David J. Stubenvoll was named a 2019 Mountain Desert finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of Wowza Media Systems in Golden, CO, which was launched in 2005 as a startup to simplify and improve media streaming and is now an award-winning industry leader in streaming technology. Described as a “serial entrepreneur/intrapreneur,” he has founded or been involved at the outset of five successful startups, including Adobe Systems, Freeworks, Intuit, and GALT Technologies.