Next Generation Video Communications

A one day symposium presented by
The Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology

James C. Brailean, Ph.D. President, CEO & Co-Founder Packet Video, Inc.

Dr. James Brailean is the President, CEO and Co-founder of PacketVideo, the world's leading provider of carrier-grade infrastructure software that enables mobile multimedia. Under Brailean's leadership, PacketVideo launched the world's first commercial end-to-end wireless multimedia delivery platform in August 2000, and has since conducted trials with more than 45 wireless operators globally, including NTT DoCoMo, Sprint PCS, SKTelecom, Swisscomm, T-Mobile, and many others.

A scientist who led the development of the MPEG-4 standards for transmission of video and audio over wireless networks, Brailean holds 16 key U.S. patents that will power the next generation of multimedia content and communications. From 1993 to 1998, Brailean served as the chairman of the Error Resilience Video Compression Ad Hoc Group within MPEG-4.

Prior to co-founding PacketVideo in 1998, Brailean was a principal staff engineer within Motorola Corporate Research and Development Laboratories in Chicago where he managed the Advanced Video Algorithm Group. This group was responsible for the design and development of advanced video compression and imaging algorithms.

From 1985 to 1989, Brailean was a communication system engineer for Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications Group. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. Brailean also holds a master's of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.