David Beck Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Public company COO, leading Corporate Development & Strategy, Technology Partnerships / Marketplace, Channel Partnerships, Data Strategy, Analytics & BI, Revenue Operations, Marketing Operations, and Ad Monetization.Focused on advancing the execution of Brightcove's strategy, driving operational excellence, fostering greater cross-functional collaboration.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Leading teams across Strategy, Corporate Development, Marketing (PR, Comms, Demand Gen, Product Strategy & Marketing), Data Science & Data Analytics, Technology & Enterprise Partnerships, and Ad Operations.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Leading strategy, business, and corporate development. Focused on identifying and accelerating growth opportunities including organic initiatives, M&A, and strategic partnerships globally.

Boston, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

MIT Delta v is MIT’s venture accelerator program. For the past 7+ years, Beck has partnered with the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship to expand Delta v from Boston to New York through the MIT NYC Startup Studiohttp://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/accelerator/program/

Argus Capital Corp. was a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) focused on the broader tech-driven media landscape.

Miami, Florida, US

Worked with Senior Leadership and Board, actively evaluating acquisition opportunities.

New York, NY, US

Beck led the Entertainment Group’s linear and digital programming strategy, scheduling and acquisitions group, digital content studio, digital product and operations. His teams conceived, designed, built, and operated services and partnerships including streaming bundles, SVOD, AVOD, TVE, and AMC+, as well as key brand and functional areas across AMC, BBC.

New York, NY, US

• Promoted to lead a company-wide strategic assessment and growth planning effort to ultimately meet AT&T’s integration objectives. Oversaw the building of talent and capabilities to further this agenda, including.
• Delivered Strategic Priorities & Challenges assessment to the new CEO plus an entirely new set of data analysis expertise and tools with bespoke insights dashboards (for the CEO, CFO, and division presidents) that.
• Conducted consumer research to prioritize and advance the product roadmaps and specific feature sets of all direct-to-consumer streaming products from HBO Max to CNN to Bleacher Report Live.
• Conceived and facilitated the “Fast Forward Forum,” a think-tank series for execs from HBO, Turner, CNN, Google, etc. to stimulate action and collaboration on technologies including voice, AI, AR, VR, IoT etc.
• Authored analyses for AT&T’s CEO Technology Advisory Council to inform investment in sports betting and give a consolidated point of view on the company’s relationship with Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.

New York, NY, US

• Following the acquisition of BRaVe, moved the team to Turner to steer strategy, business development, and investment activity across Turner’s two largest cable TV networks (~$9B P&L), reporting directly to the President.
• Led the annual strategy and operating planning process and presented recommendations for a go-forward network transformation in anticipation of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
• Created a revenue expansion model that leveraged core IP (Conan O’Brien, Samantha Bee) in adjacent platforms.
• Championed the strategy and investment process for Esports, including executing the investment in Battlefy.
• Identified opportunities in the innovation investment portfolio: Created new partnership models for Refinery29 and Mashable and restructured SuperDeluxe’s operating and growth plans.
• Pursued greenfield initiatives with PR-signaling value like an AR/VR Studio, IoT, connected cars/city partnerships.

New York, US

• With Jesse Redniss and Gary Vaynerchuk, launched an advisory practice, with an investment & incubation arm, to help industry leaders and insurgents—including forward-thinking C-Suite / EVPs at Viacom, Turner, CBS, A+E.
• Drove the strategy, product roadmap/development, and business case for Turner Launchpad that became an industry-leading, hundred+ million-dollar social video monetization platform for ad sales.
• Partnered with the CMO of TBS/TNT to build a more data and content-driven organization (by restructuring the marketing and digital product groups) and to lead the vision and rebuild of the networks’ OTT TVE Apps.
• Sourced and executed investments in data, analytics, AI, mobile commerce, connectivity, and content with MikMak, Epic (Acq. by Vox), CANVS, Affinio, Furious Corp, and Vizbee.
• Successfully incubated Delmondo, a social video analytics platform that was acquired by Conviva, as well as TV[REV] for news and thought leadership on the evolving technology, media, and marketing landscape.
• Cultivated a multidisciplinary pool of 15-20 full-time talent and a scalable experts-in-residence program.

New York City, New York, US

Served as a mentor at Techstars NYC and active investor in early stage companies.

Miami, Florida, US

• Recruited by the CEO to design, build, and steer an enterprise-wide social media organization—across linear and digital entertainment, news, and sports—from scratch.
• Established the teams, tech/infrastructure, and business processes, uniting internal functions (marketing, ad sales, data analytics, programming/production, distribution) and agency & technology partners.
• Implemented monetization, marketing, and ad sales partnerships—for the Latin Grammy Awards, World Cup, US Presidential Town Halls and more—with Facebook, Google, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Pepsi, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint.
• Earned 25 industry awards in two years, including personal recognition as Social TV Marketer of the year (’14) and Latin Social TV Marketer of the year (’13).
• Served as spokesperson for innovative efforts at SXSW, Mashable, AdAge, NATPE, MIT Tech, and other summits.

Miami, Florida, US

• Selected by the CEO to develop “Office of the CEO” function, sourcing and training high-potential talent to deliver on board-level priorities like M&A, enterprise partnerships, digital / social transformation.
• Turned around L.A. market (~50% of UCI revenue), delivering double digit ratings/revenue growth in six months.
• Architected the strategy, monetization, and investment plan to become the Hispanic market leader in social media and mobile video, maximizing the mutual value of Hispanic audiences and advertisers.
• Spearheaded the enterprise-wide restructuring of ad sales, involving McKinsey and TPG Capital.
• Accelerated revenue/profit initiatives by partnering with multiple division presidents to develop 100-Day Executive Plans and related strategic and operating roadmaps.
• Created a board presentation that became the company-wide template for presenting strategic initiatives for investment approval and subsequent operating planning and KPI tracking.

Boston, MA, US

• Managed large-scale growth strategy, turnaround, M&A, and portfolio management projects for entertainment, technology, consumer, and Private Equity clients.
• Instituted a critical global change-management program for an Australian-based international construction firm.
• Helped Comcast evaluate opportunities to scale in media which led to their acquisition of NBCU.
• Delivered prioritized consumer card services recommendations to American Express over two years.

• Sourced and managed the execution of M&A transactions for privately-held, middle-market companies.
• Learned how to analyze and break down a variety of mainstream businesses in ways that met the business owners’ goals and enabled sales to Private Equity firms.

Certificate: Artificial Intelligence - Implications For Business Strategy (Mit Csail & Mit Sloan)

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