Genista Management

Kambiz Homayounfar, President and CEO Mr. Homayounfar has worked in telecommunications business as an engineer and entrepreneur for more than 20 years. He is the founder, president, chairman, and chief executive officer of Genista. Over the past 15 years, he has built high-tech companies in the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Switzerland, Malaysia, and Singapore. He was formerly president and CEO of Algorex Inc. (San Francisco, California), a communications software company he founded in October 1996 and sold to National Semiconductor in December 1999. Kambiz graduated from University of Wales (UK) with an honors degree in Physical & Computing Electronics and went to graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) for advanced studies in Stochastic Processes and Digital Communications. He worked at Asahi Chemical (Tokyo, Japan) and at TCSI (Berkeley, CA), is the author of several invited technical papers, and an inventor on several fundamental patents. Kambiz is a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member of American Mathematical Society, Member of American Audio Engineering Society, Member of SPIE, Member of Association of Computing Machinery, Member of Acoustical Society of America, and a Member of New York Academy of Sciences.

Kassra Homayoonfar, Managing Director Kassra Homayoonfar manages Genista's third-party sales channels and handles all the operational and legal issues of the company. He is a graduate of University of San Francisco and Stanford, and has extensive experience with the financial and administrative management of technology companies.

Stefan Winkler, Chief Scientist Dr. Winkler is one of the world's top experts in digital media measurement technology and a key contributor to the Video Quality Experts Group. He received a Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing Applications from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in December 2000, after which he joined Genista. Stefan has worked at Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and German Aerospace. He is the author of 20 technical journal articles and his book Digital Video Quality: Vision Models and Quality Metrics is published by Wiley.

David McNally, Managing Director Dr. McNally is an expert in the design and deployment of commercial media management solutions. He received a Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (ETH) Zurich in 1993 following which he became a Fellow at CERN. He joined Genista in 2000, where he focuses on business development for video quality performance analysis of multimedia system architectures.