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.