Paolo Siccardo
Paolo Siccardo, a Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for defining and executing the Business Strategy of the company. He works closely with the team to develop Digital Keystone's product and engineering plans.
Paolo Siccardo has over 20 years of experience in General Management and Business Development of high technology products. Prior to the inception of Digital Keystone, Paolo Siccardo was Executive Vice President and GM of Digital Television and Strategic Market Development of SCM Microsystems, a leading OEM supplier of Digital TV Security technology and a Digital Keystone business partner.

Paolo Siccardo
President and Chief Executive Officer

Luc Vantalon
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Fred Serre
Vice President and General Manager Europe

The Engineering Team

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Luc Vantalon
Luc Vantalon, a Founder, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for defining and executing the Technology Strategy of Digital Keystone.
Luc Vantalon has over 15 years of experience in Technology and Business Development of Digital Entertainment products. Prior to the inception of Digital Keystone, Luc Vantalon was Director and then Vice President of Architecture and Business Development for SCM Microsystems, a Digital Keystone business partner. With SCM, he designed and launched the world's first universal Conditional Access solution. Previously Luc Vantalon held the positions of Digital Video Program manager with Temic, a leader in Digital Entertainment silicon solutions; ASIC Group Leader with Matra MHS; and lead architect with UCI, where Luc Vantalon designed the world's first JPEG decoder in partnership with France Telecom. Luc Vantalon holds a MSEE degree with specialization in VLSI from the University of Paris-Orsay, France, and over ten US and International patents have been awarded or are pending in his name.

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Fred Serre
Fred Serre, Vice President and General Manager Europe, is responsible for managing the operations and business development activities of Digital Keystone in EMEA.
Fred Serre has over 10 years of experience in Operations and Business Development of Digital Television technologies. Prior to joining Digital Keystone, Fred worked for OpenTV, the world's leading interactive television company, and one of the Top 50 fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley. Based at the headquarters in California, Fred was the Director of Operations of the Western Professional Services Business Unit, managing projects and product deployment teams. Previously, Fred held the position of Director of Worldwide Technical Marketing and the Director of Worldwide Sales Support. Previously Fred held the positions of Project Manager and Business Development Manager at Thomson Broadcast Systems, a subsidiary of Thomson Multimedia, where he contributed winning key deals for the group and oversaw directly the deployment of one of the very first European digital television turnkey system with conditional access and interactivity. Prior to Thomson Broadcast Systems Fred held project management responsibilities with Thales, a leader in digital broadcasting systems. Fred Serre holds an engineering degree from the National Institute of Physics of Marseille, France and is a keen windsurfer.

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The Engineering Team
DK builds its strength on an outstanding engineering team with specific expertise in architecture of digital content processing, content management and content distribution systems. The technical team has accrued over 100 years of engineering and design experience with leading technology companies such as Adaptec, Sony, S-T, SCM, Cable Labs, Compression Labs, Broadlogic, Hewlett Packard, Hyundai Electronics, Network Associates, Temic, C-Cube, Thomson, Open TV, and LSI Logic. Some of their achievements include:

World's first universal DVB/DSS Conditional Access Module World's first IEEE-1394 Digital Satellite and Cable PC Receivers World's first DRM-compliant Windows driver architecture World's first modular Conditional Access platform World's first Adaptive Trans-scrambling Transport System World's First Real Time Graphics Streaming Sytem

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