RGB Management Team

Co-founded by an experienced trio of digital television pioneers, RGB Networks is led by a team of recognized technology and business leaders with a proven track record of success. These innovators are driving a talented team of digital video experts, once again transforming the delivery of video services with advanced technology for the personalized video era.

Jef Graham, Chairman & CEO
Jef Graham brings over 30 years of global experience in the computer and networking hardware, software, and service industries to his role as Chairman and CEO of RGB Networks. Graham has previously held positions of CEO, executive vice president and general manager in Fortune 500 companies and private start-ups. He has a proven track record of driving successful global product development, marketing, sales and channel management efforts.

Prior to RGB, Graham was executive vice president of the Application Products Group (APG) at Juniper Networks, a division created through the acquisition of Redline Networks and Peribit Networks, a company focused on improving business efficiency by resolving the technical limitations of WANs. As chairman and CEO of Peribit, he successfully guided the company through a $337 million acquisition by Juniper in 2005.

Before joining Peribit, Graham held the post of senior vice president at 3Com overseeing operations of their Commercial and Consumer division. During his tenure at 3Com, he managed several key business units, including the systems, connectivity and consumer business units. He served on the executive committees at both 3Com and Juniper, reporting directly to the CEO.

From 1993 to 1995, Graham served as the CEO of Trident Systems, a document management systems integrator. Prior to Trident, he worked for Hewlett-Packard for fifteen years at several posts around the world, most recently serving as general manager of both a hardware and a software division. He began his career as an IBM systems engineer.

Graham currently serves on the board of directors for NETGEAR and holds a B.A. with honors in Business Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom.

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Yuval Fisher, Chief Technology Officer
As a recognized leader in IP video, Yuval Fisher brings more than 20 years experience in multimedia technology implementation to RGB Networks in his role as CTO. As one of the founders of Envivio, Fisher was responsible for conceiving, advocating and planning major research and development activities focused on mobile streaming, HTTP streaming technology, VOD encoding, and catch-up TV.

As a member of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), Fisher chaired multiple subgroups and was one of the lead editors of the MPEG-4 Systems specifications. He has also been a chair of the MPEG-4 Conformance Group and Advanced Text and 2D Graphics Group.

Prior to Envivio, he worked on several MPEG-4 implementations for participating MPEG-4 companies including Rockwell International, Conexant, and France Telecom.

Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a Master’s in Computer Science from Cornell University, and holds multiple patents in multimedia and image processing technologies.

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Jack Brickey, Vice President, Engineering
Charged with driving the development of RGB Networks’ industry-leading IP video products, Jack Brickey brings more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications, data communications and executive leadership to his role as RGB’s Vice President of Engineering.

Brickey joined RGB Networks in 2010 through the acquisition of RipCode Inc., where he also served as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to RipCode, Brickey was with GENBAND where he was General Manager and Vice President of Engineering. In this capacity, he helped GENBAND grow from a single product company with less than 100 employees to one with seven products and more than 500 employees.

With expertise in both hardware and software, Jack has a track record of growing capabilities across multiple product portfolios for both large corporations and start-ups. Earlier in his career, Brickey served in various management positions at Pliant Systems, Broadband Technologies and Nortel Networks. Responsibilities included developing and delivering products for a broad range of switching infrastructure solutions including Class 4 and 5 switches, digital loop carriers and digital video transport equipment.

Brickey earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

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Lou Mastrocola, Vice President, Americas Sales
Lou Mastrocola joined RGB Networks from Motorola Broadband Communications (formerly General Instrument Corp.), where, as senior director of product marketing, he was instrumental in deploying more than 2,000 digital systems around the world. Mastrocola also held a number of other senior sales and marketing positions at General Instrument, where he was responsible for major accounts and multi-million dollar product lines.

Before Motorola/General Instrument, he served as Point-of-Sale Product Manager at Schlumberger Smart Cards and Systems, where he managed multiple product lines and worked with financial institutions and universities to develop smart card and point-of-sale (POS) technology solutions.

Prior to that, Mastrocola was a senior design engineer at Checkpoint Systems, where he managed the development of RF-based article surveillance security systems. He has also held engineering positions at the Naval Air Development Center, RCA Corp. and PSG Industries.

Mastrocola holds a BSEE degree from Drexel University and an MBA from St. Joseph's University.

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Ramin Farassat, Vice President, Product Marketing & Business Development
Leveraging his 20+ years of experience in the data, voice and video networking industries, Ramin Farassat is charged with strategically marketing RGB Networks’ line of video processing products to service providers domestically and abroad. He is an expert in the convergence of data and broadcast networks, video services, voice-over-IP (VoIP), broadband wireless, network management, and security technologies.

Farassat was most recently Director Product Marketing & Broadcast Technologies Architect at SkyStream Networks where he was responsible for changing the company’s market focus to take advantage of growing market segments worldwide, and successfully launching carrier-class video headend products for the telco and MSO markets. He also held management positions at Cisco Systems, NewBridge/Alcatel and Compaq Computers, where his responsibilities ranged from initial research and product definition to the launch of leading edge products.

Farassat earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Data Communications from San Jose State University.

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Bill Jamaca, Vice President, Operations
Bill Jamaca brings over 25 years of senior level experience in the networking, hardware, software, support and services sectors to his role at RGB Networks. As an expert in building and growing customer support and service organizations for both start-up and established companies, he is charged with building on the success of RGB’s customer support efforts as the company expands into new markets and grows its product line.

Jamaca comes to RGB Networks from Xsigo Systems, where, as Vice President of Support and Services, he was responsible for global customer support for Fortune 500 customers. Prior to Xsigo, Jamaca was Senior Director of Global Technical Support Operations for Extreme Networks, where he managed global customer support and successfully implemented an initial response center in India. Previously, he served as Vice President, Customer Services at Agile Software and CIO of the NetCare Professional Services Division of Lucent Technologies (formerly Ascend Communications).

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Simone Sassoli, Vice President, International
Simone Sassoli is an international sales veteran who has spent over 17 years working in the interactive multimedia and television industry. Sassoli comes to RGB Networks from SeaChange International where he held a variety of international sales positions over an 11-year span, most recently as the company’s Vice President, In-Home Product Sales.

With a strong technical background and extensive experience with solutions for multi-screen delivery, ad insertion, on-demand video and interactive applications, Sassoli has a long track record of successfully developing new markets and delivering products to major cable operators, telcos and broadcasters worldwide.

Prior to SeaChange, he spent five years at General Instrument where he served as a lead project engineer and marketing product manager.

Sassoli holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florence, a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and an M.S. in Engineering from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Dan Walsh, Vice President, Customer Support
Dan Walsh joined RGB Networks through the acquisition of RipCode, Inc. where he served as Vice President of Operations and was responsible for the company’s manufacturing, customer support, professional services and information technology. Prior to RipCode Walsh was Vice President of Operations for Linux Networx, with responsibility for product management, manufacturing, quality and information technology. Before joining Linux Networx, Walsh held the position of Vice President of Solution Management for Advanced Data Exchange, where he led the company’s product management, engineering, customer service and network operations teams. He has also served as Vice President of Operations and Professional Services at E-Stamp and held technology management positions at Visa International and Kraft Foods.

Walsh earned a Bachelor’s degree in Operations and Information Technology from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

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