Ben Pinkerton is Director of Product Marketing at Vidyo, bringing over 15 years of experience in the video collaboration and video streaming industry. Ben’s lifelong passion for visual communication began while growing up in his grandfather’s TV repair shop, and in college he continued on this path by quickly getting involved in Internet2 activities related to video conferencing and streaming technology. Ben loves to solve problems by using the best available communications technology to make people’s lives better. Ben joined Vidyo in 2008 as a sales engineer, assisting customers to build video communication solutions, before joining the marketing team. His focus is on Vidyo’s platform and vidyo.io for developers. His vision, since the early days of video conferencing, has been to make video communications truly ubiquitous by embedding it directly into all of the apps people use everyday.