• Leadership Award
• Achievement Award
  

Every year, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® and the technology industry recognize leaders in the technology standards space for their commitment to excellence through the CTA Technology & Standards Awards Program. Nominated by their peers, these recipients have showcased outstanding contributions to the CTA Technology & Standards program.

We are pleased to congratulate this year’s award winners, who are paving the way to the future.

Leadership Award

Recipients have demonstrated leadership through their strategic vision and consensus-building efforts, and they have significantly contributed to projects that benefit the industry through CTA’s Technology & Standards Program.

Ray Krasinski – Director of Standardization, Philips

Ray Krasinski holds a variety of leadership roles in the CTA Technology & Standards program, including vice chair of the Health, Fitness & Wellness Committee (R11), vice chair of the CTA Standards Council, and chair of the Consumer Stress Monitoring Working Group (R11 WG4). He is also an active participant in other CTA efforts.

Krasinski demonstrated leadership in the completion and publication of ANSI/CTA-2068, Definitions and Characteristics of Consumer Technologies for Monitoring Physical and Psychosocial Stress. Krasinski brought this project to CTA as a new area of exploration and helped build the consensus body and expert pool, including a number of new participants to CTA’s standards program.

Standards in this area are essential as consumers take control of their own health, fitness and wellness.

Barbara Stark – Lead Technical Staff in Standards and Industry Alliances, AT&T

Barbara Stark led CTA’s IPv6 Working Group (R7 WG14) in its revision of ANSI/CTA-2048, Host and Router Profiles for IPv6. This revision updated the standard to incorporate the latest best practices from several international standards for internet equipment.

Stark was instrumental in recruiting IPv6 experts to contribute to the revision, and she led the global working group’s effort to efficiently complete its work in less than six months.

Stark is also a significant contributor to the CTA-2088, Baseline Cybersecurity Standard for Devices and Device Systems project.

CTA Technology Achievement Award

Recipients have demonstrated their commitment to advancing CTA Technology & Standards projects, including the development of standards, promotion of CTA Technology & Standards work or similar significant efforts.

Adam Goldberg – Director of Technical Standards, Sony Electronics

Adam Goldberg is Director Technical Standards at Sony Electronics. He has been involved in standardization of digital television technologies for more than 25 years. His current focus is security and ATSC 3.0.

He has been involved in various digital television and digital telecommunications activities, including the over-the-air digital transition, cable television and home entertainment in general for more than two decades. Mr. Goldberg has been deeply involved with many aspects of digital television, including receivers, receiver silicon and broadcast equipment, and has held engineering, project management, strategic planning, standards and government relations roles for software vendors, decoder and silicon manufacturers, network and head-end vendors and consumer electronics companies and has spoken world-wide on digital television issues.

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and is currently the chairman of ATSC S36 (ATSC 3.0 Security), and co-chair of CTA R14WG1.

Eric Kobrin – Senior Director of Security Intelligence, Akamai

Adam Goldberg and Eric Kobrin are co-chairs of CTA’s Cybersecurity Baseline for Connected Devices Working Group (R14 WG1).

Goldberg and Kobrin have been leading efforts to complete CTA-2088, Baseline Cybersecurity Standard for Devices and Device Systems, guiding a diverse group of experts through an accelerated process of building a document with more than 60 specific, testable requirements and other detailed recommendations.

This effort is highly anticipated by stakeholders and will be foundational for other work on cybersecurity for drones and robotics.

Frank Baumgarte – Senior Audio Scientist, Apple

In CTA’s Audio Loudness Working Group, Frank Baumgarte was instrumental during the development of, Loudness Standard for Over the Top Television and Online Video Distribution for Mobile and Fixed Devices.

Baumgarte provided new designs for loudness and dynamic range systems for mobile and fixed devices. His insights, as noted by his collaborators, were crucial to the development of the technical groundwork required.

His editorial contributions also maintained the accuracy of the standard through its completion.

As options for streaming and consumer content increase, standards such as this are important for improving the consumer experience.