Bhavesh M. Upadhyaya leads the teams that make iStreamPlanet stream video. Bhavesh's responsibilities include Managed Webcasting, Professional Services, Technical Support and Internal IT.
Prior to joining iStreamPlanet in January 2010, Bhavesh was Vice President and Chief Technologist at SDG Corporation. At SDG, Mr. Upadhyaya, as a leader in operations and strategy, was instrumental in creating new practices for the company while helping it grow to its current 450 employees. Additionally, Bhavesh was a leader in the Identity Management space where he helped architect and implement solutions for major fortune 100 companies.
Most recently, Bhavesh worked for 14 months with NBC the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as a video workflow architect and the Video Player leader for NBCOlympics.com The end result was a video player and site that got over 1.3 billion page views, 75 million video views, and more than 10 million hours of video watched in those 17 days. Bhavesh has since spoken at the Digital Media Innovation Forum and the Henry Stewart Conferences. As a result of the work, Bhavesh was part of the NBC team that was nominated for the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award, and winner of the 2008 Sports Emmy for "Outstanding New Approaches - Sports Event Coverage" for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad for NBCOlympics.com.
