The PRO (Pre-Roll Operator) series from Accelerant Manufacturing is by far the most evolved infused pre-roll machine on the market and is trusted by more than 40 of the most successful cannabis brands, manufacturers, and toll processors. With a No CapEx "PaaS" business model (billing only on throughput) perfected by Alan Ellman these machines are capable of 3,000 infused pre-rolls per hour with a single operator running as many as 3 machines simultaneously. Major innovations like Cone Correction, Air Compaction, Tunable Crowns, and real-time multi-angle QC Observation with AI have increased efficiency with less errors, less downtime, less waste, and more real-world throughput. We launched "The Automation of Kief Coating" live at MJBiz in 2024. Investors and Engineering Team applicants please feel free ping with questions and ideas.

Spotible is the most innovative SaaS AdTech company perfecting the high-impact ad engagement framework. We are live in production with major media, broadcast and brand enterprises worldwide. In the past 2 months of stealth mode we have gone live with flagship publishers in several verticals, while maintaining a seat at the table with their sponsor brands to drive effective advanced advertising solutions.I do not waste my publisher network's time with updates on every venture or product I am involved in. I have vetted the tech, team, and made sure that there is a genuine value in your awareness of its existence. I am a career long content economy devotee with a long history of innovation and industry impact in broadcast, news, video, syndication, digital media, advertising and monetization for PGM (professionally generated media) publishers and content owners. This is new. Take the call. This one is good.

Post acquisition executive leadership and corporate maintenance responsibilities through August 2023.

Responsible for focused global outreach and targeted strategic sales, business development, and marketing to win new logos and revenue; hands-on, high-energy, and at all costs. Positioned as vocal business intelligence and sales-enablement thought leader for an audience of C-Level decision makers in the most elegant of the Fortune 100, to the scrappiest of the fast moving start-ups in the email marketing, CRM, marketing automation, personalized commerce, and email MarTech landscape. Initiated fruitful strategic discussions through cold outreach as the deal-making voice of the company and successful corporate strategy goals and execution.

Joined in a co-founder role of Start-Up VP of Sales and Launch Team Partner with a hypergrowth-focus on new business development and SaaS sales strategy for revenue impact and retention. Responsible for new sales and business development, customer account management, and marketing via email, social media, and guerilla tactics to ultimately focus on complex strategic partnerships.

Syndicaster & ClipSyndicateCross functional leadership with "hands-on" roles in multiple business units focused on complex PaaS / SaaS Enterprise Sales, Sales Engineering, and Account Management. Thought leader in the content economy and pioneer in online video platforms and cloud video editing, distribution, and live streaming. AdTech devotee owning our SSP and DSP initiatives and relationships, all publisher (inventory) & content partner acquisition, and premium video syndication and licensing models with a variety of live and AVOD content distribution strategies including OTT. Product owner and highest level authority for video ad sales and mechanical ad operations. Responsible for all reporting and analytics (and resulting invoice generation) for an array of products and utility usage while simultaneously deploying and using these data sources to identify problems like ad fraud and billing errors. Product owner for editorial and curation / taxonomy initiatives as well video search API experiments and partnerships.

Syndicaster & ClipSyndicateProduct owner for AdTech owning direct video ad sales and programmatic endeavors, while responsible for managing ad serving technologies and vendor relationships as a primary component of the video ecosystem we provided. Became the expert both in a sales engineering role as well as during deployments with new clients by training their ad operation teams. Leader for all SSP / DSP initiatives and the successful trafficking of complex tags and video campaigns on hundreds of ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX websites. Providing highest-rate backfill on remnant station-owned content while selling premium sponsorships in our syndicated video packages (ex, Bloomberg Television) on the station websites. Managed complex deals and projects with brands like AllState and Goodyear to build entire O&O video portals. Created an “inventory sharing” model to minimize ad fraud and deepen relationships. Built and distributed video “NewsStand” code; 700+ curated video products in an IAB ad-matched taxonomy (contextual advertising; "cookieless" monetization).

ClipSyndicateContracted over 700 premium brands as content partners to become largest news video syndicator working with broadcast, cable, newspaper, and magazine content providers. Responsible for every aspect of account management, performance reporting, revenue sharing, and analytics to become a trusted leader in the in the "PGM" (professionally generated media) content economy.

Launch Team Role, Startup SVP Business Development & Sales - SyndicasterLaunched beta with direct sales to win over 700+ broadcasters as an ‘end-to-end’ online video platform. Presented complex solutions earning 3-year SaaS contracts & code in 35% of US TV newsrooms. Doubled SaaS and utility revenue by launching adjacent tech as an “OVP and Video AdServer’. Built team creating director roles in sales, support, sales engineering, video analytics. Owned experimental revenue ventures (Clip Bureau, Bloomberg “Box”, API, & prof services). Led bleeding edge efforts in OTT & live streaming, complex ad ops for live broadcast news

Launch Team Role, Startup Vice President of Sales; ClipSyndicateFocused on Content Distribution to launched ClipSyndicate video player (AVOD) code to 30,000+ verticval websites (pre Google / YouTube). Negotiated 1000’s of publisher contracts, revenue shares, and in some cases minimum CPM guarantees as the largest ad-supported news video syndicator. Won premium ‘above the fold’ video inventory with a later professional services business for enterprise clients like LoJack. Won our first “$1,000 CPM” deal by launching a fee-based (ad-free) licensing model for enterprise content marketers.

Launch Team Role, Startup VP of Sales; Critical Mention, IncJoined founder to build the B2B real-time TV search and broadcast news monitoring platform Sold brand and reputation managers in Fortune 500 companies, government agenciesBecame largest real-time television monitoring platform, used by 25%+ of the Fortune 100 Owned sales effort, personnel planning and training, product development, & revenue forecastingIntegral to a 2MM series A funding closed in October 2004, additional roundsThriving today with 3,000 clients & API users (NASDAQ, PR Newswire, Cision, IBM, Reuters)

Startup Launch Team; New Business Development. Sales Development. Direct Sales. Sales Leadership.Joined early-stage founders to launch a start-up and aggressively target and ultimately acquire terabytes of anonymous location data through high-intensity global outreach, complex business development, direct sales and strategic partnerships with location-centric app developers. The goal was to deploy our SDK and launch VenPath as the world's largest consumer (app) data marketplace. Ultimately acquired 10's of millions of Daily Active Users with Mobile Ad IDs and background location

Joined Screaming Media as Founder #8, Launch Team; 1st Direct Sales hire and through aggressive new business development and hypergrowth to become VP Sales; Global Accounts post IPO and before $103MM acquisition by CBSMarketwatch and later by Dow Jones.As VP Sales, Global Accounts I was responsible for managing and growing most visible fortune 1000, and highest billing clients. As a special case partner I was brought in for high-stakes / high value deals originating globally. Coached ‘National Accounts’ teams in New York, Washington, Texas & Miami.Maintained cultural cohesion as a high-energy leader through branding and strategy changes, M&A, management flux, and Sept. 11th.FKA ScreamingMedia SCRM, Pinnacor, CBS Marketwatch, Dow Jones LicensingHeld roles of Business Development, Account Executive, Direct Sales, Sales Manager, Director of Sales, Regional VP of Sales (RVP), and VP of Sales, Vice President of Sales, Global Accounts

Screaming Media / Pinnacor NASDAQ: SCRM (PCOR) Managed hyper-growth from 10 to over 300 employees Created a 'framed' model to syndicate top news to hundreds of local news TV websitesClosed largest deal in co history as JV with Emmis, Citadel, Entercom, Jefferson Pilot, CorusManaged increased scrutiny during pre and post IPO revenue forecastingManaged delicate HR responsibilities after acquisition of Stock Point. High-stakes leadership and effort to minimize churn and recognize revenue

Screaming Media, IncRan point to win global clients and ‘pre-launch’ our French, English, German, LatAm OfficesTrained new hires as well as international partners, employees, and managers / trainersDeployed methods for prospecting, closing, CRM, content & software pitches, and forecasting. Created an in-house news-bureau for “Newstand” in 8 categoriesClosed the largest co-branded deal in company history with a 3 year ACV of over $600,000Created a network model for a JV with Aetna / Discovery Channel to win 2nd largest deal

Manager of Sales at Interactive Connection, relaunched as "Screaming Media"Closed the largest deal at $54k USD (vs historical average of $650 / month)Proposed the PR stunt “The Chiathalon” and won named coverage in the NY TimesCo-created the “Client Manager” sales database for CRM, organization and revenue forecastingCreated business plans for vertical markets by client size, content type, and potential deal sizeTrained vertical teams with team leaders (Managers) responsible for negotiating and forecasting

Launch Team Account Executive - Inside Sales / Direct Sales as "Interactive Connection, LLC"9th member of the founding launch team as Interactive ConnectionWorked closely with dynamic team including Jay Chiat, Alan Ellman, and Sean MorganQuickly grew client base to 38 paying client publishersSuccessfully closed the first fruitful reseller / bus dev agreement with the RIA Group

Joined Screaming Media founders post-acquisition to accept entrepreneurial and leadership Roles in incubator projects at Cast Iron Partners. Ongoing Holdings & Experiments:● EmbedAnything, LLC, Co-Founder, Ad Supported Content and Image Syndication● Lamplighter Ventures LLC, Co-Founder MyCar911, CouponGambler, Product Development, BD● ContentNYC, LLC, Co-Founder, Content Marketing - niche video blogs with 65k+ followers● SearchERA (Founder) Publisher of regional ‘search interest’ infographics for newspapers● BonoboMedia (Founder) Syndication advisor for Finkelstein (Warhol), HorrorChannel, TVN● RightsViper - Content Consulting; Technology & DRM and Content Partner Management ● AvalancheCannon - Freelance Business Development Accelerator● NetContent Inc., Contract SVP, Sales & Operations - B2B Content Syndication & Licensing● SoHo FF&M; Modern Portraiture (Co-Founder & President)● TenantsNeeded.com (Owner) Publisher of “Guide to No Fee Landlords, NYC”● ScooziScooters.com (President) SoHo based importer of 4 proprietary electric scooters● Gravity Sports (Partner) Rock climbing wall construction, exhibition, and event promotion ● Adirondack Writing Stick (Owner) Media and product distribution with The Nature Company● Big Geodesic Dome Team - Lead Project Manager, Buckminster Fuller fanatic

Footage from a summer break climbing accident provided numerous broadcast interviews featured in the original "Real TV" AKA "Worlds Most Amazing Videos", "Wild Rescues" (Termite Art), "Maximum Exposure", "When Good Times go Bad", "Worlds Wildest Vacation Videos" (Asylum Entertainment), "When Vacations Attack" (The Travel Channel), and recently on TruTV. This was the foundation of my interest in video syndication.