Cobalt Digital
As vice president of firmware at Cobalt Digital, Kyle Wilken oversees the company’s embedded development and works with customers to define requirements for future engineering projects. Wilken joined Cobalt in 2013 as a senior FPGA developer. He then served as embedded development manager where he has had a significant impact on many groundbreaking technologies including HDR, Text-to-Speech, EAS, and 4K video processing. Before Cobalt, Wilken worked 12 years in the medical imaging and defense industries. Wilken graduated in 2001 from Bradley University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is based in Champaign, Illinois.
Cobalt Digital
Founded by Gene Zimmerman in 1997 and based in Champaign, Illinois, privately held Cobalt Digital designs and manufactures award-winning 12G/3G/HD/SD conversion, throwdown, and multiviewer technology for the production and broadcast television environments.