Gerard FARIA is CTO and co-founder of TeamCast in Rennes, France. He graduated in 1978 from the Technical University of Paris VI (France) In 1988, he co-founded the ITIS company where he managed the R&D engineers team, conceived most of the company’s DAB and DVB products while participating to major European Collaborative Research projects focused on Digital Radio & Digital TV systems (VALIDATE, MOTIVATE, iTTi, Witness, MCP, IM4DTTV).
In 2003, Gerard FARIA with Jean-Luc PAVY & Eric SPAMPINATO, founded TeamCast, a startup Company aiming “to be the preferred partner of the Digital Broadcast actors”. Within TeamCast, Gerard participated to numerous European Collaborative Research projects focused on Mobile TV (WingTV, Mobim@ge, TVMSL, Mobile TV World, SME42) and since 2007, Gerard FARIA co-ordinate “B21C – Broadcast for the 21st Century” a large Eureka/CELTIC project involving 35 partners from 6 European countries, and working in liaison with DVB on DVB-H / DVB-SH and DVB-T2 technologies.
Gerard FARIA is the company’s representative to International conferences, Technical seminars and International Forums specifying the Terrestrial Digital Broadcast standards. Within the DVB forum, he took an active role in specifying numerous standards : DVB-H, DVB-SH and more recently DVB-T2. Gerard FARIA is also the elected Vice-President of the “Images & Reseaux” French competitiveness cluster and member of expert committees of the European Commission (FP7 projects evaluation) and the French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” (ANR).
