Vice President
HBO Max
Euan McLeod is vice president at HBO Max, responsible for overseeing customer experience, client and platform engineering and video delivery.
McLeod has built teams and developed talent that have delivered major innovations, revolutionizing the media landscape and improving the way consumers interact with media. He created the first ever live streaming application on the iPhone in 2008 and also launched one of the first mobile websites in 1999. Euan’s work has delivered positive stock changing products and successful global video innovations for the likes of Amazon Channels, English Premier League Soccer, March Madness, Indian Premier League, CNN and NBA. This work has won him several awards and several tech Emmy® nominations and he won the prestigious IBC Innovation Award in 2014 for his transformative work on NBA League Pass.
Prior to joining WarnerMedia, McLeod led a team of over 800 that come together and built a culture of innovation as VP of Video IP Engineering and Research (VIPER). The VIPER team enabled Comcast to evolve quickly and innovate, delivering massively scalable solutions. VIPER was the core of Comcast’s transition to IP.
Previously, McLeod was the Global Head of Live Video at Amazon, where he launched the highly successful Amazon Channels product that supports NFL Thursday Night Football, English Premier League soccer and all Amazon large-scale live events. Many of these innovations created by this team are now part of the AWS services portfolio.
Prior to Amazon, as vice president, Content Platforms at Turner Broadcasting, McLeod built technology solutions that increased revenue and brand reach for all of Turner's brands across news, sports and entertainment: this included: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, CNN, CNN Espanol, CNNInternational, TBS, TCM, TNT, TruTV, NCAA, March Madness Live, PGA, Rider Cup and NBA.
McLeod holds an Engineering Degree from Edinburgh Napier University, an MBA, and studied Executive Education at Harvard Business School and continues to study via Harvard EDx in User Innovation.