Former Amazon, Microsoft Executive Benjamin Gauthey joins Clipchamp to lead Global Expansion & Partnerships.
We’re beyond excited to share the news that Benjamin Gauthey has joined the Clipchamp team — not only as our new Vice President of Global Strategy and Business Development but also as our first USA and Seattle based Clipchampion.
Benjamin is bringing more than 15 years of global sales and marketing experience to our growing team.
He joins us from Amazon Web Services (AWS) having most recently led their global marketing and sales initiatives for artificial intelligence and machine learning in Seattle — all this after pioneering and creating a suite of cloud services for game developers in collaboration with Twitch.
Prior to Amazon, he worked more than 10 years with Microsoft in a variety of marketing and sales leadership roles across different geographies, including the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
As the world is relying more on video, now couldn’t have been a better time for Benjamin to join our team, or as our co-founder and CEO puts it:
“Already a billion-dollar market, the video content creation industry is growing exponentially through Covid-19, with platforms such as TikTok seeing an increase of 842 million in first-time downloads over the past few months.
As industries continue to adjust to the ‘new normal’, video creation has become an essential part of business marketing activities, with organisations looking to continually create and distribute new and engaging content across various platforms.
Benjamin has a wealth of experience in driving value through partnerships. As humanity accelerates the transition of content on the internet from text to video, more and more tech platforms and enterprises will need strong video creation capabilities. Benjamin and our future team in the US will enable our partners and customers to provide their users with the ability to create beautiful and impactful videos and ultimately help democratize video creation.”
Alex Dreiling, Co-Founder and CEO
Anna Ji, our Head of Product shares her excitement about Benjamin joining the Clipchamp team:
“Benjamin is a fantastic acquisition for Clipchamp to establish key relationships in the US and take our product partnerships to the next level.”
Since our Series A funding round and the announcement of our expansion to the US in February, clipchampions have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first US team member. Upon joining the Clipchamp team here’s what Benjamin had to say:
“I have spent my career working on products and services that enable people to achieve more. I believe there is a massive opportunity to help creators in developing fantastic video content within minutes, which is what led me to Clipchamp.
Across the board, and especially at this moment in time, we are seeing disruption in the video industry as individuals and businesses, of all sizes, are having to find new ways to connect and communicate with friends, fans, customers and colleagues through videos. I am looking forward to developing new global partnerships and putting Clipchamp in the hands of everyone.”
With Benjamin on board, we are on our way to opening our first United States office in Seattle to develop partnerships and build our enterprise sales and marketing teams. Benjamin adding,
“Seattle has an amazing and diverse pool of talents with a vibrant tech community. We are looking forward to hiring from this impressive pool of talent and growing our global presence.”
Clipchampions empower everyone to become a creator of awesome video content. Our work has a real-time impact on over 8M people and counting from basically everywhere except Antarctica. We’re transforming the way people create and we’re only just getting started! See our current opening here >> https://clipchamp.com/en/company/careers/
