About / Board & Officers

With extensive backgrounds in the home networking, IPTV and service provider segments, HomePNA’s board members work collectively to enhance the HomePNA technology and educate the industry on its benefits. Our officers work to expand the Alliance and promote usage of the technology in emerging high-growth applications, such as TelcoTV.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AT&T Labs
CopperGate Communications, Ltd.
K-Micro
Motorola, Inc.
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Sunrise Telecom
2Wire, Inc.

BOARD MEMBERS

PRESIDENT
Richard Nesin
CopperGate Communications

Richard Nesin is Vice President of Marketing at CopperGate Communications where his responsibilities include marketing CopperGate’s HomePNA 3 compatible multimedia home networking chipset products. Richard brings over 22 years of marketing experience in the communications semiconductor industry. Prior to joining CopperGate, he held various strategic marketing positions at Agere Systems and Lucent Technologies. Richard is a recognized expert in the home networking market and often speaks at various venture summits, forums, conferences, and trade shows, including CES, Connections, Digital Hollywood, IP-Trends Summit, Digital Home Conference and the Broadband World Forum.

VICE PRESIDENT
David Rackley
AT&T Labs

David Rackley is Director of Consumer Product Analysis at AT&T Labs in Austin, Texas. David’s group is responsible for the evaluation of hardware and software solutions that AT&T offers to its U-Verse customers. The product mix includes residential gateways, home networking and systems that integrate voice, video and Internet services within the customer's home.

SECRETARY
Jaime Fink
2Wire

As 2Wire’s Director of Product Marketing, Jaime Fink is responsible for broadband and home networking product requirements, silicon and gateway technology strategy and industry standards efforts.

TREASURER
Clive Holborow
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Motorola, Inc.

Clive Holborow is Systems Engineering Manager in the IP Video Solutions business of Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility division, which makes products for the cable, satellite, and telephone industries. Since joining General Instrument (the predecessor of Motorola HNM) in 1996, he has worked on digital video distribution equipment and IP data products. The former includes satellite uplink products, commercial satellite receivers, and IPTV set-tops, while the latter includes cable modems, home gateways, and VoIP terminal adapters. He participated in the writing of the DOCSIS 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 and the PacketCable 1.0 specifications for the cable industry.

From 1984 to 1996 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he did systems engineering for AT&T's analog HFC transmission products, digital video products, and synchronous digital lightwave transmission systems. He participated in the development of the MPEG-2, SONET, and T1.101 Synchronization Interface standards. Earlier he was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on spread spectrum communication systems.

Holborow received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He is a member of IEEE and SCTE. He has four issued patents.

DIRECTOR
David Alsobrook
Scientific-Atlanta

David Alsobrook is Director of Video Products for IP Subscriber Networks. He is responsible for Scientific Atlanta’s IP Video consumer premises equipment, including IP set-tops, multistream home gateways and home networking equipment. These products support personal video via DVR, networked DVR and whole-home networked products.

DIRECTOR
Joseph Choghi
K-Micro

Joseph Choghi is the Director of Marketing at Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in Networking and Telecommunications. Joseph has held marketing and engineering positions with multiple Telecommunications firms. He has gained broad experience in creating worldwide technology development groups, working partnerships, leading interest groups and promoting industry standards. He is also a contributing member of ITU-T, DSL Forum, ATM Forum, ECSA T1 Committees and IEEE.

DIRECTOR
Robert Heintz
Sunrise Telecom

Robert Heintz is Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Sunrise Telecom.
Robert is responsible for Sunrise Telecom's worldwide sales organization and corporate marketing. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing, sales and general management.

DIRECTOR
Clive Holborow
Motorola

Clive Holborow manages the Systems Engineering group in the IP Video Solutions business of Motorola’s Connected Home Solutions division, which makes products for the cable, satellite and telephone industries.

CHAIR, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Vernon Reed
AT&T

Currently working as a Principal Member of Technical Staff of AT&T Labs in Austin, TX, Vernon Reed is a Technical Lead for IPTV Service Delivery Technologies and Testing for AT&T’s U-VerseÔ program – a complete next-generation IP-based triple-play broadband service delivering standard and high-definition video, voice and high-speed data to the home using fiber, broadband copper technologies, and wireless solutions into 53 core cities across 22 states. He is a recognized master of end-to-end broadband system and computing technologies, core and home network routing and switching processes, interfaces, protocols and applications.