Burt, James

With over 20 years experience in the streaming industry, James Burt leads JWP’s broadcast product strategy, ensuring we provide innovative, scaleable and monetizable solutions for our broadcast clients. Before joining JW Player in 2021 as SVP of Broadcast Products, James was the CTO & Co-Founder of Vualto. Vualto was acquired by JWP in April 2021.

James has helped to deliver ABR Streaming with DRM for HBO Europe and architected and delivered the original encoding solution behind the BBC iPlayer Radio—the first major radio OTT service in the UK. Recently, he delivered end-to-end broadcast solutions for many of Europe's leading broadcasters including VRT, Telenor and France Televisions. 

James areas of expertise lie in overall streaming workflows, systems integrations, encoding, delivery, advertising and improve efficiencies with full-stack OTT services covering Live, VOD, DRM and Catch-up services.