Blackbird Hires Sumit Rai As Chief Product Officer

Blackbird plc, the technology licensor, developer and seller of the cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, today named Sumit Rai as chief product officer. he will join the company in June from VEGAS Creative Software where he holds the same role.

Rai has more than 23 years leadership experience in the video and film industry. Starting off as a visual effects and video editor in news production, children’s TV and film, he progressed to chief technology officer at Pukka Films developing an innovative, award-winning production facility before founding Kulu Valley.

Providing enterprise video distribution platforms for tier 1 organizations, Kulu Valley was acquired by Qumu Inc. in 2014 where Rai served as chief marketing officer and chief product officer.

Rai joins Blackbird to lead the strategic development and direction of the company’s product suite.

Blackbird said: “Having developed video editing and distribution platforms used by thousands of companies and millions of users, Sumit will help take Blackbird’s multi award-winning and multi-patented technology to wider markets.”

Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough, added: “I am truly delighted to welcome Sumit, who joins us with immense personal drive and energy informed by relevant industry experience in SaaS video platforms. We are bringing him into the Blackbird team to lead the strategic development of our product portfolio and help accelerate our growth. He joins the company at an exciting time when we are very well positioned to leverage our core technology into fast growing video markets.”