About Fluendo
Fluendo S.A. is a Spanish company specialized in software development and consulting services. Fluendo was conceived thanks to the vision and perspective of young entrepreneurs who dared banking on Open Software and Linux platforms without renouncing the model of a profitable and attractive business.
Fluendo is one of the three companies integrating Fluendo Group, and was the first one to be created. Fluendo is the pioneer company gathering GStreamer expertise, and also holding the basis of all the solutions offered by the other two companies in the group (Flumotion Services S.A. and Fluendo Embedded S.L.).
Flumotion technology offers a multi-format server and a platform capable of serving mainstream formats (Flash, Windows Media, MP3 and others) both live and on demand (VoD).
Fluendo Embedded, the youngest of the three companies, is developing the Moovida Media Center, which features an intuitive interface with a professional look, and at the same time offers advanced features that suit the needs of the most demanding users.
Fluendo, Flumotion and Fluendo Embedded have always worked close together, sharing headquarters in the same location: the World Trade Center Barcelona, the ultimate business center of the Mediterranean Capital.
Surrounded by an international environment, the three companies enjoy a privileged view of the harbor in the very heart of one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe: Barcelona.
Pascal Pegaz : Fluendo, Flumotion and Fluendo Embedded co-founder
Co-founder of Fluendo, Pascal Pegaz is uniquely successful at developing highly profitable applications for new technologies.
Pascal has created and managed technology and multimedia companies for the last twenty years. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his role in innovation and management in the fields of IT and media.
Julien Moutte : Fluendo, Flumotion and Fluendo Embedded co-founder and CEO
Julien combines a strong technical and business understanding of the IT market. Being an active contributor to the Free Software community since 2001 and co-founding more than 4 companies since 1998, he brought the vision leading to the establishment of the Fluendo group in 2004.
His multimedia skills and "Free Software friendly" strategy helped Fluendo acquire a strong leadership in the FOSS market.
Thomas Vander Stichele : Fluendo, Flumotion and Fluendo Embedded co-founder and Flumotion CTO
Thomas Vander Stichele is a longtime GStreamer contributor.
His original involvement came as a result of looking for a media framework to power a home entertainment system he was developing. At that time, he was also working for one of Belgium's private radio stations. There he used GStreamer to solve some of the technical challenges in his day-to-day work.
Before that he was part of the team that brought the first internet radio online in Europe.
Thomas is our resident audio expert and release manager. He got his degree in communication technology engineering from the University of Gent.
Jean Noel Saunier : Flumotion co-founder and CEO
Jean Noel is responsible for the strategic direction, sales and partner development, and team management. Jean Noel brings to Flumotion a deep knowledge of CDN, Streaming and Telcos businesses, and a successful track record in building and managing operations in the Internet environment.
Prior to Flumotion, Jean Noel was Country Manager for Akamai Technologies™ Spain, a company which he established in 2001. Reaching more than 10 M$ within 5 years, Spain became one of the most profitable international regions for Akamai Technologies. Customer satisfaction, strong partner ecosystem and creating a nice environment to work are some of his fundamentals for Flumotion.
Jean Noel graduated from the European Business School (EBS) in Paris.
Emmanuel Marquez : Fluendo Embedded CEO
Emmanuel Marquez joined Fluendo Embedded as CEO, leading the Moovida team to provide the company with a new approach for its Multimedia Concept. With almost 20 year of experience, Emmanuel has an extensive background in 3D technology, ranging from video games to training simulators and movie effects. Emmanuel offers experience in managing large teams of SW developers and full command of gaming technologies. Emmanuel combines both, the technical background and the management experience required to successfully carry out Moovida’s project.
Muriel Moscardini : Fluendo CSO
After an international career in the industrial field as a Supply chain manager in Gemplus, Muriel has developed her commercial and company management expertise in one of the biggest European consulting companies. As an industrial engineer, Muriel has always developed business being deeply involved in all technical aspects and is fully customer oriented.
Joining Fluendo in January 2008, Muriel is convinced that it is possible to do business in the open source environment, and jointly with Julien, they are developing solutions in accordance to market needs, and always aiming at customer satisfaction.
Coming from over a dozen different countries, our team of experts is made up by the most capable and qualified people available in the Free Software and IT communities.
Our group has realized that a friendly and relaxed environment is basic to encourage both, team performance and individual creativity. We believe our personnel to be our greatest asset, and work hard everyday to integrate different cultures, perspectives and ways of understanding the world.
Fluendo was born as an independent company in 2004, when Pascal Pegaz, Electronic Group’s CEO, believed and later invested in Julien’s idea of developing multimedia apps and solutions for Linux Platforms.
Fluendo started developing its Software Streaming Server, which was officially released on November the 30th under the name of Flumotion Open Source Project. Fluendo’s investment in Linux-based OS and Open Source continued during 2005, being a good example of such activities Fluendo’s joining the GNOME community and working along with Nokia to improve GStreaming Multimedia Framework.
In 2006, Fluendo Embedded was conceived to develop an outstanding and resourceful Media Center, which at the beginning was named Elisa, and later evolved into the Moovida Media Center. Nowadays Moovida is an Open Source application designed to administrate audio and video files and at the same time enhance the Multimedia experience on personal computers. Simultaneously, Fluendo continued investing in legal solutions that allowed us to offer licenses for most of the mainstream multimedia formats available in the market.
After only 5 years, Fluendo has positioned itself as one the leading suppliers of Multimedia solutions for Linux.
