Chief Digital Officer
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Jul 2024 - Present
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Digital transformation leader in music, entertainment and consumer products. CDO at Universal Audio. Advisor and in-house CTO at a $2B AUM VC firm.
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Digital transformation leader in music, entertainment and consumer products. CDO at Universal Audio. Advisor and in-house CTO at a $2B AUM VC firm.
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Ethan Kaplan is listed as Digital transformation leader in music, entertainment and consumer products. CDO at Universal Audio. Advisor and in-house CTO at a $2B AUM VC firm. at Universal Audio, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ethan Kaplan.
Ethan Kaplan previously worked as Chief Digital Officer at Universal Audio and Venture Capital Technical Advisor at Confidential. Ethan Kaplan holds Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Digital Arts from Uc Santa Barbara.
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With over 25 years of experience leading digital transformation in the music, entertainment, and digital consumer products industry, I am a former Chief Digital Officer at Fender and current CDO at Universal Audio. I have a track record of building products, and the teams that build products, from an idea on a whiteboard to $100m businesses.I have led multiple companies in digital transformation and innovation efforts, creating and launching streaming video on demand (SVOD) subscription services, post-production workflows and video content systems, subscription platforms, e-commerce platforms, online communities, event management platforms, and user-generated-content aggregation platforms. I have recruited and managed large teams of cross-disciplinary engineers, designers, product leads, video content producers, and marketers, and successfully delivered web and mobile products for multiple Fortune 500 brands. I have also been featured on TV, in magazines, at conferences, and on stage in front of 100,000 people, showcasing my domain expertise and thought leadership. My mission is to leverage my skills and experience to help companies and creators achieve their goals and reach their audiences through digital innovation and excellence.
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11 roles · 27 years
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Venture Capital Technical Advisor
CurrentVenture investing and technical advisory with a large growth equity fund with $2B AUM including lead on Leonardo.ai (exited to Canva), sourcing Eleven Labs and advising (product, engineering, design, go to market, technology due diligence) for portfolio companies. Focussed primarily on emerging tech (AI, gaming, etc) and emerging market segments driven by.
Feb 2023 - Present
Chief Digital Officer
Fender Digital was created as a new division of Fender from the ground up, and I was hired as Fender’s first Chief Digital Officer, a position I held for the duration. I also functioned as the divisions General Manager. I managed the engineering, product, design/UI/UX, content studio, QA, direct to consumer and content departments and their VP’s.I lead a.
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
General Manager / Svp Of Music
General manager of the music business focusing on metadata, music identification/content recognition and partner management with Apple, Facebook, etc.
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Head Of Product, Technology And Engineering / Founder, Live Nation Labs
Responsible for overseeing the product, engineering, design and operations for Live Nation's consumer facing properties, including LiveNation.com, iOS and Android applications, our content network and API/Platform.In the last three years we relaunched every major consumer product from the ground up including iOS, Android, Web (http://livenation.com) and.
Dec 2011 - Dec 2014
Senior Vice President Of Technology
I was responsible for all that is new, cool and interesting in technology for our roster of artists labels and organizations (Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic, Rhino, WEA and Warner Music International): from iPhone apps, websites, consumer data analysis, business and tactical intelligence tools, new technology coming on the market and business.
Feb 2010 - Jan 2011
Vice President Of Technology
I ran the technology division of the company, which was entirely focused on the external facing aspect of our technological innovation. This means anything on the web, consumer electronics, digital services, research and development into emerging platforms and just over-all geekiness. We were one of the few strict technology divisions in the music.
Jun 2005 - Feb 2010
Teaching Associate
I was a teaching associate in the art department at UCSB, teaching classes on digital art, conceptual theory, punk music history, post-structuralism/modernism and tactical media.My art practice consisted of engineering multi-dimensional graph systems, machine learning and data visualization. As well as experimentation in wearable computing.I contributed to.
Sep 2002 - Jun 2005
Manager Of Online Community Development
I worked in various areas during the dot-com era, mostly doing technology development and online community development.During this time I was a partner with the in-house venture-capital firm, doing due-diligence on early-stage startups as well as helping bootstrap their technology implementations. Our investments included MyOC.com, ColoradoSprings.com.
1999 - 2001
~2 yrs
Manager Of Online Community Development
Freedom Communications Inc. / Freedom Interactive
Implemented the first online community for the Orange County Register and associated products.
1999 - 2001
~2 yrs
Webmaster
At 16 I was the first webmaster at a major newspaper, helping the OCR launch the small website for the Pulitzer Prize winning expose on the UCI fertility fraud scandal, and later integration of the rest of the paper on to the web. This included classified systems, pagination to database conversions and dynamic web publishing. I had engineering.
Jun 1995 - Sep 1997
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Ethan Kaplan education
Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Digital Arts
Uc Santa Barbara
Ba, Visual Art
Uc San Diego
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Ethan Kaplan works for Universal Audio.
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Ethan Kaplan is listed as Digital transformation leader in music, entertainment and consumer products. CDO at Universal Audio. Advisor and in-house CTO at a $2B AUM VC firm. at Universal Audio.
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Ethan Kaplan is based in Los Angeles, California, United States while working with Universal Audio.
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Ethan Kaplan has worked for Universal Audio, Confidential, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Gracenote, and Live Nation.
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Ethan Kaplan holds Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Digital Arts from Uc Santa Barbara.
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