Founder & CEO of Akamedia, footage licensing & video distribution solutions
France
- Current
-
- Founder & CEO at Akamedia
- Past
-
- eBusiness Consultant (Self-employed)
- Publisher at Le Point
- Education
-
- Australian Graduate School of Management
- Ecole spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité
- Blaise Pascal
- Recommended
-
8 people have recommended Lionel - Connections
-
500+
connections
- Industry
- Broadcast Media
- Websites
Lionel FAUCHER’s Summary
I created Akamedia as a facilitator for the trade of video content:
- Producers can save costs in the distribution of their audiovisual production worldwide, while increasing their reach and their licensing revenues;
- Broadcasters can search, find and license on demand Premium content from a fast growing group of world class producers, while dramatically reducing their production costs by automating their rights clearing.
Lionel FAUCHER’s Specialties:
Content Distribution: Copyright Monetisation, Audiovisual Content Licensing & Delivery, Automated Rights Clearing, Premium Footage Procurement;
Media Asset Management & Video Distribution Solutions: Indexing, Sorting, Tagging;
Digital Rights Management & Security: Watermarking, Fingerprinting and Tracking.
Lionel FAUCHER’s Experience
-
Founder & CEO
Akamedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
October 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
General management and business development of the company.
Akamedia (www.akamedia.net) provides intermediation solutions for the broadcast industry. We particularly run a market place for Video News (www.newspusher.com) and a delivery solution for Music Videos (www.muzikplugger.com). -
eBusiness Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)
December 1998 — September 2002 (3 years 10 months)
Worked of different assignment within the media & Internet industries, from the creations of a business contributive magazine (online & print), a job-board, a broadcast industry portal, a content aggregator, to the European development of a clearing house for bartering...
-
Publisher
Le Point
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)
January 1993 — May 2000 (7 years 5 months)
Created and managed the special editions of the newsmagazine, one targeted the graduate students and the other one the executives (in partnership with BusinessWeek).
Implemented the first website of the magazine (a dynamic website for news in 1996!).
Lionel FAUCHER’s Education
-
Australian Graduate School of Management
MBA , Business , 1998 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- International Club, Media Club, Windsurfing Club
-
Ecole spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité
MS - Diplôme d'ingénieur , Electronics Engineering , 1988 — 1992
- Activities and Societies:
- Ski-Club, Year Book & Student Magazine
-
Blaise Pascal
Additional Information
Lionel FAUCHER’s Websites:
Lionel FAUCHER’s Interests:
Innovation, Creation, Entrepreneurship, Startup, New venture, eBusiness, Game Theory, Broadcast technologies, IPTV, Media, News, Newsroom, Newsgathering, IPNG, PING, ING, Internet News Gathering, Public Internet News Gathering, IP Newsgathering, SNG, Satellite Newsgathering, ENG, Electronic Newsgathering, Video Aggregation, Video Syndication, Video Footage, Video News, Video Archives, News Archives, NewsXchange, Magazine, Publishing, Editing, Digital Video Watermarking, Video Watermarking, Digital Video Fingerprinting, Video Fingerprinting, Digital Audio Fingerprinting, Speech to text, Voice Recognition, Image Recognition, Video Recognition, Video Indexing, Digital Video Indexing, Video Crawling, Video Trawling, Copyright monetisation, Network, Networking, Meeting, Snowboard, Snowboarding, Ski, Skiing, Sail, Sailing, Windsurf, Windsurfing, Travel, Travelling
Lionel FAUCHER’s Groups:
AGSM Alumni, ESME Sudria alumni, DosConDos, 100% Adrenaline, CarpeDiem Paris, Akama, NewsXchange
-
International TV Professionals -
FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone -
AGSM Alumni -
OpenCoffee Paris -
Digital Asset Management -
Documentarians -
Red Herring -
Media Professionals Worldwide -
Services providers for Media Content -
Future of Web Video -
Photo Marketing Association Member's Forum -
Cepic members -
MIPTV and MIPCOM Global Content Markets - Networking Group -
NewsXChange Friends -
IBC Show -
DISCOP COMMUNITY -
Visa pour l'image Friends
Lionel FAUCHER’s Honors:
Akamedia has been awarded a "RedHerring Global Winner 2008" in January 2009.
http://www.herringevents.com/global08/redherring100.html
Akamedia has been nominated as a finalist for the most innovative companies in Europe by The RedHerring in April 2008.
http://www.herringevents.com/europe08/redherring100.html
Akamedia is one of the 70 "Nominees for the 2007 European ICT Prize" out of 450 applications from 30 countries.
http://www.ict-prize.org/
Akamedia has already been awarded:
- Top 30 innovating start-ups by Tremplin Entreprises 2006 at the French Senate
http://www.tremplin-entreprises.senat.fr/english/index.html
- Top 50 innovating start-ups by Capital IT 2006
http://www.capital-it.com/
- 2nd Prize of the 2004 Challenge des Grandes Ecoles
http://www.challenge-grandes-ecoles.com/accueil.htm
Lionel FAUCHER’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
