Alan Young

Current

• CTO at SES Americom

Past

• Vice President at Citigroup
• Vice President, Engineering at Viacom/MTV Networks

Education

• University of York
• Quorn Rawlins Upper School

Recommended

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Connections

142 connections

Industry

Entertainment

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Alan Young’s Summary

Technology executive with broad experience in the telecommunications, media and entertainment, and financial services industries. Specializing in the application of new technologies to the business environment.

Alan Young’s Specialties:

Architecture and design; technology vendor and partnership contract negotiation; and product development

Alan Young’s Experience

• CTO

  SES Americom

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Primarily responsible for leading the teams that operate and maintain the IP-PRIME IPTV content delivery platform which was developed by SES for telephone operators wishing to become multichannel video service providers and thereby compete more effectively with cable TV providers.
  
  Also lead the teams responsible for all aspects of the development, implementation and integration of the overall IP-PRIME platform including:
  - IP networking;
  - MPEG-4 video and audio encoding;
  - Content security (conditional access and encryption systems);
  - R.F subsystems (satellite uplinks and downlinks);
  - Monitoring and control systems;
  - Billing and reporting; and
  - Consumer set top box integration and management.

• Vice President

  Citigroup

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

  March 1998 — September 2005 (7 years 7 months)

  Various roles including development of electronic banking services on mobile telephones, managing the Information Security Services group and strategic vendor managment.

• Vice President, Engineering

  Viacom/MTV Networks

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; via.b; Media Production industry)

  September 1991 — March 1998 (6 years 7 months)

  Responsible for technical aspects of distributing MTV Network's programming services (MTV, VH1, Nickleodeon etc.) via satellite worldwide. This included terrestrial distribution, satellite uplink, satellite transponder capacity and digital compression technology.

Alan Young’s Education

• University of York

  M.Eng , Electronic Systems Engineering , 1984 — 1988

• Quorn Rawlins Upper School

Additional Information

Alan Young’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Alan Young’s Groups:

Fellow of the Institue of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
Chartered Engineer (C.Eng)

•    Executive Suite
•    University of York Alumni Association
•    iptv
•    Citi Network
•    Satellite Group
•    Americom People
•    TelcoTV

Alan Young’s Honors:

U.S Patent Number 5,923,642 – Issued July 1999 - ‘Method of supporting multiple digital modulation formats on cable plant from a single satellite transponder’.

U.S Patent Number 6,850,991 – Issued February 2005 – ‘Systems and methods for distributing information to a diverse plurality of devices’.