Dr. Fritsch joined Minerva Networks shortly after its inception. In his previous position at C-Cube Microsystems, he headed the company’s MPEG decoder product development, and he contributed to the development of its core MPEG encoding algorithms. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Fritsch was a Staff Scientist at Alcatel Business Systems, focusing on speech recognition, speech compression and digital acoustic echo canceling. Dr.Fritsch holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Signal Processing from the University of Nancy in France.