What Happened?
New York, NY-based Waywire has Appointed Ben Fisher as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Waywire Enterprise is the leading provider of cloud-based video curation solutions to the online publishing, brands, and ad networks. Waywire Enterprise‘s solutions enable websites to curate, upload, and aggregate content. We’re powered by the asset that your visitors value most, the knowledge and experience of your teams understanding and passion around your areas of expertise. We built Waywire Enterprise because we believe that in a world where information is growing exponentially, people are hungry for human curated content that is relevant and contextual. Today we work with many of the leading sites, brands, and communities to help them provide site visitors with highly engaging video experiences that are uniquely suited to their needs and interests. Video is mission critical for your site – but embracing a role as a content destination doesn’t mean you need to become a content creation enterprise. Turning your knowledge in to a curated video experience is quickly becoming a central content strategy, and here at Waywire Enterprise we can help you with the technology and the know how. Today, you can have your own video experience : uploading, sharing, creating playlists, making comments, reviewing, easy design templates, content controls, site analytics and robust monetization options. We think the future of video is curated, built by people like you. We’re here to help.
About the Person
Ben Fisher is a unique triple threat as a technology leader. An engineer and manager with a lifelong love of code, he began writing code at the age of 13 – working on his LC III, he worked with local universities discovering network security vulnerabilities. His leadership bridges the gap between the business and product needs and the engineering objectives at Waywire. At HowAboutWe.com he worked with a small committed band of engineers that drew wide attention for their new way to approach the dating space and Ruby on Rails challenges. In a big company environment, he did groundbreaking work for Comcast’s XfinityTV system, Xfinity Home Control, and Constant Guard product, working with government agencies on combatting cyberterrorism and piracy. At The Knot (XO Group), he worked closely with content publishers The Knot, Wedding Channel, and The Bump creating technology backbone for the women’s lifestyle brand. He also helped write a book on the financial crisis with Yves Smith, a financial pundit. Ben graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in Philosophy and Economics.
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