Brian Lakamp Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Member of the Board of Directors of one of the US's two scaled audio and broadcasting groups, reaching more than 200 million consumers via award-winning podcasts, 220 radio stations in 45 markets, and leadership positions in sports and news.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, Us

As EVP, Media Supply Chain, Brian leads global operating teams responsible for delivering Paramount content worldwide to distribution partners such as Apple, Amazon, Canal+, and Sky, and in support of Paramount+, SkyShowtime, and Pluto TV launches globally. Under Brian's management, Media Supply Chain operations teams process media (acquisition, QC, localization, conformance, packaging and delivery) at scale worldwide across offices in NY, LA, London, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Buenos Aires, among others. Brian also directs the transformation of the underlying technology and operations into a unified platform that consolidates and streamlines legacy systems from CBS, Showtime, Viacom and Paramount Pictures.

New York, Us

As SVP, Media Supply Chain, Brian led the design and development of a consolidated content scheduling, preparation, packaging and delivery platform to unify media systems and operations across Paramount's major content brands, including CBS, Showtime, Viacom and Paramount Pictures. Brian also took responsibility for global operations across NY, LA, London, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Buenos Aires that acquired, QC'd, localized, conformed, packaged and fulfilled media for delivery to distribution partners across the globe, including Paramount+, Pluto TV, Amazon, Apple, and Sky.

New York, Us

Working with ViacomCBS' CTO, Brian accelerated the integration and transformation of the combined, post-merger ViacomCBS with responsibilities including: 1) selection and engagement of tech integration partners, 2) future state tech org design, 3) planning and orchestration of ViacomCBS' tech integration and Tech IMO, 4) engagement and direction of strategic partners driving ViacomCBS' tech transformation, and 5) strategic financial planning. While working with ViacomCBS, Brian played a lead role in structuring, driving and negotiating ViacomCBS's strategic partnership with AWS.

As Chairman, Brian worked with Totem's leadership to develop product offerings and go-to-market strategies for enterprise, in-building cellular solutions.

As CEO of Totem, Brian tackled the cellular future of small cells and 5G across indoor and outdoor applications. Under Brian's leadership, Totem developed an innovative outdoor infrastructure platform that combined small cell equipment, energy storage (for backup power) and electric vehicle charging into a powerful, attractive, and high-value unit. Working in partnership with Ericsson, AT&T and Verizon, Brian also identified, nurtured and scaled Totem's indoor small cell business for enterprise customers.

Winnsboro, Sc, Us

Working with Element Electronics' CEO and President, Brian analyzed, developed, modeled, and prototyped a new strategic business opportunity.

New York, Ny, Us

As President, Technology + Digital Ventures, Brian led and operated iHeartMedia's technology platform across its businesses -- broadcast, digital radio, events and promotions and out-of-home -- including sales, programming, broadcast, and corporate infrastructure. In his role, Brian was also responsible for identifying and executing investments in emerging, strategic technology initiatives and entities.

New York, Ny, Us

As President of Digital, Brian was responsible for launching and leading iHeartRadio, the company’s industry-leading streaming music and digital radio service, including product design, development and operations. Under his leadership, iHeartRadio registered 50 Million users faster than any other digital music service in history. During this time, Lakamp was also responsible for the sites, infrastructure, tools and social media integrations for iHeartMedia's 800+ local station properties.

New York, Ny, Us

As EVP of Digital, Brian managed Premiere's interactive business, including its highly-popular sites for personalities and shows such as American Top 40, Ryan Seacrest, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Harvey, Jim Rome, Coast to Coast and more. In his role, Brian accelerated Premiere's advertising and subscription businesses to over $20 million annually, developed its mobile strategy, and grew engagement to over 100 million page views per month.

MediaMaster is a next generation music service offering consumers the ability to backup their entire collection online and access their music anytime, anywhere.

Culver City, Ca, Us

At Sony Pictures, Brian defined Sony Pictures Entertainment’s (SPE) corporate policy for new digital distribution channels and business models. Brian represented SPE in standard setting activities such as Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), Blu-Ray / Advanced Access Content System (AACS), DVD-CCA and Coral Consortium, where he was elected Chairperson of Coral's Home Network Committee and led cross-industry group of over thirty companies in defining requirements for home networking specification. While at SPE, Brian filed 12 patents (pending) on media home networking, network auditing, and kiosk distribution of media. Brian also conducted studio-wide evaluations of key media technologies such as DRM, watermarking and digital asset management. Given his expertise, he was often asked to serve as a moderator/speaker representing Sony Pictures at conferences and public events.

Culver City, Ca, Us

At Sony Pictures Digital (SPD), Brian was responsible for Sony Pictures Digital's technology team of over 80 individuals and an annual budget of over $15 million. Brian directed development of SPD’s Digital Distribution Platform where he launched SoapCity.com and Screenblast.com. In addition, Brian led an IT team responsible for supporting over 300 SPD employees and managed technical operations and site uptime for SonyPictures.com, including all SPE movie and TV sites. For one strategic endeavor, Brian consolidated fragmented hosting and operations into single operational facility, which required migration planning, contract renegotiation and organizational change.

Boston , Ma, Us

Brian led Viant’s US Media & Entertainment operations and with over $20 million in annual revenues. Brian's responsibilities included business development and successful delivery of consulting engagements for several Fortune 500 companies.While there, Brian managed Viant’s largest consulting project at Sony Pictures Entertainment, involving the development of MovieLink, the industry’s first digital distribution platform for feature films. As part of the effort, Brian led a team of 30 in project delivery, from business planning to system deployment.

San Francisco, California, Us

At Robertson, Stephens, Brian was an associate analyst responsible for analyzing operating and financial performance of wireless telecom equipment manufacturers including Motorola, Lucent, Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm. Brian developed extensive market projections, financial models and earnings forecasts, and co-authored comprehensive company and industry research reports.

Dublin 2, Ie

At Andersen, Brian spent 2+ years working with AT&T Wireless to develop a new customer acquiaition and customer care system for in-field and call center representatives. Brian conducted analysis of business requirements and technical limitations to design one-fourth of an extensive customer care system. On that project, Brian managed at team of six developers in high-risk project to migrate an existing application to the new, proof-of-concept architecture. Brian also designed and coded modules to extract data from legacy system data sources and convert data to the new database schema; technology experience included C, C++, Objective C, NeXTStep, UNIX, SQL

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Mathematics With Specialization In Computing