Olivier Karra is Director of OTT and IPTV Solutions at Harmonic.

His team is defining reference solutions and the strategy for the OTT and IPTV market segment.

With a strong focus on SaaS and cloud based systems, he is driving the priorities for the solution portfolio on a global basis.

Main area of focus include topics such as advanced OTT workflows, content monetization with DAI, scalability, low latency workflows, transition to OTT 2.0 and Disaster Recovery.

His responsibilities also include market trends, competitive analysis, definition of new business models and strategy recommendations to grow Harmonic business and profitability.

Prior to joining the Marketing organization, M. Karra was in Sales where he acquired a strong background in Sales Engineering.

His experience in Technical Sales Management helped the EMEA region to grow the business. His group was supporting a Sales team generating 80M$ of annual revenue.

Earlier on, his expertise in designing complex and large scale systems was key to expand Harmonic market share and to secure new major accounts (multiscreen and pay TV broadcast segments)

Olivier Karra is based in France, in the Issy-les-Moulineaux office.