Dr. Richard Green

President & CEO, CableLabs.

Richard R. Green is President and CEO of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs ®). In this position he heads the research and development organization responsible for charting the cable television industry's course in technology. Under Green's leadership, CableLabs has managed key technology projects that have helped the industry move toward standardization and to achieve interoperability among multiple industry suppliers.

Prior to CableLabs ®, Green was a senior vice president of broadcast operations and engineering at the Public Broadcasting Service, from 1984, where his contributions included construction of national network origination and transmission facilities. For the 1-1/2 years before that, he helped organize and establish the Advanced Television Systems Committee, a multi-industry-supported organization founded to develop voluntary national standards for advanced television. From 1980 to 1983, Green was director of the CBS Advanced Television Technology Laboratory in Stamford, Conn. In addition to his work at CBS in digital television and high-definition TV, Green participated in the international standardization efforts that date from the late 1970s and chaired the committee that eventually developed CCIR (now ITU-R) Recommendation 601, a worldwide television standard for digital signals. He is currently vice chairman of SG9, an ITU-T committee charged with the responsibility of recommending worldwide standards for cable television.

Green is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the CTAM Board of Directors, the IEC (International Engineering Consortium) Board of Directors, the National Cable Television Center and Museum Executive Committee, is Chairman of Study Group 9 of the International Telecommunications Union, is a member of the FCC Technical Advisory Council, and is a Cable Television Pioneer. He also is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers.