AIMS LEADERSHIP
Board of Directors
Steve Reynolds is CEO at Imagine Communications, providing the vision and leadership that drives the company’s long-term technology strategy, business development and M&A activities.
Andreas Hilmer directs marketing and communications for LAWO, German manufacturer of pioneering network, control, audio and video technology, providing strategic direction across the LAWO group of companies.
Lee Buchanan is the Vice President of Cameras and Networking for Grass Valley, the leading technology provider for the live media and entertainment market. He is responsible for product strategy and business development and has held various roles in his 25+ years in the Media & Entertainment industry.
Andrew Starks is the Director of Product Management for Macnica. He leads the company’s standards efforts and has been a significant contributor to AIMS’s Pro AV initiative, including the development of the IPMX roadmap, and its marketing plan.
Samuel joined Matrox in 1997 amidst the rise of PC-based standards and surging PC sales. Samuel has held Commercial and Product Management roles at Matrox and is currently focused on contributing to the growth of performance media over IP markets.
Marketing Work Group
Technical Work Group
Andrew Starks is the Director of Product Management for Macnica. He leads the company’s standards efforts and has been a significant contributor to AIMS’s Pro AV initiative, including the development of the IPMX roadmap, and its marketing plan.
John Mailhot has worked in the field of digital high-definition (HD) television systems since its North American inception in 1990. He began as part of the AT&T-Zenith team, responsible for system architecture and integration of the digital spectrum compatible high-definition television (DSC-HDTV) system prototype, and then served as technical lead for the Grand Alliance encoder at Lucent Technologies. He subsequently held engineering manager and general manager roles at Lucent Digital Video, Aastra Digital Video, and the Harris Broadcast Video Networking Group. Today, Mailhot is chief technology officer of the networking and infrastructure team at Imagine Communications. He has dual bachelor’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has been recognized as a SMPTE Fellow.
Pro AV Work Group
Audio Work Group
Education Work Group
Samuel joined Matrox in 1997 amidst the rise of PC-based standards and surging PC sales. Samuel has held Commercial and Product Management roles at Matrox and is currently focused on contributing to the growth of performance media over IP markets.
Andreas Hildebrand is Senior Product Manager and Evangelist for the Emmy Award-winning RAVENNA technology developed by ALC NetworX / Lawo, Germany. He is a member of the AES Task Group defining and maintaining the AES67 AoIP standard and regularly contributes to the SMPTE ST 2110 SVIP standardization. He is also contributing to the development of the VSF IPMX specifications.
Steve Reynolds is CEO at Imagine Communications, providing the vision and leadership that drives the company’s long-term technology strategy, business development and M&A activities.