Overcoming the Video Storage Challenge

Name  :Maor Shirazi

Maor Shirazi join Ericsson Media Solutions back in 2016 as a member of the Technical Account managers Team, Shirazi now is the leading product manager of MediaKind’s Cloud DVR & time-shift storage and delivery solution and responsible for the strategy and technical direction of the solutions.

Shirazi has worked in the telecommunication industry for the last 15 years. His expertise covers all aspects of the video ecosystems. Shirazi is responsible for the commercial success of this solution, which involves working with the overall portfolio direction and strategy, supporting sales and pre-sales both technically and from a customer engagement perspective.

Shirazi started his telecom career at RADCO as QA & Software Engineering in Israel, where he expertized in advanced monitoring solutions for VOIP and IPTV systems. He continue to Product and Customer success roles within the RAD-Bynet group for enterprise customers.

He migrated to additional Product and Customer success roles in Glasshouse for large IT deployments in Israel.

Shirazi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and MBA.

Name  :Meir Lehrer

Meir Lehrer came to MediaKind as part of Ericsson, which he joined in 2013, and is a member of the Product Management Operations Team. Lehrer has worked in the television industry for 25 years. His expertise covers all aspects of the video ecosystem, including middleware, Cloud DVR, CAS/DRM, Content Management, VOD Origin and back-office and compression/packaging. Lehrer is responsible for Sales Enablement, bridging MediaKind’s product portfolio to their global Sales and Pre-Sales teams and providing subject matter expertise where needed.

Lehrer started his telecom career at Motorola Cellular Software Engineering in Israel, where he developed alarm controller product software. After Motorola, Lehrer joined NDS (now Synmedia) as Group Leader for its VideoGuard Conditional Access Headend product, leading all product deliverables to DIRECTV. He migrated from R&D to the business side of NDS, becoming its Vice President of U.S. Sales and Global Partnerships in 2004. In this capacity he also served as a technology adviser to News Corporation broadcasters, and was a member of the News Corporation Vendor Diversity Board.

Lehrer later joined an AT&T joint venture, AT&T CruiseCast, as Vice President of Business Development for the national deployment of their new satellite television service to the U.S. automotive market. Prior to joining Ericsson, Lehrer served as Vice President of International Sales for ETI Software Solutions, an OSS/BSS product company based in Atlanta, GA.

Lehrer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Philosophy from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.