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Note: This website was frozen in July, 2009. Visit the current website at the link below. Jim Chiddix is a prominent technology industry executive who led the development of many of the technologies that have shaped modern cable television services. Jim served as Chairman and CEO at OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ: OPTV) for three years, beginning in March of 2004. OpenTV is the world's leading developer of operating software and applications for digital set-top boxes. In January 2007, OpenTV's largest shareholder, Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L), sold its controlling stake to The Kudelski Group of Switzerland. After the sale, Jim continued to serve on the company’s board as Vice Chairman. Jim also joined the board of directors at Virgin Media Inc., (NASDAQ: VMED), a primary provider of cable TV, broadband and fixed and wireless phone services in the UK. In addition, he joined the boards of Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a market-leader in precision timing technologies for telecommunications and scientific applications, Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY), a leading provider of construction and engineering services to the telecommunications, cable TV and power utility industries, and the ARRIS Group, Inc., (NASDAQ; ARRS), a leading supplier of equipment and technology to the cable TV industry. Prior to joining OpenTV, Jim served as President of Mystro TV, a division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Mystro developed and field-tested the world's first server-based personal video recorder and program time-shifting service. Some of Mystro’s features are being deployed by Time Warner Cable today in its “Start Over” and “Look Back” services and are also being adopted by other cable, telco and Internet video operators. Before starting Mystro, Jim was Chief Engineer and Chief Technical Officer at Time Warner Cable for 15 years, where he was responsible for technology strategy, engineering and R&D for the nation's second largest cable operator. He and his team led the development of optical fiber technology for cable television systems. Jim was also deeply involved with nearly every other new technology embraced by the cable industry, including local ad insertion, video-on-demand, cable modems and digital set-top boxes. Prior to joining Time Warner's corporate office, Jim held a variety of engineering and operating positions with two cable companies in Hawaii, Oceanic Cable and Waianae Cablevision. Time Warner Cable's antecedent, ATC, eventually acquired those companies. He also established a successful technology start-up in Honolulu, CRC Electronics, Inc., which manufactured automated videotape playback, delay and commercial insertion systems. Texscan purchased that company in 1981 and CRC-designed equipment dominated cable advertising until the mid-nineties. Jim's interest in electronics and technology began with amateur radio in high school and continued at Cornell University, where he studied electrical engineering. During his military service he attended and then taught at the U.S. Army Air Defense Command School at Fort Bliss, Texas. Jim was inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 1991. In 1994 he and his Time Warner engineering team won an Emmy Award for their visionary work on the hybrid fiber/coax architecture that has since become the standard for cable systems around the world. Jim's industry accolades include being named Cable Engineering Digest Magazine's 1989 "Man of the Year", and receiving the National Cable Television Association's 1983 Vanguard Award for work on the introduction of addressable set-top boxes, and its 1991 "President's Award" for his advancement of fiber optics technology. In 2007, the Cable Center inducted Jim into the Cable Hall of Fame. Jim has served on a number of boards, including the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (an arm of the National Research Council), as well as the boards of the Cable Center in Denver, the Society of Cable Television Engineers, N2Broadband (now part of Ericsson), BigBand Networks and CV-21 (a Japanese cable television company, now part of Jupiter Communications). Jim's father, Dr. Max E. Chiddix, was a research chemist at GAF Corp. for 40 years and held more than 50 patents. His paternal grandfather was John C. Chiddix, a high school science teacher and namesake for Chiddix Junior High School in Normal, Illinois. In 1987, Jim married Trudy Evard Chiddix, a nationally recognized sculptor who works in clay and glass. In 2004, Jim co-authored "Next Stop Honolulu," a history of the Oahu Railway (http://www.OahuRailway.com), reflecting an interest that began during his 15-year tenure in Hawaii. Link to an article about Jim's career (you must copy and paste into browser): <http://www.scribd.com/full/2345338?access_key=key-22boo9ax7ltph0xjhon7> |
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