Peter Besen
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter has over 25 years experience in successfully starting and managing high technology companies. Prior to the founding of Immedia Semiconductor Peter was Vice President of the Consumer Electronics group at Broadcom and was responsible for Broadcom’s Blu-ray SOC business and H.264 and VC-1 codec technology. The consumer electronics group was formed through the acquisition of Sand Video in 2004 where Peter was CEO and co-founder. Sand Video was a developer of next generation video compression solutions and was the first company to implement the H.264 compression standard in silicon.
Prior to Sand Video, Peter was President and CEO of Pixel Magic, which he co-founded in 1991. In 1995, Pixel Magic was sold to Oak Technology of Sunnyvale, CA. Previously, Peter was a co-founder of LaserData Inc. (1982-1991). He initially held the position of Vice President of Engineering and then became Vice President of OEM Business Development. At LaserData, Peter was responsible for the development of the world’s first PC based document image processing system. Peter was also a founder of Terrapin Consulting and was Data Processing Systems Manager at the MIT Plasma Fusion Center. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1978).
Don Shulsinger
Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Co-Founder
Don has been a serial entrepreneur in the Boston area for the past 25 years. Prior to the founding of Immedia Semiconductor Don was Vice President of Business Development in the Consumer Electronics group at Broadcom where he was responsible for business and product strategy and OEM sales/marketing and customer operations. The consumer electronics group was formed through the acquisition of Sand Video in 2004 where Don was Vice President of Sales and Marketing and co-founder. Sand Video was a developer of next generation video compression solutions and was the first company to implement the H.264 compression standard in silicon.
Prior to Sand Video, Don was Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Pixel Magic, which he co-founded in 1991. In 1995, Pixel Magic was sold to Oak Technology of Sunnyvale, CA. Previously, Don was a co-founder of LaserData Inc. (1982-1991) where he held the position of Vice President of Marketing. Don was also a founder of Terrapin Consulting. He holds a BS (1978) and MS (1982) in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
Stephen Gordon
CTO and Co-Founder
Steve has over 20 years experience developing technology and engineering teams in video processing, imaging, and embedded real-time systems for consumer and medical electronics. Prior to the founding of Immedia Semiconductor, Steve was the Director of Advanced Video Technology at Broadcom, and a founder and Chief Scientist at Sand Video. During this time, he led the deployment of the first high definition decoders for the H.264/AVC, VC-1, and AVS compression standards. Steve has 20+ issued and pending patents in video algorithms and architectures, and was the lead contributor to the H.264 / AVC High Profile. High Profile won an Emmy Award in 2008.
Prior to Sand Video, Steve was Director of Image Processing at Pixel Magic and Oak Technology, held senior engineering positions at Siemens Medical Electronics and Telebit Corporation, and was an economic researcher at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC. He holds a MSEE from UMASS, Amherst, and a BA in mathematics and economics from Amherst College.
Daniel Grunberg
Vice President of Product Development and Co-Founder
Dan was previously President of Chainwave Systems, Inc. a technology development consulting firm. He has been a member of CommonAngels since 1999, and a board member from 2005-2007. He has been involved in the founding of several companies, from software to insurance, materials science, and accounting. He helped spin-out Interactive Supercomputer from MIT as a licensed company and helped recruit the early management team.
From 1995-1996, Dan was the Embedded Systems Manager at Pixel Magic Inc. where he was responsible for the development of board level image processing systems. Prior to these ventures, Dan transformed Jackson Hewitt Tax Service into a major competitor of H&R Block in electronic tax preparation. Serving as a Director and the Vice President of Technology, he was responsible for all software development, a 24×7 operations center, and the processing of over $400 million in short-term loans annually. The company went public in 1992 and was sold to Cendant in 1997. Dan received his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in 1983, 1983 and 1986, respectively.
Carlos Bielicki
Vice President of Business Development
Carlos is a 20-year semiconductor veteran most recently involved in video and consumer electronics. Prior to joining Immedia, Carlos was Director of Worldwide Business Development in the DTV group at Broadcom where his team was responsible for revenue generation from top tier CE manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, LG, Vizio, and others. Prior to Broadcom, Carlos was Product Line Director in the DTV group at AMD where he held P&L responsibility for a line of innovative frame rate converter system-on-chips (SoCs) developed in partnership with Samsung. Under his leadership the product line grew from start-up into a significant revenue contributor and also generated vital IP that was integrated into other products.
Before AMD, Carlos held the role of interim CEO/VP Sales and Marketing at TimeLab, a venture funded start-up in the Boston area, as well as various business development and sales management roles at IBM Microelectronics, Oak Technology, Chips & Technologies, and Microtouch. Carlos holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
John Iler
Vice President of ASIC Engineering
John has been leading ASIC design teams for over 25 years. Prior to Immedia Semiconductor, John was Sr. Director of Engineering at Broadcom, and Vice President of Engineering/co-founder at Sand Video (acquired by Broadcom), where he was responsible for the development of the world’s first H.264/AVC high definition decoder ASIC. Prior to Sand Video, John was Vice President of Engineering at Oak Technology, and Pixel Magic (acquired by Oak), where he was responsible for the development of both the world’s first JBIG decoder ASIC and the world’s fastest JPEG decoder ASIC.
Previously, John was Vice President of Engineering/co-founder of Jackson Hewitt Systems Corporation, which wrote all the software for the United States’ second largest tax preparation service. John was also a Principal Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation where he led multiple designs of 2D and 3D workstation graphics ASICs. John received his S.B., and S.M. degrees from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1983.