Our Vision

Addressing the Needs of a Rapidly Growing Market

Wowza Media Systems Inc., based in Evergreen, Colorado USA, is the "Any Screen Done Right™" streaming media software company. The company was founded in late 2005 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good when they saw a need to provide disruptive products to fill the gaps in the media server market.

The company's industrial strength Wowza Media Server software, initially released in early 2007 to provide a lower cost alternative to Adobe Flash Media Server, experienced rapid market acceptance. With the 2009 introduction of Wowza Media Server 2, the "H.264 everywhere" server platform, Wowza took it beyond Flash by adding streaming support for Apple iOS devices (iPhone/iPad), Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, Android, Blackberry and other 3GPP smartphones and tablets, as well as IPTV/OTT set-tops and living room game consoles.

The recently launched Wowza Media Server 3 is the next generation of its award-wining software providing a single extensible foundation and value-added components for "Any Screen Done Right" media delivery. Wowza Media Server 3 makes hard to implement features such as adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, time-shifted playback, and digital rights protection simple and cost-effective. Now content publishers, service providers, and other organizations of any size can profit from these high-value features while offering their viewers the best possible experience when and where they want it.

Today the company's high performance Wowza Media Server software is used by over 100,000 licensees in more than 150 countries. Customers include service providers, radio and TV broadcasters, media properties, enterprises, educational institutions, OEMs, government and other organizations serious about delivering video to any digital screen — computer, mobile phone, and home TV.

Any-screen delivery has become the most important industry trend, ranked significantly higher than any other, according to the Devoncroft Partners 2011 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS). According to the 2011 Cisco Visual Networking Index, video on the Internet is exploding. Video will account for 62% of all Internet traffic by 2015, up from 42% today. 66% of all Internet video will be mobile by 2015, and Internet video to TVs will grow 17-fold in the same timeframe.

While the industry continues to produce a multitude of competing technologies and devices, what consumers really care about is "their-screen availability". The flexibility to accommodate consumer needs, rather than force a consumer's technology preference will become paramount to the content industry. This necessitates the need to rebuild the media delivery infrastructure in a way that provides operational efficiency while enabling cost-effective and more advanced solutions. By doing this content owners and service providers are allowed greater opportunity to monetize their content, while consumers benefit from a broader spectrum of choices. Wowza is solving these challenges with its unified media delivery software capable of serving video to any platform and any screen.

Management Team

• David Stubenvoll

  Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder

  A co-founder of Wowza Media Systems, Inc., Stubenvoll has over 23 years of experience in enterprise and consumer products and services. Prior to Wowza, the fifth new business he developed, Stubenvoll served as an Entrepreneur in Residence/Senior Director at Adobe Systems, as well as managing mergers and acquisitions. Stubenvoll has also held senior management positions at Intuit, served as President of GALT Technologies (an Intuit subsidiary) and was a co-founder/CEO of Freeworks. Stubenvoll, who holds two patents, earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, his JD from Boston College and an MBA from the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

• Charlie Good

  Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

  A co-founder of Wowza Media Systems, Inc., Good is an accomplished software architect with over 25 years of experience in product conceptualization, design and implementation in educational software, consumer and business imaging and graphics, and computer-aided design. During his career, Good successfully architected and built products for Digital Equipment Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Claris and Adobe Systems, as well as several small start-ups. Prior to co-founding Wowza Media Systems, Good was Director of Engineering at Adobe. He holds a BSEE from University of Cincinnati.

• Alex Dobrushin

  Chief Marketing Officer

  With over 25 years in marketing, Dobrushin brings a wealth of experience in creating winning marketing strategies and generating positive awareness in highly competitive technology markets. In addition to leading marketing organizations for established companies, Dobrushin is a veteran of several successful start-ups. Prior to Wowza, Dobrushin served as Vice President of Marketing with Amber Networks (acquired by Nokia), Atmosphere Networks (acquired by Ditech Communications), and ADC Kentrox. He also held senior marketing, product management and operational roles with Larscom Corporation, Digital Link and DSC. Dobrushin holds a BSBA in Finance and International Marketing from Institute of Economics and Finance, St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Chris Knowlton

  Vice President of Product Management

  A recognized streaming media authority, Knowlton spent many years at Microsoft planning and executing the company’s media server product roadmaps, and founded the IIS Media team that is best known for productizing IIS Smooth Streaming. Knowlton also led partner and cross-divisional efforts to build a broader Microsoft Media Platform ecosystem. In recognition of his customer passion and contributions to advancing the streaming media industry, Knowlton was named a "2011 Streaming Media All-Star" by Streaming Media Magazine. Before joining Microsoft in 2002, Knowlton held management and software engineering roles at NetApp and several Tier 1 U.S. automotive suppliers. Knowlton holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and was a Rockwell International Scholar at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany.