Leadership

Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As Chairman & CEO of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy. Prior to founding Brightcove, Jeremy worked as a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence for Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he worked on companies and investments in broadband media, mobile content, e-commerce software and digital identity. Before General Catalyst, Jeremy was Chief Technology Officer of Macromedia, where he helped define and launch the Macromedia MX platform for Rich Internet Applications, helping to evolve Macromedia Flash into a dominant platform for rich media applications on the Internet. Jeremy joined Macromedia with its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Founded in 1995, Allaire Corporation was a pioneer in using the web as an application platform, and its industry leading and award winning products power millions of websites, online services and business applications on the Internet.

Elisabeth is responsible for defining and executing Brightcove's go-to-market strategy, including working with major publishers, marketing and distribution partners. Elisabeth joins Brightcove from News Corporation's British Sky Broadcasting subsidiary in London. Over nearly a decade at News Corporation and Sky, Elisabeth held a variety of senior management roles, including directing Sky's broadband and new technologies strategy and operations, its new media division, corporate development and strategic planning roles. Elisabeth was also instrumental in the initial launch of Sky Digital, Sky's breakthrough digital satellite video distribution platform. Elisabeth also worked directly in the office of the CEO, helping to launch global joint-ventures as well as leading Sky's sports rights acquisition deals. Elisabeth was a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of Harvard University, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Columbia School of Law.

Andy's responsibilities include Brightcove's strategic relationships, corporate development, and all of Brightcove's legal matters. Andy also supports the establishment and maintenance of Brightcove's relationships with its commercial partners, publishers, and consumers. Andy joins Brightcove after 5 1/2 years at Lycos, Inc., where he was Vice President and General Counsel. While at Lycos, in addition to heading a team responsible for all of Lycos' legal affairs, Andy also played a leading role in negotiating and establishing many of Lycos' key US and international relationships, including with companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Bell Canada, AT&T, and Fox. Andy has written and lectured extensively on various ecommerce and Internet issues. Before joining Lycos, Andy was in private practice with Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, and Shearman & Sterling in New York. Before that, Andy served as law clerk for the former Chief Judge for the United States District Court for Connecticut. Andy received his JD from Cornell Law School, where he was an Editor of the Cornell Law Review, and his BA from Tufts University.

Ed is responsible for leading Brightcove's global human resources efforts and organizational effectiveness. Ed brings over 20 years experience in successfully scaling organizations combined with a proven track record of improving efficiency, productivity, and bottom line results for high growth, global entities. He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of value-added HR service delivery models that seamlessly integrate and support business strategies. Prior to Brightcove, Ed was a founding partner of MentisNetwork LLC , a strategic human resources consulting firm that focuses on building and streamlining the management, employee, and infrastructure capabilities needed to maintain and increase competitive advantage in today's evolving marketplace. Before founding MentisNetwork, he was EVP, Human Resources for Razorfish where he led the global HR function for this international, publicly traded provider of professional and technology services. With a reputation for being a collaborative and influential leader known for developing and deploying innovative programs that deliver measurable results, he helped establish the company as a leading "employer of choice" within the industry. Ed holds a BA from the College of the Holy Cross.

As President of Brightcove K.K., Hisashige "Qz" Hashimoto is leading Brightcove's operations in Japan and drive overall customer acquisition efforts targeted at Japanese media companies and marketers. Qz joined Brightcove in 2008 after two years as president and chief executive officer of Paygent, a mobile auction escrow service he launched in 2006 and grew to 2,000 customers before leaving in 2008. Prior to Paygent, Qz worked in three different senior management positions for Macromedia KK, helping lead the Education, Channel Marketing, and Platform Product Marketing divisions. Before Macromedia KK, Qz had engaged in various IT businesses from network solution for carriers to hardware distribution with lots of overseas business partners (US, Europe, Israel, Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan, India etc.) over 14 years with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. including 3 years in Mitsui France. Qz holds B.A. in law from Tokyo University.

Tareef is responsible for defining the product road map, leading the development team and launching the Brightcove service. Tareef joins Brightcove from Ruckus Network, Inc. There, he successfully led the development and launch of multiple releases of the company's on-demand college entertainment service, providing a legal alternative for students using music and video media on the Internet. Prior to Ruckus, Tareef was the Director of Commerce Development at ATG. In his seven years at ATG, he helped define and launch over six releases of the ATG Commerce product serving customers such as J.Crew, BMG Music Service, and Best Buy.

Bob co-founded Brightcove with Jeremy Allaire, and provides leadership for Brightcove's vision, design and architecture. He plays an instrumental role in working with Brightcove's customers and partners. Bob Mason joins Brightcove from Art Technology Group (ATG) where he was a founding member of the product development team, having joined in 1994 as the 10th employee. During his 10-year tenure at ATG, Bob provided technology leadership in formulating the company's growth and strategic positioning and as a Senior Software Architect was the technical leader for software architecture and development through over 6 major product release cycles, including ATG's Java-based Dynamo Application Server, Personalization, eCommerce, Portal and eService solutions. He was also the technical leader for ATG's pioneering services projects including MovieFone's initial online ticket system and Sony's online gaming and entertainment portal, The Station @ Sony. Bob holds a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Vanessa Wade joined Brightcove in 2008, bringing over 20 years of experience in leading high performance sales teams at software companies, both in the US and EMEA.

In her previous role she served as Director of Continental Europe for BorderWare, a leading email security provider and before that she was GM EMEA at Mailfrontier where she was responsible for rapid revenue growth prior to the company being acquired by Sonicwall.

Ms Wade has also held the position of VP EMEA at Oblix, an enterprise identity management company following on from working at Allaire Corp where, as a senior member of the management team, she was directly involved in bringing the company through a highly successful IPO.

Native of Poland, she is a graduate of the Institute of Economics on Swidnica.

As vice president of marketing at Brightcove, Jeff Whatcott leads all marketing activity for the company. Prior to joining Brightcove Jeff launched Acquia, a commercial open source startup, and continues as an advisor to the company. Prior to Acquia, Jeff served as vice president of marketing and business development in Adobe's enterprise business unit, responsible for the Flex and LiveCycle product lines. Prior to Adobe, Jeff held a variety of senior product leadership positions at Macromedia and Allaire.

Jeff is a proven thought leader in web platform technology strategy and a passionate advocate of the open source development model and community-centered marketing. He is a frequent public speaker and panelist on topics including open source, social publishing, and rich Internet applications.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and Master of Business Administration degree, both from Brigham Young University. Fluent in English and Japanese, Jeff has helped grow strong businesses and form successful alliances worldwide.