Brad Wilson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Hong Kong, South-East Asia

Engaged by a successful pan-Asian Pay TV operator to lead an OTT video strategy. • Product roadmap, technology strategy, and business planning.• Design, vendor selection, and build of a multi-language Proof of Concept SVOD product.• Assisted with capital raising activities including modelling and investor presentations.• Designed organisational framework and planned for international expansion.

Sydney, Denmark, Hk, China

Start-up global film fund to invest in several complementary businesses including film financing, post-production, and digital content distribution focusing on Asian, European, and Australian film industries. Shareholders included Zentropa/TrustNordisk Denmark and Icon Productions. The ICF did not meet funding goals, so from mid-2017 Brad shifted focus to the developing post production business as an independent offshoot.• Won two grants from the European Commission to develop the strategy and build a functional Proof of Concept of a disruptive digital content marketplace, Eyelet, which continues to progress under the leadership of its founder and was recently launched at the 2019 Berlinale festival.• Jumped into the deep end of putting the ICF investment strategy and documentation together, pitching to CEOs of major Investment Banks, learning on the go from the accomplished Chairman, Steve Higgs.• In conjunction with two well-known Australian Post Production firms, developed strategy and played a key role in fundraising efforts to launch post production facilities in Asia with world class Australian skills.

Sydney, Australia

Created as a separate business unit within Foxtel. As a founding member of the group, Brad led the product & technology team welcoming the challenge of building a strategically important product and associated organisational capabilities from scratch, including business planning, board approvals, creating an organizational structure, product design and build, vendor management, and executive leadership. After two years of successful operation, Presto since merged with Foxtel Play and was rebranded Foxtel Now.

Sydney, Australia

Quickflix provides a physical DVD-by-mail service in conjunction with a streaming SVOD service. Brad consulted on their digital rollout before accepting a role as Chief Operating Officer in order to ensure the operations of the newly evolved business was setup correctly before handing the reigns back to the CTO.

Sydney, Australia

During two separate engagements between May 2011 and May 2012, Brad worked closely with the Icon team during the initial stages of developing their VOD strategy which eventually lead to the build and launch of DendyDirect in August 2014.

Sydney, Australia

Hybrid TV was the exclusive licensee of TiVo in Australia and New Zealand as well as the creators of CASPA, a significant next-generation carrier-grade Video On Demand platform aimed at integrated devices in the living room. Hybrid TV was 67% owned by the Seven Media Group, and 33% by TVNZ.• Created structure and resourced high performing team.• Strategy and development of CASPA On Demand, the first Australian VOD service delivering Hollywood content direct to television screens via the TiVo media device.• Travelled extensively (Korea, Sweden, China, Singapore, US, Hong Kong) to represent the company's product and technology arm to potential investors and business partners

Sydney, Australia

Managed Mobile TV strategy and products for Telstra Media, including the AIMIA Award winning products “BigPond TV Mobile” and “Telstra Mobile Foxtel”. Took BigPond TV from a young proof-of-concept to a fully-fledged Mobile VoD service involving business case approval, product design, development oversight, marketing, and product management

Adelaide, Sydney

Founded in June 2001 with innovation funding from the Federal Government. m.Net is now a successful commercial operation with Yahoo!7, Telstra Corporation, and Alcatel-Lucent as major shareholders.• Initially joined to assist start-up firms in the development of mobile products• Built and led a world class mobile products development team.• Represented m.Net to the Seven Network and Yahoo!7 to drive their mobile strategy and build a range of innovative mobile products and services. • Built and operated Australia’s first Premium SMS gateway with connections into all telecommunications carriers, used by Seven for all of their large scale live SMS voting campaigns.

Adelaide, Australia

Start-up multimedia software firm focused on the development and commercialisation of several innovative product concepts. • Led and established IT, team, and software development capability. • Development of miniNAV proof-of-concept, a map-based, searchable directory of businesses designed for mobile devices. Featured at the 2002 World Congress on IT in Adelaide.• Development of Metabuild3D, a proof-of-concept of an online, interactive 3D building application.

B. Comp. Sci., Computer Science, Distinction Gpa

Dean of Mathematics award for outstanding merit. Dean of Computer Science award for outstanding merit.

Mba, (Incomplete)