Brian Ring is President of Ring Digital llc, a digital services firm that specializes in product strategy, social marketing and business development for video & TV tech innovators. Past and present clients are listed below. He has a 15+ year track record of driving growth in the video technology market by using a mix of product development, marketing and sales skills.
At Ericsson, Brian led the business case, product strategy and partnership development activities for the launch of the WatchPoint CMS, now the clear market leader in VOD content management for operators. Subsequently he spent two years in Stockholm leading Ericsson's earliest AWS cloud MAM and OTT solution implementations for the Broadcast Managed Services team.
Brian has also hacked a modicum of success as an innovator – in 2007 he helped DIRECTV build the first (and last) video-clip trivia games on Cisco’s DVR middleware; in 2010, CEO Hans Vestberg awarded him 1st prize in Ericsson’s innovation competition for an online EPG called SocialGuide.tv; in 2013 he showcased a cloud clipping & graphics platform for monetizing live clips on Twitter.
Ring Digital llc is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves a global client base.