Ian Baglow

Co-Chief Executive Officer Bitmovin

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Ian Baglow is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Bitmovin, the company that supplies video encoding, player and analytics software to streaming services and broadcasters. He shares the top job with co-founder Stefan Lederer under a structure announced in February 2026: Baglow runs day-to-day operations and the company’s relationships with customers and partners, while Lederer concentrates on strategy and the wider market. The appointment capped a rise inside the company that began in 2021, when he joined as Chief Revenue Officer from a background leading growth at software-as-a-service businesses, including earlier leadership roles at BAE Systems and SilverSky.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Co-CEO of Bitmovin in February 2026, sharing the role with co-founder Stefan Lederer and leading day-to-day operations.
• Became President, Chief Revenue and Operations Officer of Bitmovin in 2024, adding operations to his commercial remit.
• Joined Bitmovin in 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for customer retention, customer growth and new customer acquisition.
• Held leadership roles at organisations including BAE Systems and the cyber security company SilverSky before Bitmovin.

Professional Journey

Before Bitmovin, Baglow held leadership roles at organisations including BAE Systems and SilverSky, a cyber security specialist. The company’s announcement of his promotion describes a track record of “successfully executing business strategies in scale-ups, new markets and products, to drive growth”, and Bitmovin’s own author biography of him points to significant experience leading growth at SaaS companies.

He joined Bitmovin in 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer. In that role he oversaw the whole revenue function, which Bitmovin described as focused on customer retention, customer growth and new customer acquisition, and he fronted the company’s commercial expansion, including the build-out of its US sales team in 2022. Bitmovin sells the plumbing of online video: cloud encoding that prepares content for streaming, a player that runs across devices, and analytics and observability tools that show how playback is performing, used by streaming platforms and broadcasters around the world.

In 2024 his role widened to President, Chief Revenue and Operations Officer. In February 2026 Bitmovin appointed him Co-CEO. Rather than succeeding the founder, he joined him: Stefan Lederer, who co-founded the company with CTO Christopher Mueller, remains Co-CEO, and the two divided the job so that Baglow leads day-to-day operations and customer and partner relationships while Lederer focuses on strategic developments. Lederer said Baglow had “played a key role in driving company growth in recent years”. Baglow described the arrangement as a way to use the two executives’ “highly complementary skills and strengths”. He has since appeared in Bitmovin’s announcements as Co-CEO, including its March 2026 release on TrueVisions NOW adopting Bitmovin Observability.

Education

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