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Greater San Diego Area

Leveraging decades of experience in media, including cable television, radio, OTT, data analytics and engineering services. Represented Vimmi, an OTT, CDN and Edge Computing Platform company based in Israel. Also production and syndication radio content including "One Hit Wonders", "#1 Music", "Swing Spotlight" and spot production.

San Marcos, California, United States

Executive in Residence (EIR) at Cal State San Marcos, College of Business. Coaching and mentoring Business students, focusing on internships, career development, networking and direction and LinkedIn skills. 50% of the CSUSM business graduates are first time college graduates in their family.

Israel, San Diego

I provided strategic North America business development consulting for Vimmi, an OTT, CDN and Multi Access Edge Computing (MEC) technologies company, used by leading operators and content providers globally. I established business partnerships, developed NA targets and created a successful business foundation for this Israeli company,who otherwise had no presence.

San Diego, Los Angeles, Minneapolis

I established and led all sales and marketing activities for Nevelex, a digital media and embedded systems Engineering Services Company. Nevelex services included Linux, OpenGL, networking, ATSC, VOD, 4K, streaming media and Android/iOS development and integration. Customers included AT&T's DirecTV, Invidi, and Vecima among others.

San Diego, Chicago

I led Allant Group’s data business expansion into markets including television content distributors, studios, broadcasters, advertising, and consumer electronics in the Western United States. Allant was an advanced advertising 3rd party data re seller. Their products and services were designed to help media buyers and sellers benefit from audience based marketing and advertising. Customers included Comcast, NBC Universal, Dish, Charter and Warner Bros., among others.

Greater San Diego Area

For almost 8 years I developed strategic plans for new business development and marketing initiatives to increase revenues and expand customers resulting in multiple record revenue, EBITDA and Net Income years for Solekai Systems, a digital video software engineering services company with long time customers including TiVo, DirecTV, Arris, Ultraviolet Studio Consortium, GoPro and others.- I negotiated contracts from $100K to $5M+ and managed sales cycle from 3 months to two years for digital video and consumer electronics projects focusing on new technology initiatives/standards including RDK, MPEG DASH, Ultraviolet, iOS/Andorid, and UHDTV. - My successful projects ranged from software development for Ultraviolet, TV Anywhere, Advertising, Client Software (device), Server Side software and M2M to Cloud Ecosystem platforms.- My strategic marketing activities included digital marketing (website, social media), press release management, hosting regional seminars for prospects and clients, and conference sponsorships (U.S. and Europe).- I built extensive relationships across Content Creators, Digital Video, and Consumer categories: Video on Demand (VOD), TV Platforms, Data/DRM, Advanced Advertising, Conditional Access, SoC, Satellite and Cable Providers, Cable Networks, and Consumer Electronics Manufacturers.

New York, San Diego

I led business development for domestic and international sales, contract negotiations, product strategy, and business marketing for award winning enterprise software enabling consumer transactions and multiplatform asset management. Cauldron’s customers included multi-channel distributors and content providers reaching broadband, IPTV, digital, portable device, and mobile platforms. The company was successfully sold to Anystream (now Grab Networks).- I sold and launched enterprise software into Fortune 500 media companies (ABC/Disney, TV Guide, Showtime and Comcast among others) exceeding the annual revenue goal of $5M annually.- By coordinating with product management, engineering, and operations I created comprehensive product proposals that increased sales proposal production.

Carlsbad, Ca

I directed prospecting, contract negotiations, consumer/business marketing, and business development for the award winning and Emmy nominated iTV games channels. Distribution included cable television, satellite, telephony, hotel/motel, airlines, mobile, retail, and Internet industries.- Sold and launched a premium Buzztime trivia ITV service to U.S satellite distributor Echostar and Canadian satellite distributor Bell Expressvu, now available to over 25M subscribers as a monthly subscription service in North America.- Established agreements and system launches for Buzztime ITV games with Time Warner and Comcast.- Established airline distribution partnership for Buzztime Trivia through 3rd party resellers and direct to secure product placement and branding in domestic airlines.- Managed rollout of Buzztime trivia products through 3rd party toy manufacturers and mobile carriers resulting in over $1.2M in annual revenue.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

I led distribution negotiations/management, field sales, local ad sales and marketing for six diverse products including networks (WGN, TVG, TV Guide Channel), EPGs and TV Guide print guides. Directed sales planning, financial budgeting, marketplace analysis, strategic marketing, and new business development. I managed a team of 40 sales, marketing and programming personnel.- Managed multiple offices with sales, marketing, national accounts and national accounts staff.- Established critical market share distribution for TV Guide Interactive digital cable with the cable industry resulting in over 6 million subscribers and $36M annual revenue.- Launched the TVG Horse Racing Network into four legal states reaching 500K cable/DBS households resulting in 10K pari-mutuel customers averaging $900K in monthly wages. - Increased distribution of the TV Guide Channel from 14 million subscribers to over 60 million in the cable and DBS markets, while also increasing average rate per subscriber over 50%.- Directed the launch and growth of the Sneak Prevue pay–per-view (PPV) promotion channel, the industry’s first and largest satellite delivered PPV promotional network, to 36 million homes.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Cable systems owned by Jack Kent Cooke, Inc.,including the Chrysler bld in NYC, Washington Redskins, LA Lakers, LA Kings, built the LA Forum, etc. I was responsible for creating and implementing all subscriber sales and retention strategies for 30 owned and operated cable systems representing 750,000 subscribers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for selling Showtime and The Movie Channel into new cable systems and implementing marketing acquisition and retention strategies into 225 existing affiliated cable systems representing 3.4 million subscribers in the Western US..

Greater Chicago Area

Chicago region (now Comcast).