COLUMBIA, Md.—IP video transport provider LTN has named three experienced executives—Michal Miskin-Amir, Jonathan Stanton and Bobby Bond—to lead the company’s new technology organization.
The new group, led by Miskin-Amir, now LTN’s executive vice president and head of technology, coincides with a new growth phase for LTN, as broadcasters and content providers rapidly migrate live video transport from satellite to its purpose-built, global IP network, the company said.
“We’re entering a pivotal moment and delivering mission-critical services for customers at much higher scale and speed than ever before,” LTN Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Malik Khan said. “Our full-time channel distribution revenue has grown 28% per year for the last several years and is poised for even faster growth as C-band satellite spectrum auctions approach.
“Broadcasters are moving more and higher value channels to our SLA-backed IP managed service that delivers unmatched reach and flexibility,” he continued. “These appointments will drive LTN’s technical roadmap forward as we further expand our reach to 100% of all content delivery platforms, offer more advanced monitoring tools, and highly automated and AI-based service capabilities that support our customers’ needs.”
Miskin-Amir, formerly executive VP of development, is an 18-year veteran who has been with LTN since its inception. Her new group is tasked with creating and executing on a unified technical vision that combines infrastructure and development, LTN said, enabling it to accelerate advancements in software engineering and automated service delivery.
Stanton was named senior VP, head of infrastructure, expanding his leadership over LTN’s hardware, network, facility and data-center design, as well as corporate IT, vendor management and security. He will focus on advancing the reliability and scalability of LTN’s services platform and global IP network, the company said, delivering contractual SLAs of 99.9999% availability to support rapid business growth while collaborating with product and sales teams to engineer world-class customer solutions. Stanton holds several patents for real-time video delivery co-created at LTN, the company said, and has built its core services since its founding 18 years ago.
As senior VP, head of development, Bond will expand his leadership role overseeing all software engineering and development across the company, LTN said. He’ll continue to advance the company’s software development life cycle, enhancing software delivery and automation while driving innovation in internal operational tools and customer-facing tooling and monitoring, the company said. Bond, who joined LTN in 2022 after working as VP, ad technology at USA Today, brings 20 years of experience in media and technology to his new post.
“These highly skilled professionals have contributed significantly to LTN’s success and technology leadership to date,” Khan said. “Together, they will develop and implement new features that reinforce our network as the market-leading IP video transport solution—while powering greater scale and flexibility for broadcasters, sports networks and rights holders delivering high-value live video.”
LTN said its global multicast IP network delivers more than 8,000 channels and millions of live events per year to such media organizations as TelevisaUnivision, E.W. Scripps, Tennis Channel and MASN. Its IP distribution footprint surged 200% last year, the company said, enabling seamless access to all U.S. pay TV households.
