Airbeem builds out management team
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 20 November 2018

As it continues its bid to capitalise on the direct-to-consumer over-the-top market across Europe, OTT content distribution platform Airbeem has appointed new strategy and sales executives in the form of Steve Plunkett and Tim Clement.

Steve Plunkett arrives at Airbeem after being the CTO at Ericsson Broadcast & Media, formerly Red Bee Media, where he led the technology and data strategy, platform development, R&D, industry engagement, IPR management and innovation globally. He was said to have been ‘instrumental’ throughout the sale of Red Bee to Ericsson and integration into the wider Ericsson group, leading the development on a number of media management and delivery products and services. He now joins the OTT company’s board to advise the company on its technical growth and strategy.

Tim Clement joins Airbeem from Comcast Technology Solutions, where he was the director of customer success for international customers helping them build their OTT services. In this role he built ties with key clients across EMEA. Prior to CTS, Clement was the director of sales engineering for Ooyala where he assisted customers in building and implementing their OTT platforms using Ooyala’s infrastructure.

Commenting on the appointments, Airbeem CEO Steve Hardman (pictured) said “One of [our] key strengths is our consultative approach to working with content owners to build and monetise their OTT platform using our off-the-shelf technology. Both Steve and Tim bring real industry knowledge helping our clients plan and devise OTT services that will attract and keep audiences engaged in their service.

"Steve’s insight into future technology developments, particularly around the delivery of OTT content, will be invaluable to Airbeem. Tim has worked with hundreds of content owners building OTT services and his consultative approach will be a real asset to content owners who want to use our products.”