Jeffrey Gilbert

About Jeffrey Gilbert

Offering unparalleled expertise in the technology and business of delivering content “from lens to screen,” I leverage 20+ years of experience designing, configuring, marketing, and selling cutting-edge solutions to deliver content via cable, IP, satellite, and OTT streaming. I am excited by the changing landscape of media content delivery. Suddenly, cable companies with billions in physical infrastructure are vulnerable to startups that neither own nor want to own physical infrastructure; and suppliers—the content owners themselves—are now their competitors. Anyone with the rights to compelling content can compete for over a billion global viewers/listeners. The one thing they all have in common? Their need for technology to put their content into the hands of consumers. That technology is my expertise. From founding digital video and IPTV startups to most recently steering sales, marketing, product, and corporate strategy, I apply my entrepreneurial experience to create, grow, and manage dynamic organizations in the OTT streaming space. I have personally generated over $150 million in services revenue and been responsible for more than $450 million in revenue generation in the last decade alone. I know how to do this and can teach your teams as well. My experience spans: Strategy consulting for startups to large global companies Streaming domain expert for private equity OTT Streaming, Live event sports, IPTV, Cable TV, Linear TV, and Broadcast TV New business and market development Sales organization and team leadership including direct selling and channel selling Technical engineering and product development strategy I drive business growth by taking a consultative approach to focus on the needs of customers, whether their challenge is content management, back office, customer management, content delivery, content licensing, commerce, analytics, user interface, ad tech or any other element of the tech stack. I partner with them to navigate industry change and align with industry direction, I lead comprehensive business strategy to develop and deliver the full-stack streaming solutions and features that meet the evolving needs of global media organizations.

Experience

1. VP, Content Delivery Services

   Harmonic

   Jan 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Strategically aligning the interests of our media processing clients and our ISP clients using innovative approaches to content delivery.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bs, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing, Strategy, Finance