Leadership

David Mendels brings nearly two decades of experience as a general manager, corporate strategist, thought leader, and deal maker focused on making the Internet easier to use for consumers and developers. Mendels is a recognized leader in the development and strategies behind rich Internet applications.

At Macromedia, Mendels served as executive vice president and general manager, leading product development, marketing, and alliances including the setup and launch of international operations in Latin America and Japan. In this role he directly managed Macromedia's flagship products, including the Flash and Flex line, Macromedia Studio and ColdFusion. Mendels joined Adobe following its acquisition of Macromedia in December 2005 and led the company's Business Productivity business unit where he was responsible for $1 billion in revenue from products including Adobe Acrobat(TM), Acrobat Connect(TM), LiveCycle and Flex.

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.

Andy joined Brightcove in 2005 as one of its founding executives. He brings over 20 years experience as an attorney and senior manager. At Brightcove, he is responsible for the Company's legal matters, governance and corporate development. Andy is also Brightcove's General Manager with executive responsibility for the Company's Japanese and Asia Pacific business units. Prior to Brightcove, Andy served as Vice President and General Counsel at Lycos Inc., where, in addition to heading a team responsible for all of Lycos' legal affairs, he also played a leading role in negotiating and establishing many of Lycos' key US and international relationships. Before joining Lycos, Andy was in private practice with Shearman & Sterling in New York and Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston. Andy also 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.

Paul Goetz is responsible for scaling the company's sales organization and driving customer acquisition activities across North America. Goetz brings more than 20 years of technology sales experience, most recently serving as senior vice president of U.S. sales and consulting at SAVVIS Corporation, where he led engagements with major consumer brands, media organizations and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Prior to SAVVIS, Goetz spent 19 years at EMC Corporation, where he served as vice president of global consulting and managed services and was responsible for worldwide advanced services sales. In this role, Goetz worked with many of EMC’s top clients, built a highly productive global sales force, and led the design of the services sales model for the company. Early in his career, Goetz quickly rose through the ranks at EMC, moving up through sales management, to leading sales for Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, and later serving as vice president for solutions and services marketing for the company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

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.

Christopher Menard joined Brightcove as chief financial officer in 2010 and brings deep expertise in the financial and operational management of dynamic growth environments. Menard came to Brightcove after more than nine years at Phase Forward, a leading provider of enterprise software and services for clinical trials and drug safety. He joined Phase Forward in 2001 as director of finance and held numerous roles, including vice president of finance, and most recently, senior vice president and chief financial officer. Menard was at the company for many of its key milestones and played an integral role in the execution and integration of six acquisitions, successful execution of the IPO and secondary stock offering, and implementation of global financial systems. He was also heavily involved in Phase Forward's acquisition by Oracle in 2010.

Menard also currently teaches mergers and acquisitions at Boston College in the Caroll School of Management. He received a master of business administration degree from Boston College and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Babson College.

Dennis Rose joined Brightcove in 2010 to lead the company's strategic investment in Asia-Pacific. He brings over 30 years of experience in IT companies including seven years experience in Latin American and the Caribbean and eleven years in Asia-Pacific.

His current responsibilities include developing the strategic go-to-market plan for the region, growing business operations in key markets, building and developing the field organization and implementing the sales, marketing and channel partnerships to achieve the business goals in this important area of investment for the company.

Dennis previously led overall business operations for Citrix Systems in the region. He is based in Singapore and holds an M.B.A. from Boston College and is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program in International Business.

Sue Thexton comes to Brightcove with more than 20 years of experience in the software and media industry. Previously, Sue served as vice president of EMEA for Datawatch Corporation, a report analytics product and services provider, where she was focused on enterprise sales development. She also served as managing director of ITN Source, a provider of professional video content through its online archive portal. Before this, Sue worked at Macromedia for ten years, first as general manager for Northern Europe then as EMEA vice president. Sue also established Adobe’s Northern Europe presence in 1989 and has worked as a media and technology consultant for clients including Skillset, Red Bee Media and the BBC. She has held several non-executive positions, including being a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Council, a Trustee of Futurelab and a visiting professor at Middlesex University in London.

As Brightcove's chief marketing officer, Jeff Whatcott leads worldwide marketing activity for the company. Jeff has previously served in senior leadership positions at Acquia, Adobe, Macromedia, and Allaire responsible for software products and services driving hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue and serving millions of end users.

Jeff is a proven thought leader in interactive media and technology platform strategy. He is a frequent public speaker and panelist on topics including online video, mobile app platforms, media monetization, content management, open source software, and web development technology.

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 worldwide.