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InterStream was founded by a team of industry professionals from the
networking, technology, and media sectors.
Leonard J. Washington II
Leonard Washington is an entertainment executive with over 15 years of
providing creative vision, strategic direction, technical insights, and
marketing leadership to digital and entertainment enterprises. His
expertise includes managing the creative process; strategic analysis,
planning, and execution; and competitive, financial, and technical
analysis. Washington is an accomplished creator, leader, and
manager of business units who has successfully utilized his engineering
background along with practiced business and strategic acumen to assess
technology and capitalize on marketing opportunities. He is tuned to
the market and senses developments before they become standard, and
challenges the current way of thinking.
Mr. Washington has been at the forefront of the digital space,
founding, in 1995, Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE), the
interactive division of Paramount Pictures. He was also instrumental in
founding similar divisions for sister companies MTV, Nickelodeon, and
Simon & Schuster. Washington’s responsibilities included
leading PDE’s creative and business efforts in developing
strategies and partnerships that both enhanced the marketing of
Paramount’s traditional programming and led to the creation of
new forms of entertainment content for emerging consumer platforms and
devices. He oversaw the development of product for a variety of devices
such as the Media Center Edition PC, Portable Media Center, iPod, and
mobile phone.
Leonard Washington, through his team development and leadership skills,
orchestrated successful projects, including the groundbreaking first
website to promote a motion picture – Star Trek Generations.
Leonard’s PDE team has also capitalized on the growing popularity
of entertainment news and their websites through a successful deal with
Entertainment Tonight and Yahoo. His team was involved in
Paramount’s participation in MovieLink. Leonard also forged
strategic relationships that brought technology, distribution, and
revenue support to PDE’s projects. Representative partners
included Microsoft, IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AOL. He served as
president of PDE until 2006.
Previously, Washington served as Director of Business Development for
Viacom Interactive Services, where he was involved in developing
corporate-wide online business strategies that resulted in online
business units being formed within several entities, including MTV,
Nickelodeon, and Simon & Schuster. Prior to the acquisition
of Paramount Communications Inc. by Viacom Inc., Mr. Washington was
Director of Strategic Alliances for the Paramount Technology
Group. He played an instrumental role in the creation of this
Silicon Valley-based extension of the studio, which provided internal
expertise to translate a wide range of Paramount properties into
digital assets. Mr. Washington successfully formed alliances to develop
interactive television programming and spearheaded the movement into
investing in consumer software development and publishing.
Prior to joining Paramount, Washington designed satellite systems for
TRW’s Electronic Systems Group. He holds an MBA from the
Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a BS in electrical
engineering from Howard University.
Leonard Washington currently serves as Vice President of the Digital
Coast Roundtable, is a member of the Producers Guild of America New
Media Council, and is the founder of a digital filmmaking class for
inner-city youth in partnership with Break Away Technologies and the
Intel Computer Clubhouse of Los Angeles.
Jeff is a seasoned Silicon Valley veteran and
network management expert who previously worked at Cisco Systems,
Novell, and Hewlett Packard in marketing, and engineering roles.
At Cisco, Jeff was in charge of the marketing and engineering efforts
for Cisco's network management group where he managed and learned QoS
technology. nuMetra has been the result of his experience in which he
felt a fundamentally new approach was required. This approach would
allow media companies and others to effectively get much better service
without commenurately increasing costs to themselves or require massive
capital investments by ISPs.
Previously, Jeff was a director at Novell where he managed the NetWare
and Network Management product lines and acted as Executive Director directly reporting to the CEO and Chairman. In his
roles at Novell, Jeff helped coordinate Board meetings, set product
direction and strategy, and supported the CEO.
Prior to Novell, Jeff worked for Hewlett Packard as a Member of the
Technical Staff (MTS) in the protocol analysis group. This experience
helped him to understand the low level interactions and nature of
network traffic, including LAN technologies such as Ethernet, and TCP.
In addition, he developed real-time recognition algorithms for network
analysis products.
Jeff holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Institute of
Technology at CWRU. Prior to CWRU Jeff attended Dickinson College, a
liberal arts school in Carlisle Pennsylvania.
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