As Executive Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer for Paramount Pictures Dr. Bell is responsible for leading the company’s efforts and strategy to best take advantage of advances in technology across a broad range of business areas centered on the preparation, distribution and consumption of digital motion picture content and related derivatives. Dr. Bell’s current areas of interest include the development of next generation digital distribution methods and emerging applications for internet-based communities, high definition disc formats, digital home entertainment networks, and the technologies and issues associated with digital content rights management.

Previous to joining Paramount Pictures, Dr. Bell was Executive Vice President, Technology at Warner Bros. Technical Operations. He was centrally involved in the unification of the DVD format and the development of CSS.

In recognition of his contributions to the DVD format, and to original research in optical storage technology Dr. Bell is an elected Fellow of the both the IEEE and the Optical Society of America. He received his doctoral and bachelor degrees from London University.