Report from the Entertainment Technology Center

Kenneth Williams has been the executive director and chief executive officer of the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, since March 2012. A technology think tank, ETC brings together the top entertainment, technology, and consumer electronics companies to better understand and collaborate on the impact of new technology on all aspects of the entertainment industry. A media-industry veteran, Ken spent 18 years with Sony Pictures Entertainment including, as treasurer of Columbia Pictures Entertainment and executive vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, culminating as president of Sony’s Digital Studios Division. He was president and chief executive officer of Ascent Media Group, which at that time, was the world’s largest independent provider of media content services to film studios, broadcast and cable networks, advertising agencies, and other media creators and distributors, and has also previously held positions as president of ?Technicolor Digital Cinema and vice president of Chase Manhattan Corporate Banking Division for filmed entertainment lending.