Experience & Qualifications   Blake White founded the Strategic Technology Institute (STI) as an outlet to investigate the business and public policy issues raised by science and engineering.  STI was originally founded as Strategic Technologies and then Strategic Systems Inc. in San Francisco in 1985.  White’s 30 years in the technology industry includes positions as: Vice President & General Manager of Ascent Media Consulting Services, in which he leads Ascent’s offerings in strategic, business and technology consulting services to the global electronic media industry, with clients in the United States, Canada, England, France, Singapore, Vietnam, Dubai, Russia, Turkey, and South Africa; Vice President of Strategic Services at National TeleConsultants (NTC); and he was Practice Leader, Digital Media Management, for PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC. He also held various management positions in the Silicon Valley computer industry, including: Vice President of Major Accounts at online e-book service bureau PublishOne (a business unit of InterTrust Technologies), Vice President & General Manager of media transport company WAM!NET Entertainment, Director of Entertainment Industry Professional Services, Industry Marketing, and Business Development at Silicon Graphics (SGI). White was also Director of Corporate Development at Apple Computer, and he held several product management positions in multiplatform network integration technologies at Apple, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and Hewlett-Packard (HP).  White was also an early participant in the interactive TV industry, serving as Executive Director for Content Development at US West Multimedia. He began his career in Procter & Gamble’s Management Systems Division in 1978. White is a frequent speaker at industry conferences that have included: the National Association of Broadcasters, the International Broadcasting Conference, the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers, Digital Hollywood, Cannes Film Festival, and Broadcast South Africa. He is the author of: The Technology Assessment Process: A Strategic Framework for Managing Technical Innovation, published by Greenwood Press in 1988, the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2003 publication -- A New Era for Content: Protection, Potential, and Profit in the Digital World -- and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal article (April 2004) by the same name, and he was co-author of Digital Asset Management: Process Over Product, published in Broadcast Engineering (July 2004). White’s work on the Digital Divide has been published in academic journals including Stanford’s Tangents and AGLSP’s Confluence.[1] He also wrote several articles for the Journal of the National Technical Association in the 1980s and has lectured nationally for over two decades on topics that ranged from technical literacy, to space industrialization, energy alternatives, social implications of new technologies, information privacy, the history of science and technology, and ethical debates. White is trained as an engineer, holds BSIE, MBA, and MLA degrees from North Carolina State University, Xavier University (Ohio), and Stanford University, respectively. His professional memberships have included: The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). Community activities have included: Board Member of the National Technical Association, the National Black MBA Association, the Bay Area 100 Black Men, the Cincinnati Environmental Advisory Council, and the Cabarrus County Chapter of the North Carolina Human Relations Commission. [1] The Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.