Steve Shannon is Macrovision's executive vice president of Product Management

Steve Shannon has served as executive vice president of product management at Macrovision since May 2008 when the acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide International by Macrovision was completed. Since joining Gemstar in January 2006, Mr. Shannon served as executive vice president & general manager of product development at Gemstar and also ran the company's cross-platform Product Development and Technology group. Prior to joining Gemstar, Mr. Shannon founded Akimbo Systems, the world's first Internet-delivered video-on-demand service designed for television. In 1998 Mr. Shannon helped co-found ReplayTV and shipped the first Digital Video Recorder (DVR). Prior to ReplayTV, Mr. Shannon became director of Internet authoring at Macromedia when the company purchased iband, a company he co-founded and the original creator of Dreamweaver, the market leading web site authoring tool.  He has also worked at Coopers & Lybrand, and Paramount Pictures. Mr. Shannon holds a B.A. in economics from UCLA and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.