Verizon hires Emmy Award winner as new chief product officer

Verizon hires Emmy Award winner as new chief product officer
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| 26 July 2018

Verizon Digital Media Services has revealed that that Fox Network Groups SVP of digital products and platforms Ariff Sidi has joined the company as chief product officer.

Verizon AriffSidi 26July2018In his previous role Sidi helped to conceptualise Fox’s aggregated TV everywhere product that combines all Fox television networks into a single user experience and he managed the engineering and product team that built Fox Broadcasting’s industry-first national primetime live streaming product

Previously, he held executive roles with The Walt Disney Company EMEA, Disney ABC Television Group and Disney Interactive Media Group. He received his Emmy Award for his engineering and product work on Disney ABC Television Group’s full episode player platform.

In his new role Sidi will oversee the division’s global product portfolio of live and VOD delivery, monitoring and content delivery network services for broadcasters and content providers. Based in Los Angeles, he will report directly to Oath’s Head of Digital Media Services, Ralf Jacob who commenting on the appointment said: “With more than 15 years of digital media, streaming and platform development experience, Ariff will provide a product vision that expands our services portfolio to anticipate and meet the digital media needs of the future. He will be an invaluable addition to our leadership team, as we continue to find innovative ways to better serve our customers.”

“With my first-hand experience as a customer, I know that Verizon Digital Media Services has the most sophisticated IP video and content delivery platform available,” Sidi added. “We are perfectly positioned to be the unequivocal best choice for OTT and other new video products. I couldn’t be happier to be part of building that story.”
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