Chris Johnston is the director of technology partnerships and ad products at Brightcove, where he develops and implements strategies surrounding Brightcove’s ecosystem of technology and distribution partners who are developing applications with the Brightcove online video platform.

For more than 15 years, Chris has worked in product management, product marketing, and product development at small, private startups as well as in larger and publicly traded companies. From 2000 until 2007, he was Director of Products at Viewpoint, where he led the planning and development of their rich media ad serving platform and oversaw the acquisition and integration of Unicast. Prior to Viewpoint, he was Product Manager at then Microsoft-owned Softimage, a Montreal-based developer of high-end 3D animation software for the film, post-production, and games industries.

Chris studied computer science and computer graphics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and holds a B.A. in Behavioral Sciences from Concordia College New York. He is currently working towards an M.A. in International Affairs at the New School in New York City.