Staff

Adam Goldberg is the Principal member of AGP, LLC, and has nearly two decades experience in technology, management and industry relations. He participates in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, was elected to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

 

2008 - Present

Principal, AGP LLC

Some examples of services provided to clients:

  • Detailed technical analysis of MPEG Systems buffer model and extensions
  • Consulting and government relations advice to a major consumer electronics manufacturer on issues relating to television energy consumption
  • Consulting and government relations advice to a major conditional access/security company on business and government relations issues
  • Sales and business development activities for a major international research laboratory
  • Security analysis and advice on software downloadable conditional access protocols and architecture for a major international research laboratory
  • Technical standards representation on digital television-related topics
  • Expert witness on digital television related patent cases

Also see Presentations

In October, 2009, Mr. Goldberg was awarded the Standards Leadership Award from the Consumer Electronics Association. See the Press Release here or here.

2006 - 2008 

Vice President
Government and Industry Affairs

Pioneer North America

Head of Pioneer’s Washington office.  Primary Federal representative for Pioneer’s home and mobile entertainment divisions.  Coordinate and develop policy positions with internal clients.

Coordinate, direct and implement various regulatory and lobbying activities to implement those policies.  Participate in various industry coalitions and trade groups representing Pioneer’s interests.  Participate in various state and federal government workshops, stakeholder meetings and similar forums representing Pioneer’s interests.  Track intellectual property legislation and intellectual property protection technologies (copy protection, filtering, peer-to-peer technologies, etc.).

Chaired the Consumer Electronics industry’s negotiations with the cable television industry on compatibility of retail devices with cable networks.  Pioneer’s representative on the Consumer Electronics Association’s Video Board, chaired the Consumer Electronics Association’s Television Manufacturer’s Caucus (TVMC), elected vice-chair of the CEA Technology & Standards Council (2009 term).  Member of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Board of Directors.

2001 - 2006

Director
Television Standards & Policy Development

Sharp Laboratories of America

Coordinate and direct television-related public policy activities, including interaction with the Federal Communications Commission, Federal and State Legislatures, and other government agencies. Coordinate and direct television-related standards activities in the United States, including digital television, cable television and copy protection issues.

Maintain standards library, memberships in standards developing organizations. Provide liaison and education between Sharp Corporation world-wide and United States television and related standards activities (including Copy Protection technical, business, legal and public policy matters).

Significant contributor to the industry “Cable-Ready Plug & Play” technical specifications and negotiations, and to e.g., Enhanced 8-VSB signaling issues.

Primary standards representative to ATSC, SCTE, and CEA standards developing committees. Co-Chair of the Copy Protection Technical Working Group (CPTWG), and occasional participant in DVB Copy Protection activities and other international organizations.

2000 - 2001

Director

Exodus Communications

 Head of a technical advisory and architectural team exploring new technologies and developing applications of the technologies to new managed services and other higher value-add product offerings. Consult with product development organization on implementation details. Mandate included monitoring of relevant standards organizations (e.g., IETF) and industry trends.

1995 - 2000

Staff Engineer

Harmonic, Inc.
(C-Cube Microsystems, DiviCom)

Key member of corporate architectural decision making team. Analysis of end-to-end digital and hybrid television systems (contribution, distribution and emission) including reference model design and critical gap analysis. Detailed written analysis of both probable and possible topologies, necessary ‘glue’, and market opportunities.

Led team developing architecture of new product features, gathering customer requirements, writing requirements specification, participating in product design team.

Internal consultant on end-to-end television system issues and related standards and ongoing standards work.

Lead of team porting software to new processor and operating system. Planning, schedule, software architecture and design. Also responsible for tracking vendor and subcontractor deliverables and schedule, vendor contract negotiation.

Member of VLSI team designing a digital set-top integration chip. Duties include software considerations cost/benefit analysis. Tracking industry copy protection issues for inclusion of copy protection primitives in silicon.

Member of software team successful in bringing one of the first multiple network digital set-top boxs to production. Duties included system design and architecture, portions of network stacks, MPEG decoder driver, MPEG decoder chip microcode specification, DAC controls, lab network design, vendor and customer interaction.

1992 - 1995

Senior Software Engineer

Microware Systems Corp

 Member of small team that developed one of the first interactive digital television middleware packages, "DAVID".