Los Gatos, Calif., Feb. 23 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Global media streaming company Complex Fortune 50 growth expert announced today Manish Gupta as the new vice president of growth. Leveraging extensive experience using data-driven methods to accelerate marketing and business results across Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, eBay and PayPal, Gupta will be responsible for driving Plex user growth and retention. The company also appointed three new directors to the board to help guide and drive the next phase of business growth.
New VP Growth
Gupta previously served as Director of Marketing Science at Facebook/Meta, a Fortune 50 company, where he helped hundreds of clients grow in the entertainment, gaming, technology and telecommunications industries. His appointment follows other recent hires to the Plex leadership team, including former executives from Pluto TV, Disney and Zappos.
As the largest independent ad-supported streaming media platform reaching users in 193 countries, Plex is growing rapidly following the increase in $50 million in growth capital in April. These key new appointments will play a vital role in Plex’s mission to create a global community for streaming content that people can rely on to easily discover, experience and share all the entertainment that matters to them.
Plex offers access to more types of media in one place than any other streaming service and now offers over 200 free live TV channels, over 50,000 free movies and TV episodes on demand, access to OTA and DVR streaming channels, music streaming via TIDAL, podcasts, and more. Since launch AVOD in 2019and free live tv in 2020the company has more than 300 entertainment content partnerships with the world’s largest studios and publishing networks, including Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Sony Pictures Television, Sinclair Broadcast Group, AMC, A+E, Craquelé and BBC.
“Plex has built an extremely valuable platform that offers more types of media in one place than any other streaming service,” said Gupta, vice president of growth at Plex. “Connecting and engaging users with our diverse content offerings inspires me, and I’m ready to go.”
Wenew board members
Plex also announced three new members to its board of directors, including:
- Carl Spark, managing partner at Interlock Partners, is a seasoned venture capitalist who also served as chief marketing officer at Expedia and president and CEO of Travelocity during each company’s key growth phases. He brings deep expertise in growth and performance marketing.
- Kelly Battles, a seasoned board member and audit committee chair of public and private companies, including Arista Networks, Genesys Software and DataStax. She has also held CFO and CFO positions for companies such as Quora, Cisco, and HP.
- Rick Gibbsan entrepreneur, founder and leader, who has served as CEO and President of Dealer.com, President of Dealertrack Technologies and Chief Product Officer of Cox Automotive, brings extensive operating experience scaling businesses from pre-revenue to multi- billions of dollars .
“Manish and our new board members are strong additions to the Plex family as we move toward our mission to be a one-stop-shop for streaming media and scale the business during a time of rapid growth. “said Keith Valory, CEO. from Plex. “Delivering an amazing user experience has always been our number one priority, and Manish’s experience in customer insights and growth marketing is just what we need to ensure we don’t just attract new new users, but we bring them back again and again.”
For more information on Plex, visit https://www.plex.tv/.
About Plex
For fans of movies and shows overwhelmed by the chaos of the fragmented universe of streaming, Complex offers a more personalized and intuitive experience with a suite of free, easy-to-use, powerful and beautiful apps for every platform. A global streaming platform that offers thousands of free on-demand movies and TV shows as well as hundreds of free live TV channels, Plex has partnered with some of the biggest names in entertainment including Paramount , Lionsgate, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Sony Pictures Television, Sinclair Broadcast Group, AMC, A+E and Crackle. Backed by Intercap and Kleiner Perkins, Plex is the only streaming service that allows users to integrate their own personal media collections with an ever-growing library of free third-party entertainment spanning virtually every genre, interest, and language. For more visit https://plex.tvto follow @plex on Twitter, or find us on Facebook and instagram.
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