Darcy Antonellis
Chief Executive Officer
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.