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James Brailean, Ph.D, is the chief executive officer of PacketVideo and the NextWave Mobile Products Division, and co-founder of PacketVideo. Inspired by a vision of powerful multimedia devices enabling new forms of mobile person-to-person communications, Brailean founded PacketVideo in 1998. Under Dr. Brailean's leadership, PacketVideo launched the world's first commercial end-to-end wireless mobile media delivery platform in 2000, and helped create a new industry for wireless multimedia communications. Now focused on software development for multimedia device innovation, PacketVideo has become the number one supplier of embedded multimedia solutions for mobile phones and other devices in the world.
Prior to co-founding PacketVideo in 1998, Dr. Brailean was a principal staff engineer within Motorola Corporate Research and Development Laboratories in Chicago where he managed the Advanced Video Algorithm Group, responsible for the design and development of advanced video compression and imaging algorithms. He was also a communication system engineer for Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications Group.
Dr. Brailean is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum for his contributions to the acceleration of the development and adoption of mobile multimedia services worldwide. | 