Steve Kristy heads LiquidPixels with 23 years of digital imaging experience to his credit. Steve brings expertise and a proven track record of leadership to the integration of software and hardware for consumer and commercial imaging products and their development.

Prior to his decision to lay the foundation for LiquidPixels in 2000, Steve was a Director at Kodak.com helping to lead the world’s largest imaging company into the digital millennium. Among his many professional successes, Steve was a notable Manager amidst the team that created the Photo CD System at Eastman Kodak Company. As Development Manager for the follow-on FlashPix™ standard, Steve was integral in uniting Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, LivePicture, and Kodak to this open imaging specification.

Steve holds both Masters and Bachelors Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, a BA, Management & Computer Science from Bucknell University, and a BS, Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University. In addition, Steve holds an Executive Development Certificate from The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Spencer leads the development of LiquidPixels’ product base and service infrastructure. He has extensive expertise in software, hardware, systems architecture design and integration, image processing, and color management, with a focus on distributed network systems, firewall design, and administration. Marc was the co-author of the Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP), a proposed W3C standard for imaging. Marc also has a strong publishing and typographic background having held positions at Xerox, data recording systems and Spencer & Associates Publishing, Ltd. Most recently, Marc was a Senior Internet Systems Architect at Eastman Kodak, implementing Web-based imaging architectures for imaging applications. He has been issued two patents. Marc holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester.