Frederick L. Kitson has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since March, 2010. Prior to joining us, Dr. Kitson was with Motorola from 2005 to 2008 where he led the Corporate R&D Applied Research Center as Corporate Vice President. Prior to Motorola, he was with Hewlett Packard as the Senior Director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab and led various research and development efforts relating to speech coding, lossless compression, mobile content delivery, and video-on-demand. Dr. Kitson holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado and completed an executive program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is a prolific publisher of technical papers, a frequent invited keynote speaker in the multimedia area and holds five patents
