2024 Client Focus: Gen AI, LLM & No Code & of course Streaming TVCurrent: CaptionHub, Tedial, Omnisearch & othersProduct Strategy, Content Marketing & Sales Development. Player / coach.

I leverage my technical product strategy, content marketing & business development skills to help Amagi keep customers happy and grow revenue across News & Sports.

Helping Amagi verticalize our offering to deepen product-market-fit with the News genre vertical for the world's first and best cloud playout, FAST & end-to-end streaming TV platform.

Selected clients: Amagi Corp, Tedial, Levels Beyond, Haivision/SRT Alliance, Singular.Live, Grass Valley, SeaChange, ATEME, Beamr, Evergent, Mux, Thuuz Sports, Univision, Wowza, Pac-12 Networks, Brightcove, Bitcentral, nanoCosmos, Burst.it, NewBay Media (Multichannel News and B&C)Expert in go-to-market, product-market-fit, content strategy, sales enablement, business development, partnerships, market research, M&A advisory, and corporate strategy.Free Quarterly Research 👉 www.RingDigital.tv

Full-time stint leading Cisco's SPVSS product strategy & content marketing operation. My work had a big impact in a short period of time. Check it out:* Lead author for nine great blog posts: https://blogs.cisco.com/author/brianring * Helped create & script some key tech demos on the show floor* Beautiful, high-difficulty infographic on streaming piracy: https://alln-extcloud-storage.cisco.com/ciscoblogs/5b97e9553150f.pdf * Authored the winning TV Connect Award submission for Cisco Smart Rate Control using SVQ* Various social media duties including quick-take videos on the IBC Show floor (see attached)* Fulfilled critical last-minute field marketing task involving hand-outs & a print ad in AsiaI was hired into Cisco SPVSS. It subsequently spun-out to Synamedia, a Permira-backed company.

Head of Product Marketing and Sales Enablement for Thuuz Sports. Instrumental in facilitating one of the company's biggest wins, ultimately helping Thuuz to successfully exit to Stats Perform, a leader in sports streaming.

Moved to Stockholm on assignment to build the global Broadcast software business for Ericsson AB.- Secured significant budget and executed across functions in a strategic program management leadership role.- Led new product development of a cloud-native media management platform which included an innovative OEM component and many 3rd party partnerships.- Guided the development of an OTT video solution that integrated vendors in four separate modules, including CMS, billing, CRM, and OVP. - Led a global RFI for OVPs, including Kaltura, Brightcove, Vimond, tvinci and Ooyala.

Responsible for driving TV software sales by building solutions & partnerships.- Led product strategy & business case for the WatchPoint CMS video software product.- Worked across global teams in engineering, product, marketing, sales and support.- WatchPoint grew to be a clear leader in its segment & exceeded original projections by 100%.- Won 1st Prize in the company's innovation competition & presented at NAB Show: "Multiplatform Queues: Using Social Networks to Improve Content Discovery for TV Subscribers”- Developed product vision and business case for the company’s online video platform.Marketing contributions- Nxtcomm 2008 (Three-screen Television)- Broadband World Forum Europe, 2008 (Advanced User Interfaces)- Supercomm/Nxtcomm 2009 (Social TV)- NAB 2010 (Social TV & Multi-platform TV Queues)- Conference blog posts at www.ericsson.com/televisionary/blog-users/12

Led strategic business development at Scope Seven, a 75-person digital media, technology development and creative services company. Reported to Chairman & CEO with P&L and account responsibility for our interactive games business.Key accomplishments:- Drove over $3 million in new business revenue within 3 years by closing large, strategic accounts like DIRECTV, Hasbro, Mattel, Funrise Toy Corp., Leapfrog, Warner Bros. and FunBrandz.- Managed the development of a pioneering iTV game service that utilized Cisco DVR technology to deliver video-clip based games on DIRECTV set-top boxes.- Closed a multi-million dollar game production services contract with licensee of DreamWorks.- Structured & negotiated a six-figure in-licensing IP deal with ZOOtech.- Sourced, structured and closed a significant joint partnership agreement including a technology licensing agreement and video game production services contract with Funrise to launch ZOOOOS, a pre-school DVD game system.- Earned 6 Executive Producer credits on branded DVD Games including Shrek, High School Musical, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Dora & Diego.PR & Thought leadership- Entertainment Media Expo, 2006 (DVD Games)- DVD Entertainment Conference, 2006 (DVD Games)- KidScreen Summit, 2007 (Interactive Games)- Future of Television Conference, 2007 (Interactive DVR Games)- SXSW Interactive, 2007 (DVD Games)- Digital Hollywood 2007 (Future of Television)

Acquired by Scope Seven in 2004, DVDMarketer.com was a B2B marketing site providing strategic analysis, market research and lead generation to DVD and post-production companies. White paper downloads, blog, paid search, and email marketing efforts resulted in 2,000 unique monthly visitors, database of 1,000 newsletter subscribers, and invitations to speak at industry events.

Venture investment, business development, and content licensing deals covering all aspects of digital music. Selected to write a keynote conference speech on digital music.Deal highlights- Lead investment in DataPlay, Inc.'s $50MM Series C- Valuation analysis and due diligence for a $120MM acquisition candidate for GetMusic JV- Group-wide artist marketing agreement with NeoPlanet, Inc.- Negotiation of $24MM portal deal for GetMusic JV

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