Brian Campanotti is recognized as a successful entrepreneur, thought leader, published author and innovator in the area of large-scale unstructured data storage, archive and preservation. He is an Archive Transformation Visionary at Cloudfirst.io, an innovative end-to-end technology and services provider focused on digital archive transformation and modernization, helping global content owners, producers and custodians develop and execute on their long-term strategies for massive-scale digital content archive, protection and preservation.

Prior to joining Cloudfirst.io, Mr. Campanotti was CTO at Front Porch Digital (now Telestream), instrumental in their emergence as global leader in the digital archive space. During his tenure, he helped guide the company through several successful transactions including its acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior to that, he founded Masstech, another leading provider of digital archive solutions, and began his career as a Project Engineer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Campanotti and his team have won three Emmy® Awards for pivotal innovation in digital archive technologies, long-term digital preservation and large-scale digital video implementations.

With an extended passion for preservation, he was one of the primary inventors of the SMPTE Archive eXchange Format (AXF) standard and also spearheaded the effort to have it adopted as an ISO/IEC standard. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.