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Pacifica, California, United States

▪ Write "Inside the Creator Economy Newsletter" - read by 27,000 weekly.▪ Develope curate and co-host events globally, including "Creator World" in Singapore, Creator Lab at NAB ▪ Host the "Verified" stage at WebSummit focused on the creator economy▪ Facilitate and moderate think-tanks, salons and masterclasses for social media execs and creator economy leaders globally▪ Moderate fireside chats and panels at exclusive corporate events▪ Strategy consulting with top clients on the future of the creator economy ▪ Keynote speaking on creator economy, technology and AI, including at Social Media Marketing World, VidCon and more.▪ Current Active Boards: Creator Authority, Motom, Virtualness, Atmosfy, Influencers.Club, SuperFans, AugX Labs, Creable, Open Sauce, Roll

San Francisco Bay Area

Member of the KQED Board of Directors

Clearfield, Pa

Led the sale of this 100-year business to a new owner in just 5 months. Delivered significant returns to all shareholders.

San Francisco Bay Area

SOSV-Orbit: https://orbitstartups.com/Orbit Startups is part of SOSV, a global venture capital fund with US$1.5 billion in assets under management providing multi-stage investment to support founders’ big ideas.

The SNS Innovation Ambassador Program highlights outstanding individuals with unimpeachable expertise in their field to help facilitate cross-pollination of ideas across industries and subjects within the FiRe/SNS community. SNS Innovation Ambassadors are selected for their insightful and high-impact contribution, deep and specific subject matter knowledge, and dexterity and experience in solving complex problems at a systems level.

San Francisco Bay Area

After selling to Viacom in winter 2018, adopted the title of GM and Senior Vice President. Manage all aspects of the division of at what is now called Paramount. Launched 4 new international events in 18 months, doubled revenue, increased attendance from 25,000 to over 100,000 globally. Transitioned the org from face to face events to fully digital, then hybrid, and then back to in person during COVID. Stepped away from full-time management of the group in April 2022 to focus on consulting, advising, speaking and content creation.

Missoula, Montana Area

Built VidCon into a Global Events Business. Led the sale to Viacom in 5 months from inception to close. Transformed the industry track into a leading B2B event, growing it from under 1,500 to 5,000 attendees in four years.

Missoula, Montana Area

Conceptualizing, curating, selecting and executing tracks, keynotes, conversations, classes and tech demos at the biggest online video conference in the world.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide video and technology strategy and implementation for a variety of clients

San Francsico

Sourcing, evaluating and supporting startups at leading seed and A round venture firm, with a focus on media, virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile technologies and internet of things.

San Francisco

Sold Revision3 to Discovery Communications in 2012, and then built a leading web-original video network business inside Discovery. Launched 8 new networks, 50 new shows and increased views 300% in the first 18 months after acquisition. Led the integration of the team into Discovery.

San Francisco

Set the vision and manage the execution for the leading internet-based video television network. * Built company from under $1M to a $20M run rate. * Beat revenue and cost goals for 8 straight quarters* Built the number one non-fiction web-video company* Grew audience 1000%* Raised capital* Sucessfully and profitably sold the company to Discovery CommunicationsPopular shows include Tekzilla, Rev3Games, Scam School, Diggnation and Hak5

Led the content vision and execution as we transformed the company from a print publisher to an online-focused media company. Editor in Chief of Magazine, web, video, online and face to face events in CSB group. Manage media development and product development in multi-media world.Specifics include:* Develop interactive strategy and launched dozens of new websites* Managed all editorial and staff at PC Magazine, PCMag.com, Gearlog, AppScout, ExtremeTech.com, DLTV, Cranky Geeks and other sites. * Uncovered and capitalized on industry trends. * Wrote regular opinion and feature stories for our sites, Yahoo and others

Founding member of executive team at launch and for first five years of the groundbreaking cable TV channel ZDTV. Led all content efforts. Developed some of the top shows on the network. Launched and managed 10 hour daily news-focused financial and technology programming. Built first-ever webcam network for TV. Launched and managed web presence.

Refocused web and print during the internet transition. Managed all editorial functions. Launched radio and video content.

Led the turn-around of the magazine from a deep technical focus to a Windows 1995-centric publication. Won a variety of industy awards for design and covers.

Led the development of the first “reviews as news” product test lab for the groundbreaking newsweekly. Created and hosted first ever video tech product unboxing and reviews as host/contributor on The Personal Computing Show on CNBC in 1993.

Started networking consulting practice, leading to 5M annual revenue in the first year. Created a unique systems development methodology leading to dramatic programmer productivity advances. Pioneered new technologies for clients, including JP Morgan, Equitable, National Semiconductor, Merck and Ortho Pharmaceuticals.

Mba, Technology, Media, Marketing, Finance

Bs, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Program Director at the Radio Station, Phi Beta Kappa

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