Tom Carroux

Leadership experience with start-up and public technology companies, with a focus on the entertertainment and broadband industries.

• Skilled presenter (and listener) with proven ability to succssfully introduce new products to customers, from trials to commercial roll-out.
• Initiating and closing complex, multi-year strategic relationships worth millions of dollars.
• Department profit and loss responsibility, budgets, forecasts and pricing.
• Recruiting, training, managing and energizing teams.
• Penetrating lucrative international markets through strong direct sales and VAR channels.

Focus: 

Hollywood studios and other programmers, broadband operators and CDNs, packaged media and networked devices.

Recent Accomplishments:

• Developed market trials with NTL (UK) to download licensed movies and TV programs using peer to peer file sharing and servers.
• Negotiated R&D agreement with Nokia to upload videos and photos from mobile hand-sets to websites.
• Presented at the 2006 Digital Film and TV Conference (London).
• Licensed intellectual property and trademark to product manufacturers ASUS, Planex and QNAP.
• Licensed digital content security to DreamWorks for use with 'Madagascar' DVDs.
• Successfully pitched the first promotional P2P anti-piracy file, showcasing trailers and extreas for Lionsgate's 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'
• Developed the first-ever use of SafeDisc on DVD-ROMs for 'The Complete New Yorker.'

Cryptography Research, MediaMelon and Rainlake Productions                               Consultant & Advisor - Currently                                                                                        A variety of commercial initiatives for companies involved with video security, online content distribution and a CINE Eagle award winning documentary 'Crossing Arizona'.

BitTorrent, Inc. -  San Francisco, California USA                                                              Vice President, Business Development & Sales- April 2006 to October 2006                        Distribution of content over the Internet. BitTorrent files account for an estimated 40% of all Internet traffic.

Macrovision Corporation, Santa Clara, California USA                                                 Director of Sales - 1996 to March 2006                                                                          Sales of digital rights management and copy protection technology to the broadband and home video industries. Forbes 2006 Best 200 Small Companies - 8 consecutive years. Helped increase Macrovision's revenues from $17 million in 1996 to $203 million in 2005.

PanAmSat, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut & Paris, France                                                 Director of Business Development - 1990 to 1995                                                               World's first private international satellite company. Expanded from one satellite start-up into multi-billion dollar global corporation.

Columbia Busines School, MBA Finance & Marketing 1990                                         Trinity College, BS Psychology 1981

Groups and Associations                                                                                          Vice President, Broadband & Internet Security Task Force.                                            Speaker: 2006 Digital Film & TV Conference, Carmel Group Satellite Entertainment, IRMA, Kagan Video-On-Dmand Summit, SaksTel Multi-Media, Canadian MPDA conference, Arab States Broadcasting Union and ComNet.                                                                           Attendee: CES, CTAM, CTIA, DEG, Digital Hollywood, IBC, NAB, NATPE, NCTA, SBCA, SVP and VSDA.                                                                                                                 Columbia Business School Ambassador.

Interests                                                                                                                 Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.                                                                      Movies and fine wine.