Our executive management team is comprised of seasoned professionals from some of the most innovative and successful organizations in the world
Chief Executive Officer
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Darcy serves as Head of Amdocs Media, a division of Amdocs NASDAQ (DOX) and Chief Executive Officer of Vubiquity Inc., a global media and entertainment distribution technology and services provider. Vubiquity delivers premium content and user experiences across a host of digital consumer-facing video services to 120 countries and supporting 80 languages. The company maintains operations in Los Angeles, London and Toronto.
Prior to joining Vubiquity, Darcy was President, Technical Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. She was instrumental in the studio’s transition to digital technologies and automation for distribution across theatrical, home entertainment and television. This also included the conversion to digital cinema and the creation of an industry-wide venture to support effective digital delivery for all of the studios and participating cinemas. She lead the first Hollywood anti-piracy organization focused on business development, technology, enforcement and legislation to enable compelling, competitive options to piracy.
Before joining Warner Bros., as an executive at CBS, Darcy’s responsibilities included management of the network’s operations in New York and for the CBS News Bureau in Washington, D.C. A veteran of three Olympics for CBS Sports and a three-time Emmy winner for technical production and engineering, Darcy’s news experiences included being stationed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the Gulf War, as well as coverage of several political and newsworthy, global events.
Darcy serves as a Class I Director for Cinemark Holdings Inc., NYSE (CNK), as well as a Director for Xperi, NASDAQ (XPER). She is a member of the WTA Global Advisory Council to provide insights into media and technology to benefit women’s professional tennis. She is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a SMPTE Fellow and has been issued a number of patents. Darcy received her undergraduate education from Temple University’s School of Engineering and a graduate MBA degree from Fordham University.
Some industry acknowledgements include Home Media Magazine’s Digital Drivers, Broadcasting and Cable’s Technology Leadership Award, Video Business’ Women Elite, The Hollywood Reporter’s Digital Power 50 List, the inaugural recipient of the NAB TVNewsCheck Women in Technology Leadership Award, Cablefax’s Most Innovative People in Multiscreen along with Most Powerful Women in Cable, India’s NASSCOM Innovator Leader Award and Multi-Channel’s 2018 Class of Wonder Women. She served as the Los Angeles Chair for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women launching the organization’s first STEM Goes Red initiative getting high school girls interested in science and technology supporting better health. She served on the Board of Kidsave, a non-profit advocacy organization to find adoptive families for children ages 6 to 16. She is the mother of two Kidsave sibling children from Bogota, Colombia – Andrea and her younger brother Sebastian, who joined the family at ages 15 and 12.
Chief Commercial Officer
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Raman is Chief Commercial Officer, Vubiquity and General Manager at Amdocs Media. Raman and his team are working with major studios, broadcasters, networks and service providers across the world to build and deliver innovative solutions (for both technology and content) that help customers explore, evaluate and enjoy Media in a simplified manner whilst ensuring high quality Content Operations. Prior to joining Amdocs, Raman was SVP & Head of Telecom & Media BU at Tech Mahindra Americas, and before that he was Managing Director for Comverse BSS Business Unit (now Amdocs Optima). Raman started his career with TATA & Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs group.
Raman has an MBA (Finance) from NYU Stern, Masters in Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Tech and BEng (Electronics) from Pune University.
Executive Vice President, Finance
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With over 25 years of experience working in the entertainment industry, Irwin has held senior finance positions at Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Technicolor and most recently Deluxe, where he was SVP of Finance and divisional CFO over the Delivery Services businesses for the past three years. Irwin was responsible for design, oversight and management of all financial reporting, billing, planning & analysis activities for multiple worldwide lines of business including Digital Cinema, Delivery Operations and Localization.
Prior to joining Vubiquity, while at Deluxe, Irwin helped negotiate multiple strategic joint ventures, business partnerships, as well as subcontracting and vendor agreements, yielding cost reductions and incremental profits.
During his tenure at Warner Bros, he managed the due diligence efforts and full-on integration of various business acquisitions and projects, including Digital Distribution (internet advertising companies Flixster & Rotten Tomatoes, Crowdfunding Veronica Mars movie), International TV Distribution (production/distribution company Shed Media Group) and Domestic TV Production (content producers Alloy Entertainment, Shed Media US).
Irwin serves on the Board of Directors of First Entertainment Credit Union, a $1.5B financial institution serving the entertainment industry and Los Angeles County at large. He has held the position of Treasurer for more than the past decade and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board. Irwin serves as Chair of the Finance Committee, and is a member of the Asset & Liability Committee (ALCO) as well as the Investments Committee.
Irwin holds an active CPA license in the State of California, was born in Portland, Oregon, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting, having graduated with honors from the University of Washington in Seattle.
He began his career by working in public accounting for Deloitte & Touche, first out of Seattle then Los Angeles.
Chief Content Officer
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Rob Jacobson is Chief Content Officer where he oversees all strategies, negotiations and program scheduling for VUBIQUITY’s transactional and subscription platforms across more than 30 countries around the world. In this role, Rob has spearheaded the company’s content strategies on behalf of such global distribution giants as Verizon and AT&T in the US, Televisa in Mexico, SFR in France, Turkcell in Turkey and VTR in Chile. In doing so, Rob established partnerships with all of the foremost content suppliers in Hollywood including all the major studios as well as CBS, HBO, Miramax and others.
Prior to joining VUBIQUITY, Rob served as President and Chief Executive Officer of iN DEMAND Networks from 2004 through 2009. While at iN Demand, Rob established several innovations in the arena of transactional television programming including oversight of cable’s launch of video on demand, Howard Stern on Demand and the creation of cable’s out-of-market sports packages, NBA LEAGUE PASS, MLB EXTRA INNINGS AND NHL CENTER ICE. Rob also created cable’s first 24/7 HD linear channel, MOJO and won multiple Emmy awards for Interactive Sports Programming for the innovated NASCAR IN-CAR package. Finally, Rob created cable’s SVOD service VUTOPIA.
Prior to joining iN DEMAND, Rob was the head of DirecTV’s East Coast programming office and is recognized for the creation and development of Mega March Madness in conjunction with CBS Sports. Rob was also responsible for the DirecTV Multi-Cam Racing Series and Ivy League Friday Nights. Rob joined DirecTV from Fox/Liberty Networks where he was Vice President, Affiliate Sales and Marketing. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Programming and Business Affairs for American Sky Broadcasting, L.L.C.
EVP, Global Product & Technology at Vubiquity
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Doug has over 30 years of technology experience in defining and executing business strategies and product development for global service providers and media companies. Currently, he leads the strategy, product management, development, infrastructure and IT support of the technologies supporting Vubiquity’s content related services and solutions.
Previously, Doug spent ten years as an Amdocs Client Business Executive working closely with large cable operators and service providers helping them to transform, digitize and scale operations. Before joining Amdocs, Doug held executive positions at JDSU (now Viavi Solutions) and Telcordia Technologies (now part of Ericsson) where he was responsible for P&L, Strategy and Product Management.
Doug holds Master’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Brown University and Telecommunications Management from Southern Methodist University with a BS in Computer Science from Saint Joseph’s University.
He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for OTT.X (formerly the Entertainment Merchants Association) and is based in Los Angeles.