Tom Carroux

Current

Americas Business Development & Sales at Dilithium Networks
Board Advisor at MediaMelon

Past

Vice President and Board of Directors at Broadband & Internet Security Task Force
Vice President, Business Development & Sales at BitTorrent, Inc.
Director of Sales at Macrovision Corporation

Director of Business Development at PanAmSat, Inc.

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Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Trinity College-Hartford

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Industry

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Tom Carroux’s Summary

Leadership experience with start-up and public technology companies, with focus on the entertainment, broadband and mobile industries.

• Skilled presenter (and listener) with proven ability to successfully introduce new products to customers, from trials to commercial roll-out.
• Initiating and closing complex, multi-year strategic relationships worth millions of dollars.
• Department profit and loss responsibility, budgets, forecasts and pricing.
• Recruiting, training, managing and energizing teams.
• Penetrating lucrative international markets through strong direct sales and VAR channels.

Tom Carroux’s Specialties:

Hollywood studios and other programmers, broadband operators, wireless, Internet portals, packaged media and networked devices.

Tom Carroux’s Experience

Americas Business Development & Sales

Dilithium Networks

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Dilithium is a global leader in converged video solutions for the mobile, broadband and internet markets.
Responsible for selling mobile video solutions directly and with channel partners to wireless operators, content delivery networks, internet portals and content aggregators.
Board Advisor

MediaMelon

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

Development of value proposition and customer evangelism for online video distribution company offering multiple source streaming and secure high definition downloads.
Vice President and Board of Directors

Broadband & Internet Security Task Force

(Entertainment industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years)

Non-profit.The Task Force drafted and promoted new broadband anti-theft statutes enacted into law by state legislatures.
Vice President, Business Development & Sales

BitTorrent, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

April 2006 — October 2006 (7 months)

Distribution of content over the Internet.
Launched consumer electronic licensing program.
Trialed P2P platform with broadband operators.
Director of Sales

Macrovision Corporation

(Public Company; MVSN; Computer Software industry)

1996 — March 2006 (10 years)

Sales of digital rights management and copy protection technology to the broadband and home video industries in the Americas and Asia Pacific. Focus on Hollywood studios, broadband operators, home video, consumer electronics and set-top box manufacturers.

Published articles in: Asia Cable & Satellite World, Independent Cable News, Multichannel News, Private & Wireless Broadband, Via Satellite and Wireless Pay TV International. Interviewed by Fox News.
Director of Business Development

PanAmSat, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

1990 — 1995 (5 years)

World's first private international satellite company.
Licensed satellite services to broadcasters and telcos. Posted to Paris, France to develop European market.

Tom Carroux’s Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

MBA , Finance & Marketing , 1988 — 1990

Activities and Societies:

Dean’s List. Teacher’s Assistant, “Venture Capital, Merchant Banking and Building New Enterprises.” President, Mergers & Acquisition Group. Vice Chairman, Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series.
Trinity College-Hartford

B.S. , Psychology , 1977 — 1981

Activities and Societies:

Internship at production company. CineStudio.

Additional Information

Tom Carroux’s Websites:

Tom Carroux’s Interests:

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Movies, music and fine wine.

Tom Carroux’s Groups:

Speaker: Digital Film & TV conference, Carmel Group Satellite Entertainment, IRMA, Kagan Video-On-Demand Summit, SaskTel Multi-Media, Canadian MPDA conference, Arab States Broadcasting Union and ComNet.
Attendee: Ad Tech, CES, CTAM, CTIA, DEG, Digital Hollywood, IBC, GSMA Mobile Innovation, NAB, NATPE, NCTA, SBCA, SVP and VSDA.
Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group.
Columbia Business School Ambassador.