Brad Gilmer is President of Gilmer & Associates, Inc, a management and technology consulting firm, providing business and technical consulting services to the television industry. Brad is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and he has been an active participant within the SMPTE since 1984. Brad is also the Executive Director of the Video Services Forum (VSF), an association of service providers, manufacturers and users delivering video over packetized networks, and Executive Director of the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), a trade association focused on workflows and file formats.