Our Team

A proven leader with a track record of success in: mobile application technology development, content acquisition and creation, and white label platform streaming technology.

With his technology background, Stephen spearheaded companies like Toon Goggles, Digital Media Interactive, Anywhere Artists and OTTera. Today, distribution of services managed by Stephen and his team reaches over 300 million monthly unique viewers across every major consumer electronic device worldwide. Stephen leads in the overall strategies for content licensing, business development, monetization, and ensuring OTTera and its related companies stay ahead of their competition.

Chief Innovation Officer James Cahall is a results-driven, entrepreneurial engineer with 10 years of executive-level experience and 15 years of professional engineering. He consistently delivers successful bleeding-edge products to support business goals. As CIO of OTTera, he is an architect of innovative tech initiatives that add to and accelerate business revenue streams.

James has guided the OTTera team to power multiple OTT services reaching over 300 million monthly unique viewers across every major consumer electronic device worldwide. James graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2005 with Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Aerospace Engineering and worked for Lockheed Martin Skunkworks for 6 years prior to launching Digital Media Interactive, Toon Goggles, and OTTera.

Craig has 20 years of experience in developing and integrating digital publishing, content management and digital asset management systems. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Science and spent the next 17 years doing development, software engineering and systems design, release management, and strategic consulting before collaborating to form OTTera.

Craig is accountable for OTTera’s strategic infrastructure, server-side integration and deployment architecture, API and syndication layers, and for identifying and facilitating key initiatives for driving revenue and improving system stability and throughput.

Steve graduated from Northwestern University and accumulated a vast knowledge of data and application architectures. He has 15 years of experience working as a technical consultant for large and small media companies focused on the monetization of content. Steve is one of the original architects of the OTTera platform and now helms the operations of the business.

Brendan earned his degree in Film & Digital Media Production and History at UC Santa Cruz giving him insight into the global future of digital media.

Brendan has worked in Hollywood producing TV series, feature films, animated series, commercials, and news telecasts. He gained valuable knowledge and experience when he was the protégé for Peter Keefe, the creator of billion-dollar licensing properties such as
Voltron.

Brendan brings a substantial understanding of content licensing, COPPA and CARU advertising, film and animation production/distribution to the team.

Daniel is Executive Vice President of OTTera, Inc. where he oversees direct Advertising Sales and works on Programming Acquisitions worldwide for the company’s OTT, vMVPD, and linear networks. With 30+ years of Advertising Sales and Programming experience, Dan has extensive C-level contacts in the CTV/OTT, Streaming Video, digital, Broadcast TV, social and mobile space while working with major national advertisers, agencies and content/IP owners.

Previously, Mr. Barnathan served as VP of Family and Children’s Programming and Sales at the Sinclair Broadcasting Group (2016-2019) and Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales at Saban Brands LLC (2012-2015). He was also the President of 4Kids Ad Sales Inc., a subsidiary of 4 Kids Entertainment Inc (2002-2011). At ABC/Disney-TV (1981-2000) he worked in various positions such as Senior Vice President of ABC-Television Group/Disney Kids Network, where he was key to launching the Disney Kids Network in 1997 that incorporated a multi-platform ad sales opportunity across Network, Syndication and Cable TV with the company’s children’s digital, radio, consumer products and magazine assets. Mr. Barnathan oversaw advertising sales of over $1.2 Billion annually while working at the Walt Disney Co.

Jordan has been immersed in the entertainment industry since the age of 5, and his passion for this space extends beyond performing. After graduating from Cal State University Northridge, he joined Toon Goggles in its early days, where he gained valuable experience in the OTT space. Jordan’s contributions helped expand the platform’s monetization efforts, paving the way for its growth.

Today, at OTTera, Jordan’s focus is on driving the growth of clients through larger-scale business development initiatives that span general strategy, distribution, monetization & more.

Shujah is an entertainment executive with extensive international experience in OTT, film, music & games distribution as well as in VOD editorial and content acquisition. 

He has been in the content industry for over 10 years; Shujah started and managed the content partnerships at Huawei for 5 years, launched EE TV in the UK, and built several VOD services in Europe. Prior to that, he worked for various tech companies servicing telcos all around the world.

Joe Chellman is a full-stack web developer, educator, and author. For 20 years prior to OTTera, Joe ran a small web development shop building high-quality, user-friendly websites for individuals, nonprofits, and businesses around the USA and elsewhere. A graduate of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon, he is a passionate advocate for user-centered design in technology. Joe also loves to teach, having authored many popular video courses for LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com), and co-authored a book on web design software for Pearson.

At OTTera, Joe combines his many interests in helping manage engineering resources, working on the web platform, and writing internal documentation.

Andrew graduated from Ithaca College and with a Degree in Documentary Film and Production. Post-graduation Andrew quickly moved into technical operations running content distribution operations for traditional media distribution.

At OTTera Andrew is leading the charge bringing the AdNet+ Product to Market helping Monetize OTT and FaAST channels worldwide through strong technology integrations and advertising management through the OTTera suite of OTT Technologies, Applications, Linear Channels, and distribution partners.