Skip Pizzi is Owner and Principal at Skip Pizzi Media Consultant LLC, a media technology consulting firm based in the Philadelphia area. Previously he has held technology staff positions at NPR, Microsoft, and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), with over a decade of service at each organization. He has authored, co-authored, or edited several books—most recently, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers (published by Focal Press)—and has been an editor and featured columnist for numerous broadcast, audio and digital media industry trade publications.

Skip has served as Vice Chair of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3, which developed the ATSC 3.0 standard) since its inception, and chairs the ATSC Brazil Implementation Team (IT-4), which is working with Brazilian broadcasters and technologists to design that country’s next-generation television standard. He is also Chair of the ATSC Specialist Group on Program Requirements and System Management (S31), and Vice Chair of the ATSC Automotive Implementation Team (IT-8).

Skip currently represents Fraunhofer USA at ATSC, and LG Electronics/Zenith at both ATSC and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). He has also served as Project Manager for WNET/WLIW’s NextGen TV transition in New York City, and is Senior Advisor to the Public Media Venture Group (PMVG). Skip was the 2017 recipient of ATSC’s Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, the organization’s highest technical honor. He has received the Audio Engineering Society’s Board of Governors Award, and the Public Radio Regional Organizations’ PRRO Award.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied International Economics, Electrical Engineering and Fine Arts.