MANAGEMENT TEAM
ROD TIEDE, PRESIDENT AND CEO
As President and CEO of Broadcast International, Rod Tiede is responsible for fostering the vision, directing the overall management and providing progressive leadership for the company. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington, Rod gained invaluable retail technological experience with Safeway Corporate offices. While at Safeway he was responsible for launching the Safeway Satellite Network. Since 1988, Rod has been instrumental in directing the worldwide reach of Broadcast International during its early years. Through his innovation and tenacious management style, Rod has insured BI’s growth as its Director of Sales, Vice President and General Manager, and now as President and CEO. Rod’s continued forward-looking strategy has made BI a preferred international technology integrator.
JAMES E. SOLOMON, CFO/CORPORATE SECRETARY
Jim Solomon, a Certified Public Accountant, is a successful businessman who has been involved in the development of several multi-million dollar operations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of two privately-held and two publicly-held corporations. His expertise includes strategic development, international expansion, joint venture partnerships and mergers/acquisitions. Jim is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Utah where he also serves as a Director of the UCRA Investment Fund. Formerly, Jim held several management positions at Exxon Corporation (1972 to 1980) as well as Vice President – Finance and Administration at Farm Management Company (1980 to 1983), one of the world’s largest agricultural companies. Jim graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah in 1972. He is a contributing author to a prominent accounting textbook.
STEVE JONES, SENIOR VP/GM, CODECSYS DIVISION
Steve Jones is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the CodecSys Division. He has held numerous executive-level positions of several high tech companies where he led engineering and sales teams to successful product launches. Among those are Alianza, Auction Trust Network, Solera Networks, Vykor, Data Channel, Mosaix, Novell and Word Perfect. Mr. Jones has an MBA degreee from the University of Utah and BS degree from Brigham Young University.
BOB INGRAHAM, CTO
Bob Ingraham is the inventor of Broadcast International’s CodecSys (14 patents) and Media Management/Digital Signage technologies, guiding the continuous innovation necessary to keep BI’s products ahead of the competition. Mr. Ingraham has 30 years of technical and operational leadership, from startup to large enterprise ventures in California’s Silicon Valley and in Utah. He has broad and deep experience in software engineering, technical management and product development, specializing in scalable Internet-based technologies including multimedia communications, mobile applications, social media, cloud-based services and security. He has been CEO of several startups, the last of which he took public, raising USD $88M in institutional investment. He has worked in senior levels of management and as a consultant for various companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, MCI-Worldcom, Litton Systems, Qwest Communications, and Microsoft.
