Steve Lerner
President & CEO
Founder
Steve has 15 years experience in media technology and operations. He is the Practice Leader at RampRate Sourcing Advisors where he handles sourcing, business planning, and operational consulting for major media, financial, and technology companies. Prior to RampRate Steve was VP of Operations and Media Technology at Speedera Networks, a profitable CDN acquired by Akamai in 2005. Steve has held a diverse set of positions at media technology companies ranging from Sonic Solutions, the original high-end platform for audio production and current leader in CD authoring, to VDOnet, the pioneer of variable bitrate streaming codecs.
Steve has an MBA from the Columbia and University of California at Berkeley dual campus program. His undergraduate BA in Economics is from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he also completed the Electronic Sound Engineering program.
Steve is the primary author of Patent 6,801,576 System For Accessing, Distributing And Maintaining Video Content Over Public And Private Internet Protocol Networks
Christopher Levy
Founder
Levy is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in the Streaming and Digital Rights Management technologies. As a high-profile DRM evangelist, Levy regularly speaks and writes about media technology and was recently nominated for the third time to be a Digital Media MVP by Microsoft with a focus on DRM. In 1994 Levy launched a WebCast services company in Austin. Texas providing on-site production and encoding technology to AudioNet and numerous content delivery networks. After selling the company to CMGI in 1999, Levy co-invented and oversaw the development of “Stream OS”, the digital media industry’s first streaming media overlay system delivering content across multiple Content Delivery Networks. Stream OS was recently purchased by Akamai for nearly $160 million. Levy currently writes about DRM @ thedrmblog.com and streamingmedia.com.
