I head up business development worldwide for our Interplay and iNEWS families of media asset management and newsroom products. I’ve been at Avid for four and a half years, mostly in a product management/product design role around Interplay Production, and have worked with many of our top customers around the world. I love well-designed, cool products (both hardware and software) and have been a longtime fan of mobile systems (at various times, I’ve lived for Newton, Palm, Tablet PCs and now my iPad). My colleagues sometimes kid me for actually enjoying trade shows like NAB, but I love the fact that they let me get input from a wide range of customers in a short time. I’ve been in the Media Asset Management space for almost 20 years now, the last 4+ with Avid. It seems like the pace is continuously accelerating instead of tapering off… and not just because we have over 900 Interplay customers. Managing media files just seems to occupy a more and more central role, so customers keep asking us to do more.