Synamedia has appointed Julien Signes senior VP and general manager of its Video Processing business unit.
One of the industry’s foremost experts on video processing, Signes founded the video compression specialist Envivio in 2000 and as CEO led the company through private equity financing and a NASDAQ IPO. Ericsson acquired the business in 2015. Since 2017, he has been advising emerging video technology businesses on strategy, investment, and helping them scale to global markets. He has also provided advice to Atlantic Bridge, a global venture capital firm and one of the early shareholders in Envivio. Prior to Envivio, Signes worked at France Telecom (now Orange), leading a team that worked on the development of MPEG-4.
Commenting on his appointment at Synamedia, Signes said: “As video consumes an increasing volume of the global IP traffic, successfully monetising the opportunities around 4K and 8K requires a flexible video processing infrastructure that can scale cost effectively. Synamedia meets this demand thanks to its impressive portfolio of video processing solutions with market-leading encoding and transcoding technologies including those originally developed at Cisco, Scientific Atlanta and NDS as well as the cloud expertise developed at Cisco”.
Yves Padrines, CEO of Synamedia, added: “Julien is one of only a handful of people to combine technical prowess in video processing with acute business acumen. At Envivio, Julien spearheaded the evolution of video processing from a hardware focus to the softwareand cloud-based video businesses emerging today. His deep understanding of cloud architectures for video processing will ensure Synamedia customers have access to the most advanced techniques for fast, efficient delivery of both OTT and live TV to their subscribers.”
