Samuel S. Blackman

Elemental Technologies LLC provides digital content software solutions. Its products include AWS Elemental live, server, delta, MediaConnect, MediaConvert and transcoder. The firm’s services include classroom training, AWS Elemental user community and professional services. The company was founded by Samuel S. Blackman, Brian Lewis and Jesse Rosenzweig in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Elemental Technologies, Inc. supplies software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. It develops technologies for video encoding, transcoding, compression, and streaming to provide instantaneous, ubiquitous video content on televisions, personal computers, tablets, and mobile devices. The firm has offices in Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded by Samuel S. Blackman, Brian G. Lewis, Jesse Rosenzweig and Michael G. West in August 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.