ISMA Leadership

ISMA Board of Directors

Yuval Fisher
Chairman
Principal Engineer
Envivio, Inc.
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Yuval is chief scientist and co-founder of Envivio, which has one of the broadest collections of ISMA-compliant products on the market. He is currently the lead editor of the MPEG-4 Systems specification, and was the Chair of the MPEG-4 System Conformance Group and Advanced Text and 2D Graphics Group. He has consulted and published in various applied and theoretical fields, including data encoding and compression. In 1997 he became involved with MPEG-4 standardization, and has since introduced a number of key technologies and coding schemes into the standard. As a consultant, Dr. Fisher worked on several MPEG-4 implementations for participating MPEG-4 companies, including Rockwell International, Conexant, and France Telecom. He believes there are existing and emerging markets that will benefit from ISMA's standards-based specifications, and can draw from experiences both within ISMA and other standards bodies to help promote the ISMAs vision and goals.

Dr. Fisher holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University.

Mathias Bendull
Vice Chairman/Treasurer
Director Business Digital TV
Coding Technologies
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Mathias Bendull started his career in digital TV in 1996 when he joint the fledgling unit Digital Technology of BetaTechnik. BetaTechnik was responsible for all digital technology aspects for the digital broadcast ventures of the German media giant KirchGruppe. Until 2003 he held various positions in several subsidiaries of the KirchGruppe, among others Managing Director of Top5MediaConnection which developed interactive applications for the DVB standard MHP. Previous to Coding Technologies, Mathias Bendull initiated and executed with two colleagues a management buy-out of the business units "Conditional Access" and "Digital Headend" of BetaResearch, another KirchGruppe subsidiary.

In 2005, he jointed Coding Technologies as Director Business Development Digital TV. Coding Technologies is the leader in audio compression technology for broadcasting, mobile and the Internet. The aacPlus codec is a fundamental enabler of mobile music services and is an integral part of MPEG-4. Mathias focuses on those markets which introduce new technologies like High Definition TV, Mobile TV and MPEG Surround for existing TV services and platforms.

He studied in Erlangen, Germany, Aix-en-Provence, France and Canberra, Australia.

Nikolaus Färber
Secretary & Liaisons Officer
Fraunhofer IIS
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Nikolaus Färber received his Doctoral degree, with highest honors, in 2000 as a member of the Image Communication Group, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has published numerous conference and journal papers in the area of robust video transmission and has contributed successfully to the ITU-T Study Group 16 efforts for H.263. After being a Post-Doc at Stanford University in 2001 he joined Ericsson Eurolab, Nuremberg, Germany as a member of the speech processing group. Since 2003 he is with Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany, where he is heading the Multimedia Transport Group. In 2004/2005 he has chaired the Video Codec Ad-Hoc Group in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) during the adoption of H.264/AVC into Release-6. Since 2004 he is Technical Committee Chair of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA).

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