Mehmet K. Özkan

Mehmet Kemal Özkan is a co-founder of Momentum AS and is CEO and President of the company.

Prior to Momentum, he was with Thomson Multimedia, Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1992 to 1998. Dr. Ozkan also served in various senior executive positions within Dogan group of companies (largest media group in Turkey), from 1998 to 2001.

He received a Ph.D. degree in 1992 in electrical engineeringfrom University of Rochester. He also received an MBA degree in 1997 from Indiana University.

Mehmet has been involved in various aspects of digital communications technologies worldwide including the formation of the digital TV concept and the international standards including MPEG, ATSC, DVB, DAVIC. He received an Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for contributions to U.S. digital TV standard in 1997. He holds 15 U.S. patents in the fields of digital TV broadcasting and video processing and has authored and co-authored a large number of technical publications in the field of image and video processing.