NanoTech Entertainment announced the appointment of Blake Brown as NanoTech's Lead Technical Developer for its global media business. Brown brings more than 25 years of multimedia engineering experience in developing video, encoder and decoder products for many of the multimedia companies in Silicon Valley. Brown holds numerous patents with Sony, Avistar, Futuretel, Emuzed and Hitachi for software development related to compression, storage, streaming, networking and 3D.

While manager and senior software engineer at Pinnacle Systems, he was a primary contributor on a compression-related Technical Emmy and a significant contributor on a small team for a second Technical Emmy. Brown's previous experience also includes software development for Amazon, DirectTV and Sonic Solutions. In his new role, Brown will focus on porting NanoTech's UltraFlix 4K streaming video distribution service to several major 4K TV brands as well as the emerging 4K-capable smartphones.

He will also provide support for several strategic Nuvola Multiple System Operator (MSO)/cable TV company customers.