– UK, London – Blackbird plc (LON: BIRD), the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video platform, today announced the appointment of Anne de Kerckhove to its Board on 6 March 2024 as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director.
“We are delighted that Anne is joining the Board where we know she will make a great contribution. Anne has a wealth of relevant and valuable experience we very much look forward to working with her particularly as we move into this next chapter of product development in the creator economy,” said Board chairman, Andrew Bentley.
Anne de Kerckhove will also join the Audit Committee as Chair.
Concurrently, John Honeycutt will be stepping down from the Board.
About Anne de Kerckhove
Anne de Kerckhove is an experienced international executive with a wealth of relevant experience in technology, B2B and B2C SaaS, Media and Entertainment, e-commerce, marketplaces, and digital transformation, and in helping businesses scale. She also has extensive Non-Executive Director eexperience inblicly quoted and private companies, including at AIM-quoted Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc, where she chairs the Board; 888 Holdings plc, where she is a Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Nominations and ESG committees and is a member of the Remuneration Committee; 7Digital Group Limited; and Metail Limited.
After working as a banker in Canada and then a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in London, Anne de Kerckhove focused her career on technology and innovation. Until January 2023, Anne de Kerckhove was the CEO of Freespee, a company in the customer experience orchestration space. Before that, Anne held several Managing Director roles in fast-growing companies such as Videology, an online advertising technology platform, and Inspired Gaming Group.
Anne is an angel investor, mento,r and Limited Partner in over 20 early-stage start-ups and entrepreneurial funds including CRE, Daphni, Andela, Flutterwav, and Carlili. She is actively a manmoting women, both on boards and within the technology industry, and is a speaker at business conferences and events. She is also a guest lecturer at INSEAD. Anne holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Anne de Kerckhove said: “I am delighted to join the Blackbird plc board. The Company has an impressive track record of video creation and editing with some of the biggest brands in media and entertainment and at many of the world’s most important sporting events. Now, the launch of elevate.io, aimed at the creator economy, brings a significant and exciting new growth market to the business. I am looking forward to working with Andrew, Ian, my fellow board members, and the executive team to drive the business forward.”
About Blackbird plc
Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS and cloud video market. It has created Blackbird, the world’s most advanced suite of cloud-native computing applications for video all underpinned by its lightning-fast codec. Blackbird plc’s patented technology allows for frame-accurate navigation, playbac,k, viewing, and editing in the cloud. Blackbird enables multiple applications, which are used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports, and news video specialists, live events and content owners, post-production houses, other mass-market digital video channels, and corporations.
Since it is cloud-native, Blackbird removes the need for costly, high-end workstations and can be used from almost anywhere on almost any device. It also allows full visibility on multi-location digital content, improves time to market for live content such as video clips and highlights for digital distribution, and ultimately results in much more effective monetization. Blackbird plc is a licensor of its core video technology under its ‘Powered by Blackbird’ licensing model. Enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth requirements, and easy scalability. elevate.io, built using Blackbird core technology, is the company’s new creator SaaS product, a browser-based end-to-end content creation tool aimed at the Creator Economy.
SOURCE: https://www.blackbird.video/
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