Xavier Kochhar

Xavier Kochhar is a veteran media and technology executive, entrepreneur, investor, and direct-to-consumer subject matter expert. As pocket.watch’s COO and CFO, Xavier oversees all operations, finance, corporate strategy and development for the business. He is a champion of diversity and inclusion and passionate about fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. He was the founder and CEO of The Video Genome Project, a video personalization engine and user experience company that built the largest, broadest, and most granular structured database of video content. The Video Genome Project was acquired by Hulu to create a more powerful way to surface the right content to the right user at the right time, in both live and on-demand environments. Xavier was most recently a senior executive within AT&T, Inc. and WarnerMedia’s Direct-to-Consumer (HBO Max) as Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer and later in the parent company’s Corporate Strategy and M&A group. He was previously the Managing Partner of Medialink, acq. by Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL), and has served in senior executive roles at The Walt Disney Company, WME, and L.E.K. Consulting.