At Convergent Intelligence™ we offer respected and experienced expertise in the digital media industry with demonstrated success in digital audio, film, cinema and broadcast video.
John Naylor, Principal Consultant, was responsible for the Cinéon SFX program that enabled film as a digital medium.
At Snell and Wilcox he productized the FloMo image processing software that enabled the “impossible” camera moves used in The Matrix.
He led multiple organic growth programs at Grass Valley: entry to the Pro/AV market with the Turbo iDDR digital disk recorder; entry to the Digital Cinema market after wide consultation with Studios, Distributors and Exhibitors, and entry into the HD camcorder market where he created an industry partnership to support file-based HD workflows based on the Infinity content format.
 
 
 
 
Expertise and Experience
  1. File-based workflows
  2. Video Codecs
  3. Video Servers and Storage
  4. HD ENG and EFP Camcorders
  5. Non-linear Editors
  6. Archive migration
  7. LED Displays
  8. Digital Cinema and DI
  9. Digital Film Compositing
  10. GXF and MXF streams
  11. Market Research
  12. Product Management
  13. Strategic Marketing
  14. Product Marketing
We specialize in identifying and exploiting the opportunities that exist in the tension between technological innovation and controlling costs.
John is a distance learning MBA graduate from Henley Management College, which is ranked #2 in the UK and #6 in the world; is a Chartered Engineer, and active SMPTE member having participated in the standardization for Digital Cinema and MXF.  He has delivered papers at international industry conferences sponsored by The NAB, SMPTE, and BKSTS.
 
Our clients include leading companies in Belgium, France and the USA.