his 26-year career. In 2009, Perry founded Syncbak, Inc., whose products and services power OTT and TV Everywhere solutions for television broadcasters, including CBS and FOX networks. Prior to Syncbak, Perry was President and CEO of TitanTV (formerly Decisionmark Corp.), a 2004 Inc. 500 fastest growing company. During Perry’s thirteen-year tenure with this company, he developed the technology used by satellite companies and broadcasters to manage the delivery of network programming over satellite, he also created titan.com, the first-web based EPG/DVR utility, AntennaWeb.org and MediaStar. Perry holds twenty patents related to delivery of entertainment content over-the-air, over-satellite and over-the-Internet. He is a respected figure inside the beltway on issues related to digital entertainment, copyright and communications law and has testified before US Congress twice. In 2005 he joined representatives of Microsoft, Verizon and Comcast to brief Congress on the impact of internet protocol-enabled services in the communications industry. Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers in 2002 and nominated for an Academy Award (Best Industry Leadership) in 2005. He was also elected to National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2003 and named one of the 40 most influential people in the consumer electronics industry the same year. He continues to be a frequent speaker on the future of television, content and copyright protection at broadcast industry events including CES, NAB, NATPE, NAB Futures Summit, iHollywood, ATSC, Digital Hollywood, DTV Symposium and others. Perry has also held CEO posts at Interactive Resources and Spanning Tree Technologies and leadership positions at Powercore (Network Scheduler, 1993) and CE Software (QuickMail, 1995). In 1989, he founded his first software company, RunningCounts, and later joined forces with Prisma Software to market the product as RunningBest.

Mark Geene brings more than 20 years of experience in consulting, sales and product management to his role as CEO and co-founder of Cloud Elements (founded in 2012). A serial entrepreneur, in the past six years Mark has been the CEO of two startups (Cloud Elements and ChannelInsight). Prior to this, he held executive positions at IBM, Oracle, Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Today Mark is a recognized figure in the startup community as a mentor and speaker at industry and trade events including Startup Week, Colorado Technology Association, Lean Startup and Cloud Foundry. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Keith was appointed President and CEO in 2021 with more than a decade of driving company success at Conviva, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining Conviva in 2008, Keith was Vice President of Business Development at Riverbed Technology, where he was instrumental in developing the industry leader’s go-to-market strategy and key partner relationships as the company went public. Previously, as Director of Operations at Cisco, he was responsible for storage-switching and optical solutions for both the Sales and Worldwide Channels groups, and led the launch of Cisco’s MDS storage networking technology effort, which garnered revenues of $244 million in two years. Prior to Cisco, Keith was a Regional Vice President with McDATA, where he was a member of the core team that designed and implemented the company’s sales and channel coverage model. Earlier in his career, Keith held sales management roles in the open systems divisions of Digital Equipment Corporation and StorageTek. Keith brings a wealth of leadership expertise and functional capabilities to the role. He has held a range of executive positions, from sales and marketing to corporate and business development, across a variety of industry-leading technology companies, as well as emerging startups. Keith holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from San Diego State University.