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CALIFORNIA 23 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today USAAwards 2018 KEVIN YEAMAN President & CEO of Dolby Laboratories FIRM PROFILE Dolby Laboratories, Inc., incorporated on September 1, 2004, designs and manufactures audio and imaging products for the cinema, television, broadcast and entertainment industries. The Company’s products are used in content creation, distribution and playback to manage image and sound quality, and transmission and playback. The Company’s products for cinema include Digital Cinema Servers and Cinema Audio Products, and for broadcast and other include Dolby Conference Phone and Other Products. The Company’s Digital Cinema Server products are used to load, store, decrypt, decode and watermark digital film files for presentation on digital cinema projectors. It also provides products that encrypt, encode and package digital film data for distribution. The Company’s Cinema Processors decode and render digital cinema soundtracks, including those using Dolby Atmos. It also provides products that author, encrypt, encode and package DolbyAtmos sound tracks. Dolby Conference Phone is a hardware component of the Dolby Voice conferencing solution and has features, such as full-room voice capture, spatial voice separation and touch-screen interface. Its Other Products, such as three- dimensional glasses and kits, broadcast hardware and software, are used to encode, transmit and decode multiple channels of audio, which are used in digital television (DTV) and high-definition television (HDTV) distribution, monitors and accessibility solutions for hearing and visually impaired consumers. Its subsidiaries are Dolby Laboratories, Inc., Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation and Dolby International AB. The Company’s Dolby Cinema is a cinema offering for movie audiences. The Company offers services to support theatrical and television production for cinema exhibition, broadcast and home entertainment, including equipment training and maintenance, mixing room alignment and equalization, as well as audio, color and light image calibration. As of September 30, 2016, the Company distributed its products in over 80 countries. The Company’s technologies include Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC), Dolby AC-4, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Vision, Dolby Voice and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The Company’s technologies are incorporated in various offerings in various end markets, such as in the broadcast market, the Company’s technologies are incorporated in set-top boxes (STBs) and televisions, among others; in the Personal Computer (PC) market, its technologies are incorporated in Windows and macOS operating systems, among others; in the mobile market, its technologies are incorporated in smartphones and tablets; in the consumer electronics market, its technologies are incorporated in Blu-ray Disc devices and DVDs, among others, and in other markets, its technologies are incorporated in Gaming consoles, Auto DVD and Dolby Cinema, among others. It licenses its technologies to a range of customers for them to incorporate the technologies in their products for audio and imaging functionality at home, at work, on mobile devices or at the cinema. www.dolby.com ABOUT KEVIN YEAMAN Kevin Yeaman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Dolby Laboratories. Under his leadership, the company has built on its rich heritage of technologies that transform storytelling, expanding its focus to produce new sight and sound experiences that unleash the potential of entertainment and communications. Before being named CEO in 2009, Kevin served as Dolby’s Chief Financial Officer, developing the financial infrastructure to support growth and expansion. Prior to Dolby, Kevin was the Chief Financial Officer of E.piphany and Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Informix. Kevin was inducted as a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2014. He holds a BS degree in commerce from Santa Clara University.