Bio
Rob Koenen joined InterTrust in 2000 and serves as the company's senior director of technology initiatives. He is responsible for setting the technological strategy in InterTrust's business-to-consumer offerings, for standardization, and for strategic technological partnerships.

Before joining InterTrust, Rob was a research director at KPN Research in The Netherlands for 10 years. There he researched various aspects of audio/visual communications, working as project manager and later as the coordinator of the video group within KPN Research. His numerous projects with KPN included: image coding research, audio/visual communication for people with special needs, interactive broadband multimedia for residential users, mobile multimedia, the strategic development of new multimedia services, audio/visual quality assessment and multimedia standardization.

Rob is chairman of the MPEG Requirements Group and has played a key role in the development of the MPEG-4 standard since its inception in 1993, in defining the upcoming MPEG-7 standard since the start in 1995, and in defining the requirements for MPEG-21. Rob is also the initiator and president of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (www.m4if.org), which currently represents more than 100 companies with an interest in MPEG-4.

Rob received his MSEE degree in 1989 from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands where he studied electrical engineering, specializing in information theory.