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Yvette Kanouff
Yvette Kanouff is President of SeaChange International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC). In her roles at SeaChange, she helped guide the company into its leadership as a provider of solutions for on-demand, multi-screen and other advanced forms of digital video delivery.
Over the course of the last decade, Kanouff was responsible for the development and widespread deployment of the technological foundation for on-demand services from Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Virgin Media, Rogers Cable, Liberty Media and other media giants. In total, these SeaChange on-demand customers impact tens of millions of consumers, which each year consume billions of movies, TV programs and other content with personal convenience.
Numerous television industry organizations and journals have identified Kanouff as one of the industry’s most powerful female leaders. In 2005, she became the first female chairman of the global Society of Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). CableFAX consistently ranks her among the most powerful women in cable and in 2011 named her the industry’s Top Techie. Broadcasting & Cable magazine has also named her as one of the most influential women in the television industry. Other accolades include the Woman in Technology award from the SCTE and Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT) and the 2001 Multichannel News Wonder Woman award. In 2003, Kanouff accepted an Emmy Award on behalf of SeaChange for pioneering in video-on-demand to global success.
Prior to joining SeaChange in 1997, Kanouff worked on Time Warner Cable’s Full Service Network, the world’s first digital interactive television project, and worked as a Mathematician at Lockheed Martin designing signal processing algorithms. Widely recognized for her experience in interactive services on managed networks, Kanouff has addressed many industry groups and authored numerous related papers, including the widely cited first business model to prove the return on investment for media companies investing to build on-demand services. She holds several patents on related digital technologies.
Currently, Kanouff is an executive member of WICT, a senior member of the SCTE and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2011 Kanouff co-founded the WICT/SCTE TechConnect program to strengthen involvement in cable by women engineers and technologists. In 1995 she was named the IEEE Signal Processing Engineer of the Year for her groundbreaking work on Wavelet technology. Kanouff holds a Bachelors and a Masters of Science in mathematics, and serves on various boards and award committees including the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics award committee.