Narayanan, Naveen

As the Head of Product Innovation and Strategy at Quickplay, Naveen spearheads the innovation agenda for product and engineering, ensuring a perfect blend of forward-looking capabilities with tactical requirements in the product roadmap. He also leverages his expertise in building strategic partnerships with amazing organizations and startups in the M&E ecosystem.

 

With a proven track record of success, Naveen has held leadership roles in high-growth AI startups and played a key role as one of the founding members of Quickplay's Product Management team. During his tenure at Quickplay, he managed a cross-functional team that helped scale the world's first cloud-based global enterprise video platform. Quickplay was later acquired by AT&T in 2016 to help accelerate its Next Generation video strategy.

 

Naveen is a seasoned expert in product strategy, roadmap, and delivery, and has been instrumental in launching various Tier 1 video services worldwide, including DirecTV Now, FoxPlay, Hooq, Telus Optik TV, and AT&T U-verse.

 

He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, India, and an MBA from Smith (Queens) School of Business, Canada.