Speaker
Jennifer Cooper
CEO & Founder - MIXERCAST
As Founder & CEO of Mixercast, Jennifer Cooper brings more than 20 years of successful ventures and experience in sales and business development for the technology and digital media industries. Having worked extensively with key digital media executives throughout the years, Jennifer has accumulated an extensive knowledge-base of strategic content alliances, distribution and syndication across digital channels and emerging technologies. Cooper’s combined creative and technical background provides the background that enables her to continuously deliver innovative strategies that help to drive business growth for both Mixercast and its clients.
Prior to joining Mixercast, Cooper served as Executive Director of Business Development for Yahoo! Inc., where she designed and launched Yahoo!’s first video subscription service and managed the day-to-day relationships with media giants including ABC/Disney, A&E Networks, Paramount Pictures, CBS, Time Warner/HBO and CNN. Additionally, as part of her role, Cooper was responsible for crafting and implementing broadband video content strategy, sourcing and acquisitions for co-branded portals including ATT Yahoo! DSL, Verizon Yahoo! DSL, Rogers Yahoo! and BT Yahoo!.
During her tenure at Yahoo!, Jennifer led sales and business development, identified technology partners and merger and acquisition targets for technology and digital media start-up companies. She began her career managing sales at enterprise technology companies Oracle, Madge Networks Inc., and Xerox prior to advancing into strategic business development positions at VXtreme Inc. (now the Microsoft Windows media platform) and Microsoft. As Founder and Executive Vice President of nCommand.com Inc., Jennifer served on the board of directors and was responsible for securing Series A and B venture funding totaling $13 million.
Jennifer holds a dual B.S. degree in computer science and marketing from San Francisco State University. She resides in San Mateo, CA with her husband and 2 kids.