Skip Pizzi Biography

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Skip Pizzi

Skip Pizzi is an internationally respected digital media technology expert and consultant.  He currently serves as Director of Digital Strategies at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).  In this role, Skip provides guidance for NAB members on new and emerging media technologies and their potential applications to broadcast services.

Previously, Skip has held technology management roles in both the broadcasting and new media industries, including NPR and Microsoft, spending a nearly a dozen years at each company.  He also has assisted Fraunhofer IIS (the originators of the MP3 and AAC formats), Microsoft, and other companies in the development of technical standards.

Skip has provided media technology consulting to U.S. and international broadcasters, government agencies, educational institutions, foundations and manufacturers, and served as an editor and contributor to numerous broadcast and new media trade publications, including Radio Ink, Radio World, Broadcast Engineering, and Billboard.

His first book, Digital Radio Basics, was the earliest text on digital radio broadcasting. More recently he co-authored Audio Over IP, published by Focal Press. He has also contributed to the NAB Engineering Handbook and other technical reference books.

Skip is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts. He began his broadcasting career at Georgetown’s legendary WGTB (then an FM, now an Internet radio station).