Ben Schofield

About

Ben Schofield drives product and technology at edit.cloud leveraging his deep experience of cloud native media workflows, metadata and content security. He is also active in a number of media industry initiatives as Technology Director for CDSA the global, industry-wide film and television content protection initiative for the media industry running working groups on production identity and AI in media. Ben is closely involved in the OpenTimelineIO initiative at ASWF, unique IDs for content (EIDR), IMF standards workstreams Ben ran the Red Bee Media team supporting the rapid growth of BBC iPlayer from launch and helped major broadcasters and studios set up efficient digital content distribution to new platforms.  Other projects included restarting Project Dovetail VOD audience measurement for BARB, launching the BFI Player for the British Film Institute and technology due diligence buy/sell side for private equity in post production, ad distribution and fintech. Specialties: Rich media & content metadata, cloud workflows, content security