Emerald: (NYSE: EEX) The largest live events company in the US with more than 140 events over 447 days each year but also the owner of a world class portfolio of dozens of brands ranging from Advertising Week to MJBiz. We’re more than 700 employees nationally deployed - and we’re growing!

Future plc: (LON: FUTR) 200+ global brands with more than 3000 global employees connecting with more than 260M users - 1 in 3 users in both the US and the UK visit or buy Future brands.Managing Director executive P&L, leadership & strategy responsibilities across multiple B2B and B2C business, tech & science brands including events, video, content marketing & e-commerce, editorial strategy, advertising, affiliate marketing, video production & revenue, photography, social, and product testing labs serving the largest US technology & science audience online while at Purch (ComScore Nov 2018) and again at Future.Brands under my direction at Future have included both B2C and B2B brands including TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Laptop, CinemaBlend, Space.com, What Hi-Fi, T3, LiveScience, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech, TopTenReviews, MacLife, Linux Format, iCreate, Maximum PC, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, Next TV, TV Technology, TVBE and other brands based in the United States, the UK and Australia.I have also led the development, managed the launch and wrote the GTM strategy and directed the successful day-to-day growth of two new brands at Future during the Covid pandemic: growing What to Watch from zero users in July 2020 to more than 2M users within 11 months. After researching the B2B OTT/Direct to Consumer space I developed and launched Next TV - which has grown to become the dominant B2B brand in that space. Also during the pandemic I managed the acquisition of CinemaBlend and grew that brand by more than 32% in 10 months.Deep expertise in B2B and B2C editorial operations, events, content marketing strategy & e-commerce: growing multiple millions in annual revenues with triple digit growth metrics across a diverse revenue stream with brands publishing high quality journalism.Video & video revenue growth - I have grown video revenues anywhere from 200% to as much as 1675X.Rebooted and rebuilt cost-efficient centralized teams in video, social, events.

Recruited & hired by eBay founder Pierre Omidiyar as one of three lead executives for the launch of his $250M investment in First Look Media, a multi-platform start-up supporting a range of journalism and digital media initiatives including the Online News Association Award-winning website "reported.ly" and the Academy of Motion Pictures Award-winning Best Picture of the Year "Spotlight."Executive responsibilities included multi-platform product development and leadership of "reported.ly" - an award-winning global social media news initiative, and all audience development, social strategy and engagement efforts across First Look Media including "The Intercept" - a digital news brand.reported.ly - https://reported.ly - winner of the 2015 Online News Association (ONA) Breaking News Award: https://lnkd.in/eZyHTkiThe Intercept - https://theintercept.com

Created a new digital media strategy that leveraged original video and text editorial, unprecedented paid content, deep user analytics and an aggressive publishing tempo to reboot, redesign & re-position EW.com as an innovative & engaging multi-platform brand to advertisers and end users.Managed teams in editorial, video, production, social, design & new product development while collaborating closely with multiple business & brand stakeholders, including legacy print teams, to drive record high audience growth and unprecedented digital revenues. Retrained core digital team in Agile/Scrum product development best practices to speed product tempo.Collaborated with agencies, brands, studios & networks to deliver new sponsored paid content.Transformed EW Digital into a major video and social destination on mobile, collaborating with studios & networks to deliver 10X more videos annually. Launched 10 new video series and produced live streamed video at Comic-Con and Sundance. 4,000+ videos posted in 2013 alone. Developed ground-breaking new traffic-driving relationships with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and a range of social media platforms & start-ups,Key achievements: - Developed new video strategy and low-cost productions; created new up-tempo editorial strategy; led complete redesigns and launch of new brand extensions and sponsored content. - UV growth: 250% increase - PV growth: 300% increase - Social growth: +500% increase to more than 7 million followers - Facebook growth: +1100% increase; Twitter growth +72% increase - Led complete redesigns and launched 5 new sections - Application developmen: viEWer - a second screen app; Front Row app; redesigned Must List App.First Place Awards 2011 - 2014:Ad Age - Media Vanguard Award; Editor & Publisher - Best Use of Social Media; E & P - Best Entertainment News Blog; Folio - Best Online Site of the Year; Folio - Best Online Article; Multiple Min Awards - Best Team & Best Video

Created the Graduate School of Journalism's first Applied Social Media Graduate Seminar. Taught the J School's Advanced Digital Media Seminar with Dan Gillmor and Paul Grabowitz.

Spearheaded global digital media product development, strategies & operations for the George Lucas-owned Lucasfilm Ltd. Focus included Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and a range of multi-platform games, products, and digital user experiences.Leveraged emerging technologies & user trends into new digital experiences on multiple platforms; managed revenues in e-commerce & ad sales; directed production & content, application development, and launched new social media initiatives while managing competing marketing and business priorities across multiple business units.Special focus on creating original Star Wars content for the TV program "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"​ including new brand extensions and UX (games, partner products and viral digital activities) to drive tune-in and licensed products.Drove the transformation of Star Wars.com from a low UV fanboy-centric marketing site with no revenues and low social media presence into a general interest pop culture destination and a diversified multi-million dollar business.Key achievements:- Grew StarWars.com site UVs by more than 60%, grew PVs by more than 500%. - Created game concept & led partner selection of Sony Online Entertainment on The Clone Wars Adventures, a casual MMO game with more than 10MM registered paying users. - Collaborated with Paramount Pictures team on Lucasfilm's global digital marketing efforts for "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - the #1 global box office film of 2008. - Served as Editorial Director at LucasArts on websites & integrated marketing campaigns for 15+ LucasArts games. - Created new content & UX including more than a dozen casual browser games, hundreds of videos, innovative fan films, video mashups, online graphic novels, iPhone and Facebook apps, dozens of casual games while directing 100% upgrade of entire digital infrastructure. - Grew annual diversified digital revenues by more than 250%; managed ad sales & Star Wars Shop, launching 75 new products.

Collaborated closely with company founders & executives across a global dynamic matrixed organization to centralize & lead all editorial strategy & day-to-day operations including content creation, home page news & content programming, new product development, marketing messaging across Yahoo.com and hundreds of millions of worldwide users.News leadership included 24/7/365 news content programming on the Yahoo! Home Page – the most visited page on the Internet; topical news aggregation within Yahoo! News; new product development & product redesigns; special expanded coverage of major news events including elections, conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, & a wide range of breaking domestic & international news coverage.Managed a diverse network of editorial teams in multiple foreign and domestic locations imbedded within Yahoo! properties (Home Page, News, Sports, Kids, Entertainment, Games, My Yahoo!, Messenger, Autos, Shopping, Travel, Ask, Health, Finance & Small Business, Marketing & more) to meet a range of editorial needs including news aggregation, photos, original news & sports content, new product development & UI copy, content programming, user assistance & technical documentation, copy-editing & marketing messaging.Key Achievements: - Increased traffic to the Yahoo! Home Page by 40% (UVs) and boosted PVs by more than 30% during my tenure. - Drove 60% of all traffic into Yahoo! News from the Yahoo! Home Page, helping to propel Y! News from #4 to the #1 ranked most visited news site on the web. - Created centralized global editorial services including multiple calendars to coordinate efforts, create efficiencies & minimize churn; developed the Yahoo Editorial Style Guide to better manage use of the Yahoo! brand voice. - Co-led one of the largest philanthropic efforts on the web raising $72 million for Hurricane Katrina victims. - Established new editorial teams, hiring top talent away from The New York Times, ESPN, CNN, AOL, Google, Cnet, and others.

Led editorial strategy and all content creation and operations for a new Internet financial services technology firm founded by Nobel Laureate (Economics) and Stanford University Professor Dr. William F. Sharpe.Hired to create ground-breaking new digital media products and editorial content for a new high tech financial services start-up; developed the brand voice and wrote UI copy for a range of products and marketing messaging.Key achievements: - Founded news and content-rich personal finance website Investor Central used by more than 10MM users, - Established news and content licensing and development feeds with the Associated Press and other content vendors - Created a network of personal finance writers and columnists to provide fresh timely personal finance content. - Developed personalized newsletters with open rates of 60% - Developed Waterfall & Agile / Scrum product development process expertise.