Dr. James Brailean is an Officer for NextWave Wireless and the Chief Executive Officer 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 mobilemedia 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.
A scientist who led the development of the MPEG-4 standards for transmission of video and audio over wireless networks Dr. Brailean holds 16 key U.S. patents that enable advanced multimedia communications. From 1993 to 1998 he served as the chairman of the Error Resilience Video Compression Ad Hoc Group within MPEG-4. |