Eric Hoffert has more than twenty five years of experience developing online video, mobile, and digital media products at Apple Inc., Spotify, AT&T Bell Labs and new ventures. At JW Player Eric was CTO and EVP of Product leading engineering and product for the most popular video player on the web after Google and Facebook, with one billion unique video viewers. At Spotify, Eric served as Video Architect playing a leadership role in foundation development of video technology. At Apple Inc. he co-founded the QuickTime software project, led development of the first real-time software video compression algorithm running on the QuickTime multimedia standard, and managed the Multimedia Communications Group. The patented QuickTime technology he developed has been downloaded more than a billion times. While at Apple, Eric received the CEO Technical Award for the development of QuickTime software. Eric has also worked as a digital video consultant for Disney, SONY, Viacom, VICE Media, TiVo, Stanford, and Carnegie-Mellon. Prior to joining Apple, Eric was a research scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. He has published multiple papers and holds 26 patents with 17 patents pending. Eric has authored and co-authored peer reviewed papers and served as Program Chair, Co-Chair and Reviewer for the ACM and the IEEE, co-authored book chapters on Scientific Visualization and Digital Video, and lectured in Japan, France, England, Australia, Finland, Germany, and the US. Eric holds a BS in computer science from New York University, a BS in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Cooper Union, and an MS degree in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Eric has been quoted in the press with work covered in the media including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, Fortune, The Financial Times, CIO, Mashable, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, and Who's Who in America (2007 Edition).

Senior Vice President Video Technology @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaMember @ From January 2010 to Present (6 years) Greater New York City AreaDigital Video Architecture Consultant @ From April 2015 to May 2015 (2 months) Greater New York City AreaDigital Video Consultant @ From April 2015 to May 2015 (2 months) Greater New York City AreaCTO and EVP Product @ From May 2014 to April 2015 (1 year) Video Architect @ From October 2011 to April 2014 (2 years 7 months) Greater New York City AreaChairman @ From March 2002 to March 2014 (12 years 1 month) CEO and Co-Founder @ From February 2002 to March 2014 (12 years 2 months) Technology Advisor @ From September 2011 to March 2012 (7 months) CTO @ From February 2009 to October 2011 (2 years 9 months) Greater New York City AreaFounder, Chairman of the Board, and CTO @ From February 1996 to February 2002 (6 years 1 month) Manager, Multimedia and Communications @ From January 1989 to February 1996 (7 years 2 months) Technical Co-Founder and Lead Software Designer @ From June 1986 to January 1989 (2 years 8 months) Research Scientist, Visual Communications @ From September 1985 to January 1989 (3 years 5 months) Software Developer @ From September 1983 to September 1984 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City Area

M.S. @ New York University / Courant Institute of the Mathematical Sciences From 1988 to 1988 B.S. @ New York University From 1980 to 1985 B.S.M.E. @ Cooper Union From 1980 to 1985 Bronx High School of Science From 1976 to 1980 Eric Hoffert is skilled in: User Experience, Enterprise Software, OOP, SaaS, Mobile Devices, Image Processing, Cloud Computing, Scalability, Digital Media, Advertising, Start-ups, System Architecture, Elevators, DRM, Software Development