Neil Hunt

Neil Hunt has served as Netflix Chief Product Officer since 1999.

Neil leads the Web site development team that has designed and continuously improves the Netflix site, which has five times been ranked by ForeSee Results as the #1 rated Web site for customer satisfaction. Neil's focus on customization and personalization ensures every Netflix member a unique experience every time they visit the site. This includes the movies they see on each page, the recommendations they receive on movies, and the critical account management tools they use, such as their dynamic queue to order movies.

Proprietary, algorithmically-driven software provides the service and competitive differentiation that have made Netflix one of the most prominent and admired brands on the Internet and has helped revolutionize the way consumers make home entertainment choices. On an average day the site facilitates about 1.8 million queue adds and processes more than one million movie ratings.

Neil is an accomplished scientist who excels at leading development teams to create powerful software that is reliable and easy to use. He honed that ability through research at Palo Alto laboratories and a decade in the software industry.

Beginning in 1991, Neil was responsible for the architecture and evolution of Purify and other developer tools for Pure Software while Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was its chief executive. Rational Software Corp. acquired the firm in 1997. Neil then served as director of engineering for Rational, managing development of TeamTest, TestStudio, Visual Test and other software testing tools.

Neil earned his doctorate in computer science from the University of Aberdeen, U.K., in 1986. During and afterward, he conducted research in several Palo Alto corporate laboratories. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Durham, U.K.