Management Team

Krish Kumar

Chief Executive Officer

Krish Kumar is a proven leader with a passion for technology and its ability to create meaningful impact for customers and industries. As CEO of Wowza, he is focused on driving innovation and ensuring the delivery of reliable solutions for mission-critical applications.

Before joining Wowza, Krish served as CEO of BrightEdge, where he successfully led the company through a pivotal phase of growth and transformation. He also spent nine years at Google, leading the search platforms and enterprise search businesses, contributing to the development of foundational technologies that continue to shape the industry.

Krish takes a hands-on, customer-focused approach and is passionate about building solutions that address real-world challenges while delivering long-term value

Krish holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Sydney University and MBA from AGSM.

Elliot Miller

Chief Legal Officer
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and HR

Elliot Miller leads Wowza’s global people operations, legal affairs, compliance programs, and corporate development activities as senior vice president. With more than 15 years of experience providing in-house legal counsel to technology and services companies, Elliot works to attract and retain great colleagues by building a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture with compelling employee benefits. In Elliot’s legal and corporate development roles, he leads initiatives and processes to support Wowza’s rapid growth while managing the company’s risk.

Michael Phillippi

Chief Technical Officer

Michael Phillippi is an experienced leader of SaaS engineering organizations. He’s managed engineering teams utilizing a range of technologies such as machine vision, IoT, hardware engineering, web applications, APIs, data streaming, and analytics. Michael’s experience includes scaling several companies to accelerate innovation and enterprise-level reliability, including Canto, Lytx, Enlyte, The Sabre Group, and HP Global Systems.

Ashique Anwar

Chief Product Officer

Ashique joins Wowza with 17 years of experience in video streaming. His extensive industry experience includes prominent product roles with such industry heavyweights and innovators as Brightcove, Ooyala, Piksel, and Irdeto. Ashique is passionate about establishing product strategy and empowering the teams to plan and execute on it, which drives growth for the company. Outside of work, he is a huge sports fan and spends most of his weekends driving and watching his children play various sports.