Dan Rayburn

"Dan Rayburn is recognized as the ""voice for the streaming media industry"" and as one of the Internet industry's foremost authorities, speakers, and writers on Streaming and Digital Media Technologies for the past ten years. As a passionate leader and spokesperson in the field of streaming and digital media, Mr. Rayburn is noted for his expertise and insight pertaining to digital media business models, industry foresight, hardware and software products, delivery methods and cutting edge technology solutions globally. He is Executive Vice President for StreamingMedia.com, a diversified news media company with a mission to serve and educate the streaming media industry and corporations adopting Internet based audio and video technology. Its website (www.StreamingMedia.com), print magazine, research reports and tradeshows (Streaming Media East and West) are considered the premier destinations both in person and online for professionals seeking industry news, articles, white papers, directories and tutorials. Prior to StreamingMedia.com, he founded a streaming media services division for the Globix Corporation, a publicly traded NASDAQ company, which became one of the largest global streaming media service providers specializing in on-site event production for webcasts around the world. Prior to Globix, he co-founded one of the industry's first streaming media webcasting production companies, Live On Line, successfully acquired by Digital Island for $70 million dollars. An established writer, Mr. Rayburn's articles on streaming media trends and technologies have been translated into four languages and are regularly published in major trade magazines and web portals around the world. He is Series Editor for a new series of Streaming Media related books for Focal Press entitled ""The Dan Rayburn Hands On Guide"" Series. He is co-author of ""The Business of Streaming & Digital Media"" and ""Hands on Guide to Webcasting"". Regularly consulted by the media for insight into business trends and technology, Mr. Rayburn has been featured in over one hundred print and on-line articles that have appeared in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Crain's B2B Weekly, Broadcasting & Cable, Electronic Media, Mediapost.com, POST Magazine, ProAV Magazine, INS Asia, Internet.com, Radio Ink, EContent Magazine, Nikke Electronics and Wired.com among others. He has also appeared on many TV programs including those on CNN and CBS. Mr. Rayburn also consults for corporations who are implementing digital media services and products in the broadcast, wireless, IPTV, security and cable industries. Over the past ten years he has helped develop, consult, and implement streaming media solutions for prestigious companies in the enterprise, entertainment and government sectors including A&E, ABC, Apple, Atlantic Records, American Express, BMG, BP, CBS, Cisco, Elektra, Excite.com, HBO, House Of Blues, ifilm, Indy 500, Intel, ITN, KPMG, Microsoft, MTV, NYTimes.com, Pepsi, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Qualcomm, RealNetworks, Sony Music, Twentieth Century Fox, United Nations, Viacom, VH1 and Warner Brothers among others. For the past ten years, Mr. Rayburn has traveled internationally as a featured industry expert and has been sought out to keynote and speak on the current and future direction of streaming media technology, trends and business cases. A current technology advisor to many universities in the US, he has also taught Internet Broadcasting classes at New York University (NYU) and regularly lectures at numerous academic institutions. He is currently developing a series of distance learning classes with the Seattle Community Colleges, which will focus on teaching people the business and legal issues surrounding the implementation of streaming and digital media."