Michelle Munson

Michelle Munson is the co-founder and CEO of Eluvio and co-creator of the Content Fabric protocol, an open and decentralized Internet protocol for owner-controlled streaming, storage and monetization of digital content at scale. The Content Fabric provides premium content distribution and management for tier1 sports, studios, and artists globally, and has won multiple product awards from leading organizations at global industry events including HPA, IABM, IBC, and NAB. Examples of companies and creators whose content distribution have been powered by Eluvio include Amazon Studios/MGM Studios, Black Eyed Peas, Dolly Parton, FOX, Microsoft, Paramount Home Entertainment, Rita Ora, SONY Pictures, Telstra Broadcast Services, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, WWE, independent filmmakers, and many others. Michelle previously co-founded Aspera in 2004 and led the company as CEO until May 2017, including through acquisition by IBM in 2014. She co-invented the Aspera FASP™ transport technology used in the digital media supply chain for high-speed, low-cost secure digital content transport, replacing satellite and traditional tape-based delivery technologies, and won an engineering Emmy. Michelle holds fourteen US patents in the areas of content networking, machine learning, block chain and distribution infrastructure. She is the recipient of the 2019 David Sarnoff Medal for technology innovation with lasting impact in film and television, and in 2022 became the youngest person inducted into the Kansas State University Engineering Hall of Fame. She holds dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Kansas State University and was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate diploma in Computer Science.