Ron Yurman Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Manage and operate systems and interface with broadcasters for MLB / Kansas City Royals.

Provide strategy, business development, marketing / marcomm, strategy, and product development consulting.Creative services include ideation, writing, marketing, voiceover/on-air, audio production, and graphic design.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Developed company’s creative, messaging, brand, and communications; write and art direct graphic materials, including websites, landing pages, presentations, signage, advertising, promo material, collateral, PR, email sequences, social media, and online presence, overseeing voice and tone.• Drove TOFU growth through strategic outreach, social media, and event communications.• Created brand and positioning for the company and key products, including the Daisy GenAI platform.• Led and developed creative and marketing teams.• Thought partner bridging creative, marketing, and business

Kansas City, Us

• Developed sales marketing strategies, plans, and materials, including client newsletter• Acted as consultant to achieve efficiencies and best practices, growing YoY revenue• Investigated and created new opportunities and relationships for revenue• Used consultative and transactional practices to sell airtime• Repositioned department to better reflect activities• Fill-in and part-time on-air talent for Kansas City NPR affiliate

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Fill-in on-air talent (news, traffic, music) and production for Kansas City market stations

Fill-in @ 107.1 / 99.7 The Breeze (WWZY / WBHX)

• Identified and evaluated new products and business opportunities in conjunction with CEO• Established and negotiated partnerships with technology and manufacturing companies• Led competitive intelligence gathering and industry trend analysis• Developed marketing plans and generated creative for new and existing products• Reviewed business contracts and negotiated contracts with vendors• Authored technical white papers and product manuals; ghost-wrote trade journal articles

Developed and implemented all strategic and operational activities• Conceptualized video entertainment programming (Storytime to Go) and worked with intellectual property owners and distribution channels (including mobile, cable, broadband services) on build out.* Consultant to numerous companies in the media space.* Moderator at various industry events.

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Oversaw all business development efforts across wireless, cable, and broadband platforms• Initiated and built strategic partnerships and relationships in digital content and distribution including record labels, cellular, portability, VOIP, broadband, content personalization, etc. - Researched, screened and evaluated partnership opportunities - Developed business cases when merited, including all financial, strategic and operational elements - Reviewed and negotiated contracts for partnership deals• Led cross-functional teams (marketing, legal, technical, content) to evaluate and implement strategic and new product initiatives • Envisioned and built wireless music strategy across multiple platforms: - Negotiated and executed deals with Sprint, AT&T Wireless, MobiTV, Motorola, MediaFLO, et al - Developed content plans, revenue and expense projections, and supervised project execution including managing affiliate relations team - Launched first-ever mobile streaming music service (on Sprint)• Advised management team on trends, competitors, technologies and consumer behavior. Regularly addressed company-wide meetings to explain impact of technology on business• Led intellectual property team and wrote many patent applications, saving significant time and legal fees• Speaker / panelist at numerous media industry conferences

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for daily operations, budgeting, departmental performance, and customer support. Managed teams responsible for maintaining integrity of 24/7 broadcast center, including 55+ content channels and multiple distribution networks. • Developed and managed relationships with strategic partners, distribution customers and vendors• Created and led program to distribute company content to broadband providers• Developed content distribution technologies, saving streaming media costs and increasing reliability• Developed strategic and technical aspects of interactive TV initiative via video-on-demand• Managed major company initiative for new broadcast centers• Worked with cable MSOs & satellite TV providers to integrate company programming into their offerings• Served on cable industry standards committee as sole representative of a programming company

Responsible for all operational facets of broadcast center / uplink facility and management of operations staff.

New York, New York, Us

Managed operations and engineering personnel responsible for operation of New York facilities, primarily the NBC Radio Networks (acquired 9/87).• Worked with news and sports departments, network affiliates and common carrier companies to ensure performance objectives were met• Architected and implemented numerous live remote broadcasts for NBC Radio and Mutual Broadcasting including space shuttle launches, political campaigns, talk shows and college “bowl games”

Fill-in and part-time air talent.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the technical operations of the NBC Radio Networks. Supervised the NABET union operations staff. Solved internal and affiliate technical problems.• Produced, edited and packaged news and programming• Engineered live music specials

Fill-in and part-time air talent.

Master’S Degree, Media Studies

Engineering, Communications

General Studies

Ba, Liberal Studies