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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Video Streaming space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Mitch Liu
CEO of Theta Labs
Mitch Liu is most recently the co-founder and CEO of Theta Labs and Theta.tv. In 2007 Mitch co-founded Tapjoy, Inc. and was one of the pioneers of social and mobile video advertising. In 2010 Mitch co-founded Gameview Studios, the creator of Tap Fish, one of the first free-to-play mobile games on iOS and Android to top the charts for highest grossing and highest downloads within 90 days of launch. Gameview was acquired six months later by DeNA Global, one of the leading Japanese mobile gaming companies. Since 2015 Mitch has been building cutting edge technology, most recently launching Theta Network, the leading decentralized video delivery network powered by blockchain technology. Mitch is the co-inventor and holds four patents in the video streaming, virtual reality and blockchain space. He has a BS in Computer Science Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain
Michael Carter
CEO of Playco
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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About Blackstorm Labs, HelloWorld, Playco, Weeby: Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
Gil Hirsch
Co-Founder & CEO of StreamElements
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks community in Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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About StreamElements: StreamElements provides content creators the tools they need to engage, grow, and monetize their audiences.
Susan Brazer
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LionShare Media
Susan is a commercial visionary with a 2020’s view. She’s led the successful development, launch and scale of consumer-facing platforms, apps and services for world-leading media, tech and telecom companies: Apple, DirecTV, SES Astra, FIFA World Cup, Viacom, Virgin Mobile, and Nokia. Susan is the CEO of LionShare Media, which is launching the THIN/AIR™ Metaverse, a 5G cloud-native, blockchain-enabled distribution platform for premium entertainment and immersive media. Previously, Susan was VP, Strategy and Business Development at Nokia, and VP, Corporate Development and Entertainment Services at Virgin Mobile USA). Prior to this, Susan was EVP, Corporate Development at KirchMedia’s Venture Fund for the FIFA World Cup, where she raised $50M+ for interactive TV, gaming and mobile app ventures. Susan was the SVP, Networks & Marketing for Viacom’s Showtime service in the Middle East and Africa, overseeing a P&L and operations for MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg, Paramount, Style and Discovery. Susan led the launch of DirecTV as VP, Marketing at Compression Labs and the migration of 85M European TVHH to digital satellite and cable services for SES ASTRA. The genesis of Susan’s product development and UI/UX expertise began at Apple Computer, where she launched its 1st portable computer, the Newton, and Knowledge Navigator (prototype for the iPAD and Siri). She was also served as an M&A analyst at PepsiCo and International Treasury Analyst at Phillip Morris. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and attended the London School of Economics. Susan is on the Board of Global Women in Blockchain, a UN Delegate for Media for Social Impact and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller School of Engineering for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.
David Nussbaum
Founder and CEO of PORTL Hologram
David Nussbaum is the Founder and CEO at PORTL Inc.
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About PORTL Hologram: PORTL Hologram offers at-home hologram machines.
Jonathan Gray
CEO and Co-Founder of Encore Music Technologies
Jonathan Gray, founder and CEO of Cask, is an entrepreneur and software engineer with a background in startups, open source, and all things data. Prior to founding Cask, Jonathan was a software engineer at Facebook where he drove HBase engineering efforts, including Facebook Messages and several other large-scale projects, from inception to production. An open source evangelist, Jonathan was responsible for helping build the Facebook engineering brand through developer outreach and refocusing the open source strategy of the company. Prior to Facebook, Jonathan founded Streamy.com, where he became an early adopter of Hadoop and HBase and is now a core contributor and active committer in the community. Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Encore Music Technologies, Orcada, The Apache Software Foundation: Encore is an interactive live music mobile-based platform aiming to help artists monetize their connections with fans.
Tom Ryan
CEO & Co-Founder of Pluto TV
Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership with hundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.
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About Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Tony Chen
CEO and Founder of Channel Factory
Tony Chen is CEO and Founder of Channel Factory, a social video marketing platform that helps top brands and agencies expand their brand video viewership. Tony is a digital pioneer in the social video space, creating cutting edge solutions to make sure brand videos are safely watched, tracked and shared across multiple platforms by millions of people. Tony founded Channel Factory in 2013 and has quickly scaled the company by partnering with top agencies and Fortune 500 brands. In 2016 alone, Channel Factory spearheaded more than 5,000 campaigns, served over five billion video views and worked with more than three hundred Fortune 500 companies on their campaigns. Prior to Channel Factory, Tony founded Yellow Thunder Media in 2010 while attending Rice University where he double majored in Economics and Piano. Pioneering a scientific method to help videos go viral on YouTube, the company generated more than one billion views within three years for top brands such as Coca Cola, Sony Pictures, and McDonalds among many others. Tony is an avid angel investor with investments in e-commerce companies including, Fab Fit Fun and Trendy Butler, Jumpcut Studio and software start up, Outreach. He has been recognized by Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for his achievements in marketing and advertising.
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Chris M. Willliams
Founder & CEO of pocket.watch
Chris M. Williams is the Founder & CEO at pocket.watch.
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About pocket.watch, pocket.watch: Pocket.watch is a new studio creating global franchises from the YouTube stars and characters loved by Generation Alpha.
Sean Doherty
CEO of Wurl
CEO at WURL, Inc.
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About Wurl: The Wurl Network connects the world’s largest digital brands with the world’s largest streaming services.
Sumit Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO of Boom.tv
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics. Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom Fantasy Previously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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About afkVR, Boom.tv: BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.
Eran Hammer
Founder & CEO of Sideway, Inc.
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About Sideway, Inc.: Stories told through the lens of social media via our streaming app where every show is told within its own fictional social network.
Andrew Maltin
Founder & CEO of Hang w/
Andrew co-founded MEDL Mobile in March 2009. Prior to founding MEDL Mobile, Mr. Maltin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Momentum Gaming, Inc., where he led the company’s marketing, business development and technology efforts to build a world class online gaming infrastructure which both operated independently and licensed its technology to several of the world’s leading gaming sites. He has been featured in Entrepreneur, 944, Success, The Wall Street Journal and The LA Times. He is also the CEO of Hang w/ a company that he also co-founded in 2012.
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About Hang w/: Hang w/ empowers users to stream and broadcast live high-quality video to other phones using their standard wireless service.
Keith Zubchevich
Chief Executive Officer of Conviva
Keith Zubchevich was appointed Conviva’s President and CEO in 2021 with more than a decade of driving company success at Conviva, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining Conviva in 2008, Keith was Vice President of Business Development at Riverbed Technology, where he was instrumental in developing the industry leader’s go-to-market strategy and key partner relationships as the company went public. Previously, as Director of Operations at Cisco, he was responsible for storage-switching and optical solutions for both the Sales and Worldwide Channels groups, and led the launch of Cisco’s MDS storage networking technology effort, which garnered revenues of $244 million in two years. Prior to Cisco, Keith was a Regional Vice President with McDATA, where he was a member of the core team that designed and implemented the company’s sales and channel coverage model. Earlier in his career, Keith held sales management roles in the open systems divisions of Digital Equipment Corporation and StorageTek. Keith brings a wealth of leadership expertise and functional capabilities to the role. He has held a range of executive positions, from sales and marketing to corporate and business development, across a variety of industry-leading technology companies, as well as emerging startups. Keith holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from San Diego State University.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
John Shahidi
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Shots Studios
John Shahidi is CEO and Co-Founder of Shots Studios, a global entertainment company at the center of a new age of media and content. Along with his brother, Sam, Shahidi’s leadership guided Shots’ transition from a successful selfie-sharing app to an original comedy and music production studio. In 2018, Billboard called Shahidi an “internationalist” for his role in dance music’s expansion. He was also recognized by Billboard as a part of “music’s new power generation” as an innovator for launching Venezuelan-American digital creator Lele Pons’ music career, introducing Brazilian superstar Anitta to new markets, and propelling Swedish producer Alesso to new heights.
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About Shots Studios: Shots Studios is a Los Angeles-based, data-driven entertainment company that produces online comedy and music videos.
Jon Dahl
Co-founder, CEO of Mux
Jon is a co-founder at Mux where he builds software to help online video get better. Before that, he was co-founder of Zencoder, and then VP of Technology at Brightcove, two pioneering companies in the world of online video. Jon moved to San Francisco from Minneapolis in 2011 with Zencoder. He has two kids, a graduate degree in philosophy and theology, and enjoys writing in the third person.
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About Mux, Zencoder: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Atul Phadnis
Founder and CEO of Vitrina A.I.
As Chief Content Officer, Atul leads the company’s global content and editorial teams across Video, Music and Sports to develop global content strategies and expand on the company’s existing content and data offerings. Previously, Atul founded and was CEO of What’s-ON, the largest video data provider for India and the Middle East, which was acquired by Gracenote in 2014. In this role, he successfully raised funding from Sequoia Capital and Intel Capital and helped the company achieve market leader status in Electronic Program Guides (EPG) and TV search. Before launching What’s-ON, Atul served as Vice President for Television Audience Measurement (TAM) Media Research, a joint venture between Nielsen India and Kantar Media Research created to quantify TV viewership. Atul currently sits on the TV Ratings Technical Committee for the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) in India.
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About SRI International, Vitrina, Vitrina A.I.: Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions.
Eugene Baah
Co-Founder & CEO of Resoltz
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About Resoltz: Video streaming fitness content tailored to your goals, schedule and personal preferences
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Ben Antier
CEO of Publica
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About Publica: Publica is a technology company focused on internet-connected TV advertising.
Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmovin
Stefan Lederer is co-founder and Head of Business of bitmovinin 2012, a company which focuses on products, cloud services and consulting in the area of adaptive HTTP streaming. He received his B.Sc. (Bakk.) in Information Management in Aug’10, his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science in Mar’12 and his M.Sc. (Mag.) in Marketing and International Management in Jun’13, all with distinction from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He gained practical and international expertise in various companies (IBM, McKinsey&Company, Dolby, Hillside, Ilogs, etc.) and has a strong business focus in marketing and international management. He founded his first company in 2008 and led several IT projects in central and eastern Europe. In his position of an Assistant Professor at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group he participated in several EC-funded projects (ALICANTE, SocialSensor). His research topics include transport of modern/rich media, multimedia adaptation, QoS/QoE as well as future internet architectures and he has published more than 20 papers in these areas. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization, contributed several open source tools (DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN VLC plugin) and datasets.
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About Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin: Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Ryan Born
Founder & CEO of HAAWK
Ryan Born is the Founder & CEO of HAAWK, Inc. a VC backed digital rights management and copyright administration agency specializing in YouTube and Facebook/Instagram rights management and digital distribution services. He started his career in the Atlanta office of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Assurance and Business Advisory Services Practice where he gained experience in an array of industries. Ryan later transferred to New York City to broaden his experience in the firm’s Tax and Legal Services division. After PwC, he served as VP of Finance and Financial Controller at WireImage.com during which time the Company was acquired by Getty Images for $208 million. After WireImage, he angel invested in Internet Marketing Inc. and NewCondosOnline.com, the largest one-stop resource for finding and comparing new condo developments, where he also served as CFO. In 2007, he relocated to Los Angeles and founded AudioMicro, Inc, which operates a network of digital content licensing marketplaces, each targeted at a specific vertical — celebrity photos (ImageCollect), stock music & sound effects (AudioMicro), and YouTube monetization (AdRev). In 2015, the Zealot Networks acquired a majority of the company for over $20M. Prior to Zealot’s acquisition, the Company was backed by DFJ Frontier, part of the largest VC network in the world with over $7B under management, and Fotolia LLC, a leading stock photo marketplace with over 12 million images which itself was acquired by Adobe in 2014 for $800M. Ryan graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with an undergraduate degree in Accounting/Marketing & Art history and a Studio Art minor from Emory University. In addition, he possesses a Masters of Accounting Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an active CPA license with the State Board of Accountancy of his home state, Tennessee, and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA).
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About AudioMicro, HAAWK: HAAWK polices, administers, distributes, & licenses content to UGC video sites on behalf of copyright holders.
Balaji Krishnan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DabKick
Balaji Krishnan is working as Founder & CEO at DabKick Inc. Balaji Krishnan is Founder of Snapstick Inc. Balaji developed Snapstick’s technology in order to solve the problems he personally experienced with current Internet TV offerings. He has been creating and developing the concepts and architecture behind Snapstick for the past two years. Balaji previously worked in the core technology groups at Sun, HP and Oracle for more than 10 years. At Oracle he worked on database server technologies, with a special focus on the database transaction engine. Before Oracle, he spent three years at Hewlett-Packard where he worked on the HP UX development team, with a focus on file systems, volume management and virtual memory. He also worked in the Virtual Partitions team at HP. Before HP, Balaji spent three years at Sun Microsystems with the Solaris development team. Balaji received a Computer Science engineering degree, with honors, in India.
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About DabKick: DabKick is a real-time social entertainment platform that combines live video experiences with patented media sharing technologies.
Daniel Barreto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Haystack News
Daniel Barreto is Co-Founder of Haystack TV, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Daniel Barreto serves as General Manager of Mobile Cloud Business Unit and Chief Customer Advocate of Wyse Technology (UK) Ltd. Daniel Barreto leads the Mobile Cloud Business Unit (MCBU), a distinct unit designed to research, develop, and market products and services that mobile user. He served as General Manager of Mobile Cloud Business Unit and Chief Customer Advocate of Wyse Technology L.L.C (also known as Wyse Technology, Inc.). Daniel Barreto served as Chief Software Architect for Wyse, where he was responsible for overall architecture and software innovation for Wyse Technology L.L.C. He joined Wyse in 2003 and has been responsible for growing Wyse’s software portfolio with new award winning products resulting in over 50 patent applications (23 as inventor or co-inventor). Prior to joining Wyse, Daniel Barreto was a Staff Engineer at IBM in the Systems and Storage Division. Daniel Barreto holds Master’s and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.
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About Haystack News, Stanford University, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): Haystack News is an Ad-supported streaming news platform that offers relevant news, from local coverage to global current events.
Tony Mugavero
Co-Founder & CEO of Rad
Tony Mugavero is an experienced tech entrepreneur and executive with a media, business, blockchain, and computer engineering background. He is the Founder and CEO of Littlstar, a premium immersive network putting viewers at the center of experiences, and creator of the blockchain platform Ara. Ara is a distributed and decentralized system for all digital content and assets to be made available for sale on the blockchain.. Littlstar leverages this technology, and has the best content in the world from companies like NBCU, Warner Brothers, Universal Music, Showtime, Nat Geo, Discovery, PBS, Red Bull, Virgin, Disney, and more. He was a Co-founder and CTO at Galvanize, Inc., having co-founded and launched the 6-month gSchool engineering program, the co-working space, and Galvanize Venture Fund I focusing on early stage venture capital. In addition, he evaluated tech and media investments, raised money for Galvanize, and mentored startups on a daily basis. His work there won awards and countless features in the press. While at Galvanize his efforts took the company from $0 to $200k per month recurring revenue, sold out classes at Galvanize University with all graduates getting $60k per year jobs or better, and multiple investments in companies like Keen.io, Dabble, Pangea Organics, and more. Prior to building Galvanize, he was the Founder/CEO of MoovAtom, a simple API for providing cloud-based media encoding and delivery, which was successfully acquired in 2012. MoovAtom had clients like American Airlines, Pepsi, MEC Global, and TriNet. He was a Co-Founder of the music discovery app GigBeat, which was a Google MWC/IO Partner and AppCircus winner with over 1 Million users.
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About ARA Blocks, Rad: Rad is the Netflix of Blockchain, with NFTs, Crypto Rewards, and tokenized subscriptions.
Richard Botto
Founder and CEO of Stage 32
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About Stage 32: Stage 32 is the world’s largest online platform connecting and educating the global entertainment industry.
Diane Strutner
CEO and Co-Founder of Datazoom
Diane P. Strutner is the CEO of Datazoom, which she co-founded in January 2017. A Silicon Valley native and accomplished international executive, Diane has demonstrated her leadership abilities and sales & business development acumen within the American and Spanish startup scenes. Before Datazoom, Diane was VP for Global Sales and Business Development at NicePeopleAtWork. Prior to that she held sales and business development positions at several internet and software startups in Spain. In addition to her activities with Datazoom, she is the Founder of BeOnAlert, a sexual harassment reporting platform created in response to the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements.
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About Datazoom: Datazoom’s Video Data platform captures, classifies and connects data created by preparing, delivering and streaming video in real-time.
Ari Evans
Founder & CEO of Maestro Interactive Inc
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About Maestro Interactive Inc: Maestro provides a white label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences.
Klaus Badelt
Founder & CEO of Filmhub
Klaus Badelt is the Founder at Filmhub.
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About Copy-Kids, Filmhub, Wunderhorn Music: Filmhub is a the #1 distribution platform for Filmmakers and Streaming Channels.
Brad Sexton
President / CEO of Live Media Group
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About Live Media Group: Live Media Group is a multi media company
Cenk Uygur
CEO & Founder of The Young Turks
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About The Young Turks: The Young Turks provides an online news show covering politics, pop culture and lifestyle.
Tyler Williams
CEO & Founder of Nextbeat
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About Bubl, Nextbeat: Nextbeat is an interactive video platform that lets you hang out with your favorite creators and your fellow fans in real time.
Ernest Lee
Co-CEO of AmazeVR
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About AmazeVR: AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution using the proprietary technologies.
Steve Lee
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of AmazeVR
Steve Lee is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AmazeVR.
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About AmazeVR: AmazeVR is a virtual concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution using the proprietary technologies.
Garrett Dodge
Co-Founder, CEO of Rockbot
Garrett is the Co-Founder and CEO Rockbot. As such, he is responsible for all marketing, business development, and operational activities for the company.
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About Rockbot: Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
David Sanderson
Founder & CEO of Reelgood
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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.
Kyle Laughlin
CEO of Surfline
Kyle Laughlin brings nearly 20 years of experience in the technology, media, and entertainment industries to The Walt Disney Company. Laughlin is the senior vice president of Disney Consumer Products Interactive Labs (DCPI Labs) and currently serves as an executive producer on the muppets, a new primetime television series on ABC. He also leads a team devoted to innovation and the creation of next-generation digital content and products that extend Muppet stories and characters on all digital platforms and devices. With DCPI Labs’ focus on new media platforms, digital content, and building new audiences for Disney’s portfolio of stories and characters, it has become home to The Muppets Studio where the team expanded the franchise and its content beyond films to digital platforms, short-form content, television, and additional promotional opportunities that draw new audiences to the beloved characters. Prior to joining Disney Interactive in 2011, Laughlin served as general manager for Yahoo Sports & Games, where he led all programming, content, and business strategies. He oversaw production of the Yahoo Sports Minute, Fantasy Football Live, and Plugged In digital video series. Laughlin joined Yahoo in 2007 and quickly rose to the top leadership position for the business unit from director of product management for Yahoo Games. As the product lead, he developed a unified casual and videogame product organization, growing the audience, and improving monetization of its existing interactive products. Before Yahoo, Laughlin held several positions with top technology companies and consultancies. A Chicago native, Laughlin graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
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About Surfline: Surfline provides surf reporting, forecasts, and editorial content for consumers, businesses, and government agencies.
Jason Brahms
CEO of VideoGorillas
Jason Brahms has 20+ years experience launching B2C and B2B platforms in the media/content industry. He currently the CEO and Managing Partner at Video Gorillas (VG), a media-focused product and services company that develops state-of-the-art video technology incorporating machine learning, neural networks, visual analysis, object recognition, and live streaming. In this role Jason is responsible for defining and executing sales, marketing and product strategies across all VG products and services. Prior to VG, Jason was Vice President of Innovation and Advanced Solutions, where he oversaw product design, research, development and engineering for Sony Media Cloud Services cloud-based SAAS collaborative applications for creative professionals and content creators. Jason joined Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1998 starting in Corporate Development focusing on evangelizing and incubating ideas related to disruptive technology and new business models, including helping design, develop and launch the first IP VOD service, Movielink, where he assumed the role of Director of Content Acquisition and Operations. Jason has held multiple roles across various Sony business units since, including Director of Content for Playstation Network, Vice President, Technology and Operations for Sony Pictures, and Vice President, Advanced Platforms for Sony Pictures where he effectively worked as an “entrepreneur in residence” developing and evangelizing new production and post-production technology solutions. Jason is also a songwriter/music producer whose songs have been featured in numerous television series (e.g. Ugly Betty, Monk, ER, etc.).
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About VideoGorillas: Saas – A.I. Solutions for Media
Steven Cox
Founder & CEO of TakeLessons
Steven Cox is the Founder & CEO at TakeLessons.
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About TakeLessons: TakeLessons is an ed-tech company with a robust, engaging learning platform and community for lifelong learning.
Matthew Gunnin
CEO/Founder of Esports One
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About Esports One, Esportspedia: Esports One is the first real-time fantasy platform that makes watching esports competitive.
Kosta Jordanov
Co – Founder & CEO of FITE
Serial entrepreneur – built several software companies from scratch. Ran a professional services company in the mobile software space for customers such as IBM, Samsung, Procter & Gamble and Ogilvy. Previously: CTO of TTS; Software Engineer at IBM. Education: Technical University of Sofia (Computer Science); UNWE (Macroeconomics). Two exits, one IPO at BSE.
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About FITE: FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live sports streaming service for sports and entertainment.
Charlie Nooney
Chairman & CEO of MobiTV
Charlie Nooney serves as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of MobiTV, Inc. He is a seasoned media executive with a career dedicated to connecting media and mainstream brands with consumers through emerging technologies.In his role as CEO, Nooney drives corporate strategy to grow distribution, drive adoption and strengthen relationships with MobiTV’s carrier, content and OEM partners. He has been pivotal in evolving MobiTV’s vision to deliver a more personalized, relevant and immediate multiscreen connected media experience. Prior to MobiTV, Nooney held a number of executive positions including president of Technicolor Network Services, chairman of Screenvision and CEO of Premier Retail Networks. He also spent 15 years with Disney/ABC Cable networks as executive vice president of affiliate sales and marketing. Nooney earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and public administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
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About MobiTV: Mobi TV offers an end-to-end platform delivering live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and on any device.
Ben Keighran
CEO & Co-Founder of Caffeine
Ben Keighran is an Australian born technology entrepreneur and serial entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform that delivers live, interactive content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment. Caffeine has raised $146 million to date from investors in 3 rounds led by 21st Century Fox, Andreesen Horowitz, and Greylock Partners. Ben began his career in 2006 when he relocated from Sydney to San Francisco and raised $6.5 million for his mobile social messaging application, Bluepulse. Bluepulse launched in December 2006 as a social messaging app, where Keighran worked on designing a standard for publishing content on mobile, including text messages and other types of communications. Keighran’s next venture was serving as the lead advisor for social search service Aardvark’s mobile strategy. Aardvark was eventually acquired by Google for $50 million in 2010. After Aardvark, Keighran went on to found app search and discovery platform Chomp in 2009 which raised a little over $2.5 million over two rounds. Chomp was one of the earliest startups to offer both app search and personalized app recommendations for the iPhone app. Keighran led the company in developing its unique app search formula and filing 11 patents based on these new app search technologies and user experience. Chomp’s iPhone app offered app search and personalized app recommendations as well, making the startup one of the earliest services to offer that mixed functionality. In 2012, Chomp was acquired by Apple for $50 million and the technology was used to help overhaul the iTunes and App Store search experience. After joining Apple, Keighran spent the next four years overseeing software design on the Apple TV. Keighran helped design the look and feel of the software featured in the 4th generation Apple TV. Finally, in 2016, Keighran left Apple to start his most recent company Caffeine.
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About Caffeine: Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content.
Mihai Crasneanu
Founder & CEO of Beem
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About Beem, Grey Juice Lab: Discover and watch premium movies together with your friends and your favorite influencers
Sai Hossain
Founder & CEO of Crowdcast
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About Crowdcast, Edmund Hillary Fellowship(EHF): Crowdcast helps you have meaningful live interactions with your audience.
Sam Wu
CEO of Viki
Sam Wu is the chief executive officer of Viki, Inc.
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About Viki: Viki is a prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.
Oana Manolache
Founder & CEO of Introvoke
Oana Manolache is the Founder and CEO at Introvoke.
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About Introvoke: Introvoke is an embeddable solution allowing organizations to turn their virtual programs into digital stages with plug-and-play components.
Tosca Musk
Founder & CEO of Passionflix
Tosca Musk is the Founder and CEO at Passionflix.
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About Passionflix: Passionflix is a a streaming service that’s all about romance.
Dan Thorman
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Thoughtful Media
Dan Thorman serves as the Chief Financial Officer for Thoughtful Media Group (TMG). Dan focuses on strategic business development, corporate structure, and finance. Dan has broad experience managing corporate business and legal affairs across a diverse cross-section of functional areas. Specifically, he has focused efforts in the creation of online and television advertising solutions as well as early-stage company finance, operations and evolution, and technical project specification and management. In recent years, he has assisted in raising millions of dollars in corporate financing. Dan co-founded TMG to capitalize on the global changes occurring in the Online Media and Advertising sectors. Prior to TMG, Dan served as a Managing Partner at MR Holdings, a Los Angeles based branded entertainment company focused on the television market. Since its founding in 2003, he successfully deployed over $25 Million is brand dollars into television media from major global advertisers. Dan also served as the Chief Financial Officer of INNX, Inc., a venture capital financed convergent media company which provided television news, internet content, and targeted advertising opportunities to hundreds of network television affiliates and advertisers across North America. Before his work in online and television advertising solutions, Dan was a founding partner of San Francisco-based Ignition, Inc., a leading design and engineering company of interactive products and data integration solutions for large corporations. Ignition clients included Hewlett Packard, the United Nations, and McKinsey & Company. At Ignition, Dan managed operations of the company, including technical, financial and administrative functions. Dan also managed large software and technical development projects for clients with a specialty in technical problem solving and specification of hardware systems. Dan has a BS in accounting from George Mason University and has passed the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination.
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About Collidescope.io, Thoughtful Media: Thoughtful is a global media and technology company focused on providing solutions powered by influence.
Jonathan Weinberg
Founder & CEO of Quarterback
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About Quarterback: Quarterback is an e-sports fan engagement platform that helps streamers, professional esports players and teams monetize their downtime.
Alon Maor
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Qwilt
Alon is leading Qwilt’s strategic direction, culture and business execution bringing over fifteen years of experience with multi-national high-tech companies and start-ups. Most recently at Cisco, Alon oversaw the development and operations of the Service Control Engine (SCE) product line with responsibility for more than 50 employees across few geographical sites. Alon joined Cisco following the $200M acquisition of P-Cube, where he was part of the early team that was able to define and successfully deploy a new product category at over 1000 customers over the years. Earlier in his career, Alon held engineering roles at Seabridge (Nokia Siemens Networks). Alon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA (Multi-Disciplinary) at the Leon Recanati School in Tel Aviv University.
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About Qwilt: Qwilt develops pioneering video delivery technology to power the online entertainment revolution.
Mark Demarest
CEO & Co-Founder of Intermersive, Inc.
Mark Demarest is CEO & Co-Founder of Intermersive, Inc. Mark has over 20 years of industry leadership and success in the corporate and startup arena with an emphasis in digital marketing, advertising, and online product development. Prior to Spinnable, Demarest was Chief Strategy Officer of Vidaptiv, Inc. – a platform for interactive advertising – where he was instrumental in driving market strategy and operations. Before that he was President of Webxu Media, a public media company, focused on user acquisition and retention, where he also advised on M&A deals and managed the company’s acquisitions. As Vice President of Affiliate Marketing for Domain Development Corp (DDC), Demarest formed the affiliate network PremiumTraffic, as a division of the company. During his time at DDC, he led the build-outs of several premium domains, including Cash.com, Pizza.com, Babies.com, Singles.com and helped manage a portfolio of 80,000 domains and 30 million unique visitors per month. In 2009, he founded and was CEO of Click Conversion, a PaaS technology that streamlined and automated performance marketing activities, speeding time-to-market and profitability for its users. Demarest also founded a San Francisco and Silicon Valley web design firm and sold the company to BayWeb, Inc., where he stayed on as Creative Director. His clients have included Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Wells Fargo, DirecTV, World Gym, Cirque du Soleil and other leading lifestyle brands. Demarest has held various senior management positions within high-tech, software, and internet companies, such as Idea Integration (idea.com; NYSE: MPS) He also held the position of Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Flowtix, Inc. – a human-capital-management SaaS company, and Vice President of International Operations for the reverse-auction company SourceLead, Inc. (promena.net; IST:KCHOL) where he oversaw all global business deals and partnerships in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
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About Intermersive, Inc.: 360° and Virtual Reality live streaming, production, technology, advertising, and promotion.
Paul Heald
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of BrightTALK
Paul Heald co-founded BrightTALK in 2002 to help organizations engage their customers through live, online events. As CEO, Heald has led BrightTALK to its current position as a leading provider of online events, with a rapidly growing community of business and industry professionals. Paul is based at BrightTALK’s U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Before founding BrightTALK, Heald was the European managing director of Scient, a web technology development company. Prior to Scient, he ran Arthur D. Little’s e-business consulting group. Heald is an MBA graduate of Cranfield School of Management (U.K.).
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Bryan Veloso
CEO of Altair Interactive
Bryan Veloso is Founder and CEO of Los Angeles, California-based Altair Interactive. In the past he has worked for [Twitch](https://twitch.tv), [GitHub](https://github.com), [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and [Automattic](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automattic), in varying design roles ranging from interaction design to marketing and creative direction
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About Altair Interactive, Avalonstar: Altair Interactive is an online platform that offers a streaming service.
Eric Tao
Founder and CEO of HOLLA Group
Eric Tao is the CEO and founder at HOLLA. He earned his degree at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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About HOLLA Group, Monkey: HOLLA allows users to meet fun people around the world instantly through video chat technology.
David Russek
Founder & CEO of 10Tales
David is considered a digital media, interactive and social video pioneer, having previously helped create and launch new segments for market leaders such as Apple, Comcast NBCU, and Facebook. His award-winning programs and software have generated 100s of millions of views and interactions for some of the world’s leading brands and entertainers using advanced storytelling forms. Accolades for his works have included “Top Social Networking APP of the year (Global OMMA APPY award), TOP 100 Interactive Producers (1996, Producer Magazine), Silicon Valley “Ones to Watch”, and one of the Top 100 private companies in Hollywood by Always On. He has had 3 successful exits previously including being part of a team that managed a startup to global leadership and IPO.
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About 10Tales: 10Tales is where you and your friends go to connect with each other inside the professional stories you love.
Jill Bourque
Founder & CEO of RushTix
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About RushTix: Livestream Comedy for a Global Audience
Stephen Tyszka
Founder | CEO of Trubify
Founder | CEO | Entrepreneur | Investor | Advisor
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About Blast, Trubify: Trubify is an award-winning, disruptive live music streaming technology platform that offers innovative revenue streams and artist services
Michael Garbade
Founder & CEO of Education Ecosystem
MJG is a proactive, success-driven and customer‑focused entrepreneur and professional with interest for Internet/Mobile/Software/Hardware tech companies. Experience in high-paced environments at Fortune 500 companies like Amazon and General Electric as well as start-ups like Phototobucket, Rebate Networks, Lashou, Kolektiva, Kyuda. He has a PhD in Finance and is a self-taught engineer who likes Python, Django, Sencha Touch and video streaming. He is responsible at Livecoding.tv for Platform Architecture & Development.
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About Education Ecosystem: Education Ecosystem is a decentralized learning ecosystem that teaches people how to build complete products in future technology fields.
Russell Grapes
CEO & Chairman of Zorachka Inc.
Russell Grapes si the CEO & Chairman at Zorachka Inc.
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About Zorachka Inc.: Zorachka is an innovator of disruptive technologies.
Navdeep Saini
Co-Founder & CEO of DistroScale
Navdeep Saini is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of [Distroscale](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/distroscale), a content marketing platform and marketplace for delivering, managing, and measuring native content across websites, mobile web, and apps. Previously, he was the senior vice president of ad products and engineering at Glam Media. During the course of his career, Saini was a vice president at both DoubleClick and Yahoo!, all before he was a lead engineer at Med-link Technologies. He was also a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Buysight.
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About DistroScale: Comprehensive video-as-a-service platform, providing 3,500 media properties w/ video infrastructure, delivery, curation and monetization.
Hadar Weiss
Co-Founder and CEO of Peer5
Co-Founder and CEO of Peer5.
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About Peer5: Peer5 operates the world’s largest peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network.
Allon Caidar
Co-founder & CEO of TVPage
Allon is a serial entrepreneur spanning ecommerce , marketing and media. Prior to TVPage, Allon was Co-founder & CEO of Opticomm, a broadcast systems company (sold to Emcore, NASDAQ: EMKR). Customers at Opticomm included NBC, Sony, Viacom and ESPN. Prior to Opticomm, Allon was VP at Hotbar, an Internet Media Start-up that reached over 20M users in <2 years and was successfully sold thereafter. Before Hotbar, Allon was a VC Attorney at Goldfarb, Seligman & Co., focusing on the Israeli high-tech sector. Allon has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporations from the NYU School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Sussex University School of Law in Brighton, England. Allon holds several registered US patents spanning video commerce, video networks and monetization.
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About TVPage: Enabling brands to turn store associates, influencers & customers into online salespeople.
AJ “Dr Doom” Shewki
Co-founder ,CEO & COO of LIV
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
Vedran Vukman
CEO of Vyoocam
CEO @ Vyoocam
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About Vyoocam: Mobile apps on the communication wearables
Darcy Antonellis
Chief Executive Officer of Vubiquity
Darcy serves as VUBIQUITY’s Chief Executive Officer, a position she’s held since January of 2014. VUBIQUITY, a privately held media and entertainment company, is the largest global provider of premium content managed services and technical solutions servicing clients in 117 Countries that reach more than 109 million households and numerous local languages. As a B2B2C company, VUBIQUITY works closely with both content owners and service providers to enable anytime, anywhere access to content. With direct content licensing capability and technology platforms, VUBIQUITY helps its customers connect to and monetize opportunity in the areas of video-on-demand, subscription services, Electronic Sell-Through, linear content delivery, TV Everywhere, advanced advertising, and data services. Prior to joining VUBIQUITY, Darcy was President, Technical Operations and CTO at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., a post she held since January 2008 along with several senior management roles prior and throughout a 15 year tenure at the Studio. In this role, she influenced and directed Warner Bros.’ technology strategy and vision to leverage growth and new business opportunities often associated with advancements in media and entertainment-related product and service innovations. Before joining Warner Bros., Darcy worked for CBS in a number of lead management roles that encompassed responsibilities for the Network’s operations in New York and Washington Operations for the CBS News Bureau in Washington, D.C. Darcy is a veteran of three Olympics for CBS Sports and a three-time Emmy winner for technical production and engineering, and also worked in news, heading up D.C. operations with assignments that included being stationed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the Gulf War. She is also a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a multinational Patents holder, she serves on advisory boards of technology companies and universities. She is also a board member of the Global Advisory Council for the professional Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), providing counseling on new media and technology. A recipient of a number of industry-related awards, some have included Broadcasting and Cable’s Technology Leadership Award, Video Business’ Women Elite, The Hollywood Reporter’s Digital Power 50 List, the inaugural recipient of the NAB TVNewsCheck Women in Technology Leadership Award, Cablefax Most Powerful Women in Cable and India’s NASSCOM Innovator Leader Award.
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About Vubiquity: Vubiquity provides multi-platform video services for content owners and service providers to meet consumer demand.
Lucas Wilson
Founder/CEO of Revelens
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About Revelens, SupersphereVR: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a thousand interactions.
Philip Forte
CEO & Founder of Blue Sky eLearn
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About Blue Sky eLearn: Provides cloud-based LMS and learning platforms with virtual event services to maximize our clients engagement with their global audience.
Edward Lerner
CEO of Hearo.Live – Multiplayer TV
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About Hearo.Live – Multiplayer TV: Hearo is Multiplayer TV. Turn your passive stream into a buzzing, live, social event.
Talal G. Shamoon
Chief Executive Officer of Intertrust
Chief Executive Officer at Intertrust Technologies.
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About Intertrust, Intertrust: Intertrust is a software company providing trusted computing products and services to leading global corporations
Kenn Henman
CEO and Co-Founder of HaulerDeals
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About HaulerDeals: HaulerDeals, an e-commerce website, sells products shown on YouTube, Pinterest and other fashion and beauty channels at discounted prices.
Jes Bickhart
Founder and CEO of Minnow
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About Minnow: Minnow is a single-source approach to streaming built to help consumers discover the best content across all their subscriptions.
Young Joon Cha
Chief Executive Officer of ODK Media
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About ODK Media: ODK Media operates a social TV platform that provides Korean TV shows to users around the world.
Bradley Simpson
CEO / Creator of Vection Group, Inc.
Brad has over 20 years in the software business with 15 years at Braxton Technologies, a government contractor specializing in satellite command and control software and currently seven years leading Vection Group. He is a senior software engineer and a technology futurist. With many years working in the Joint Domain Command & Control space. As well, he is a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on geospatial alerting of wearable data. Brad is the author of two very significant patents: Highly Efficient and Parallel Data Transfer and Display, USPTO No: 9,665,267 and Geospatial Alerting (Push-notifications), USPTO No: 9,910,561
His proven track record of pulling together the right talent to create the right team, from software and business-minded professionals to creative and financial gurus, shines with the success he experienced at Braxton Technologies. He’s carried the same style of talent acquisition to Vection where he’s assembled a top-tier group of tech and business executives with a single goal, to make VG and their products globally recognized and successful.
His entrepreneurial vision and technical DNA have merged beautifully into SmartSync. SmartSync, a OS agnostic data ingestion hub that passively uploads from data devices, no user button-pushing! With your data being pushed to a human performance data management software.
When not tethered to his digital device, which is rare, Brad scans the consumer landscape for needed innovation that he thinks is missing on the consumer front. He is always ready to pounce on opportunities to create products and technologies to fill pressing needs. Brad attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and the University of Southern California.
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About Vection Group, Inc.: Vection Group is an ongoing cloud based streaming API software company. We provide B2B, B2C and B2M SaaS for the IoT, Smart Cities & others
Alan Cannistraro
Founder & CEO of Rheo
CEO at Rheo.
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About Rheo: Rheo is a social video platform that delivers a curated stream of topical and trending videos personalized to tastes and viewing habits.
Antonio G. Corrado
Founder & CEO of MainStreaming
“The word utopia is often used to label what we don’t want, can’t, or aren’t brave enough to do. A dream is a dream until we don’t start to work on it. Then, it can become something truly greater.” This is a quote of Adriano Olivetti – I feel like a son of his school. I met my mentor in 2002: a former senior manager of Olivetti, Eng. Giuseppe Calogero. I’m currently the CEO of MainStreaming, a Video CDN in real time, a new technology built to deliver fresh video content worldwide. Also I have founded Mainsoft Group, an ICT company where I also hold the position of CEO. I was born in 1972 and fell in love with IT at very early age, beginning – like many of my generation – to program in Basic Language with a Commodore 64. I studied computer science and began my career as a programmer in Milan, Italy. Up until the late 90s I designed and developed software and was Project Manager for major projects in the insurance and telecommunication sector. I founded Mainsoft in 2000 and launched MainStreaming in 2015 in Silicon Valley. I’m an entrepreneur and I love my Job.
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About MainStreaming: MainStreaming enables broadcasters, media and gaming companies to stream video with the best Quality of Experience to their audience.
Azer Guliev
Co-Founder, CEO of Glober Inc.
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About Glober Inc.: marketplace for live video streaming
Kyle Borg
Co-Founder / CEO & President of BiggyTV
Co-Founder / CEO & President at BiggyTV
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About BiggyTV: BiggyTV is an over-the-top Multichannel Video Programming Distributor providing personalized video discovery through linear streaming.
GREG PILCH
CEO, GENERAL DIRECTOR of OUTLYNX
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About OUTLYNX: Outlynx Media is a complete digital signage solution provider based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Marcus Filipovich
CEO of Ocular Data Systems
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About Ocular Data Systems, Pasadena Angels: The DAX™ Evidence Recorder is the successor to the Hawkeye HGN Trainer and is manufactured.
Christopher Roselli
CEO and Founder of THE.LAND
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About THE.LAND: Where influencers and brands collaborate & monetize together.
Jae Yoon Choi
Founder and CEO of KAI Media
Jae Yoon Choi is the Founder and CEO of Kai Media.
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About KAI Media: NEXT GENERATION ENTERTAINMENT FOR GLOBAL K-POP[CULTURE] FANDOMS
Tom Cotney
CEO of Imagine Communications, Inc.
Tom Cotney joined Imagine Communications as CEO in 2017.
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About Imagine Communications, Inc.: Imagine Communications provides digital video processing and edge multiplexing solutions.
Yeong Deog Jeong
CEO & Founder of KOOLi Inc.
He has been working for a major online portal business player in Korea, called Daum. What he has done for Daum was all about Video business. Daum was the first one which recognized the bright future of online video business and did quite good job and got significant presence when the beginning. He has been in the center of the business and he could be the CEO of DaumTV, first OTT service in Korea. Although DaumTV was not fully ready with OTT service experience when comparing with major IPTV service by telco companies, he made it happen successfully. It is the background he came to develop KOOLi.
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About KOOLi Inc.: Our goal is to be a heart of media services for all Asian Americans with the innovative technologies.
Kiyoung Yang
Co-CEO of KOOLi Inc.
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About KOOLi Inc.: Our goal is to be a heart of media services for all Asian Americans with the innovative technologies.
Kiyoung Yang
Co-CEO of KOOLi Inc.
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About KOOLi Inc.: Our goal is to be a heart of media services for all Asian Americans with the innovative technologies.
Emily Best
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seed&Spark
Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark. In 2011, she produced her first feature film with a remarkable group of women. The spirit, the community and the challenges of that project, Like the Water, inspired Seed&Spark. Before producing Like the Water, Emily was an actor, theater producer, and worked as a vision and values strategy consultant for Best Partners, ran restaurants, studied jazz singing at the Taller de Musics, tour guided and cooked in Barcelona, and before that, was a student of Cultural Anthropology and American Studies at Haverford College.
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About Seed&Spark: Seed&Spark is an entertainment platform for conscious consumers actively increasing diversity and representation in entertainment.
Alex Pavlenko
CEO of Zeus Group
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About American Programming Company, Zeus Group: Mobile Apps and Enterprise Solutions (Back-end, Web Services, ERP/CRM, UX/UI Design), Big Data&Machine Learining, Artificial Intelligence
Emily Ward
CEO & President of Alcacruz Inc.
CEO and board chair for AlcaCruz, a video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz’s SuperStream which live streams 360 VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming). Previously, she was Vice President & Worldwide Chief Technology Counsel at eBay and PayPal for many years. Legal tech leader for eBay’s and PayPal’s technologies, products and companies. Legal tech lead on eBay’s M&A teams that assessed and bought GSI ($2.4B), Bill Me Later ($1.2B), Braintree ($800M), and many other companies, as well as divested Skype. Split the IP portfolios for eBay and PayPal during PayPal’s spin-off from eBay. Testified on patent reform before Congressional committee. Successfully resolved bet-the-company lawsuits, including Merc Exchange v. eBay (previous unanimous US Supreme Court decision for eBay).
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About Alcacruz Inc.: The highest quality, lowest bandwidth, live multi-video streaming solutions on the market.
Neal Blaak
Founder & CEO of ZappoTV
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About InsidePoint, ZappoTV: ZappoTV is a solutions provider and mobile app developer of applications letting users stream their media content on their Screens and TVs.
Pamela Sun
Founder, President & CEO of AVANU
Pamela founded AVANU, bringing her broad management background of technical sales, channel sales, technical support, and operations management from both the private and public sector of the computer industry. She carries forth her vast experience in management along with past business development in the corporate, government, and channel sales to AVANU along with her keen sense of customer-centric providing service with honesty, high integrity and professionalism. Starting with niche Unix offerings, Pamela has made common-sense technology practices and requirements the foundation of the company. Network optimization technologies along with the evolution in the industry are the changes she seeks starting with the popular and well-established WebMux load balancing products acquisition from CAI Networks in 2012.
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About AVANU: A leading developer of high valued products for the IT infrastructure and data center environments that are cost-effective, full-featured.
Matthew McCullough
Co-Founder and CEO of Rhovit
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About Rhovit: Hybrid Cloud and Blockchain based platform for digital entertainment.
Eric Km
CEO of Streamlyzer
Eric Kim has +18 years of technology and product development experience in the digital video streaming industry. Prior to founding Streamlyzer, Eric Kim was with Netflix, where he acted as an SDK application engineer of partner engineering team. Mainly responsible for supporting partners’ Netflix application development and certification process on their devices. Lead the technical interface of LG DTV, LG BD Players projects. Involved in development of Netflix application on the CE devices and certification process Prior to Netflix, he acted as a senior software engineer of design-in team with Trident, NXP, Conexant. Responsible for supporting customer design-in with brand-new SOCs for production.
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About Streamlyzer: Streamlyzer provides most advanced analytics for streaming service
Paul Jun
Co-Founder // CEO of Filmocracy
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About Filmocracy: Filmocracy is a gamified video streaming service that incentivizes users to watch, rate, and invest in films.
John Petrocelli
Co-Founder and CEO of Bulldog Digital Media
John Petrocelli is regarded as a leader in the digital media industry with a deep and vast knowledge of the digital distribution of premium content and the digital media ecosystem. John has been instrumental in helping major media companies establish optimal strategies to both distribute and monetize their content for over 12 years. These companies and brands include: NBA, NHL, NBC/Universal, Discovery, Disney, Sony, YouTube/Google, American Express, Nokia, VEVO, MTV, 19 Entertainment, EMI, Universal Music Group, Microsoft and music icon/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Prince. John Petrocelli is currently a co-founder of Bulldog Digital Media, a strategic consulting and advisory company that specializes in digital media and premium live streaming content experiences. Bulldog Digital Media provides expertise guidance to help content owners and content service providers optimize their digital video and live streaming strategies.
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About Bulldog Digital Media: Bulldog Digital Media implements and optimizes premium digital video content experiences.
Alex Zhukov
CEO of LIVE4 GoPro
Coding since 8 Computer Vision for the past 11 years CTO at a computer vision company sold to google Founder and CTO at a machine learning for video company VideoGorillas .
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About LIVE4 GoPro: LIVE4 GoPro is an online video streaming portal & mobile app.
Michael Evingham
Chief Executive Officer of NetShow
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About NetShow: NetShow multiverse ecosystem & portal provides user with AI companionship & interaction within social metaverse & commerce omniverse Worlds.
Kyle Hendrick
CEO of Viwwr
Kyle Hendrick is a Television producer in Los Angeles. He’s also the Founder and CEO of Viwwr.
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About Viwwr: A new TV Network born and bread by the Internet.
Jaewon Kim
CEO & Co-Founder of Airbroad
Founder at Airbroad
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About Airbroad: Advanced Video Streaming Solution
Jaewon Kim
CEO & Co-Founder of Airbroad
Founder at Airbroad
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About Airbroad: Advanced Video Streaming Solution
