Brava is a next generation cooking solution company that combines revolutionary heating technology with a chef-powered AI service that makes cooking at home easier, faster, tastier and healthier than ever before. Brava (www.brava.com) launched in November 2018 and was acquired by the Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ: MIDD) in November 2019

Displate is a global, D2C art marketplace specializing in proprietary metal posters.

Full-service game development agency + innovation partner to creative industries.

LNP is an organization of business and thought leaders taking action to fortify American democracy.

Specific board and advisory roles shared in the "About" section above. Invest in and advise early stage growth companies. Categories include media, gaming, VR, social, e-commerce, fintech, digital health, iOT, Web3 (crypto / blockchain), SAAS AI and energy sustainability.

A NFT platform that generated six figure levels of humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees.

The Media Solutions Team led and / or contributed to wide range of emerging businesses, platforms and services across the Samsung ecosystem. The division is comprised primarily of general managers, product leads, engineers, designers, operations managers and business development and strategy executives.  Notable team accomplishments include:Samsung VR: Conceived, launched and evolved Samsung VR, the leading 360 video player and platform on Gear VR with Oculus, and enabled Gear 360 user generated content distribution.Samsung+: Conceived and launched customer support and loyalty platform that grew to broad adoption in less than one year. Material impact on customer support costs and brand impression / loyalty.Samsung Milk Music: Grew and evolved native music service from post launch to broad adoption across all mobile and wearable devicesSamsung Galaxy App store: Grew usage >2X with strategic pivot and re-deign and material increase in revenues. Samsung Developers efforts: Created “Made for Samsung” co-development program with marquis brands such as: CNN, Expedia, Lyft, The Weather Channel, Photobucket, etc. Managed Samsung developer outreach, with the biggest event being the Samsung Developers Conference, a 2 day annual event in San Francisco with 4,500 attendees.Samsung Kids: Designed and launched product on both dedicated tablet and via App stores.

• Managed Disney Games and mobile services businesses, achieving first ever divisional multi-quarter profitability (>$70M in reported operating income in 2H 2013) and strong trajectory (i.e., $116M profit for FY '14) from perennial multi $100'sM of losses previously. Division annual revenue: ~$1.3B.• Oversaw team development and launch of Disney Infinity: A Disney first-ever multi-franchise, cross-platform, vertically integrated toy and gaming ecosystem that quickly achieved top 10 revenue in the Industry (>$1B in NPD franchise sales), material consumer and critical acclaim. • Drove Disney mobile gaming: Led Disney Interactive teams to be #2 global mobile games publisher on iOS (in Industry reported downloads) as of October 2013. Seven #1 hits and 32 Top 25 hits. Migrated majority of Disney games to mobile platforms and assisted team in securing major distribution partnerships with platform leaders such as Apple, Google Play, Amazon and Microsoft. Led the building of the Disney Mobile Network ground up, serving 100M monthly avg. users.• Oversaw team creation and execution of two top performing, award winning franchises on Facebook: Disney’s Gardens of Time and Marvel’s Avengers Alliance. Oversaw team re-architecting of Club Penguin (~6-7M monthly average users) to go mobile.• Worked with Japan Interactive teams to extend Disney mobile services on Docomo and game development partnerships with leaders such as DeNA (e.g., Marvel War of Heroes - Top 10 grossing iOS game) and Gree.• Created Asia-focused games business unit - acquired Studio EX in Seoul and partnered with leading Korean and Chinese developers and publishers. Launch first western game IP on Kakao Talk (i.e., Marvel Run, Jump Smash).• Licensing / OEM: Helped drive significant long term partnerships with leading developers and platform operators.• Created central operating teams in Publishing, Technology & Product, and Operations to scale across all Disney Interactive

Social Gaming company: Grew from MySpace centric application company to a leading flash based, Facebook platform gaming company: tripled revenues, raised $80MM in venture capital, acquired and integrated 7 gaming companies, built out common game systems, business intelligence and live service operations capabilities across 12 studios, won 2010 social game of the year award for Social City and created 2 social / mobile games generating >$100M in revenue - Gardens of Time and Marvel Avengers Alliance.Playdom acquired by The Walt Disney Company in September 2010.

• Oversaw global gaming operations of leading, $4B games Publisher. Managed teams running sales, marketing and distribution services across all platforms and titles.• Managed teams driving global mobile business and helped drive the migration to, and scaling of, EA’s smartphone business to top global publisher status (reported revenues of ~$190M for FY09).• Managed POGO, the largest adult (female-oriented), subscription based casual gaming portal. Helped teams drive re-tooling of service for stronger social networking features.• Managed central technology teams, websites and games service platforms for user identification, service delivery and business intelligence. Spearheaded programming to drive downloadable content and games as a service via connected console, mobile and the web to increase user lifetime value.• Oversaw EA Cop Dev and led push into social / mobile gaming. Helped drive digital and live service Asia gaming efforts as top priorities for core relevant franchises.

• Launched three core businesses in January 2007: a) a one-stop-shop health portal b) a premium membership for personalized assistance c) a coverage marketplace via acquisition of Extend Benefits for individual insurance policies.• Built D.C. based team from ground up to 280 in less than one year, executed 50 partner deals. • Helped raise major capital round from Industry leaders: including United Health Group (NYSE: UNH).• Merged with Everyday Health (NYSE: EVDY) in 2008.

NASDAQ: TMCS.Ticketmaster, Match.com, Evite, Reserve America, Cityseach, Entertainment Publishing, Active.com (BoD), other• Led Ticketmaster, the world’s largest ticketing company, with 2005 gross transactions of ~$6B, net revenues of ~$1B, EBITA of >$225M. Company had >2,000 full-time and 2,000 part-time employees operating on 4 continents.• Grew ticketing revenue at 13% CAGR and EBITA at 25% over five years as CEO. • Led Ticketmaster as a public parent company (NASDAQ: TMCS) from 2001 through 2003, with operating units Ticketmaster, Match.com, Citysearch, Evite, Reserve America and Entertainment Publishing, Inc. During tenure as CEO, exceeded Wall Street expectations in all 14 quarters - market capitalization of company climbed from under $1.8B to over $4.0B during this time. • Helped teams increase Internet channel from <4% in 1998 as the President and CEO of Ticketmaster Online -Citysearch (NASDAQ TMCS) to >65% of retail sales in 2005 (fastest brick & mortar category migration). Helped team drive user Internet adoption to 35M registered users and 1B page views per month.• Twice awarded Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under Forty recognition

Ticketmaster, Citysearch, Match.com, Evite, Reserve America, Active.com (BoD), other(See above)

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