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Senior Director of Global Business Affairs covering digital media, events, and music. This includes all digital media, events, and music dealmaking globally for Condé Nast covering thousands of digital videos year over year, all commercial music used across the Condé Nast suite of content, and Condé Nast's marquee events including Met Gala, Vogue World, GQ Man of The Year, Glamour Woman of The Year, The New Yorker Festival, Vanity Fair Oscars Party, GQ Superbowl, and the like.

Business Affairs at Condé Nast Entertainment. Drafting and negotiating a wide range of deals including deals for content creation, production, licensing, merchandising, and business development in digital media, television, and film.Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is an award-winning next generation studio and distribution network with entertainment content across film, television, premium digital video, social, and virtual reality. In just six years since inception, CNE achieved profitability for its digital business ahead of schedule, reached TV-like scale for many of its digital videos, and has won Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards, as well as garnered Academy Award and Peabody nominations. Culling from IP across Condé Nast’s iconic publishing brands, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ and WIRED, CNE has produced series for Netflix, Investigation Discovery, Amazon, and more; and currently has feature films with Sony and Fox Searchlight. In addition, the Next Gen Studio produces and distributes over 5,000 pieces of original digital video content a year averaging over 1 billion views a month. CNE has an extensive digital distribution network of nearly 60 partners across about 2,300 websites and ranks in the top 25 in unique viewers in comScore’s Top 100 Properties, ahead of Complex, The New York Times, ESPN, Viacom, Time Inc, Vice, Vox, Scripps, Refinery 29, Meredith and Hearst.

Business Affairs at Condé Nast Entertainment. Drafting and negotiating a wide range of deals including deals for content creation, production, licensing, merchandising, and business development in digital media, television, and film.Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is an award-winning next generation studio and distribution network with entertainment content across film, television, premium digital video, social, and virtual reality. In just six years since inception, CNE achieved profitability for its digital business ahead of schedule, reached TV-like scale for many of its digital videos, and has won Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards, as well as garnered Academy Award and Peabody nominations. Culling from IP across Condé Nast’s iconic publishing brands, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ and WIRED, CNE has produced series for Netflix, Investigation Discovery, Amazon, and more; and currently has feature films with Sony and Fox Searchlight. In addition, the Next Gen Studio produces and distributes over 5,000 pieces of original digital video content a year averaging over 1 billion views a month. CNE has an extensive digital distribution network of nearly 60 partners across about 2,300 websites and ranks in the top 25 in unique viewers in comScore’s Top 100 Properties, ahead of Complex, The New York Times, ESPN, Viacom, Time Inc, Vice, Vox, Scripps, Refinery 29, Meredith and Hearst.

In private practice, Jon represented production companies, studios, networks, and professional athletes and entertainers in the negotiation of media, original content creation (scripted/unscripted), production, sponsorship, and endorsement deals. Jon also managed and consulted on digital media, business strategy, development, and planning.Clients have included well-regarded production companies, studios, and networks in digital media and tv/film as well as prominent athletes in the NBA and NFL.

As the head of business affairs for Eko, Jon led contract negotiation, deal formation and management, and the management of relationships with investors, brand partners, sponsors, production and distribution companies, talent, music labels, and the like. Jon negotiated successful deals with MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, CBS, NBCUniversal, The Coca-Cola Company, Warner Music Group, MTV Networks, Red Bull Media House, Interscope Records, and many more. Jon also worked on business strategy and development.Eko is pioneering a new form of media in which video can respond to a person’s actions and interests in real-time. Stories told using our patented technology can adapt in a multitude of directions; like in a video game, the viewer steps into the story to make choices that affect dialogue, and even the plot, at any particular moment in time. This means that viewers are offered nearly infinite experiences in live-action video within a single piece of content. The result is highly engaging game-like videos that consumers play over and over.

Specializing in corporate and transactional law, contract drafting and negotiation, complex commercial litigation, complex civil litigation, shareholder disputes, business divorce, and labor and employment matters.