Other Members of the Management Team

Ioan Allen, Senior Vice President

Ioan Allen was educated at Rossall School and Dartmouth Royal Naval College, England. After leaving the Royal Navy in 1959, he specialized in technical writing, including the preparation of Admiralty manuals. He then spent several years in artist management and record production. Ioan joined Dolby Laboratories in 1969 and was in large part responsible for the origination and development of all the major audio advancements emanating from the Dolby film program.

During his tenure at the company, Ioan has spearheaded the introduction of many of Dolby's breakthrough audio formats—from Dolby Stereo in 1974 to Dolby SR in 1986 and Dolby Digital in 1992—each representing another step forward leading to the company's successful transition from analog audio pioneer to digital entertainment leader.

Ioan holds several patents and has authored many papers in technical journals. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (BKSTS), and a past president of the International Theatre Equipment Association (ITEA). He is active in world standards organizations, and is currently Engineering Director, Motion Pictures for SMPTE, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and was recently awarded a prestigious honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Ioan helped establish and is the chairman of the Dye Track Committee, which was honored in 2007 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Technical Committee for its contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks. He also currently serves as technical chairman of the Trailer Audio Standards Association (TASA).

Ioan has received much recognition for his work over the years; he is a recipient of SMPTE's Samuel L. Warner Award for contributions to motion picture sound (1985) and of several Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1979, 1987, and 2001). Ioan received the BV Sturdivant Award for extraordinary service to the exhibition industry (1998) from the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), and the Moving Image Society in Britain gave him the BKSTS Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry (1999). Ioan has also been honored for his contributions to the film industry with the Ken Mason Award from the Intersociety for the Enhancement of Theatrical Presentation (2002). In 1989, Ioan and Ray Dolby were awarded Oscars for continuous contributions to motion picture sound through the research and development programs at Dolby Laboratories.

Steve E. Forshay, Senior Vice President, Research

Since joining Dolby Laboratories in 1982, Steve Forshay has helped facilitate research and development of the breakthrough audio and surround sound technologies for which the company is widely recognized. As head of Dolby's Research Division, he helps ensure that research at Dolby, which includes sound technology as well as image signal processing and related entertainment technologies, can be successfully applied to the creation of new opportunities that align with the company's strategic direction, values, and business interests. Steve helps keep technology research and development focused on the end user—finding solutions that extend the entertainment experience with technology that is easy for the user to embrace.

In addition to overseeing research activities, Steve participates in the formulation of corporate business, technology, and standards strategies. Prior to joining Dolby, he held engineering positions in audio entertainment system design at the David Hafler Company and in automotive entertainment and communications systems development at the Automotive and Industrial Products Division of Motorola, Inc.

Steve holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from St. Mary's College of California. He is a member of the AES, the SMPTE, and the IEEE. He is also active in several other industry standards and business forums.

J. Stuart Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Sales

As Senior Vice President, Sales, for Dolby, Stuart Mitchell is responsible for worldwide revenue generation efforts, as well as the day-to-day operations of the global customer management organizations across all market segments. Stuart brings more than 25 years of experience to Dolby, having built, managed, and led global sales teams and operations with several high-technology companies.

Before joining Dolby, Stuart headed global sales and professional services efforts for PalmSource, which creates software platforms licensed to mobile device manufacturers, operators, and other ecosystem partners. Prior to PalmSource, Stuart served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Immersion Corporation, a leader in next-generation user interfaces utilizing touch-enabled technology licensed to consumer markets and products manufactured and sold to professional markets. He also spent 12 years at Adobe Systems, where he served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing Systems Division. In this position, he was responsible for building Adobe's global sales and field marketing organization, focusing on revenue growth, the creation of industry standards by licensing imaging technologies and applications to leading industry partners, and building key ecosystems across consumer and professional markets.

Stuart holds a BS in engineering physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Robin Selden, Senior Vice President, Marketing

Robin Selden comes to Dolby with more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience in digital media, Internet, software, and personal computer technology. Joining Dolby in 2009 as Senior Vice President, Robin has global responsibility for Dolby’s branding, communications, marketing, and product strategy.

Robin joins Dolby after 20 years in marketing and general management at Silicon Valley technology leaders Logitech, Inc. and Adaptec, Inc. She spent 10 years at Logitech where her last position was Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Streaming Media Business Unit. Prior to this role, Selden served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, a role in which she developed Logitech’s global marketing and brand development strategies. Additionally, Selden spent 10 years at Adaptec with her last position as the General Manager of the Advanced Media Products Group.

Robin holds a BS from California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California, and an MBA with a marketing concentration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

Craig Todd, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Craig Todd's involvement with multichannel sound spans more than 25 years, beginning with his initial work on Dolby Surround sound in 1977. Since 1992 he has focused his efforts on bringing multichannel digital audio to the consumer. He was instrumental in establishing Dolby Digital in DTV, CATV, and DVD formats, and has most recently made major technical contributions to the technology strategy and systems architecture of Dolby's Digital Cinema system.

A holder of more than 20 patents, Craig has participated in standards-setting activities for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is a Fellow of both the AES and SMPTE, and in 2002 was awarded the SMPTE Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal for contributions to motion picture sound. Craig holds a BS degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology.