David Benham Benham

Executive Director

2024 - Current

Ambassador & Mentor

2022

I volunteer as an ambassador and mentor for the non-profit Cleantech Open, one of the oldest and largest cleantech accelerators (~100 startups/year since 2005).

Member

2020

Due diligence of startups focused on Carbon/GHG Accounting, MRV, Renewables, electrified transportation+charging for potential early-stage investments.

Limited Partner

2020

Chief Officer

2018 - 2020

Director, Video Collaboration CTO

2009 - 2018

My team led Cisco's strategy for video, audio and media resiliency for the collaboration business -- from Webex to telepresence -- as well as established industry standards for video codecs, webrtc and conferencing privacy and other related technologies from the Chief Technology Office.

Director, Video IPTV Solution Architecture

1995 - 2009

Board Member

2015 - 2018

The Alliance for Open Media unites top tech leaders and adopters in a collaborative effort to define, standardize and offer an open, royalty-free and interoperable solutions for the next generation of video media delivery.

Board Member

2014 - 2018

I led the transfer of Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol to IMTC to facilitate the distribution of TIP Protocol licenses as well as to host interoperability events and to develop future enhancements to the protocol.

Vice President Board Of Directors

2000 - 2004

An industry non-profit [501(c)(6)] organization that I founded to define interoperable streaming over the Internet media solution.