Christophe Jouin

Vice President Technology Partnerships & R&D @ Sony Pictures Entertainment

2023 - Current

Board Advisor

2023

Jaylo is the simplest and most secure way to authenticate luxury goods.

Board Advisor

2022

All-in-one open source data platform. Based on Jupyter Notebooks.

Head of Partner Experiences

2015 - 2023

I lead a large global team managing product enablement with over 500 partners worldwide, working to innovate on joint products and creating impactful go-to-market strategies for Streaming/Live, Payment, Cloud Games and Ad services. I drive innovation and product development with internal Netflix teams and leading technology providers in the ecosystem. Co-innovate with partners and influence partners’ roadmaps. - Grew Netflix active living room devices from 50M to 500M. - Grew Netflix member billing via partners' payment to 15% of total Netflix billing - First deployment ever on SmartTV, and at scale, of new technologies such as 4K, HDR, Voice. - Worked with industry leaders, such as ARM, Broadcom, Google, Samsung and many others, to redefine SmartTV HW and SW architecture for no-rebuffers and low latency. - Introduced new and innovative data science based, in-field monitoring systems, improving device reliability by over 25% and making Netflix the most reliable streaming app on TV. Partners advocate within Netflix. - Balanced business needs and partner capital, with investments and ROI. Scale teams globally. - Grew my team from 10 to over 120 and set up offices in Taiwan, Singapore, Amsterdam, São Paulo and the US. - Received 2022 best employee survey score across all Netflix engineering for team trust in Leadership. Build platforms, reference designs, A/V automation systems. - Enabled positive ROI for long tail partners through innovative turnkey solutions that later became a reference for Google. Deliver and integrate SDKs and API based solutions with partners. - Full lifecycle management for Device integration and Partner Payment systems integration - Over 1.5B devices enabled , over 500M monitored.

Hisense USA CTO & Hisense/Flextronics Joint Venture President

2011 - 2015

I led a strategic partnership with Roku that drove Hisense to become the #1 Chinese OEM in the US and I established key partnerships with Netflix, Amazon, YouTube. I built, from the ground up, a Joint Venture between Hisense and Flextronics to design and launch Vidaa, a new smartTV concept for the Chinese market. Vidaa quickly became the leading Smart TV UI in China and it is Hisense’s global Smart TV solution.

Vice President

2010 - 2012

Led the Flextronics incubator teams that put forward the concept for a new SmartTV platform and UI that became the base for the Joint Venture (Jamdeo) between Flextronics and Hisense.

Chief Operating Officer

2007 - 2008

I was responsible for strategy and operations for Sky MobileMedia, a startup delivering UI and middleware SW for smartphones. Sky MobileMedia was subsequently acquired by Flextronics, our key partner.

Board Advisor

2006 - 2008

Quorum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company developing and delivering integrated single-chip CMOS radio frequency transceivers. Quorum Systems was acquired by Spreadtrum communication.

General Manager 3G Wireless Business Unit

2003 - 2006

P&L, R&D and product management responsibility for 3G smartphone chipsets. Launched the first mobile application and wireless processor combined, significantly driving down the BOM cost of smartphones.

Head of Berlin R&D center

2002 - 2003

Board Member

2002 - 2003

Board Member of Condat AG supporting the acquisition by Texas Instruments. Condat was bringing to market middleware software for mobile phones.