(This is a work in progress - 20 Jan 09)
Independent Consultant
Specializing in international business affairs as related to consumer electronics, broadcasting
and related fields. Primary focus is on assessing future technology, trends and product design.
He can advise, recommend and evaluate your corporate resource allocations, especially
engineering and R & D activities, assist with strategic partnerships, managed buyouts or
business combination and due diligence.
Cleggsan is a pioneer in digital audio and one of the first to encourage digital recording in
the music entertainment field. He is an early experimenter with optical disc recording and
was instrumental in the development of the first wave of Compact Disc music industry which
was introduced to the world in 1982. He further worked in various phases of digital video
compression techniques which eventually resulted in introduction of the DVD.
Several collaborative projects for development of such technologies as digital Karaoke
(utilizing Csound and other types of synthesis and signal processing), early CD production,
automatic music composition, multimedia musical productions and digital video processing
were conducted in cooperation with MIT, Georgia Tech and Rutgers University. Over 50
market research projects were sponsored at Rutgers University on behalf of Matsushita
and Denon America. Assisted in preparing private offerings for merger and acquisition
of CD production plant, recording companies, retail distribution company and others.
Independent consultant these past 20 years. Based in Atlanta, GA, NJ and UT.
Traveled to Japan over 100 times; UK over 30 times. Countries visited in discharging
consulting and advisory duties: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Finland,
France, Netherlands (Amsterdam/Eindhoven), Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
Canada, Brazil, Korea, Portugal, Greece (Athens).
Cleggsan is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, Illinois State University and
additional studies at BYU, Bradley University, Miami University (Ohio), UM/Kansas
City and others.
BSEE from University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1969.
MBA from Illinois State University, Normal/Bloomington, Illinois, 1974.
Diploma from DeVry Technical Institute.
He has taught courses at Illinois Central College (head of Electronics
Engineering Technology Department) and Rutgers University Graduate School of
Management (Executive MBA program in Interfunctional Management).
Cleggsan is past chairman of the RBDS (Radio Broadcast Data Systems) a joint committee
of the CEA (previously EIA) and NAB; also past international chairman of the IEC TC100
on Audio, Video and Audio/Visual engineering standard setting committee based in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Previous employment includes Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) , Nippon Columbia Co.,
Ltd. (Denon), GE (Decatur, IL), Sylvania and General Dynamics (Rochester, NY,
Stromberg Carlson Division).
Life Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and Life Senior Member of the IEEE
and member of its Consumer Electronics Society.
See Famous Engineer listing at: http://famousmormons.net/inventors.html
Hobby: (To keep brain active and alive!)
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Electrical-Engineering-1356/indexExp_71319.htm
EMAIL: Cleggsan@cleggsan.com
