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Sebastian is an entrepreneur with an extensive business and corporate experience in a number of international markets.

He is an internationally recognised figure in the field of digital video coding and its various applications. With an extensive network of contacts across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors as well as in the financial community, he combines business acumen and corporate experience with technological knowledge providing a practical perspective and strategic commercial approach. After studies in social sciences and economics, he previously specialised in property and investment with a specific focus on Russia.

 
Since 1996, he has been involved in a number of information technology related ventures and joined dicas, a developer of ISO MPEG-4 real-time video coding solutions, based in Germany, as its CEO in the beginning of 2001. Since 2004, Sebastian is President of the MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) and has been on its Board of Directors since 2002 serving as Treasurer until 2004.

Sebastian is a regular chairman, speaker and panellist at industry events and conferences across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, has been a judge for international industry awards and has written many articles and opinions for various industry and trade publications.