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Yvette Kanouff
Yvette Kanouff is a Partner of JC2 Ventures. She is responsible for technology strategy and engineering relationships within JC2 Ventures investment companies, partners, and customers.
Yvette headed the $7B service provider business at Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions where she led the innovation and business transformation in service provider products including routing, access networks, optical networking, cable networks, network function virtualization and video/media. She has held CTO and President roles at various companies and has focused on leading the industry towards SaaS, cloud-centric, open, and automated solutions. Yvette pioneered technologies instrumental in creating video streaming, MPEG standards, encoding standards, content distribution networks, and the DVD.
Yvette has received numerous industry awards including the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Emmy for Engineering and Technology, the National Cable and Television Association's Vanguard Award for Leadership in Science and Technology, being named an Industry Pioneer, an Emmy for her work in Video on Demand with SeaChange, being named an Industry Wonder Woman, Top Techie, and Woman in Technology; she has been named one of the 11 most influential women in the Television industry, and has consistently been ranked as one of the top 100 industry executives.
Yvette began her career in digital signal processing and has a bachelor's and master's degree in Mathematics. Yvette holds several patents, is on various company and industry boards, and she is an active participant in industry organizations, standards bodies, and leading industry technology efforts including 5G, digitization, cloud, cybersecurity, media, and artificial intelligence.