The director of product management team for several key Google products is to join Brightcove's board.

Director of product management for Google finance, Ritcha Gupta Ranjan also worked on GSuite, Google Wallet, Adwords Editor, and mobile search products, and was director of the team that took Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and Keep from consumer and education-focused products to one used by enterprises all over the world.

She is co-founder of educational not-for-profit company Five Pumpkins, and previously worked at Microsoft's speech group and Yahoo! as product marketing manager. She holds several patents and won a Google Founder's Award for her product work.

Brightcove says she and Harvard professor Tsedal Neeley will bring expertise in remote work, digital transformation and technology helping guide the company to its next stage of growth.

Brightcove chief executive Jeff Ray says the company is at the forefront at a pivotal moment in history, enabling companies to continue to work effectively through video. "We are thrilled to add Tsedal and Ritcha to our board of directors.

"By bringing progressive, forward-thinking ideas and deep technical expertise, they both will help Brightcove build and scale, enabling our company to best serve our customers and the video industry."

Tsedal Neeley has been a professor at the Harvard Business School since 2007 and has been the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration since 2018. She heads the required leadership and organisational behaviour course in the MBA programme and co-chairs the Leading Global Businesses executive offering.