Sharon Carmel

Sharon Carmel, Beamr Founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in the software space. In 1994, he co-founded Emblaze, which developed the first video chips for Samsung Mobile and became public in London. In 2002, he founded his second start-up, BeInSync, which developed P2P synchronization and online backup technologies, and was acquired in 2008 by Phoenix Technologies. A year later, in 2009, Sharon founded Beamr with a team of pioneering image science experts.

Beamr (NASDAQ: BMR) is a world leader in video optimization and modernization, serving top media companies including Netflix and Paramount. Beamr’s inventive perceptual optimization technology (CABR) is backed by 53 patents and won the Emmy® award for Technology and Engineering. Beamr cloud accelerated GPU-based video service was launched in February 2024 and is available on AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).