Lance D. Podell Email & Phone Number

United States

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• At the helm of Entertainment Services, my focus is on safeguarding & maximizing the value of entertainment assets. With a solid background in innovation, operations & new media, I steer our team to provide cutting-edge.
• Financials: 2019 $51M revenue to 2024P $78M revenue; 2019 $15M EBITDA to 2024P $20M EBITDA. 9% revenue CAGR; 6% EBITDA CAGR
• Responsible for global (North America and Western Europe) base of over 400 team members, with 20+ facilities, 10+ studios and 100+ key client relationships.
• Owned partner relationships in advertising, social media, public relations, sales consultants, and innovative technology solution providers.
• Led relationships with global entertainment client base including but not limited to all major studios and record labels as well as production companies, broadcasters and sporting organizations
• Drove M&A and location-based growth as well as product/service innovation and delivery. Responsible for P+L and CAPEX planning and budgeting

• Advisory work for C-Suite executives solving for challenges on key initiatives that require expertise beyond the normal scope of company work. I combined learnings from my career history in advertising, entertainment.
• Consulting assignments solved for challenges in entertainment, media, transmedia, digital media, online media, video, advertising tools and platforms, digital transformation, and community-based real estate.
• Sample client list: Better Spaces (workplace health and wellness in an agile amenities environment), Digitas, Publishers Clearing House.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Stood up, innovated & designed the first-ever production facility, innovation lab, programmed events space & video university. YouTubers, labels, media companies and brands used the Spaces to "Learn, Connect and.
• Built out 12 production, programming, and community facilities (YouTube Spaces) in LA, NYC, Toronto, London, Nashville, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, Mumbai, Dubai, Sao Paulo and Rio (150K total sq feet).
• Created a defined space within the Space to hold the “BrandLab” to “show not tell” advertisers how to work with the creator community for successful ad placement and for advertisers to learn how to build their own YT.
• Handled $250M in capital expenditures building out the Spaces.
• Managed $22M operating budget, mentored and supervised 60+ employees, and 100 vendor employees.
• Led team focused on advancing YouTube platform via programming engagements with creators/artists (from Rhett & Link to Snoop Dogg) and content partners (from Conde Nast to CBS) to stimulate innovation, improve.

US

• Led first-ever multi-channel web network (MCN) that raised $25M from Goldman Sachs, Spark Capital, Fuse Capital, and Saban Media.
• Grew viewership from 15M to 165M+ video views per month during 2-year tenure
• Grew revenue to $7M in 2 years for online video company that helped creators with storytelling, distribution of their original programming online, sell ads, and build audience.
• Awarded Top Five Independent Producers on YouTube.
• Produced #2 and #8 YouTube show at the time: Obama Girl Show with 100M+ views and Key of Awesome with 150M+ views.
• Created vSauce channel with Michael Stevens (a YouTube and multimedia sensation).

• Built Seevast, sponsored links marketing company from $13M to $105M revenue; 68%CAGR in 4 years.
• Directed overall performance, growth, and strategic direction for search engine and internet marketing company.
• Launched Pulse360, and grew from $0 to $35M revenue in first year.
• Led 3 offices with 125 employees (sales, client services, engineering, finance, human resources, and marketing), and fostered environment of innovation and collaboration.
• Raised $14M from Insight Venture Partners, and rebranded from Kanoodle to Seevast.
• Directed M&A and financing activity; and acquired and divested for 3.5x Moniker, a leading provider of Domain Asset Management.

New York, NY, US

• Grew this supplier of sponsored links paid listings on About.com from $1M to $30M in 18 months.
• Rebuilt product, creating new revenue concept of sponsored links on content pages; and launched first-ever, content-targeted, ad network targeted by context, behavior, geography, and demographics, with top web.
• Initiated, managed, and led Sprinks sale to Google in 2003.

San Jose, California, US

• Refined and launched DealTime, the #1 online comparison-shopping service in the world.
• Managed $35M marketing and product development budget for multi-national, privately held, venture-backed company (America Online, Time Warner, Bank of America, Bertelsmann, Singapore Telecom, Bain Capital, Israel Seed.
• Directed product development, channel management, and marketing vehicles (print, TV and radio advertising, guerilla efforts, public relations, online marketing/email, direct response, database, contests, and sweeps).
• Led 6 divisions: product/channel management (domestic and international), merchandising, marketing acquisition and retention, client services, metrics/reporting, and customer support.

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English, Government & Law, Judaic Studies

Education record