Mrinal Ankit to Lead 印度/亚太地区 Sales Engineering Efforts for Firstlight Media
Rapid launches by aha and PLDT/Smart driving customer interest across region
在多伦多(2022年6月8日)
在多伦多, Canada and Chennai, 印度, June 8, 2022 – Firstlight Media today announced continued expansion of its customer facing resources in 印度 and 亚太地区 to support growing market activity in the region.
Within weeks of new deployments by aha in 印度’s Tamil-language market and PLDT’s Smart Communications arm in the Philippines, Firstlight Media has hired Mrinal Ankit to lead sales engineering efforts that can expedite adoption of the company’s cloud-native platform. Ankit will work directly with Navdeep Singh Aswal, 销售主管, 印度和中东和北非, 和Jim Vinh, 销售机会, 亚太地区, to meet accelerated customer demand in the region.
Ankit has more than a dozen years of sales and solutions engineering experience in support of Tier 1 content providers, 付费电视运营商, 电信公司, 和广播公司, particularly in 印度 and throughout the 亚太地区 region. Most recently pre-sales head for Setplex, he previously helped to shape media and telecommunications providers’ OTT and IPTV fortunes in product management, product marketing or pre-sales roles with Gaian Solutions, Altran印度, 华为, 爱迪德和其他公司.
“The ability of aha and PLDT’s Smart to quickly and seamlessly achieve market success has generated high levels of customer interest in our Firstlight Media platform,巴尔宾德·奥尼尔说, 副总统, Solution Engineering for Firstlight Media. “Mrinal Ankit’s in-market presence, 技术专业知识, and product experience will be immensely valuable as we lead the industry shift to agile, 灵活的, and scalable cloud-native platforms.”
Firstlight Media’s platform is designed to build and run scalable applications in the cloud using cloud-native technologies, 包括容器, microservices, 服务网格, api, and immutable infrastructure. The OTT technology stack provides significantly better performance, a modular approach for feature expansion, continuous delivery for rapid iteration, 以及内置的可扩展性, observability and security. Forward-looking OTT providers such as aha, PLDT’s Smart, Rogers Sports & 媒体的Sportsnet, Struum, and others are using the Firstlight Media platform to deliver services with the flexibility and the agility of the cloud, while equaling or exceeding the reliability and high performance of broadcast.
关于Firstlight Media
Firstlight Media is leading cloud transformations of OTT and in-home experiences for pay-TV, 电信公司, 和MVPDs. The company’s cloud-native platform leverages a transformative Gen5 architecture for unparalleled performance in delivering premium video, handling complex use cases, and scaling to millions of viewers. Founded by a team that has built and operated dozens of Tier 1 OTT services worldwide, Firstlight Media is powering immersive sports, live experiences and personalized entertainment on any screen. The company is headquartered in Toronto and has additional locations in Los Angeles, 圣地亚哥和金奈, 印度. For more 信息, visit firstlight.ai.