John Bishop
About John Bishop
With almost 20 years of experience in the digital media domain I am proud to say I am truly one of the early pioneers of streaming media and an industry expert. My extensive media experiences and successes include identifying new market opportunities, establishing business, market and product vision and strategies, creating architectures and delivering innovative market driven solutions and business models related to content creation, aggregation, encoding, transcoding, content security, packaging, distribution, advertising and reporting. These experiences coupled with my passion for building high velocity successful market driven companies that are able grow from relevant to dominant has positioned me as a proven successful executive in digital media. I have led two companies: Osprey Technologies and Inlet Technologies, from early stage to successful, profitable, market leading businesses with steep growth curves. Most recently I led Inlet Technologies through a successful acquisition by Cisco Systems in March 2011. My extensive product management, business development, and product and corporate strategy experiences gained while working for IBM, Osprey, and Inlet Technologies have blended with my engineering background allowing me to solve problems while maintaining balance against business, revenue and time to market needs. I have deep expertise with direct technical experiences in content acquisition, capture, encoding, archival, transcoding, digital rights management, ad insertion, web streaming, as well as distribution over IP networks. Business experiences and expertise includes: organizational structure, process development and implementation that promotes rapid innovation, unique differentiation and the ability to scale, venture capital fund raising, corporate leadership and vision. Specialties: Digital media business models, technical architecture, content creation, media preparation, workflow creation and optimization, content acquisition, archiving, encoding, transcoding, web casting, DRM, packaging, publishing, ad insertion, new media distribution, user experience, reporting and analytics. Organization structure, product and corporate vision, productization process, market branding and identity, partner management, fund raising, team leadership and outstanding communicator.