About Anthony
Bio
Anthony Wood is the founder of Roku and serves as chief executive officer. While at Roku, Anthony also served a stint at Netflix as VP of Internet TV, where his team did the original streaming deals, for example to get Netflix on the Xbox.
Prior to Roku, Anthony invented the digital video recorder (DVR) and founded ReplayTV, where he served as president and CEO before the company’s acquisition. ReplayTV is now owned by DirectTV.
Before ReplayTV, Anthony was founder and CEO of iband Inc., an Internet software company that developed original core technology that became part of Dreamweaver, the best-selling Internet authoring tool. When Macromedia acquired iband, Anthony became its vice president of Internet authoring. Earlier in his career, Anthony was founder and CEO of SunRize Industries, a leading supplier of hardware/software tools for non-linear audio recording and editing for the Commodore Amiga.
Anthony holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.
I'm passionate about
Technology, Science, Family, History, Politics
Areas of expertise
Business, Classic Video Games, Consumer Electronics, Entrepeneurship, Internet - Software, Leadership, Retail & Consumer, software, Video and Audio Post Production, Video and Music Streaming
