Anthony Wood (businessman)

Anthony J. Wood (born 1965) is an English-born American billionaire businessman who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Roku, Inc.

Anthony Wood
Born1965 or 1966 (age 57–58)[1]
England
NationalityAmerican
EducationTexas A&M University
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder, chairman and CEO of Roku, Inc.
SpouseSusan Wood
Children3

Personal life

Wood grew up in Manchester, England, and then in Georgia and Texas in the United States.[1] Wood earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.[2][3] Wood met his wife Susan at Texas A&M University, where she studied environmental design.[1][4] They have three children,[5] and live in Palo Alto, California.[6]

Career

While in college Wood started SunRize Industries which developed software and hardware for the Amiga.[4][7][8] From September 1997 to August 2001, he was president and CEO of ReplayTV, which he sold in 2002 to SONICblue.[2][9] Wood founded Roku in October 2002, has been the CEO since then, and chairman since February 2008.[2] As of November 2017, Wood owned 27.3% of Roku.[10]

References
  1. "This Is the Man Responsible for Your Binge-Watching Addiction". Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  2. "Management - Roku". Roku. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  3. "Executive Profile: Anthony J. Wood". Bloomberg LP. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. "Trailblazers - True Vision - Texas A&M Foundation Spirit Magazine". Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  5. "How Roku is kicking the cable industry's butt & where it's going next [exclusive] - VentureBeat". venturebeat.com. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  6. "Roku pins TV's future on Internet streaming". Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  7. "Perfect Sound". Amiga Hardware Database.
  8. "Samplers /SunRize Industries: Perfect Sound". Big Book of Amiga Hardware.
  9. "Forbes profile: Anthony Wood". Forbes. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  10. Salinas, Sara (13 November 2017). "Roku's CEO is now a billionaire after the stock soared 70 percent since earnings". CNBC. Retrieved 22 June 2019.


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