Chief Operating Officer, Primus Metals, Inc.
Member of the Industrial Council
Ira Lehrman is the Chief Operating Officer at Primus Metals, a CNC machining & metal manufacturing company. Prior, Mr. Lehrman was the Vice President of Strategic Cable Initiatives at TANDBERG Television, a company specializing in providing digital transmission of voice, data and video across various networks including cable, satellite, terrestrial, IP and telecom. Previously, he held positions as an Executive Director in the Video Products Engineering at Comcast/AT&T Broadband, where he was responsible for video-on-demand, personal video recording, interactive TV, set-top box software and hardware, network architecture, and project management; as a Systems Engineering Manager at General Instrument Corporation assigned to AT&T. where he was responsible for coordinating technical activities related to digital set top deployment and development of the National Access Controller. He is also a co-inventor of set-top box and cable system patents. (This is me - Update Profile)
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Is it Consolidation or Cooperation for North American Cable Companies?
July 9, 2007
Up Next for Buyouts: Cable TV | www.businessweek.com
Other than Insight, Bresnan and MediaCom, there are few consolidation opportunities. The economics of cable advanced services (VOD, Telephony and Data) does not play well for the smaller providers.
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Semiconductor & Component Experts | 676 |
| Semiconductor Experts | 576 |
| Digital Media Distribution Experts | 538 |
| Semiconductor Experts (North America) | 460 |
| Communications Equipment Experts | 440 |
Ira Lehrman has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.