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.

Mike Bergeron, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations

Mike Bergeron joined Dolby Laboratories in 2012 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. He will be leading the company’s sales organization into the next stage of growth as it launches transformational Dolby cinema, broadcast, online media, and image technologies.

Mike’s sales leadership spans more than 25 years. He previously held the position of Vice President, Worldwide OEM and Education Sales, Adobe Systems, where he was responsible for $800 million in revenue. Prior to that, he was responsible for starting and building the Adobe mobile business field sales and business development teams, whose work resulted in more than one billion deployments of Adobe® Flash® across devices of all kinds, including mobile phones, consumer and gaming devices, and consumer electronics, in partnership with both automotive and global mobile operators.

Prior to Adobe, Mike held a variety of worldwide executive leadership roles in sales and business development, including cofounder of Elemental Software and Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development for Macromedia.

Mike holds a BS degree in business and marketing from Indiana University.

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.

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.