Yvette Gordon-Kanouff is Chief Strategy Officer for SeaChange International, Inc., where she works on the design and future planning for the companies’ technology platforms. Gordon-Kanouff holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Mathematics and has more than 20 years of professional experience in the communications industry.
Kanouff’s career began at Lockheed Martin in Signal Processing, where she specialized in compression and detection algorithms. She then worked for Time Warner as Engineering Director for the Full Service Network where she ran the network operations of the world’s first interactive television trial. She then joined the Time Warner corporate architecture team, specifying Time Warner’s engineering standards.
Gordon-Kanouff honors:
- 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Engineer of the Year
- 1997 Woman in Technology award from the SCTE & WICT
- 2001 Wonder Women (one of 10 female executives)
- 2001 Next Wave Woman in Technology (Broadcasting & Cable)
- 2002 SCTE Director At-Large
- 2003 Chairman of the SCTE Planning Committee and Director At-Large
- 2004 Multi Channel News Woman to Watch
- 2004 (SeaChange) Emmy for video on demand
- 2004 One of Cableworlds 50 most influential women
- 2004 Chairman of the SCTE Planning Committee and Director At-Large
- 2005 SCTE Chairman of the Board
- 2006 SCTE Chairman of the Board
- 2007 One of ink blog’s 8 world-wide “Smartest Women in IPTV”
- 2007 One of Cableworlds top 50 women in cable technology
She has several patents and is an active member of the IEEE, WICT, a senior member and at-large board of director for the SCTE.