Sheau Ng

Sheau is currently a vice president at NBC Universal. He has responsibilities in the areas of consumer and broadcast technology, standards, and policy. His career spans across early MPEG, ATSC and DVD compression research, to product development in CE and Semiconductors industries, and to content/media business. He was a contributing member of the Grand Alliance team, working at Sarnoff in mid 80s. In early 90s, Sheau was part of Toshiba’s DVD team, where he architected and built the world’s first DVD encoder. Later, he was the architect of Philips first consumer HDTV on the ATSC market. At Philips, and later on at ATI, he was in charge of the software architecture of their DTV system-on-chip solutions. Most recently, he was instrumental in the anti-piracy success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He is actively working on creating new business models for broadband content on consumer electronics platforms in an increasingly multi-platform world.

He is an active member of several industry standards groups: DECE, CEA, HANA, DLNA, and Coral. He is a frequent speaker at industry forums on the subject of digital content in an IP-enabled world, focusing his attention on making digital entertainment a sustainable worldwide business reality. Sheau holds graduate degrees from M.I.T., and had done post-graduate work at Princeton University. He also attended the executive MBA program at INSEAD. He currently holds over 30 patents worldwide.