David Cutts is Managing Director and co-founder of Strategy & Technology Ltd. He holds a degree in Physics from Bristol University and gained an MBA, specialising in Strategic Marketing, from the UK’s Manchester Business School. He has been closely involved with the development of digital TV since the early 1990s, working for some years on Pay-TV technology, including leading DVB’s effort on Common Interface for CA.
David was an active member of the DVB Steering Board from 1994-2004. He took a prominent role, working largely with Sun Microsystems, in the core development of MHP. He has been a member of the Council of the UK DTG since 2000 and has been concerned with strengthening its role as guardian of the technology and quality and conformance regimes for the UK DTT platform. He currently chairs a number of working groups on interactivity using the MHEG-5 standard in DTG, including the Interaction Channel Working Group, and is also a member of the DTG’s Audit Committee.
He co-founded Strategy & Technology in 1996, focusing the company on the creation and implementation of public standards. S&T provides key carousel transmission equipment to the US Cable industry and is an important actor in the interactive TV deployment in the UK.
