MediaKind Strengthens Its Leadership Team

MediaKind, a global provider of media technology solutions for the video streaming, pay TV and broadcast markets, is announcing additions to its leadership team aimed at accelerating innovation and growth to reinforce its commitment to building and delivering industry-leading solutions for the media and entertainment industry.

Ashish Patel joins MediaKind after working at industry giants such as Comcast, Amazon Prime Video and Meta. His appointment, the company says, “reinforces MediaKind’s commitment to expanding monetization opportunities for TV platforms seeking technology, platform architecture, and business model innovation. Working closely with MediaKind customers, Ashish will shape and execute the long-term growth strategy for the TV platforms business by identifying new opportunities and investments.”

As vice president of ip video engineering at Comcast, Patel built high-availability video workflows, designing cloud and network infrastructure capable of delivering high-quality video at a growing scale for ever-demanding users.

As MediaKind extends its technical capabilities to support the most demanding hyperscale and latency-sensitive video applications, Patel’s work at Amazon Prime Video building deep edge caching solutions and ultra-low latency live linear video streaming solutions “will add another value layer to the company’s customers. Leading developer infrastructure engineering at Meta, Ashish focused on organizational stability, accountability, and timely solution delivery, attributes which he’ll extend to entire organization.”

Tony Goncalves is the former CEO of Otter Media and former CRO of WarnerMedia. His critical insights into the current and future states of the media and entertainment, and TV distribution markets will provide MediaKind a head start in the rapidly changing video business and technical landscape. MediaKind said Goncalves’ 25 years of experience at DirecTV, AT&T, Otter Media and WarnerMedia, “aligns directly with the markets that MediaKind serves. Tony’s expertise in streaming, advertising monetization, and revenue growth will deepen MediaKind’s strategic vision, enabling it to respond to the needs of its customers as an adviser.”

MediaKind CEO, Allen Broome, said: “As MediaKind evolves and adapts to the dynamic media landscape, these leadership additions signify the company’s dedication to our customers, the market, and product innovation. With the addition of Ashish Patel and Tony Goncalves, we are adding a wealth of experience and expertise to an already Olympic class leadership group. I am excited to see the outcomes that will result from both Ashish and Tony’s fresh perspectives, deep industry knowledge, and customer success focus. Working with the entire executive team, we are on a quest to identify opportunities, capitalize on market inflections, and deliver industry-leading solutions that empower our customers to meet their business objectives and win big.”