• Wen H. Chen, Ph.D. - Chief Technology Advisor
• Jim Chiddix - Strategic Advisor
• Jarl Mohn - Strategic Advisor
• Sachio Semmoto, Ph.D. - Strategic Advisor
• Jeff Weber - Strategic Advisor

Dr. Chen is a Cisco Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Honorary Professor at the Communication University of China, Tianjin University and Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, and Distinguished Lecture Chair at National Chung Hsing University. Prior to Cisco, he was Board Director and CTO of Komodo Technology, Inc., responsible for packet telephony developments. As Founder, Chairman of the Board and President of V-Bits, Inc., he pioneered development of the RateMux digital grooming and splicing system. Both Komodo and V-Bits were acquired by Cisco. Previously, Dr. Chen was Founder and Executive VP of CLI (Compression Labs), leading development of CLI's video conferencing and broadcast TV products, while also serving as Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University. His pioneering work in digital imaging and inventions are cornerstones for digital image products from camera, videophone, video conferencing and digital broadcast TV to digital HDTV systems. His research results directly impacted camera and video industries and standards organizations. Dr. Chen received a BS from National Taiwan University, MS from Kansas State University and Ph.D. from University of Southern California, all in Electrical Engineering. He is an Advisory Board member of San Jose State University and AVS Standard of China, an honorary board member of the Chinese Information & Networking Association, lifetime member of the North American Taiwanese Engineers' Association, member of the ITRI Technical Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Boards of Cradle Technologies and VisualOn.

Jim Chiddix serves on the boards of directors at Virgin Media, ARRIS, Dycom Industries, and Symmetricom. He served as Chairman and CEO at OpenTV Corp. from 2004 to 2007.

Prior to joining OpenTV, Jim was President at Mystro TV, a division of Time Warner Inc. Mystro developed an early server-based personal video recording and time-shifting service. Before starting Mystro, Jim was Chief Engineer and Chief Technical Officer at Time Warner Cable for 15 years, where he was responsible for technology strategy, engineering and R&D.

Before joining Time Warner's corporate office, Jim held a variety of engineering and operating positions with two cable companies in Hawaii, Oceanic Cable and Waianae Cablevision. He also established a start-up in Honolulu, CRC Electronics, Inc., which manufactured automated commercial insertion systems.

Jim was inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 1991 and the Cable Hall of Fame in 2007.

Jarl Mohn, who had been known as Lee Masters since his days in radio, divides his time between being a corporate director and advisor to various media companies, making private equity investments in venture capital and buyout opportunities and managing The Mohn Family Foundation, the philanthropic entity he and his wife created in 2000.

Previously, Mr. Mohn was the founding President and CEO of Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in mid-stage interactive television, cable networks and internet enterprises. Prior to Liberty Digital, he created E! Entertainment Television serving as President and CEO from January 1990 to December 1998. Mr. Mohn was formerly Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1, from 1986 to 1990. Prior to his career in television, Mr. Mohn enjoyed a successful 19 year career in radio. He began as a disc jockey and moved through the ranks as a programmer, general manager and then owner of a group of radio stations.

Mr. Mohn serves on the following corporate and not-for-profit boards: E.W. Scripps (NYSE: SSP), a media company with a large portfolio of newspapers, television stations, internet properties and cable networks; XM Radio (NasdaqNM: XMSR), a satellite radio broadcasting service; CNET (NasdaqNM: CNET), an online publisher of special interest content including technology, computers, consumer electronics, gaming, music, photography, television and others; MobiTV, a provider of television programming and channels over Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile and other carriers; KickApps, an applications company that provides the tools that allow web publishers to create community and social networking on their sites; Azureus, a peer to peer network for low cost, high quality secure distribution of high resolution and high definition video; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Chairman since 1994; Southern California Public Radio KPCC, Trustee; World Presidents Organization, Los Angeles Chapter, Chairman; and, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Board of Councilors.

Originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Mohn attended Philadelphia's Temple University where he studied mathematics and philosophy.

Dr. Semmoto founded eAccess Ltd in 1999. eAccess is Japan's first true entrepreneurial and global IP/telecom company that provides high-speed broadband telecommunication services using xDSL technology. eAccess has grown to a leading broadband IP operator in Japan, and completed its Initial Public Offering at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in October 2003 and moved to the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section (TSE1) in November 2004. This is considered to be the fastest listing in the TSE1 whose market capitalization was approximately US $1.5 billion. 

Additionally he founded EMOBILE Ltd. which was awarded 3G spectrum license in 2005 and  entered into the mobile broadband market in 2007.  EMOBILE completed its financing, total US $3.5 billion, which includes $1.2 billion for equity and $2.3 billion for debt financing, to roll out the nationwide mobile network.　EMOBILE launched its data service in March 2007 and then the voice service in March 2008. Bundled with UMPC, EMOBILE's high speed, flat rate and reasonable pricing mobile data communications service dramatically changed the existing mobile scene, creating a "broadband revolution" in the mobile industry.

Prior to eAccess, Dr. Semmoto spent 30 years in senior management positions including Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NTT), Kyocera, and DDI Corporation (currently "KDDI") which he co-founded as an Executive Vice President in 1984. At NTT, he developed the first optical fiber system in Japan and led the development of the Information Network System, the world's first digital service which embodied the ISDN concept. He was Japan's official representative to the ITU on optical fiber and ISDN (1974-1980). He played a major role in bringing DDI up to $5 billion in sales and $630 million in profit after 7 years of operation. In 1990, he founded DDI cellular group (currently "au") as an intrapreneur. Subsequently in 1995, he founded DDI Pocket, a PHS company (currently "WILLCOM"), and became the first president.

In 1996, Dr. Semmoto became a full professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University to teach in the areas of entrepreneurial management and information technology, prior to the establishment of eAccess Ltd.

Although he spent most of his career in the telecommunication industry, he has also had a background of academic involvement through extensive lecturing engagements at the world's leading universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, Cambridge in the U.S. and the UK. He was a visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon University and at the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley during 1992-1993 and 2000-2001, respectively, and a visiting research fellow at Stanford University in 1997. At present, he is a visiting professor at University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

He is a director and the board of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company (London, UK), Telecom New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand), International Christian University (ICU) (Tokyo), and a member of the Network of Global Agenda Councils, World Economic Forum and the Trilateral Commission. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Fulbright Association in Japan. He published numerous academic papers and books on both telecommunication technologies and high technology corporate management.

He graduated from Kyoto University, Japan and received his MS and Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering in University of Florida.

Jeffrey G. Weber, president of content and advertising sales, AT&T Home Solutions, is responsible for AT&T U-verse services, the company's initiative to deliver integrated TV, Internet and voice services over its expanded fiber network.

Mr. Weber joined SBC in 1986 and has held a number of positions, including roles in IT, sales, strategy, network operations and marketing, while working on local, long distance, data, wireless, and entertainment services.

Mr. Weber is a native of Norman, Okla. He received a MIS degree from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.