The Room gathers senior-level marketing professionals for candid seminar-based conversations. We've hosted over 500 dinners and 8 summits around the world. Room events are held in Cannes, CES, Possible, SXSW, and we design curated experiences throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

50 students, 10 books, and a constantly evolving syllabus make History of Internet Media an evolving and extraordinarily rewarding experience. Students have gone on to work at Google, Facebook and many startups and we are continuously building a network of alumni. The class meets once a week for 2.5 hours and guests have included: Ken Auletta, Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, Tim O'Reilly, , Eric Hippeau, and Jay Walker to name some. Regular appearances are made by David Kirkpatrick, Joanne Wilson, and Chris Fralic.THE GOVLABCo Founded in 2013 at NYU, technology solutions for governmentThe GovLab builds, studies and implements experimental, technology-enabled solutions that advance a collaborative, networked approach to re-invent existing institutions and processes of governance to improve people’s lives. ● Our work is predicated on the following hypotheses:Institutions that govern themselves more collaboratively solve problems faster and with greater success.Greater engagement leads to more legitimate democratic governance and also to better solutions for citizens.

GlacierGrid's mission is to protect our food and our planet. We build technology to ensure safety and sustainability from farm to fork. Therma, our IoT innovative refrigeration platform eliminates food waste and prevents refrigeration emissions -- protecting millions worldwide. We’re deployed across 5,000+ restaurants, retailers, and manufacturers with leading brands including Starbucks, McDonald's, Burger King, TGI Fridays, Chick-fil-A, 7-Eleven, Wyndham Hotels, and NOW Foods.Founded by experienced entrepreneurs from Harvard and Columbia, we’re a mission-driven team passionate about food, climate, and health. We are based in San Francisco, and supported by experienced venture capitalists from D. E. Shaw, Deciens Capital, Govtech Fund, Collaborative Fund, Social Capital, and Stage Venture Partners.For more information, visit our website at https://www.hellotherma.com

Soundwall is the only company in the world creating a connected canvas that integrates original and limited edition artwork with streaming, stereo-quality sound. The canvas contains a Raspberry Pi computer and remains connected to the Internet from the moment it hangs on a wall and effortlessly streams Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody directly to the artwork creating a speaker that can fill most rooms with big sound.Soundwalls fuse the old with the new -- the permanent with the real-time and help artists and collectors stay more connected. Soundwall can radically redefine how artists and collectors interact with each other. CONNECT WITH US:● Collectors can listen to the artist talk about the origin of the work or play it in artist mode where the sounds and music are controlled by the artist for a completely immersive experience. ● Artists- Soundwall provides visual artists with a new medium to explore their work & create new partnerships for selling their art● Musicians - who also see themselves as visual artists● Everyday art lovers/art lovers of all kinds who are attracted to unique art & creative expression● Galleries - seeking talented artists and the exciting new collaboration between visuals & audio● Museum curators – Seeking new collections● Marketing execs representing luxury brands who want to align their brand closer to the culture of music and artJust as album art and music videos gave musicians a visual identity, Soundwall brings sound and connectivity to enrich fine art and photography.LEARN MORE: http://www.soundwall.com/

Find any moment from any film ever made instantly. Our business enables content owners and artists to benefit from the immense demand consumers have to relive their favorite moments from films. Great value exists within film libraries. AnyClip unleashes this value through a product AnyClip.com and an API that enables a developer community to build unique consumer experiences using legally available film moments.

MenuPages is the leading company at providing up-to-the minute Restaurant information with a particular focus on comprehensive, current menu content. I was recruited to the company to raise capital and scale the operation. During our discussions it became clear that M and A was a very real possibility and after negotiating with several suitors we recently sold the business to Bruce Wasserstein's New York Magazine ( http://bit.ly/2M2jsb ). At MenuPages, I played a central role in bringing the company to a successful exit.

I co-founded Bolt in 1996, spun it off to new shareholders in 1999, and returned as its CEO a year ago. Bolt is High School/College-aged Internet Media company. Today Bolt reaches 3.5 million people a month (about the same as MTV.com). The company arguably knows more about its consumers than any media company on Earth. Marketers buy our services so they can form deep, authentic relationships with this elusive, highly brand conscious audience.The job is fantastic because, for an increasingly large group of young people, Bolt really matters. It's a vital part of their life and that makes me feel a great sense of purpose and mission. Plus I get to wear cool sneakers to work.

Built a $20mm website development agency. I lead two companies– Concrete Media and its subsidiary Girls On (sold to Oxygen Media in 2000).

It was the beginning of Advertising sales and, well, I sold advertising. Interestingly my boss was the visionary who coined "sponsor programming." His name was Shawn Gold and he is the current CMO of MySpace