Management

RCDb is led by a diverse team with extensive experience at the intersection of technology, media and entertainment.

The team combines a strong understanding of the home entertainment, pay TV, and digital distribution business with a world-class reputation for technical development, innovation and service delivery.

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  Zane Vella

  Chief Executive Officer

  As co-founder and CEO, Zane drives the strategic and creative vision of RCDb. Zane inspires RCDb employees, partners and customers to realize new opportunities at the intersection television and the Internet. Zane is a proven innovator of entertainment and technology and an accomplished producer and director. Prior to founding RCDb in 2006, Zane was co-founder and CEO of MX Entertainment where he led innovation and development of early DVD, Blu-ray, and digital distribution products for Hollywood studios and major record labels.

  Prior to founding MX in 2001, Zane was president and creative director at SmashTV, a media technology and development company specializing in music and entertainment applications. SmashTV was known for its high-profile and pioneering work with entertainment brands including Apple, MTV Networks and Wired Ventures. Zane produced one of the first live webcasts in 1994 from the Lollapalooza Festival, developed the "Live@Exploratorium" webcast series for NASA and the NSF, and in 1993 created CitySpace, the first user-generated real-time 3D virtual world on the Internet. Zane holds a Master's in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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  Hervé Utheza

  President

  Hervé Utheza, as president of RCDb, runs day-to-day operations for the company including driving the strategic planning process, managing the RCDb ecosystem of partners and generally keeping the lights on and the computers humming. Hervé brings to RCDb 17 years of experience in the digital, broadband, on demand, broadband and consumer electronics world. He has been involved with the launch and deployments of traditional and emerging software digital media platforms now used in more than 125 million television households worldwide.

  Herve participated and led business development, sales, sales operations, product marketing and corporate development activities for small to medium size companies in the fields of digital television, middleware platforms, online and web services, consumer electronics and place shifting. He was involved with Thomson-RCA, OpenTV, Liberate (now part of Comcast), and most recently Orb Networks. Herve also holds advisory roles with various digital media start-ups. He received his MBA with honors from Graduate Management School of HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in Paris, France, and holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude.
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  Geoff Katz

  Vice President, Executive Producer

  In his role as vice president, executive producer, Geoff overseas the creative execution of the RCDb vision, helping content developers, multichannel video programming distributors and consumer electronics manufacturers bring their digital video initiatives to life. Geoff is a seventeen-year veteran of the interactive media industry and has contributed to two Primetime Emmy® Award winning interactive television projects. Throughout his career Geoff has held executive positions at pioneering interactive television companies TiVo and DIRECTV, and at breakthrough emerging media platform companies such as Liberate, Excite@Home, and PacketVideo. He is a listed inventor on U.S. Patent 6,604,242 - filed in 1998 - combining television broadcast and personalized interactive information. Geoff has also held executive creative and business development positions at top-tier professional services, interactive design and development firms including Organic and Method. In December 2010 Geoff was elected to his second term on the Television Academy’s Board of Governors representing the Interactive Media Peer Group. He also serves on the Television Academy’s 2011 Executive Committee and as co-Chair of the Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards Committee.