About 25-Seven Systems
25-Seven Systems, Inc. was founded in 2003 by
Geoff Steadman, Derek Pilkington and Barry Blesser. Our company
is, in essence, a community of like-minded individuals who share
a passion for market focused audio, technology and user interface
design. Most of us have worked together on many different projects,
under several corporate banners. In short, 25-Seven is the new
home for a proven, innovative and successful product team.
We look
forward to working with you, and building great products for our
industry.
Key personnel involved in 25-Seven include:
Geoff Steadman,
President
Steadman's recent broadcast industry work includes
shepherding the CartChunk Standard (AES 46-2002) for audio file
interchange among diverse broadcast audio systems. He may be best
known for his tenure as product manager for the Orban Audicy and
DSE 7000 radio production workstations.
Derek Pilkington
In the 1990s, Pilkington served as President of Studer Professional
Audio AG and Orban. Prior to that he was VP of Operations and Engineering for
AKG. Most recently, Pilkington headed technology development and operations for
two leading-edge startups.
Barry Blesser
Developer
of the first commercial digital reverb for EMT in 1976, Blesser has amassed
a reputation for technologies from digital audio workstations to handwriting
recognition. A former M.I.T. professor, he served as Chief Technology Officer
for Studer and is a past president of the AES. We have a specific page on Blesser here.
Rick Sawyer
Sawyer, currently a technology project management consultant,
held both sales and product management positions at Orban. He started in the
radio equipment field at IGM Communications and has also served Gentner Communications
(now ClearOne).
Dick Pierce
Pierce is an active software developer, audio expert, and renowned
loudspeaker designer. Pierce was Senior Software Manager for the AKG DSE-7000
and Orban Audicy workstations, and is currently engaged with a number of US and
international companies in the fields of acoustics, audio, technical engineering
and scientific applications.
Dan Griscom
Griscom has
been the principal at Suitable Systems for seventeen years. He brings a broad
range of experience to 25-Seven, including user-interface design, client-server
technologies, and embedded systems.
We have other highly
skilled engineering and software team members with extensive embedded-systems
and real-time experience, strong analog and digital hardware design skills, and
a substantial DSP effects design background. Our group has a significant
intellectual property portfolio that is applied to 25-Seven products.
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