CEO and majority owner of Ross Video
David Ross is the CEO and majority owner of Ross Video, having R&D and head office based in Ottawa, manufacturing in Iroquois Ontario, with additional significant manufacturing and sales offices in London, Singapore, Virginia Beach, California, and more. Since David graduated as a Computer Engineer and joined the company in 1991, it has grown from a small analog switcher company with about 25 employees to a global company with over 650 employees that has made 12 acquisitions in the past 7 years. Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers technology and services that power live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts (like CTV here in town, or the BBC World News), engaging material for sports stadium screens (such as the Canadian Tire Center and the Staples Center), legislative assemblies (such as the EU and the United Nations), entertainment shows and rock concerts (such as the Academy Awards, Grammy’s, or the Foo Fighters), as well as inspiring content for houses of worship. Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, video routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, and more. Ross also now creates the video content itself, delivering live sports shows to ESPN, NBC, Fox, and more. This year, Ross Mobile Productions expects to produce over 1000 games and events in its 5 sports production vehicles based in the United States. David and his team have managed to achieve this growth internally funded, without a single down year in 25 straight years, while maintaining an average growth rate of 17 percent. David is also a board member of Invest Ottawa and the 2016 Ottawa CEO of the Year. At the Spring Convocation, this year (2017) David was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University (DU) by the University of Ottawa.