Chuck Parker Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

At Sohonet, we adopted our shared vision to "revolutionize the way Storytellers create content by making collaboration seamless and more secure" in 2017. That starts with production support (phones, internet, wifi) at hundreds of production locations around the world, connecting those productions to their post and VFX partners thru the Sohonet Media Network, and connecting the creatives with each other through innovative products like the Emmy Award winning ClearView Flex and ClearView Pivot.

London, Gb

Sohonet is the Media and Entertainment industry's "FastLane to the Cloud", providing a core capability that allows the rapid deployment of very large video files around the globe through a private network for over 400 companies.Responsible for the day-to-day execution of the growth strategy for the company including expansion to geographies where our Media, Post Production and VFX customers are working and in new products and services our customers need to make their video workflows faster and more reliable.

London, Gb

Responsible to guide and assist the Board in making strong strategic decisions, with a viewpoint that is independent from the shareholders/investors and the Management.

Burbank, California, Us

Provide strategic input to support and serve the Hollywood Production and Post Production industries.

Chuck no longer directly participates in substantial consulting engagements, though he still advises several companies and members of the 2nd Screen Society in various capacities and guides the research efforts that contribute to the 2nd Screen Society.Currently advising a number of small companies including GrayMeta and MediaShift.Chuck has previously been a mentor at the TechStars LA / Disney innovation project.As Chairman Emeritus, 2nd Screen Society, Chuck continues to work with the Chairman and Executive Director of the 2nd Screen Society to guide the organization's strategy to help the burgeoning market segment accelerate its expansion for its members.

Working to drive industry collaboration and increase momentum for the market phenomena currently described as Second Screen, usually closely aligned with the challenges of creating a more engaging user experience in the consumer's digital living room.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for driving the revenue growth in the media customer segments (TV Broadcaster, digital pureplay video retailers, movie studios, MVPDs, etc) across our three core product/service lines: Video Cloud (player, CMS, analytics), Zencoder (cloud-based encoding service) and Once (cloud-based dynamic ad insertion).

Responsible for driving revenue growth at Unicorn Media through the marketing, sales and partnership functions. The digital video industry is about to experience hyper growth in the ad-supported segment as technology readiness for creating a "TV-like" video viewing experiences reaches a market that is inundated with a massive proliferation of smart phones and tablets. TV executives in every segment are looking for a way to increase their CPMs to offset the steady decline in analog TV ratings and to combat disruptives industry approaches from companies like Aereo, while at the same time trying to monetize the market phenomena that is "2nd Screen". Unicorn Media has the technology to enable multi-screen and connected device video ad insertion which significantly improves existing video ad completion rates and creates new ad inventory potential for publishers, brands and ad networks.Successful exit via acquisition by Brightcove in January, 2014.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for the company's $4B global sales function and driving profitable growth across all divisions and geographies, reporting directly to the CEO and a member of the company’s executive committee. Engaged customers across 3 primary industry segments: Studios, TV Broadcasters, and Network Service Providers (Digital Retailers , Telcos, Cable MSOs, Satellite TV). Created a global sales function to drive revenue growth whilst at the same time building a world class sales culture and platform powered by process and capability improvements. Key customers include Disney, Paramount, NBCU, Warner Brothers, DirecTV, Comcast, Verizon, America Movil, Sky Brazil, Liberty Global, Telefonica, Telstra, Village Roadshow and Telecom Italia to name a few.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for a $250m division that offered custom and bundled content management services in a secure digital environment. Over 1800 employees worldwide including offices in the US, Europe & Asia. Delivered broadcast services for 320+ TV channels, digital media services (video encoding, disc compression and authoring) for many major content creators/distributors and digital distribution services. Customers included Disney, NBCU, Paramount, ITV, and LoveFilm (now Amazon).Developed some amazing new product/service innovations during the period including 3D C&A for Blu-ray, MediAffinity (B2B digital encoding and distribution platform), MediaEcho (synchronized 2nd screen metadata application for Blu-ray and VOD) and MediaNavi--a Simple, Seamless, and Social 2nd Screen television experience that integrates live TV with the rest of your digital world. The last 3 debuted at CES 2011.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for managing all aspects of a $750M business for manufacturing and distributing over 600m DVD’s, and CD’s for 5 major Hollywood studios in Europe and Asia. Responsible for 3000 employees with 3 manufacturing locations and 6 distribution centers. Responsible for creating and launching a digital service to facilitate consumer downloading of digital content across our customer base globally. Customers include Disney, Universal, Paramount, DreamWorks, Warner and Microsoft.

Los Angeles, Us

Managing Director (MD) of a business unit designed to manufacture and distirbute DVD's and CD's in Europe and Austral-Asia. Responisble for 500m in revenue, 3000 employees, 3 factories in Europe, 2 factories in Australia, and 6 distribution centers in Europe.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for managing all aspects of a $450M business for manufacturing and distributing over 450m DVD’s, CD’s, and VHS tapes for 5 major Hollywood studios in Europe. Responsible for 3000 employees with 6 manufacturing locations and 3 distribution centers in 8 countries in Europe. Customers included Disney, Universal, Paramount, DreamWorks, MGM, and Microsoft.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for managing a global 300-person team and $73M annual budget charged with supporting all IT activities for Technicolor (then a newly acquired Thomson company) and a newly formed media division within Thomson totaling $3.6B in revenue.

Responsible for global IT support to marketing and sales organizations across Thomson to include all web site activity, all CRM, and all sales support systems.

Responsible for creating and deploying a 40 person team to launch Thomson's web platform to include www.RCA.com and several B2B ebusiness platforms with an objective to launch first major commerce website within 6 months. Responsible for an annual budget of $10m, developing an intergrated global web and Intranet strategy, documenting a web development methodology, and integrating legacy ERP systems into the B2B commerce environment.

Responsible for managing a team of 7 IT analysts charged for developing systems that support the security posture of the company to include firewalls, antivirus, and encryption technologies.

Responsible for implementing and maintaining messaging support systems for North American operations of a $10B consumer electronics company.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Tour of duty in Mainz, Germany, as part of the 1st Armored Division plus a rotation in Saudi Arabia in 1993 and in Bosnia in 1995-96.

Mba, Executive Management

Bs, Computer Science