David Pashman. Courtesy photoFormer Meetup General Counsel Joins Global Video Platform Company as Top Lawyer
The online video platform, which boasts a global user footprint of over two billion unique devices, has hired David Pashman.
August 20, 2018 at 01:08 PM
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JW Player, a network-independent video platform, announced on Monday that it's hired the former GC of Meetup as its new legal boss.
David Pashman who helped lead the sale of Meetup to WeWork for $200 million last year, started working at JW Player, which provides internet video services to large companies including Fox and Univision, earlier in August.
He has been put in charge of the New York-based company's global legal function and will support the sale and partnership divisions. He also will work with the company's product and operations divisions.
“I've long admired the team at JW Player and look forward to helping them scale the business as the market for digital video, and the insights it provides only continues to exponentially grow in importance for both brands and media companies,” Pashman said in an emailed statement.
Pashman replaces Mark Obald, who served as the company's top lawyer from January 2017 to April of this year. Obald left to become the head of operations of SmartContract.
Chief operating officer and president of JW Player, Bill Day, said he is excited to have Pashman lead the legal team.
“David's expertise and experience working with and helping to grow some of New York's most exciting tech companies will be an invaluable asset to JW Player,” Day said in the announcement of Pashman's hire. “We are thrilled to have him aboard as we continue to scale our data and platform offerings, both domestically and abroad.”
In a December 2017 interview with Corporate Counsel, Pashman said that he got a good deal of experience at Meetup working closely with company executives. He also noted the transition Meetup went through around the WeWork deal.
“They truly are a global company,” he said of WeWork. “So the legal complexities and the legal decision-making process changes significantly and the way in which decisions about risk and compliance are made changes significantly when you go from Meetup on a stand-alone basis to being part of a company such as WeWork.”
Pashman graduated from New York University School of Law, where he serves as an adjunct professor. He is a former corporate associate at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
JW Player touts a global footprint of over two billion unique devices. Though it's based in New York, the company has offices in London, U.K. and the Netherlands.
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