2025 Devoncroft Executive Summit | Las Vegas
Saturday | April 5, 2025
12PM – 6PM | NAB Main State
Las Vegas Convention Center
Announced Speakers Include:
Initial speakers listed below. Please check back for updates.
Loic Barbou
Head of Technology
Loic Barbou serves as the Head of Technology at Bloomberg Media, where he is widely recognized as an innovative leader and influential pioneer within the media technology industry. His visionary approach has consistently driven the development of groundbreaking industry standards and transformative concepts, significantly enhancing media production efficiency and expanding distribution capabilities.
Previously, as the Founder and Principal of the Triskel organization, Loic successfully built and led a premier consulting group, assembling top-tier industry experts specialized in media technology solutions. With a deep commitment to technological excellence, he has played a pivotal role in mentoring teams and implementing best-in-class systems across various high-profile organizations.
Loic’s comprehensive expertise encompasses artificial intelligence, system architecture, and advanced software design and implementation, reinforcing his reputation as a strategic technologist and thought leader committed to pushing the boundaries of digital media innovation.
Raymundo Barros
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO at Globo, Raymundo Barros is responsible for overseeing engineering and technology operations.
He led and spearheaded major initiatives such as the transition to digital TV and the creation and distribution of 4K, 4K HDR and 8K content.
Before assuming his role as CTO, Barros worked as Engineering Manager at an affiliate, Director of Engineering at Globo Sao Paulo, and Director of Engineering for Entertainment, where he led projects for telenovelas, series and variety shows.
Simon Crownshaw
Worldwide Lead for Media & Entertainment
With nearly two decades of experience across the digital media landscape, Simon has a comprehensive background in production, postproduction, and the entire media supply chain. Prior to joining Microsoft, he led technical solutions and strategy at several studios and broadcasters.
Simon Crownshaw has held the position of Worldwide Media and Entertainment Director at Microsoft for the last four years. In this capacity, he provides leadership, guidance, and strategy to teams involved in studios, broadcasting, sports, experiences and live events, as well as the solutions that support these areas. His role encompasses assisting numerous global clients in leveraging Microsoft’s capabilities to enhance media workflows, with a particular focus on media cloud adoption and the integration of critical data and AI technologies poised to transform content creation and delivery in the future.
Wellford Dillard
Chief Executive Officer
Wellford Dillard is the CEO of Avid Technology. Avid is a leader in media technology and is proud to provide the tools and technology that empower and enable greater creators.
Dillard was previously the CEO of Marigold, a provider of omni-channel marketing solutions used by businesses to deepen customer engagement.
Dillard has more than 20 years of C-level experience in the software industry and has also worked in management consulting, investment banking and equity research.
He lives in Music City (Nashville, Tenn.) with his wife, three kids and their two dogs.
Barbara Ford Grant
Media Advisor, Consultant, and Board Member
Barbara Ford Grant is a pioneering VFX and creative technology executive with decades of experience driving innovation in production and entertainment, with expertise spanning live action, immersive, virtual production, digital humans, and emerging AI technologies.
She is known for leading award-winning teams and delivering groundbreaking production technologies and visual effects for major franchises including Game of Thrones, Alice in Wonderland, and Shrek.
Barbara has developed Academy Award-winning technologies and established industry standards in color management and virtual production workflows, and has demonstrated success in scaling operations, managing $300M+ P&L, and driving innovation across global entertainment enterprises.
She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Visual Effects Society and the VES Tech Committee, Chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee from 2018-2024.
Anil Jain
Global Managing Director – Strategic Consumer Industries
Anil Jain is the Global Managing Director for the Strategic Consumer Industries at Google Cloud, with responsibilities spanning Media, Gaming, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods industries. A veteran of the technology industry, Jain is focused on helping organizations digitally transform the way they run their businesses through the application of AI, data and cloud-based innovation to deliver new consumer experiences.
Before joining Google, Jain was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Brightcove’s global media business, where he oversaw the end-to-end business, spanning product strategy, solutions development, marketing, partnerships and sales. He has worked with startups and enterprises in over 75 countries. Prior to Brightcove, Anil was the Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Unicorn Media, an innovative dynamic advertising and streaming technology startup. In this role, he negotiated key customer deals, established winning technology partnerships, raised capital and eventually architected the sale of the company to Brightcove in 2014.
Anil holds an M.S. Technology & Policy and an M.S. Materials Science & Engineering from M.I.T., and a B.S. Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University.
Daniel Lawson
SVP, Global Solutions
Daniel Lawson is the Senior Vice President of Global Solutions in the Verizon Business Group (VBG). In this role, he is responsible for leading the primary technology practice areas and GTM motions that make up the VBG portfolio. This includes Cybersecurity, Connected Experiences, and High Density Networking as well as Complex Deal Executives, Global Technology Partners, Pre-Sales Solution Architects, and Engineers to drive revenue & enable growth across Global Enterprise & Public Sector through opportunity ownership, solution design and thought leadership. Global Solutions serves as the voice of the market, the customer and the field back into the Verizon ecosystem.
In his previous role as Vice President of Solutions Architecture, Daniel drove results, customer relationships, and thought leadership within Verizon’s US-based Enterprise and Public Sector segments by leading a unified team of engineers and architects working across the VBG portfolio to deliver technology-enabled outcomes that were critical to our customers’ organizational objectives. During earlier leadership roles over 20+ years with Verizon, Daniel has led the Signature client segment SA’s; run the Network, Applications, and Innovation team; supported private and public sector customers; the financial, manufacturing, and healthcare industries; and many internal initiatives. He has extensive background in business strategy; finance & accounting; strategic sourcing; enterprise networking; mobility; IoT; cloud; outsourcing and managed services; optical transport; unified communications and collaboration; contact center; and security technologies.
Daniel is an active supporter of local Dallas charities benefitting the American Heart Association and Alzheimer’s research. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from Southern Methodist University.
François Legrand
Senior Director, Engineering
François Legrand has been with CBC/Radio-Canada since 2004. He joined the Corporation as a designer of broadcast systems and became an electronic engineer in 2005. In this role, he has been involved in a wide range of projects and has had a variety of different responsibilities, such as the design of digital, television and radio systems, the preparation of plans and specifications as well as the financial management and supervision of large-scale projects.
From 2011 to 2016, he has held several management positions such as Operations Manager, Regions of Quebec, where he coordinated the technological development of Quebec’s regional stations and Senior Project Manager within the Transformation Unit of CBC/Radio-Canada’s French Services where he played a major role in the transition of all national news shows to automated production.
Since 2015, François has been Senior Director of Media Engineering where he manages the team of experts responsible for implementing projects related to CBC/Radio-Canada core and transmission infrastructure, including the “Nouvelle Maison de Radio-Canada” a state of the art, all ST2110 large scale broadcast facility that will go on-air in 2020.
François is frequently invited to present the initiatives and the technological vision of CBC/Radio-Canada at local, national and international conferences.
Igor Macaúbas
Director of Digital Products, Product & Engineering
Igor leads the engineering, maintenance, and evolution of Globo’s digital product portfolio, which includes major streaming platforms such as Globoplay and Premiere, as well as Brazil’s leading news and entertainment portals like the globo.com homepage, G1, GloboEsporte, and Gshow. Over the past years, he has led major digital deliveries at Globo, including the Olympics, FIFA World Cups, national elections, and Big Brother Brasil—projects that have made Globo internationally recognized for its technical excellence and record-breaking digital audiences.
Brinton Miller
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Media, Technology, and Operations
As Executive Vice President, Media Technology & Operations, Brinton Miller is responsible for WBD’s global media engineering and operations functions supporting Live Production, Post Production, Broadcast, Distribution and Content Publishing. Miller works closely with WBD’s News, Sports, Network, Studios and Digital leadership teams to develop WBD’s strategic technology plans, investments, and implementations.
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premiere global media and entertainment company, was founded in April 2022, when Discovery merged with WarnerMedia.
Previously, Miller was responsible for the Media Engineering and Operations teams at Discovery’s domestic production and broadcast facilities.
Miller holds a Master of Science from George Washington University’s School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Lehigh University. He is based at Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN offices in Washington DC.
Hobbies – Foodie, Robotics, Watchmaking, and I collect so many things I won’t try to list them all. In addition, I’m heavily involved in a non-profit I co-founded called the David’s Harp Foundation.
Gwen Miller
Senior Director of Creator Growth
Gwen Miller is the Senior Director of Creator Growth at Mythical Entertainment, the company founded by Rhett & Link. In this role, she focuses on audience and business growth for creators in whom Mythical Ventures has invested capital. Previously, Gwen was Sr. Director, YouTube Strategy at Hearst, working on such storied brands as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, and Men’s Health and VP, Content at Kin, a digital women’s lifestyle company, where she brought recognizable talent such as Tia Mowry, Adrienne Houghton and Tori Spelling to the digital screen. Other past roles include Endemol Shine and Discovery, among a variety of other entertainment companies. In her free time, Gwen is a jigsaw puzzler, a mediocre D&D player, and recently picked up Pickleball.
Stephanie Mitchko
EVP, Global Media Operations & Technology
Stephanie Mitchko is Executive Vice President, Global Media Operations & Technology of AMC Networks.
In her role, Mitchko is responsible for overseeing the company’s global technology and operations across all business units, including leading information technology, media and broadcast operations and content delivery, cybersecurity, supply chain technologies and products and streaming product operations and customer service.
An industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, Mitchko has a proven track record of successfully driving data driven operations and business results and industry-leading evolutionary products across the cable, entertainment and advanced advertising industry. Prior to joining AMC Networks, Mitchko was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Charter Communications and Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer of CadentTV. Earlier in her career, Mitchko held a number of roles throughout Cablevision, including Senior Vice President of Video Infrastructure Software, overseeing the critical functions of technical product definition, engineering development and architecture around the backend platform for converged consumer media navigation and consumption experience.
A recipient of several industry honors, Mitchko received an Emmy award for Best Interactive Television Platform for Cablevision’s iO Interactive Television ,a Technical Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Creation of Non-Traditional Programs or Platforms for Cablevision’s iO Interactive Optimum Digital Cable as well as Emmy for Pioneering work in Implementation & Deployment of Network DVR Mitchko has also been named a Multichannel News Wonder Woman and one of Cablefax Magazine’s Most Powerful Women.
Mitchko holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from NYU-Poly in New York and Certificate from the SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership Program at Dartmouth. She teaches as a guest lecturer at NYU/Stern Graduate School and is a member of the NYU Poly Enterprise Learning Board.
Rohit Nagarajan
Chief Executive Officer
Rohit Nagarajan is a seasoned leader with over two decades of experience in the technology industry. As the CEO of Vizrt, his focus is on accelerating growth, further scaling Vizrt, enhancing customer offerings, and driving international expansion.
Rohit has a proven track record of translating product innovation into positive business outcomes for customers and holds deep expertise across sales, marketing, and product management. He also has a strong ability to build culture and vision within an organization
Vince Pizzica
Industry Advisor and Investor
Vince has a distinguished track record in the businesses around Media and Entertainment technology, most notably at Technicolor. Amongst many roles at Technicolor, he led the company through a difficult restructuring in 2008-2011 as the head of Corporate Development and Strategy. As CTO of Technicolor, he led research and product innovation, generating substantial revenue for the company. His successes include collaborations around patent portfolio acquisition by Interdigital (from Technicolor) and the licensing of high dynamic range (HDR) technologies to various consumer electronics companies in a separate venture. Along the way he led P&L for businesses in IP licensing and media delivery. His teams have undertaken over 30 M&A transactions including setting up a Corporate VC in the Bay Area.
Prior to Technicolor, Vince held senior executive positions at Alcatel and Telstra.
Currently, Vince runs an advisory business, assisting startups and established businesses with operational and investment strategies.
Santiago Solanas
Chief Executive Officer
Santiago Solanas, CEO of Dalet, brings extensive leadership experience from top tech firms like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, and Cisco. Passionate about transforming businesses through technology and teamwork, Santiago has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation.
Soumya Sriraman
Digital Commerce Executive,
Advisor, Board Director
Soumya Sriraman is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. With a proven track record of leading transformative initiatives, she has held C-suite and executive roles at industry giants including Amazon, BBC, Qurate, and Universal. Soumya’s expertise spans digital media innovation, business strategy, and global expansion, with a focus on creating scalable business models and fostering strategic partnerships that drive industry growth.
As the Founder and President of BritBox, Soumya played a key role in revolutionizing streaming platforms, and she also led Amazon’s Prime Video Channels business through pivotal strategic and feature developments. At Qurate, she created the first-ever wholly transactional CTV streaming app, utilizing identity pairing and authentication technologies. Her innovative leadership earned her recognition as one of the inaugural “Wonder Women in Streaming.”
In her previous role as Executive Vice President of Franchise and Digital Enterprises at BBC Studios, Soumya expanded the consumer-facing businesses for key BBC brands, including leading the first-ever theatrical release of a TV series, “Doctor Who 50th Anniversary.” Her career also includes senior positions at Tartan, Vivendi Universal, Warner Brothers, and Universal Studios, where she led diverse businesses and initiatives that shaped the future of digital media.
Soumya continues to advise and serve as a Board Director for multiple companies, providing guidance on fundraising, business strategy, product development, and market expansion across the media, tech, and commerce sectors.
Ben Stanbury
Vice President, AI/ML
Damien Viel
Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
As Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Damien Viel is charged with the group’s overarching marketing and digital diversification strategies, and spearheading innovation worldwide.
He joined the business in 2023, after a seven-year stint as Managing Director for Twitter in France, where he led the global brand’s local business development and operations. For two years during this tenure, he was also a strategy committee member for Idinvest/Eurazeo.
With a strong track record in the digital space, Viel spent 2011-2015 at Google, the latter part as Director, YouTube and Google Brand solutions for Southern/Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa. Prior to this, he was Deputy General Manager for M6 Publicité, the advertising arm of M6 Groupe, and was also a member of the RTL Group European Trade Executive Committee. With an illustrious career to date, he has acted as General Manager for CARAT France (an Aegis Media company), and before that, he spent seven years with L’Oreal, holding various marketing responsibilities in France and Asia, having graduated from ESSEC.
Jon Wilson
President & COO
Jon Wilson is Grass Valley’s President & COO, where he works closely with the leadership team and customers to drive operational excellence and innovation. With extensive experience in financial strategy and business scaling, Jon previously held key roles at Telestream—including CFO and later President & COO—gaining invaluable insights into operational leadership and financial management. Recognized as a high-impact leader, he has a proven track record in developing effective strategies, building high-performance teams, and fostering both internal and external relationships.
Phil Wiser
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Phil Wiser is an industry-leading technology and digital media entrepreneur and executive. He serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Paramount, leading the global technology strategy, shared services, operations and transformation of the combined company. He reports to Naveen Chopra, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Paramount.
Prior to the merger of Viacom and CBS in December 2019, Wiser was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of CBS Corporation, where he oversaw the technology strategy and development across the company’s entire business portfolio. Before joining CBS, Wiser served as Chief Technology Officer at Hearst. In this role, he managed Hearst’s technology migration to the cloud, and established a data-driven, cloud-first media environment for its digital businesses. Wiser was also the Chief Technology Officer at Sony Corporation of America and Sony Music, responsible for creating the digital businesses at Sony Music, including the forging of the groundbreaking deal to launch iTunes.
Earlier in his career, Wiser was a key pioneer in the creation of the online digital music industry and the over-the-top TV market as founder of Liquid Audio and Sezmi. Both companies were the first to create commercial Internet-based media offerings in music and television. With numerous patents issued for these efforts, he broke new ground across the areas of IP based content delivery, machine recommendation systems, video delivery over the Internet and cybersecurity.
Josh Stinehour
Principal Analyst
Josh Stinehour is a principal analyst with Devoncroft Partners, a provider of market research and strategic consulting services to a wide range of digital media clients and institutional investors. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and trade shows in the media technology sector.
Prior to joining Devoncroft, Mr. Stinehour was a managing director at Silverwood Partners in the firm’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications group. While at Silverwood, Mr. Stinehour executed a range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, valuations, and private placements.
Before joining Silverwood, Mr. Stinehour worked in various positions at EMC Corporation including as a software programmer and later as an analyst on integration teams for EMC’s acquisitions of Documentum, Legato, and VMWare.
Josh loves (and has an encyclopedic knowledge of) college football and NBA basketball (although he thinks college basketball is an inferior product). His hobbies include monetary policy, civic planning, and adventure travel.
He holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, an MS in computer science from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BS in computer science from Union College. Mr. Stinehour is a CFA charterholder.
Joe Zaller
Founder & President
Joe is the founder of Devoncroft Partners, a leading provider of market intelligence in the media technology sector.
Joe is the founder of Devoncroft Partners, a leading provider of market intelligence in the media technology sector.
Devoncroft provides market research and strategic consulting services to a wide range of clients in the media technology sector. The company publishes a variety of syndicated market research reports, including the annual Devoncroft Media Technology Survey, the largest and most comprehensive study of the professional audio and video market, and comprehensive market sizing and forecasting reports of the media technology sector.
In addition to syndicated research reports, Devoncroft is frequently retained for custom projects by some of the world’s leading brands including broadcasters and media companies. technology suppliers, large consulting firms, educational establishments, private equity firms, investment banks, and other financial institutions.
Devoncroft also produces a series of executive summits that bring together thought-leading speakers from across the media technology ecosystem. Since the initial conference in 2012, Devoncroft Executive Summits have grown to be one of the must-attend events in the media technology calendar.
Joe has a BSc in Business Administration and BA in Philosophy from Villanova University, where he developed a lifelong love of college basketball, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. He also completed various executive courses at Stanford University and the Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
Joe, his long-suffering wife, and their three daughters live in San Diego, CA.
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