Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area
● Led product management across multiple locations, including France, UK and India ● successfully launched advertising and linear rights for major sports leagues, pay-TV operators and OTA customers in the US, Europe and LATAM, driving significant revenue impact. ● Focus on strategic customers, ecosystem partners
Own and drive advertising and linear rights product management and strategy. New product addition to MediaKind portfolio (aka Prisma) from ideation to productization, covering the following key applications: ● Video inventory monetization enablement using SSAI (Server-Side Ad Insertion), HLS and DASH streaming, as well a linear ad insertion for traditional broadcast. ● Linear rights management - technology stack dealing with content substitution for use cases such as sport blackout, program substitution. Generally linked to programming constraints, contractual obligations (sport blackout) or even legal (EAS, sim-subs in Canada) ● Expertise in key standards: IAB VAST/VMAP, SCTE-130-3, CableLabs ESAM, SCTE-35, SCTE-224, campaign management, openRTB
(Ericsson acquired Envivio)
● Bid management: response, defense ● Solution sales engineering activities in EMEA covering broadcast and OTT streaming market opportunities ● In charge of the whole portfolio: IPTV (CBR streaming), satellite and terrestrial (statmux) OTT streaming (ABR encoding, HLS/DASH/HSS packaging with DRM), ad insertion (as an innovation track), nPVR/VOD workflows
● Conducted a study on Internet advertising market and synergies with video pay-TV industry (Targeted versus GRP-based ad inventory selling, ad tech ecosystem, problem of data and viewability etc.) ● Proposed product & solution strategy aligned with Envivio portfolio, defined go-to-market and partnership strategy ● Product managed our first ad insertion technology based on SSAI and handled early pre-sales activities
● Managing Envivio multiscreen video components for live and live to file applications ● Focus and expertise around solution such as nPVR, catch-up TV, time-shifted applications ● Expertise in live to file and multiscreen ad insertion workflows ● Technology partners management (CDN, CAS/DRM) ● Business: strategic accounts follow-up for advanced solutions targetting tier-1 MSOs and broadcasters
Partnerships management: ● Global SIs (System Integrators) and local resellers - Promotion of Enensys portfolio (DVB equipments, IP distribution and network probes solutions) ● Ecosystem partners
● Head-end products line management for multi-standards digital TV broadcast (DVB-T, DVB-H, DTMB) ● Positionning of Enensys as market leader for SFN broadcast (co-author of one patente around SFN broadcast optimization) - several deployments with Tier-1 broadcast operators in EMEA. ● Channels resellers management with workshops and trainings.
● Bids management (RFI / RFP) ● Advanced support (all products): modulators, MPEG2-TS tests & monitoring equipments, ASI/IP gateways. ● Management of workshops to global channels resellers - roadshows to key accounts (worldwide).