Eric Hoffert has more than twenty five years of experience developing digital media, mobile, and enterprise software products at Apple Inc., Spotify, AT&T Bell Labs, JW Player and new ventures. At JW Player Eric was CTO and EVP of Product leading engineering and product for the most popular video player on the web after Google and Facebook, with one billion unique video viewers. At Spotify, Eric served as Video Architect for the leading streaming music service. At Apple he managed Apple Computer's Multimedia Communications Group, where he co-founded the QuickTime software project and led development of the first real-time software video compression algorithm running on the QuickTime multimedia standard. The patented QuickTime technology he developed has been downloaded more than a billion times. While at Apple, Eric received the CEO Technical Award for the development of QuickTime software. Eric has also worked as a digital video consultant for Disney, SONY, Viacom, VICE Media, TiVo, Stanford, and Carnegie-Mellon. Prior to joining Apple, Eric was a research scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. He has published multiple papers, lectured widely around the world and holds 25 patents with 18 additional patents pending.