Peter Riz

Peter Riz has more than 20 years of premium Pay-TV and OTT experience within the Middle East and Europe, with a focus on digital transformation. During his career, Riz has held different positions in content operation, project management, technical operation, product development and engineering roles. In the last 10 years, Riz assumed various technical leadership and strategic responsibilities specifically focusing on the development and operations of over-the-top/streaming media products.

Today, Riz holds the role of Chief Technology Officer at OSN, where he leads both the broadcasting and streaming technology strategy and execution. Prior to this, Riz was Chief Technology Officer at Intigral in the Middle East, where he played a key role of the development and operation of Intigral cloud-based high-quality OTT streaming service Jawwy TV. Riz also spent over 12 years with HBO Europe where he was the Senior Vice President – Technology. Under his leadership at HBO, he was responsible for all aspects of Product Design, Development, Delivery and Operation of HBO Europe OTT platform branded as HBO GO.