The TelVue® executive team comes from diverse and experienced backgrounds in the fields of cable, broadcast, telephony and advanced engineering. With a clear enthusiasm to providing our customers with tech centric solutions, the TelVue® executive team is committed to excellence and dynamic results.
Jesse Lerman
President and CEO
Jesse co-founded Princeton Server Group (PSG) in 2003 as President & Chief Executive Officer with the vision of lowering the cost and simplifying digital video appliances and systems by leveraging the rapid advances in the PC industry. After Princeton Server Group was acquired by TelVue® Corporation in 2007, Jesse assumed the responsibilities of Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the combined companies and was subsequently appointed President & CEO.
Prior to PSG, Lerman was Director of Software at Video-On-Demand (VOD) pioneer, DIVA Systems Corporation, where he led the commercial release of three generations of high-performance, low latency media server software products and large-scale VOD systems for the cable market. Video servers developed by Lerman’s team served over two million subscribers of AT&T (now Comcast), Charter, and Insight’s cable television systems, making DIVA the VOD market leader.
Lerman’s professional engineering career began at Sarnoff Real Time Corporation. He was one of the original members of Sarnoff Real-time’s development team that commercialized the Princeton Engine technology for VOD and deployed the first VOD system in a Motorola head-end. Lerman holds seven U.S. patents in Video-on-Demand and video servers.
Jesse graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he received his degree in Electrical Engineering.
John Fell
Controller, Secretary and Treasurer
John was appointed TelVue® Corporation’s Controller, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer in April 2007. He has over 20 years of financial experience, covering all aspects of accounting, financial reporting and financial management, having worked for both private and publicly traded companies.
Prior to joining TelVue®, John was the Controller of Tribune Company’s WPHL-TV in Philadelphia from April 2003 to March 2007, being promoted from Assistant Controller, a position he held from September 2000 to March 2003. He also served as Assistant Treasurer of Tribune Television Company during that same time period. John previously worked for Primedia, Inc., holding various accounting positions, most recently Accounting Manager for Primedia’s Information Group.
John graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University with a B.S. degree in Accounting.
Paul Andrews
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
Paul co-founded Princeton Server Group (PSG) in 2003 with the vision of significantly lowering costs and streamlining the operation of sophisticated video broadcast systems by leveraging the rapid technology advances in the PC industry. After PSG was acquired by TelVue® Corporation in 2007, Paul assumed the responsibilities of Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for the new company.
Paul Andrews brings to TelVue® more than 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience developing digital broadcast and data communications products and services. Prior to his tenure with TelVue®, Andrews developed terrestrial and satellite broadcast systems for commercial broadcaster, satellite operators, cable systems, corporate and military customers while holding engineering, program management and product development positions with RCA, GE, Edgix and Loral.
Paul was an early adopter of process improvement principles and earned GE’s highly acclaimed Six-Sigma Black Belt quality certification. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from The College of New Jersey.
Randy Gilson
Vice President of Technical Operations.
Randy is one of the co-founders of TelVue®, when it spun off from Science Dynamics in 1986. He has held several positions of increasing responsibility, including Service Manager, Director of Technical Support and Vice President of Technical Operations.
Prior to TelVue®, Randy held a number of Technical Support roles for Science Dynamics Corporation and TeleSciences Corporation, providing field service support for a varied telecommunications product line.
Randy is a graduate of RETS electronic technical school.
Daniel Pisarski
Vice President of Engineering.
Dan Pisarski comes to TelVue® with a remarkable background in software development, product engineering and technical operations. At TelVue®, Dan is responsible for directing our team of software developers and technical support representatives in continually providing customer-centric solutions.
Prior to TelVue®, Dan spent 10 years as the Director of Software Development for Library Video Company, a market leader in Education VOD and Digital Media Management solutions for classroom learning. At Library Video, he was responsible for researching, planning, and building a new video-on-demand appliance called SAFARI Montage. SAFARI Montage has won several significant accolades, including the Learning Magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Award, EdNET’s 2006 Pioneer Award, and Technology & Learning Magazine’s Award for Excellence.
Dan managed the team and technology that prepared master-quality analog content for digital delivery, including the encoding, transcoding, and indexing of all media. Other accomplishments included designing and implementing a common standard of educational video metadata as well as developing the long-term technology strategy for the complete line of VOD products.
Dan began his professional career at LightMedia Interactive as a user interface developer. He graduated from Rowan University, where he received his degree in Communications.
