Visit: http://www.osdergroup.com - Consulting - Staffing - AdvisoryChief Digital Officer for Hire - No-nonsense, high-impact, hands on consulting and staffing geared to improving revenue performance, accelerating product and programming innovation, growing audience and scaling operations for B2B and B2C companies.INDUSTRIES & SPECIALTIES: Media | Entertainment | Travel /Hospitality| Publishing/Events | Information Services | Journalism | Automotive | Transportation | Mobile | Video | Strategic Planning | SaaS | Marketing | Client Services | CMS | CRM | MonitizationSEARCH & STAFFINGThe Hollywood Reporter | Billboard | Ask.com | Thrive Market | Hearst Newspapers | City National Bank | Gannett | Udacity | SkiftSTRATEGIC PLANNING, REVENUE, BUSINESS AND CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTPeople.com | The Associated Press (AP) | The Daily Beast | The Hollywood Reporter | GroupM (M80 and Catalyst) | Vulcan Ventures | Webber Shandwick MediaCo | Zealot Networks |CONTENT, PROGRAMMING & EVENTS | MEDIA | MARKETING | PRODUCT, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGYSkift | Kimpton Hotels | Frontiers North | OgilvyOne (IBM Brand Newsroom) | AOL | Univision | ProPublica | Scholastic | Bill Moyers | The Blaze | The Nation | The Daily Beast | Edmunds.com | American Cinematographer | EndPlay | Applied Semantics (Acquired by Google) CrowdFactory (acquired by Marketo) |Recent client endorsements:http://www.osdergroup.com/about/30/endorsementsSample client and engagement list available at:http://www.osdergroup.com/clients/32/representative-engagements

Experience includes several longer-term engagements facilitated by investors to act as "Interim Executive" for start-ups (Angel through Series B) requiring hands on-assistance in critical "go-to-market" operations:2008 - PresentBoard Member, Exponential EntertainmentSeattle, WashingtonExponential Entertainment offers multiplatform services such as social games, widgets, and applications for fans of Hollywood movies.2010-2011SVP Product and ProgrammingParticpant Media, Los AngelesLed reorganization of TakePart into a media property including content, technology and product development, projects included: American Express Members Project, and Particpant films including Food Inc., and Waiting for Superman. 2007 - 2012Board Member, Crowdfactory (acquired by Marketo, 2012)San Francisco, CaliforniaCrowd Factory is a SaaS-based social marketing platform helping businesses to connect with new customers and promote their business.2007-2014Board Member, PublishThis (Acquired by American Business Media)Los Angeles, CaliforniaProvides content marketing and publishing strategy, technology and operations expertise to a leading content curation platform with clients that include Ziff Davis and Sporting News.2008-2009VP Strategy and OperationsEvri, Seattle, WashingtonRetained by Vulcan Ventures to reposition the semantic engine from a B2B publisher services offering to a B2C product

Drive business (CRO - Chief Revenue Officer) and market (CMO - Chief Marketing Officer) development, platform strategy (CPO - Chief product Officer) and potential growth through acquisitions for LAKANA a SaaS media solutions and technology firm that offer a next generations content management platform (CMS), which seamlessly integrates with a comprehensive suite of products, partners and services that together enable media publishers to successfully operate profitable, secure, innovative and engaging businesses. LAKANA's platforms reach over180 million monthly unique users.

Founding editor of Skift Forums, helped grow the program tenfold since 2014 with events in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Berlin.Through talks, panels, workshops and networking, our Forum events help top travel professionals understand and engage trends across sectors, geographies, and the functional silos in the travel industry.ABOUT SKIFT FORUMS: These events are largest creative business events in the global travel industry. Skift Forums bring together - the people creating and defining the future of travel and our speakers and signature Ted talks have included the top CEO's, entrepreneurs and creative thinkers in the industry. Speakers have included the CEO's of every major brand in travel.https://forum.skift.com/

For JumpTime acquired by OpenX: Business development/sales, product development, go-to-market and market for innovative yield management technology that optimized content and monetization in digital networks. Start up acquired by OpenX in October 2012. Key accomplishment included products - ROI by Traffic Source; Sales to Hearst, Time Inc and Digital First Media; media coverage and speaking engagements with OPA, PandoDaily, and Reuters.

SVP of Audience (product, programming, marketing) during critical start-up months, that included growing the company from 10 to 40 full-time employees and increasing traffic from 3-6mm/uu. Established customer-centric roadmap, product development process and staffed and structured teams in product, marketing, design production and programming. Efforts provided BuzzMedia a solid operating foundation for rapid growth, making BuzzMedia one of the largest consumer entertainment brands online. During this critical time of growth and development the leadership team secured an additional $20mm in funding

Built, grew and ran product group and roadmap for Yahoo's global media organization. - Led overall strategy and roadmap for #1 Internet News Site -- Yahoo! News (40M UU/mo).- Strategic focus: Increase KPIs (Unique Users, Engagement, Page Views) and strategic business development (Yahoo! Newspaper Consortium).- Product leadership: lead the development of new products that work effectively across corporate silos, most notably a global CMS for Yahoo! Media properties that dramatically improved programming flexibility and network ROI.+ Portfolio included: News Site (news.yahoo.com) with global charter, Photos, Videos, Social Media (You Witness News), News Search, Local News, Personalization, Community, Mobile, and weather.+ Launched a variety of new products including Personalized New on Yahoo homepage, Topics Pages, Local News, You Witness News (UGC Video).

Yahoo Search Marketing - Overture - Led performance marketing and product development for media companies (publishers, cable, broadcast and Internet) including semantic search, match, personalization and targeting initiatives for Yahoo's direct and self serve ad networks. Products included content match, RSS and Yahoo! Publisher Network.

Built, ran and grew a global strategic consulting practice. Led client engagements, managed P&L and supervised company-wide projects for Fortune 1000 media and entertainment companies. Grew the publishing practice in two years from zero to $8mm. Initiatives included business and product strategy; market and revenue analysis; marketing and branding; digital medial solutions including rich and text media content management, tools selection, editorial workflow and tools development; and editorial operations, process and content development. Clients included:Financial Times | News Corp (Sun, Times UK, Sunday Times) | Scripps Newspapers | Time Warner (CNNFN, Money and Fortune) | The Washington Post | NPR | Reed Elsevier |

Led re-design of NYTimes.com (columns and scroll). Created and managed the Times first strategic product development group responsible for the creating all new sections and services for NYTImes.com. Directed a cross-functional team from editorial business and technology; implemented a five-stage product development methodology that improved cycle time, ROI, editorial integrity, interdepartmental communications and quality assurance. New products included NYT Learning, Books, Opinion, NYToday, and distribution channel development for wireless, and other new technologies.Content Development Editor (1995-1996)Joined the launch team for NYTimes.com as the editor primarily responsible for original content development for the website. Responsibility included special projects including multimedia, online community, third party partnerships and syndicated content. Highlights included early award winning data journalism explorations included "Aids Simulator" and interactive photos essays including "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace."

Founded digital team for the Newhouse Newspaper Chain (then third largest in U.S.). Worked with partner newspapers on implementing internet strategies. Developed and launched award winning web sites for Cleveland Plain Dealer and Newark Star Ledger including NJ.com and Cleveland.com

Edited photos for the National, International and Enterprise desks of the Associated Press. Participated in the roll out and adoption of the Leaf Desk: The AP's first digital photography editing and distribution system.