Jean-Baptiste Kempf

At-a-Glance

Major developer and leader of VLC Media Player, an iconic open-source project with over 5 billion downloads
Founder and CEO of Kyber
Tech Founder of Playruo
Founder & President of Fflabs
President and lead VLC Developer at Videolan
Serves as a Startups board member

Biography

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is a major developer and leader of VLC Media Player, an iconic open-source project that has achieved over 5 billion downloads. He also serves as the President and lead VLC Developer at Videolan, and is a Community Committee Member at Ffmpeg.

Kempf is an entrepreneur and CTO, having founded several bootstrapped companies within the open-source multimedia ecosystems, including Kyber, Playruo, and Fflabs.