AIMS LEADERSHIP

Board of Directors

Steve Reynolds

Steve Reynolds

Imagine Communications
Chairman of the Board
Steve Reynolds is Chief Technology Officer at Imagine Communications, providing the vision and leadership that drives the company’s long-term technology strategy, business development and M&A activities.
Andreas Hilmer

Andreas Hilmer

Lawo AG
Director
Andreas Hilmer directs marketing and communications for LAWO, German manufacturer of pioneering network, control, audio and video technology, providing strategic direction across the LAWO group of companies. 
Lee Buchanan

Lee Buchanan

Grass Valley Board Member
Lee Buchanan is the Vice President of Cameras and Networking for Grass Valley, the leading technology provider for the live media and entertainment market.  He is responsible for product strategy and business development and has held various roles in his 25+ years in the Media & Entertainment industry.
Andrew Starks

Andrew Starks

Macnica
Board Member

Andrew Starks is the Director of Product Management for Macnica. He leads the company’s standards efforts and has been a significant contributor to AIMS’s Pro AV initiative, including the development of the IPMX roadmap, and its marketing plan.

Marketing Work Group

Technical Work Group

Andrew Starks

Andrew Starks

Macnica
Marketing Work Group Chair

Andrew Starks is the Director of Product Management for Macnica. He leads the company’s standards efforts and has been a significant contributor to AIMS’s Pro AV initiative, including the development of the IPMX roadmap, and its marketing plan.

John Mailhot

John Mailhot

CTO Networking & Infrastructure, Imagine Communications
Working Group Chairman
John Mailhot has worked in the field of digital high-definition (HD) television systems since its North American inception in 1990. He began as part of the AT&T-Zenith team, responsible for system architecture and integration of the digital spectrum compatible high-definition television (DSC-HDTV) system prototype, and then served as technical lead for the Grand Alliance encoder at Lucent Technologies. He subsequently held engineering manager and general manager roles at Lucent Digital Video, Aastra Digital Video, and the Harris Broadcast Video Networking Group. Today, Mailhot is chief technology officer of the networking and infrastructure team at Imagine Communications. He has dual bachelor’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has been recognized as a SMPTE Fellow.

Pro AV Work Group

Audio Work Group

Education Work Group

Samuel Recine

Samuel Recine

Matrox
Pro AV Working Group Chair
Samuel joined Matrox in 1997 amidst the rise of PC-based standards and surging PC sales. Samuel has held Commercial and Product Management roles at Matrox and is currently focused on contributing to the growth of performance media over IP markets.
Andreas Hildebrand

Andreas Hildebrand

Lawo
Audio Working Group Chair
Andreas Hildebrand is Senior Product Manager and Evangelist for the Emmy Award-winning RAVENNA technology developed by ALC NetworX / Lawo, Germany. He is a member of the AES Task Group defining and maintaining the AES67 AoIP standard and regularly contributes to the SMPTE ST 2110 SVIP standardization. He is also contributing to the development of the VSF IPMX specifications.
Alun Fryer

Alun Fryer

Ross
Education Working Group Chair

Alun Fryer is Technical Marketing Lead for Hyperconverged Solutions at Ross Video where he bridges technical, marketing and product management teams to deliver practical technology with a superior customer experience to real-world market problems. Alun has been held in R&D, Product Management and Marketing roles for over 25 years in the broadcast industry.