26 GENIUS INTERVIEW Camilla Young
OTT delivery and orchestration company Vualto provides video on-demand services for big broadcasters and big government. FEED talks to company co-founder and CEO Camilla Young about the history of streaming, developments in VOD and getting more girls into IT NO ONE’SWATCHING PROPER TELLY, SO I THINKWE ARE IN THE RIGHT BUSINESS
FEED: Can we start from the beginning? What was your background before you started Vualto? CAMILLA YOUNG: I started as a software developer in the late 1980s for Colman’s of Norwich, a food manufacturer, after I had done a computer science A level. When I was younger, I wasn’t able to study computing – it was 1984, the ZX Spectrum had just come out, and the computer club at school was all boys, but I was quite interested in it and had my own computer. So I did the computing A level and went on to do an HND (Higher National Diploma) in computer science, and did pretty well. I was at Colman’s for five years, coding in various languages and writing all sorts of things, like manufacturing systems for measuring the flow of liquid through a pipe. It was quite varied and gave me a really good grounding. Back then, there were 50 people in the IT department and half of
them were women – at the time, that didn’t seem unusual. FEED: We spoke to someone recently who pointed out that gender equality was actually more common in the earlier days of computer programming. CAMILLA YOUNG: Absolutely. I think gaming has got a lot to do with that. You
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