Zixi anoints Bishop to board of directors
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| 06 March 2019

Bringing over 20 years of market experience and technical expertise with him to the unmanaged and managed live online video provider, John Bishop has joined the board of directors of Zixi.

Described as one of the early pioneers of video streaming, as well as a recognised web streaming and IP network distribution technologist, Bishop currently serves as the president of Librestream where he leads the company’s product and business development strategies in the enterprise collaborative video market. Prior to joining Librestream, he was the chief technology officer for the Akamai media business, the global leader in content delivery network services. He has also served as director content provider video technologies at Cisco Systems, and as co-founder and senior vice president of products and business development at Inlet Technologies.

“Zixi has developed the most disruptive technologies to impact the media market since the transition to digital, tools that are completely relied on and trusted by the most important organisations in the industry for mission critical applications,” Bishop remarked. “The technology aligns with both traditional distribution and OTT distribution models providing efficiencies and scale to both.”

“John brings a tremendous amount of product and corporate strategy knowledge in the video market to Zixi, at a time when we are seeing exceptional growth and adoption across all of our product lines,” added Zixi executive chairman Gordon Brooks, commenting on the appointment. “We are excited to have his vision and leadership within the board, which will greatly help our team and our customers.”