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Barani Smith is the Founder & CEO of NetworkSound, Inc since 2003. He has over 20 years of experience in
networking and wireless areas. Most recently, he was with 3Com Corp. as Director of Technology Development
Center and later as Director of Business Development. Prior to 3Com, he was with Nokia Research Center. He has
published two dozen papers in Journals, IEEE magazines and conferences on different topics and over 32 US patents
either issued or pending. He chaired, contributed and participated in number of world standard bodies such as ITU-T,
IETF, 3GPP, MWIF (Mobile Wireless Internet Forum) and IEEE. He has been a invited speaker and panelist on many
industry events. He served as a founding member and in the advisory council with Stanford Networking Research
Center (SNRC) and as a visiting research scholar. He also managed university research partnership with M.I.T, UCSD
and UC Berkeley. He was a member of ERNET team with Govt of India and was instrumental in setting up the first
email network in the country in 1987. He also served with Emirates Telecom Corp. Dubai.
Doug Ordon, Sales
Doug Ordon is the lead sales representative for the NetworkSound technology and products. He began his career in
sales as the first US sales representative for Audio Precision a spin-off of Tektronics. As a long time member of their
team he was instrumental in the sales and success of establishing Audio Precision as a world market leader in audio
test instrumentation. Doug has over 30 years of experience in the pro audio and video industries and has founded and
managed a number of start-ups including working for a FAST 50 Silicon Valley company, Pinnacle Systems, where
he launched the sales of ground breaking networkable video equipment and made landmark sales of the video sever
products they acquired from Hewllet-Packard.
Daniel Weinstein, Marketing
Dan Weinstein is responsible for NetworkSound’s marketing operations. Dan spent five years marketing and licensing
new technologies at Stanford University’s Office of Technology licensing. At Stanford, Dan managed audio related
inventions that stemmed from Stanford research. He was responsible for marketing those inventions to potential
licensees, as well as brokering and managing industrial partnerships. Prior to Stanford, Dan was a marketing assistant
at University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer, where he developed and executed marketing
programs for Penn’s technologies. Dan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prof. Chris Chafe, Stanford University, Technical Advisor
Chris Chafe is Technical Advisor to NetworkSound and has pioneered research in high-definition WAN audio
collaboration. The Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, is Director of the Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and Professor of Music. His current research explores distributed signal processing
over next-generation networks for distributed rehearsing, session recording and performance. A cellist and composer,
Chafe became involved with computer music synthesis as a graduate student at CCRMA. He serves on advisory
boards at IRCAM, Internet2 and other institutions. Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
handles the interface between CCRMA's inventions and the industry, including Chafe's network-based inventions
which include network monitoring techniques, distributed Internet reverberation for audio collaboration (DIRAC), and
SlipStream for multi-site WAN recording studios.
