Primary Job Title Executive Vice-President Business Development & Founder Primary Organization
Bluestreak Technology
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Yves is a serial entrepreneur with a technology background, who has successfully built technology ventures over the past 20 years in North America and in Europe. He co-founded Bluestreak Technology, a Montréal-based embedded software company that developed a solution deployed in more than 25 million cable boxes and connected TVs, and 10 million
mobile devices worldwide. Used by operators, programmers and consumer electronics manufacturers for video delivery and user experiences, the solution pioneered the modern software environment for TV-centric consumer applications. He signed corporate licensing agreements with Vidéotron and Time Warner Cable in the first two years. He started business development in Europe, signed licensing agreements with NDS/Cisco, Thomson, TVCabo, SAGEM, DivX/NeuLion and Orange. Yves also introduced the solution in Asia and contributed to its implementation in mobile devices, which led to agreements with Qualcomm FLO TV, Access Japan, Mitsubishi and Panasonic LSI. The company was acquired in the spring of 2015 by Espial, an Ottawa-based IPTV solution provider.
