ITV specialized team
httv employs a large team of skilled engineers highly specialised in interactive TV and expert on most middlewares, IPTV and emerging DVB-H technologies. The technical team is structured in 7 areas of competences: Authoring tools, Production/playout, Broadcasting server, Middleware, Enhanced TV, Return path management, Transactional servers.
These broad competences enable httv to provide end to end solutions in any related issues of the broadcast chain.
The board of directors is composed of:
Bernard Dupin - C.E.O.
Bernard is one of the most experienced iTV specialists in Europe.
With Canal+ group between 1993 and 1996, he was involved, in the conception and the implementation of Mediahighway middleware and in the development of the very first iTV applications on Canalsatellite.
In 1997-98, he developed TPS' EPG for OpenTV.
In 1999, he creates httv.
Laurent Etienne - C.T.O.
Laurent is an engineer with 10 years of experience in the digital television field.
Laurent started off developing a MPEG2 encoding software and never left the iTV industry since. From 1996, Laurent participates in the roll-out of interactivity on Canalsatellite.
In 1997, he joins the world leader in interactive TV middleware, OpenTV™, to deploy iTV in France and in Europe.
He co-founds httv in 1999.
Jean-Christophe Jubin - Sales & Marketing Director
Jean-Christophe is specialised in B2B Sales & Marketing and occupied international marketing positions for leading industrial groups.
In 2000, he co-founds Book2eat.com (Orange Ventures), on line reservation exchange software for restaurants.
He joins httv in 2002.
Olivier Bompuis - Head of Broadcast products
Olivier is a specialised engineer with over 10 years expertise in iTV applications developments and in broadcast solutions.
He is in charge of the new range of broadcast and IPTV products launched by httv: streamers, video mosaic, VOD, etc.
Olivier joins httv in 1999.