Executive Leadership
Marc DeBevoise joined Brightcove as the CEO & Board Director in March 2022 and is an accomplished leader with wide-ranging experience in the direct-to-consumer, media, streaming, and technology industries. Most recently prior to Brightcove, Marc led the global streaming, digital, and technology businesses and operations of ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) as its Chief Digital Officer and CEO & President of CBS Interactive. During Marc’s leadership tenure, the company became a major player in direct-to-consumer streaming and a leading global Internet company, primarily driven by the founding and evolution of its streaming services, including Paramount+. Earlier in his career, Marc held executive positions at Starz and NBCUniversal and started his career in the Technology, Media, & Telecommunications investment banking groups at JPMorgan and Hambrecht & Quist.
Marc currently serves on the Board of The Door, a non-profit organization supporting at-risk youth in NYC and the Advisory Board of Antenna Group, a privately-owned international media and entertainment company in Europe.
Marc received his M.B.A. with distinction in Entertainment, Media & Technology, and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and his B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Tufts University.
John Wagner is Brightcove’s Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all financial operations, planning, accounting, and investor relations. John joins Brightcove with over twenty years of leadership experience working in technology companies in operational and strategic financial roles. He has extensive experience with private and public capital raising, business acquisitions, and scaling financial operations to support business growth.
Prior to joining Brightcove, John served as chief financial officer of EverQuote, an online insurance marketplace. In addition to serving as EverQuote’s CFO until 2023 and leading through its initial public offering in 2018, John was instrumental in the initial public offerings of Carbonite, an online backup company, and Constant Contact, a software-as-a-service marketing solutions company. John has also served as chief financial officer at software companies Salesnet and NuoDB and began his career with the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.
John holds a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.B.A. from Boston University. He is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts.
David leads four core functions for Brightcove: 1) Corporate Development, including M&A and investments; 2) Enterprise partnerships, business development and incubation, including Brightcove’s Ad Monetization service and Partner Marketplace; 3) Data Science, Engineering, & Analytics; and 4) Corporate Strategy.
David joined Brightcove with two decades of experience combining executive roles at multi-billion-dollar revenue public and private equity backed companies, entrepreneurial experience founding, running, and successfully exiting his own media & technology advisory and investment firm, and serving the Fortune 100 and top tier private equity firms while at Bain & Company.
Prior to Brightcove, David served as EVP, Head of Content Strategy & Business Operations at AMC Networks, where he developed and executed the plan to accelerate AMC’s streaming business model transformation. He architected the strategy and operational roadmap to launch a suite of integrated Linear, SVOD (AMC+), and FAST/AVOD services and partnerships.
Before AMC, David served as the EVP, Corporate Strategy & Operations at WarnerMedia, and as Chief Strategy Officer of TNT & TBS. Prior to WarnerMedia, David co-founded BRAVE Ventures (acquired by Turner), a 20+ person Media/Tech/Consumer advisory and investment firm. David also held various senior roles with Univision and Bain & Company. He received his M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.A. from Tufts University.
Outside of work, David has been a supporter of MIT’s Entrepreneurship Center having helped expand the Delta v Accelerator program from Cambridge to New York and serving as a mentor/advisor to multiple companies in the program.
Kathy Klingler is Brightcove’s Chief Marketing Officer responsible for the company’s global marketing strategy, overseeing worldwide marketing, brand and creative, digital strategy, global demand generation, and corporate communications. She has deep expertise in leading and transforming high-performing global marketing organizations across multiple industries and customer segments, reinvigorating major brands with a customer-first focus, leading to profitable growth. Kathy is committed to advancing Brightcove’s mission to be the world’s most trusted streaming technology company.
Before joining Brightcove, Kathy was senior vice president and global head of marketing, communications, and customer experience for cybersecurity SaaS technology company Rapid7, driving profitable growth across commercial and enterprise businesses and raising brand relevance in a highly disruptive category. She served as Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield, a leading healthcare payor with over 3 million members, and in her role as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, she was responsible for leading Santander’s expansion and launch into the U.S. market. Additionally, Kathy has held senior leadership roles at Fidelity Investments, Kaplan Higher Education, John Hancock, and KPMG.
In 2023, Kathy was recognized by CMOConnect as a top CMO in Boston, and she previously received recognition from Bostinno for Boston’s 50 on Fire award, celebrating innovators in marketing and advertising. As an advocate for eliminating homelessness, Kathy has served on the board of Horizons for Homeless Children for over 15 years. Through her senior leadership roles, she has led impactful change across diverse and unserved communities in Boston and globally.
Scott Levine is the Chief Product Officer for Brightcove, the world’s most trusted video streaming technology company. Reporting directly to the CEO, Levine oversees all product management and the engineering organization. In his role, he is responsible for setting the product vision and redefining the product roadmap for the organization. His work at Brightcove has been critical to the success of the company’s product quality and velocity. Promoted from senior vice president and head of product, Levine works closely with the company’s various departments, including data, research, marketing, and design teams to continually innovate the platform’s product and solution offerings and contribute to go-to-market strategies and partnerships that support the company’s prospects, customers and partners.
Before Brightcove, Levine was the senior vice president of product and technology at TelevisaUnivision. He was responsible for Univision’s distribution product strategy and operations, leading the company’s OTT initiatives and DTC services. During his time there, Levine also helped relaunch Univision’s digital properties, including mobile sites and award-winning apps. Before Univision, Levine held senior-level product and digital strategy roles for leading companies, such as AOL, and co-founded carOrder.com, a successful e-commerce website allowing consumers to buy cars directly online.
Levine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree with a concentration in computer science.
Jim leads Brightcove's sales teams as our Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for developing and implementing full-funnel sales strategies and propelling multichannel demand with a focus on product-led growth. With an extensive background in media, advertising, and marketing technology sales, Jim now navigates the rapidly evolving world of enterprise sales leadership.
Throughout his career, Jim has been instrumental in defining and executing strategic initiatives that have fueled new business ventures, expanded market presence, and significantly boosted growth for organizations like Condé Nast, AOL/Verizon, Google, and Tribune Broadcasting. Prior to joining Brightcove, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Flowcode, a QR code technology and analytics platform developer.
A graduate of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Jim is the former Chairman of the Board for both the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the American Advertising Federation, where he was at the forefront of shaping the advertising landscape and driving industry-wide initiatives.
David is Brightcove's Chief Legal Officer. He manages the company's global legal affairs, as well as its governance, compliance, and privacy programs. David also handles the executive management of Brightcove’s Business Security, Procurement, Corporate IT and Facilities Operations and leads a number of important cross-company initiatives.
David joined Brightcove in 2007 as the company's Director of Business and Legal Affairs. In addition to leading our commercial legal dealings, he was also responsible for negotiating many of the company's significant business relationships. Prior to his current role, David held the title of General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer.
Before joining Brightcove, David was a partner in the Media & IP practice of Boston law firm Prince Lobel Tye LLP. Before that, he was an associate at Hill & Barlow, also located in Boston. Prior to his tenure in private practice, David was a law clerk for a federal district judge in Connecticut.
David received his JD from Northeastern University School of Law and his B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University.
Deb Richards leads Brightcove’s global services and customer success team including support, enablement, and onboarding. Richards is responsible for understanding and advocating for the needs of Brightcove global customers to ensure long-term success and retention with a focus on building and setting customer expectations for an exceptional experience.
Deb has more than 20 years of expertise in leading global customer success, retention, operations and support organizations for technology and SaaS organizations. Throughout her career, she has held global VP roles at Progress Software, Acronis, Brainshark, Tracelink and most recently Plex systems and has demonstrated success in building exceptional customer experiences.
Trisha Stiles has more than 20 years of experience leading human resources for Fortune 500 companies, including Tableau, a Salesforce Business Unit, CBS Interactive, and GE/NBC Universal, and she is a graduate of the GE Human Resource Leadership Program known for HR excellence. At Brightcove, Stiles oversees all aspects of human resource strategy, encompassing talent and performance management, spearheading diversity, equality, and inclusion initiatives, developing competitive people practices, and reinforcing the company’s strategic direction and business growth. Before Brightcove, Trisha served as vice president of employee success at Tableau, overseeing human resources strategy for Tableau’s global engineering, product and marketing teams. She managed equality, talent attraction, and organization strategy to bolster company growth and employee performance. Prior to Tableau, Stiles was the Head of HR for CBSI, where she helped build the culture across the CBS/CBSi brands and scaled the streaming business.
Stiles holds a MA from Teachers College of Columbia University in Organizational Psychology, Org. Development, Change Management, and Leadership, and a BA in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara.
Board of Directors
Diane Hessan is an award-winning entrepreneur, marketer and seasoned board director. She is currently CEO of Salient Ventures, an investment and
advisory company with a portfolio of angel investments focused on B2B software. Prior to Salient, she was a CEO for 20 years, most notably at
Communispace, a market research technology company, which she led through 14 years of exponential growth, as the company worked with hundreds
of global brands across 93 countries.
In 2021, she was elected to NACD's Directorship 100 for general excellence in the boardroom. She is the author of 2 books: Our Common
Ground (2021), and Customer-Centered Growth (1995).
In addition to her role as Chairman of the Brightcove, Diane serves on the boards of Eastern Bank, Panera Brands, Sago, DP Acquisition Corp, Tufts
University, and the National Association of Corporate Directors – New England. She received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and her B.A.
in Economics from Tufts University.
Kristin Frank is a well-respected and highly seasoned leader in the media, technology, data intelligence and streaming industries. She is the current CEO at AdPredictive, a market-leading customer intelligence software platform helping marketing and data leaders understand their customers to impact business outcomes. Before joining AdPredictive, Kristin's career spanned over 20+ years at Viacom in various capacities as a member of its executive team, serving most recently as the COO of the $1B+ division overseeing revenue, strategy, and operations for MTV. In this role, she led brand turnaround and reinvention, digital innovation and new market growth.
Ms. Frank also served as the Executive Vice President and Head of Digital for the Music and Entertainment Division, in which she developed scaled digital, product and content businesses for MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, LOGO and MTV2. Additionally, she served as the Regional Vice President of Content Distribution and Marketing, the COO of LOGO and the General Manager of MTV and VH1 Digital Media at Viacom. Kristin's career began in finance working for Heller Financial which was acquired by GE.
Gary Haroian brings significant senior executive and board director experience from more than three decades of service with a number of leading software and technology companies. Haroian has held numerous senior executive positions throughout his career, including serving as the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Bowstreet and Concord Communications and in various roles at Stratus Computer, including chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief financial officer. In addition, he previously served on the boards of directors, as the financial expert, of several technology companies, including Aspen Technology, PhaseForward and Unica.
Scott Kurnit is an investor and advisor focused on the digital ecosystem.
Kurnit founded and served as chairman and CEO of About, Inc. as it grew to a public market value of $1.7 billion and was the fifth largest of all Web properties. About invented or popularized important Internet staples such as blogging, content SEO and contextual pay-per-click advertising. He sold About US to Primedia for $724 million. About was then owned by the New York Times Company and IAC.
Kurnit has founded four companies, holds four patents, led the team that embedded the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID. He was also the youngest program director in the PBS system and served as program director for Qube, the world’s first fully interactive cable system.
He was president of Showtime Event Television when it generated the largest one night gross in the entertainment business and aired the first rock concert (broadcast in 70 countries) from the former Soviet Union.
He has been a filmmaker, TV director, station program manager, marketer, and CEO. He has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, and MCI companies.
Marc DeBevoise joined Brightcove as the CEO & Board Director in March 2022 and is an accomplished leader with wide-ranging experience in the direct-to-consumer, media, streaming, and technology industries. Most recently prior to Brightcove, Marc led the global streaming, digital, and technology businesses and operations of ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) as its Chief Digital Officer and CEO & President of CBS Interactive. During Marc’s leadership tenure, the company became a major player in direct-to-consumer streaming and a leading global Internet company, primarily driven by the founding and evolution of its streaming services, including Paramount+. Earlier in his career, Marc held executive positions at Starz and NBCUniversal and started his career in the Technology, Media, & Telecommunications investment banking groups at JPMorgan and Hambrecht & Quist.
Marc currently serves on the Board of The Door, a non-profit organization supporting at-risk youth in NYC and the Advisory Board of Antenna Group, a privately-owned international media and entertainment company in Europe.
Marc received his M.B.A. with distinction in Entertainment, Media & Technology, and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and his B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Tufts University.
Dr. Tsedal Neeley has been a professor at the Harvard Business School since 2007 and has been the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2018, and the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development since 2021. Dr.
Neeley is also the Faculty Chair for the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. She also has been the head of the required Leadership and
Organizational Behavior course in the M.B.A. program and co-chairs the executive offering, Leading Global Businesses.
Dr. Neeley has also chaired faculty recruitment. She serves on the Board of Directors of Brown Capital Management, Rakuten Group Inc., and
the Partnership Inc. Dr. Neeley is the author of several books, articles, and cases focused on the virtualization of work, globalization, and digital
transformation. She received her B.A. in Communication from Boston College, an Ed.M. in Human Development Psychology from Harvard
University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology, and Organizations.
Tom Wheeler has extensive experience in both the public and private telecommunications sector. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Tom served as the Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017, and immediately prior to this appointment served on President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Prior to his government service, Tom was Managing Director at Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage IP-based companies. Also in the private sector, he is CEO of the Shiloh Group, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. As a testament to the breadth and scope of his contributions, Tom is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame.
Tom received his B.A. from The Ohio State University, where he was a recipient of its Alumni Medal.