Jim Chiddix

Jim Chiddix was named vice chairman of the Vyyo board of directors in 2007. During prior positions as chairman and CEO of OpenTV, as chief technology officer of Time Warner Cable and with Time Warner’s Mystro TV, Mr. Chiddix earned respect as an industry leader involved in each wave of technical innovation. As CTO of Time Warner Cable for 15 years, he was responsible for all corporate engineering and research and development activities and played pioneering roles in the adoption of hybrid/fiber coax broadband network architecture, video-on-demand and digital cable. In addition to his new role with Vyyo, Mr. Chiddix will remain o­n the board of directors of OpenTV. A member of the Cable Pioneers, he has been honored with multiple awards for technological innovation, including an Emmy Award for his team’s visionary work o­n cable’s HFC architecture; and the Vanguard Award for his work o­n the introduction of addressable converters.