Key People
MediaCore was founded by Stuart Bowness and Damien Tanner, along with a team of engineers
and designers who are committed to making MediaCore the best way to build powerful
video-driven experiences.
- Stuart Bowness — Co-Founder, CEO
- Stuart's first company was Simple Station, which has become an industry leading UX design firm. He believes in a design-driven approach to product development and is a keen advocate of open source technologies and emerging web standards such as HTML5 video.
- Damien Tanner — Co-Founder
- Damien is devoted to advancing web technology. His beginnings as a developer evolved into a deep passion for growing businesses in emerging fields, which has led him to focus on infrastructure as a service in areas including video and real-time messaging.
- Nathan Wright — Chief Technology Officer
- Born and raised in the world of Python, Nathan has spent the past number of years contributing to a variety open-source projects and immersing himself in the world of cloud computing.
- Vivien Schilis — Chief Encoding Officer
- Coming from a low-level programming background, Vivien decided a few years ago it was time to stop writing malloc and start writing code. When he is not getting the most out of ffmpeg's power, he spends his time dancing Salsa and traveling around the world.
- Alex Ristevski — Art Director
- Alex tweaks pixels to perfection. As a videographer and visual designer,
he leads our interface design team, where his talent and passion for
hyper-usable interfaces and video are combined.
Advisors
MediaCore maintains a list of advisors who help guide product direction and design.
- Andrew Wilkinson — Founder and CEO of MetaLab
- Andrew founded MetaLab, a interface design agency that has worked
with everyone from fledgling startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Apple and Google. MetaLab has built two successful web apps: Ballpark, an online invoicing app and Flow, a task and project management tool.
- Jesse Ma — Gawker Media
- Originally from San Francisco, Jesse is currently in New York, working on the Legal Team at Gawker Media. He is an avid technologist, angel investor, foodie, and a proponent of design-driven web products.
- Max Williams — CEO, Co-Founder of Pusher
- Max's background is in managing Pusher, a company dedicated to realtime messaging, which he has built alongside Damien. His core strength is in identifying groundbreaking technologies and building product-focused companies around them.