Tech Industry Veteran Thomas Nielsen Joins Brightcove as SVP of Products
June 25 2013 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of
cloud content services, today announced that Thomas Nielsen has
joined the Brightcove executive team as the senior vice president
of products, reporting directly to Brightcove CEO David Mendels. In
this role, Nielsen will be responsible for driving all of
Brightcove’s product strategy, delivery and future innovations.
Thomas will also lead Brightcove’s world-class product development,
product management and engineering teams.
“I am extremely excited to welcome Thomas Nielsen to
Brightcove,” said Mendels. “There is nothing more core to our
business than building and delivering best-in-class, innovative
products and services that address our customers’ needs. I am
confident that Thomas is the right person to drive our product
execution and roadmap both now and in the future as we continue to
scale our organization and enable our customers to reach their
audiences on every screen through online video solutions.”
Nielsen joins Brightcove with more than two decades of
technology leadership experience in the digital media industry.
Most recently, he was the president and CEO of RealNetworks
(NASDAQ: RNWK). Nielsen also previously served as the vice
president of the Digital Imaging Group at Adobe Systems. In that
role, he led one of Adobe’s largest business units comprised of
Photoshop, Lightroom and Elements as well as Adobe’s mobile, Web
and tablet solutions in the digital imaging space. Earlier in his
career, Nielsen held senior product management and research and
development roles at Adobe Systems, Microsoft and MGI Software. He
is currently a member of the board of directors for Corel Software
and an advisor to several early-stage technology companies.
“I have long followed and admired Brightcove and its leadership
position in the fast-growing and ever-changing online video
platform market,” said Nielsen. “To join Brightcove now, at this
energizing stage of technology development and innovation, is very
exciting. I look forward to helping the company scale as it
continues to expand its leadership in online video delivery and
management.”
About Brightcove
Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of
cloud content services, offers a family of products used to publish
and distribute the world’s professional digital media. The
company’s products include Video Cloud, the market-leading online
video platform and Zencoder, a leading cloud-based media processing
service and HTML5 video player technology provider. Brightcove has
more than 6,350 customers in over 60 countries that rely on
Brightcove cloud content services to build and operate media
experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. For
more information, visit http://www.brightcove.com.
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