Digital content provider OverDrive announced on March 3 that it has brought in Marc DeBevoise as its new president. DeBevoise, former CEO at the video platform Brightcove and a past leader at the online content network CBS Interactive, will help guide the company known for library reading app Libby, school “science of reading app” Sora, and video-streaming app Kanopy.

OverDrive founder and CEO Steve Potash, who served as company president prior to DeBevoise’s appointment, said in a statement that he expects DeBevoise to “make Libby, Sora, and Kanopy even more user friendly, more inclusive, and more joyful to use” and “help libraries and schools do what they do best, change lives through reading, viewing, and learning.”

DeBevoise told PW that he’s excited to be at a mission-driven company, connecting “publishers and content studios and creators” with public institutions through digital media.

“My career for the past 20-ish years has been about helping content find its audience, from the iPhone to the iPad to subscription streaming to free streaming,” he said. “OverDrive is a company that was on that same journey for a slightly different part of the media and content world.”

“My history has been in launching new things,” he added. “CBS All Access was the first network streaming service, and that became Paramount+. At Brightcove, we spent a lot of time revamping an AI suite to enable automated video publishing and metadata tagging and some of those key back-end features for a lot of our B2B companies, for our software customers.”

Now, he said, he looks forward to “continuing the evolution of our products”—Libby, Sora, and Kanopy—with OverDrive’s tech team. A top priority will be “broadening the content and the way we think about the content that we serve” to libraries, K–12 schools, and universities, he said, although he has only begun to strategize with product developers.

Overdrive, a Cleveland-based certified B Corp founded in 1986, serves more than 80,000 libraries and schools in 115 countries. Another goal for the months ahead, DeBevoise said, would be “overall global expansion. In the U.S., we are absolutely the number one provider in this space,” yet there appears to be room for growth worldwide. “We’re typically a non-exclusive partner to an international library system, and there are other competitors in there, so I think there’s a lot of opportunity.”