Ted Sarandos is the Chief Content Officer for Netflix. Before he joined Netflix as the head of content acquisition, he worked as an executive for the video distributor ETD and for Video City and West Coast Video. In 2013, Time Magazine listed him as one of the top 100 most influential people.
Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With more than 20 years’ experience in home entertainment, Mr. Sarandos is recognized in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution. Before Netflix, Mr. Sarandos was an executive at video distributor ETD and Video City / West Coast Video. Mr. Sarandos is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and serves on the board of Exploring The Arts, a non-profit focused on arts in schools. He also serves on the Film Advisory Board for Tribeca and Los Angeles Film Festival, is an American Cinematheque board member, an Executive Committee Member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a trustee of the American Film Institute.
