Executive Team

JOHNNY GILMORE, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER

Johnny serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sling Media.  He is responsible for formulating the company's overall vision and strategy - necessary for Sling Media to continue its pace of rapid growth and expansion.

Johnny brings nearly 20 years of executive management and operations experience with high tech consumer electronics and manufacturing companies to his new position at the helm of Sling Media.  Most recently, he served for 4 years as Chief Operating Officer at Sling Media, responsible for all aspects of the company's day-to-day global operations.  He formed part of the management team that led the company through the successful acquisition by EchoStar Corporation in the fall of 2007. 

Prior to joining Sling Media, Johnny spent 5 years at Handspring and later Palm, the smartphone and PDA device manufacturer and inventor of the Treo smartphone in a number of senior management roles.  Johnny played a lead role in the due diligence process during the successful acquisition of Handspring by Palm in late 2003.  Prior to Palm, Johnny headed European operations at Iomega, manufacturer of the award winning Zip and Jaz drives.  During his 3 years at Iomega, Johnny managed the launch of the new Zip and Clik product lines to Iomega's pan European customer base.  Johnny started his career with 11 years at Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting (later Accenture) - working in Andersen's offices in Manchester, England;  Melbourne, Australia and San Francisco - consulting to a diverse range of Andersen's global high tech and manufacturing clients. 

Johnny holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester, England and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

BHUPEN SHAH, CO-FOUNDER AND CTO

Bhupen Shah has over 22 years of experience in technology development, product development, and engineering management in embedded digital media and communication solutions at Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and others. Over his career, Bhupen has on four occasions successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations.

Bhupen joins Sling Media as a co-founder following the acquisition of DiTango by Sling Media. Prior to founding DiTango, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. Bhupen played a key role in building and managing development team in Bangalore, India. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Later as CTO and VP of Marketing, Bhupen focused in technology evangelism, marketing and pre-sales activities resulting in design wins with tier-1 OEMs worldwide.

Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices for the consumer market at retail. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.

Bhupen holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.