Advise the Dean of the College of Communication and Information as a part of the External Advisory Board. Incredibly diverse board with extremely smart faculty at a great school. Go Cats!

Global responsibility for product and technology design and development for media investment, data management, finance and other critical media agency functions for the world's largest media investment management firm with $105bn in media billings annually (RECMA).Built and executed on the product roadmap. Conceived and designed platforms for media channels that are programmatically traded today or will be tomorrow from display and video to social and search to radio and TV.Ran the global blockchain strategy and other innovation projects. Wrote strategic plans and POV pieces on media, data and technology. Represented GroupM in pan-WPP strategic data and technology development projects. Advise media agencies on general technology strategy and vendor choices.Conducted structured review processes to evaluate and make technology build, buy and partner decisions. Defined target M&A areas and identified companies with global management and WPP management. Evaluated and made investment and M&A recommendations and decisions.Member of various global Executive Committees. Reported to Global Chief Investment Officer.

Provide strategy and oversight for data acquisition efforts across all WPP operating companies.

Developed and evangelized the product vision for big data driven television, video advertising and technology company. Formulated and lead the technology platform, product, intellectual property and business strategies. Turned vision and strategy into reality by managing product team. Wrote bylines for industry publications and present at technology, research, video, advertising and marketing events. Reported directly to CEO.

Co-founder and CEO of company that used artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate advertising, creative generation and customer service in social media.Solariat was sold to Genesys, a leading provider of multi-channel customer experience and contact center solutions with over 3,500 customers in 80 countries.

While at WPP Group, the world's largest communications services company, took The Media Innovation Group from a sketch on a napkin (I still have the napkin) to incubation to a fully operational company. I managed P&L but the really hard work was done by a really small team I was lucky enough to work with. Together, we built the first large scale advertising agency trading desk. Created services and technologies for audience based ad buying, planning and research in digital media. Conceived and developed the largest media agency controlled digital advertising network, B3. Conceived and built the first media data management platform, Zeus. Worked closely with WPP Corporate Development on acquisitions, investments and strategic partnerships in technlogy, media and research. Had a blast.

Head of strategy for publicly traded digital advertising and technology company. Responsible for day-to-day management of strategy products as well as diverse projects with ad sales, marketing and engineering. Member of executive management team. Worked closely with WPP Group corporate and agencies for two years leading to acquisition of 24/7 Real Media by WPP in June 2007.

Ran product management at an Internet company during one of the most tumultuous times in the brief history of the Internet. Amazing people at this company who have gone on to change an industry. While there we... Surfed the wave of the dot com boom. Rode out the dot com bust. Lived to tell it all. Merged with 24/7 Media in 2001.