About

Mark A. Aitken

President

Mark Aitken joined Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1999 and is Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology having responsibility for development and deployment of NextGen technologies such as ATSC 3.0, D2M, B2X and 5G. Mr. Aitken joined Sinclair having 25 years of industry experience with CCA Electronics and COMARK. Mr. Aitken serves as President of ONE Media, Sinclair’s Innovation subsidiary. He serves as a Board member ATSC (the Broadcast Standards Association), the Advanced Television Broadcast Alliance (ATBA) and past Board member of Saankhya Labs (now part of Tejas Networks).

He leads Sinclair’s industry engagement on broadcast standards, representing the company in ATSC, NAB, and global forums. An SMPTE Fellow and member of IEEE and AFCCE, Aitken holds multiple patents, has authored numerous technical papers, and a recipient of the 2008 “Broadcasting and Cable” Technology Leadership Award, 2013 recipient of the ATSC “Bernard Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award”,  2018 awardee of “Future’s Industry Innovator Award”, the NAB “2018 Television Engineering Achievement Award”, the 2019 ATBA “Perseverance and Endurance Award”, the 2020 “TV of Tomorrow Leadership Award”.

Shiblie Shiblie

Chief Operating Officer

Shiblie Shiblie is the company’s Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for managing daily operations of the company, coordination of the multiple work streams and implementing strategic plans and tactical business developments.

Joining the company in 2020, Mr. Shiblie is a seasoned operations executive with a track record of successful team building and profitable business growth in the wireless communications sphere. He draws on more than twenty years of extraordinary cross-functional management experience and a history of increased sales, operating income, market penetration, and customer satisfaction with successful mobile wireless key players Spirent Communications, Ericsson, and LCC International, amongst others. Prior to joining ONE Media Technologies, Mr. Shiblie served as Spirent’s Vice President of Operations leading its Fit4Launch mobile device certification program for the major network operators in the US. His experience in the wireless industry spans from the earliest days of mobile communications serving in several executive level operations positions.

So Vang

Vice President, Emerging Technologies

So Vang is the company’s Vice President for Emerging Technologies. He is responsible for engineering elements of our overall deployment of Next Generation broadcasting and related technologies. He has direct oversight of the ONE Media Labs and is an integral part of the company’s tactical decisions on the deployment of current broadcast systems and platforms, including new business use cases.

Prior to joining ONE Media Technologies, Mr. Vang was the Vice President of Advanced Technology at the National Association of Broadcasters, leading the strategy and technology development to drive the successful deployment of the ATSC 3.0 interactive platform. He was also a key facilitator with broadcasters, consumer electronics companies, and broadcast equipment vendors to support the launch of the NextGen broadcast system across the country. Specifically, among his accomplishments, Mr. Vang managed the development of the first NextGen TV Home Gateway; developed and demonstrated technology and business cases for advanced targeted advertising, usage measurement, and data analytics; developed and managed an interoperability testing program to support the Next Get TV ecosystem; and helped to develop a conformance test suite and logo program for Next Gen TV products. Prior to working at the NAB, Mr. Vang was Vice President of Advanced Media Platforms at CableLabs, responsible for directing and managing the OpenCable project, an initiative of the cable television industry.

Matthew Goldman

Vice President, Strategic and Technical Initiatives

Matthew Goldman is the Vice President of Strategic and Technical Initiatives at ONE Media Technologies. In this role, he leads the implementation, expansion, and support of advanced operational technologies, including High Dynamic Range Video (HDR), and oversees conformance testing and operational handoff processes for ATSC 3.0 NextGen Broadcasting. Goldman joined Sinclair in 2021 as Senior Director of Media Engineering and Architecture, bringing over 30 years of experience in digital television development. His past contributions include playing a pivotal role in the creation of the MPEG-2 Systems standard with the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) in the 1990s and co-developing the Program and System Information Protocol for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).

Matthew is a recognized as an industry pioneer, having developed the broadcasting industry’s first compressed-domain program splicer in the mid-2000s. A recipient of multiple Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, Goldman has also contributed significantly to the NAB Engineering Handbook and published work in IEEE Proceedings and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Goldman holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has authored numerous patents related to digital video transport. He is a SMPTE Fellow and former President, a senior member of the IEEE, and an inductee of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. He also currently serves as Chairperson of the North American Broadcasters Association Technical Committee.

Sesh Shima

Vice President, Advanced Technology

Sesh Simha is the Company’s Vice President of Advanced Technology. Mr. Simha manages ONE Media’s and Sinclair’s participation in the standardization and productization of ATSC 3.0 as a 5G broadcast solution in the global mobile ecosystem.

He oversees the Company’s activities in India, a market with over a billion mobile connections, and which is critical to the success of realizing the convergence of ATSC 3.0 broadcast and 5G broadband. These include software-defined radio chipset development, 5G core development, live proofs-of-concept, and engagement with government, carriers, broadcasters, and manufacturers to promote the benefits of direct-to-mobile use cases. A large part of these activities is undertaken in partnership with Saankhya Labs.

Following 35 years of experience in the satellite, broadband and media verticals, Mr. Simha joined ONE Media in August 2016 as its Sr. Director for Advanced Projects. He managed the introduction of new products and services at SES, Teleglobe, INTELSAT and Hughes Network Systems. He managed two Direct to Mobile broadcast trials – DVB-H and ATSC-MH. He is well respected as a professional advisor, educator and speaker in the spectrum, television, telecom, software, wireless and satellite communications industries. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Louis Libin

Vice President, Spectrum Engineering and Strategies

Louis Libin is Vice President for Spectrum Engineering and Strategies at ONE Media Technologies and Sinclair Broadcast Group. Louis has extensive planning and operational experience in Single Frequency Networks (SFN’s), Special Event RF Planning, and public safety wireless systems. Louis is ATSC 3.0 Rapporteur at the ITU in Geneva, Vice Chair of ATSC PT6 and Vice Chair of ATSC IT5 Tower Network Implementation Team. Prior to Sinclair, Louis was CTO at NBC.