A 30-year cable industry veteran, Chiddix was CEO and Chairman at OpenTV between 2004 and March 2007, and remains on its board following the recent sale of the company. Prior to OpenTV, Chiddix served as president of Mystro TV, a division of Time Warner Inc. that developed an early server-based time-shifting service for cable subscribers. For the 15 preceding years, he was CTO at Time Warner Cable, where he was responsible for technology strategy, engineering, and R&D for the nation's second largest cable operator. Chiddix has been involved with virtually every major new technology embraced by the cable industry, including local ad insertion, fiber optics, video-on-demand, cable modems, and digital set-top boxes.Chiddix is also on the board of Vyyo, Inc. (NASDAQ: VYYO), an innovative manufacturer of extended-bandwidth cable TV transmission equipment. |