# Paul Shen

> Paul Shen is the founder and CEO of TVU Networks, working in live video transmission and cloud production. His earlier career includes digital television architecture at General Instrument, founding Imedia and co-founding Open Harbor. His work with broadcasters connects portable mobile-network transmission, production software and tools for organizing video.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at TVU Networks
- **Organizations:** TVU Networks, Imedia Corporation, Open Harbor, General Instrument, MPEG Committee
- **Education:** B.S., New York Institute of Technology, M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded TVU Networks in 2005., Founded Imedia, whose CherryPicker served digital television distribution., Contributed to General Instrument digital TV and HDTV architecture and chaired the MPEG4 Syntax Group.

## Career timeline

- **1990–1994** — Worked as a senior engineer at General Instrument; contributed to digital television hardware architecture.
- **Before 1999** — Founded Imedia, developer of the CherryPicker statistical re-multiplexer.
- **1999** — Terayon agreed to acquire Imedia in a stock transaction valued at $100 million plus transaction costs.
- **1999–2004** — Led Open Harbor, a web-services business for international trade facilitation.
- **2005** — Founded TVU Networks; Crunchbase lists August as the start of his CEO role.
- **2017** — Received NewBay’s Industry Innovator Award, presented by TV Technology.
- **2020** — Published an essay explaining contextual video search through a hypothetical Beatles clip.
- **2024** — TVU and France Télévisions worked together on cloud production for the Paris Games torch relay; the collaboration received an IBC sustainability award.
- **2025** — TVU marked twenty years; the torch-relay collaboration received a NAB Show Project of the Year award in Acquisition.
- **2026** — TVU announced a Tencent Cloud partnership and credited Shen with conceiving its TVU Today live NAB coverage.

## Achievements

- Founded TVU Networks in 2005.
- Founded Imedia, whose CherryPicker served digital television distribution.
- Contributed to General Instrument digital TV and HDTV architecture and chaired the MPEG4 Syntax Group.
- Received the 2017 NewBay Industry Innovator Award.
- TVU’s current team biography credits him with more than 35 patents.
- Led TVU during its France Télévisions cloud-production collaboration, recognized at IBC 2024 and NAB 2025; these are project and organizational honors.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — TVU announced its Tencent Cloud production and distribution partnership at NAB on April 18.
- **2026-04** — A TVU LinkedIn post credited Shen with the TVU Today concept and reported 26 hours of NAB coverage over three days.
- **2025-07** — TVU published a BIRTV 2025 interview replay featuring Shen discussing cloud and AI developments.
- **2025-04** — TVU and France Télévisions received a NAB Show Project of the Year award for the Paris torch-relay production.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tvunetworks.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shenpaul

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Last updated: 2026-10-24