HD EXPO Panelists/Moderators

Tim Napoleon, Chief Strategist for Digital Media at Akamai Technologies

Tim Napoleon has an accomplished record as a marketing and business professional in the online and media & entertainment industries.  Tim is presently the Chief Strategist, Media and Entertainment, for Akamai Technologies, providing services to digitally deliver music, movies & video, games, sports and news for businesses such as Apple iTunes, Major League Baseball, XM Satellite, MTV, CNET, and Newscorp. 

Prior to Akamai, Tim worked closely with Adobe to launch the Flash Video Streaming service at a content delivery startup; launched Pacific Life’s online web portal which supported several billion dollars in transactions; and provided consulting services to a number of high tech and media & entertainment businesses.

Tim has spoken on the subjects of Digital Media & Entertainment, online advertising, Digital Content Delivery, video search, and content monetization strategies at a number of industry conferences including National Association of Broadcasters, Consumer Electronics Show, Digital Hollywood, Streaming Media and Flash Forward.  He has authored multiple industry white papers regarding digital entertainment and online video.  He is an avid supporter of the arts by volunteering on several independent films screened at Sundance and producing a DVD series on classic drawing skills.

MBA graduate from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of business, and a Communications graduate from the University of California at Fullerton.