Board of Directors

Jim Chiddix is a veteran of the cable television and broadband industries and led the development of some key enabling technologies.

Chiddix spent 15 years as Chief Technology Officer and in other senior posts at Time Warner Cable. He and his team pioneered cable’s use of optical fiber and digital video and streaming video services. Chiddix accepted a Technical Emmy Award for his team’s work in 1994.

Prior to joining Time Warner's Cable's corporate office in 1986, Chiddix held a variety of engineering and operating positions with two cable companies in Hawaii. Early in his career, he co-founded CRC Electronics, a start-up that manufactured videotape automation systems for program origination, time-shifting and commercial insertion. That company was sold to Texscan in 1982; its technology was widely used into the late ‘90’s.

Before his retirement, Chiddix served as Chairman and CEO at OpenTV Corp., a publicly traded San Francisco-based software company. OpenTV is a leading developer of operating software and applications for digital set-top boxes and is now part of The Kudelski Group.

In addition to Starry, Chiddix has served on other corporate boards, including at ARRIS, a communications equipment manufacturer, and SLIC, a rural fiber broadband service provider. He has also joined the advisory board at ARTEMIS, a San Francisco wireless start-up. In recent years Chiddix’s board appointments have also included VIRGIN MEDIA, SYMMETRICOM, MAGNUM SEMICONDUCTOR and DYCOM. Most recently he joined the boards at Mt. Evans Home Healthcare and Hospice and the Mountain Area Land Trust, both in Evergreen, Colorado.

Chiddix’s interest in electronics and technology began with amateur radio in high school and continued at Cornell University, where he studied electrical engineering. During his military service he attended and then taught at the U.S. Army Air Defense Command School at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Chiddix was inducted into the Cable Television Pioneers in 1991. In 2007, the Cable Center inducted him into the Cable Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth (Liz) Graham is Chief Operating Officer at Indigo. A proven customer experience and operations executive, Graham is dedicated to improving the customer experience for Indigo’s stakeholders across the full agricultural ecosystem. As COO, Graham leverages 20 years of experience driving high-performance teams to oversee critical functions including Strategy & Operations, Customer Experience, and Global Business Services. Collaborating closely with engineering and software product management, she focuses on refining and scaling Indigo’s global operational infrastructure, in addition to overseeing internal functions such as Human Resources.

Prior to joining Indigo, Graham served as President of Notarize, a fintech startup, where she oversaw acceleration of the company's growth and expansion into new business segments. Her prior experience also includes VP of Global Sales and Service at Wayfair – where she rapidly scaled global operations and revenue in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Wayfair, Graham managed teams across diverse functional areas including business intelligence, people operations, technical operations, network operations, and government affairs at Hubspot and Comcast. She began her career as a corporate attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Graham holds an A.B. from Harvard College, a M.St. from the University of Oxford, England, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Amish Jani is a Founder and Partner of FirstMark and has been an active venture capitalist for over 20 years.

He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including SaaS applications, ecommerce, infrastructure and more. Jani has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally. In 2021, he was recognized by Business Insider in The Seed 100 (best early-stage investors) and named one of the 50 Most Important VCs in New York.

Jani has invested in industry-defining companies that include Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), Starry (NYSE: STRY), Frame.io (acquired by Adobe), InVision, Pendo, Tracelink, Guru, Bluecore, IMImobile (LSE: IMO), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and many more.

Prior to founding FirstMark, Jani served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures. He holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert (Rob) Nabors is Senior Director for North America at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At the Gates Foundation, Nabors leads the team that manages government relations, policy, advocacy, and communications in North America. His team, based in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, WA, develops and implements strategies that help mobilize the resources, political commitment, and public commitment necessary to achieving the foundation’s programmatic goals. Nabors also serves as Executive Director of the Gates Policy Initiative, which focuses on federal policy in the United States.

Nabors joined the Gates Foundation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where he was chief of staff. Prior to that role, he served in the Obama Administration as the White House’s director of Legislative Affairs and deputy chief of staff for Policy. Nabors spent several years in various positions in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, most recently as deputy director. He also served on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, including as majority staff director.

Nabors holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia is co-founder and CEO of Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a next generation licensed fixed wireless technology developer and internet service provider. Starry has re-imagined how broadband networks are built and how consumers connect to the internet by developing a full-stack technology that dramatically reduces the cost of connecting homes to fiber-quality connectivity. Starry is currently serving customers in the Boston, New York City, DC, Los Angeles, Denver, and Columbus metro areas, with an expansion and spectrum access roadmap that covers more than 40 million households nationwide. In 2022, Starry was named to the second annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list

Prior to Starry, Chet was founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., the groundbreaking online television platform that enabled consumers to record and watch live HD broadcast television on virtually any type of Internet-connected device via a cloud-based OTA antenna and DVR.

Previously, Chet was the founder and CEO of Navic Networks. Like Aereo, Navic Networks addressed the challenges of today’s highly fragmented media landscape. Under Chet’s leadership, Navic Networks grew to be the undisputed industry leader in advanced television advertising and was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.

Chet holds more than 31 patents in fields ranging from robotics to data communications systems and is an innovative leader known for pushing beyond the conventional and developing breakthrough solutions. He has been recognized as one of the "Top Disruptors of 2013" by Forbes magazine, noted as part of Vanity Fair's 2013 "Next Establishment List” and named one of Inc. Magazine’s 2013 “Entrepreneurs of the Year.” Aereo's technology was also named one of TIME magazine's Top 50 Best Websites (2012) and a Top 50 Technology (2013) by MIT Technology Review. In 2019, Chet was honored with Public Knowledge’s IP3 Award for Internet Protocol for his years of work developing technology in the interest of competition and consumer choice.

Chet holds a master's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Bhopal, India.