As many of you perhaps read earlier this week, Michael Eisner (via his new VC company, Tornante) and Time Warner Investments announced a $12.5 million investment in a Peercasting Internet TV startup called Veoh Networks. Today, I was fortunate enough to speak with Veoh’s CEO, Dmitry Shapiro, about the company, its product and some of the features they are developing to become a leader in Internet TV distribution.

Listen to our podcast and hear Dmitry’s views and hopes for the next generation of Television! If you’re interested, you should also check out Dmitry’s interview on CNBC.

Enjoy the podcast and don’t forget to let us know your thoughts, comments and questions!

Dmitry Shapiro – Chief Executive Officer, Veoh Networks, Inc.

Dmitry Shapiro is a world recognized thought leader and visionary in electronic communications, peer-to-peer networking, online community, and computer security. Mr. Shapiro is a frequent speaker at major technology and business events, and is widely quoted in the press, including InfoWorld, PCWorld, Computer World, eWeek, Internet World, and other publications.

Prior to founding Veoh Networks in 2004, Mr. Shapiro founded Akonix Systems, Inc. Under his vision and leadership, Akonix Systems pioneered the technologies that are now standard corporate requirements for IM and P2P management. With over 1,000,000 enterprise seats deployed, Akonix’s P2P management solution is the world’s corporate standard in P2P security. Akonix’s products are deployed at media companies such as MTV, Fox News, 20th Century Fox, Viacom, and Disney as well as hundreds of other recognizable brand names across all major vertical markets.

Prior to founding Akonix, Mr. Shapiro led technology development for CollegeClub.com, at that time the world’s largest community of college students, which provided innovative real-time communications to its community of over four million users. CollegeClub.com was a recognized pioneer in integrating presence, Instant Messaging, and other collaborative technologies into a comprehensive communications infrastructure. His visionary work on presence integration into web infrastructures has been the basis for the “Who’s Online” functions now implemented across major industries, including e-commerce, call centers, online personals, and others.

Before CollegeClub.com, Mr. Shapiro led the Internet technology group at Fujitsu Business Communication Systems.

Prior to that, Mr. Shapiro was a key player in Fujitsu’s systems engineering team where he helped lead Fujitsu’s entry into the Computer Telephony Integration space.

Mr. Shapiro holds a BS in Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In his spare time, Mr. Shapiro is a hobbyist videographer, activist, and philanthropist.