Partner with CEO to lead TEGNA’s company-wide transformation efforts focused on reorienting the company towards growth including crafting the overall strategy, marshalling cross-functional operating teams, and driving execution.Lead TEGNA’s emerging and growing business units, including Premion (CTV advertising platform), Locked On (local sports podcast network), TEGNA’s streaming content products, and other digital businesses generating over $400M in annual revenues. Direct corporate and business development efforts to pursue expansion of existing businesses and identify new business adjacencies as well as manage TEGNA’s key strategic partnerships.Manage TEGNA’s Digital division responsible for all consumer facing digital products including streaming apps and video distribution efforts, station websites, and mobile apps reaching over 100M viewers a month.Oversee TEGNA’s Technology division and its ~750 employees responsible for station technology operations, AI-enabled efficiency efforts, content management platforms, and advertising revenue systems.

Responsible for defining and executing TEGNA’s corporate development strategy, leading critical business development activities, overseeing TEGNA’s corporate venturing program, and managing a series of cross-divisional business expansion projects. Completed 50+ transactions primarily focused on TEGNA’s Digital and Broadcasting divisions. Transactions have covered a wide array of deal structures, comprised almost $20.0B in transaction value, propelled TEGNA’s strategic transformation, and created substantial value for shareholders. Notable transaction highlights include: (i) sale of TEGNA to Standard General for $9B – representing a 43% premium to TEGNA unaffected equity value, (ii) acquisition of Belo Corporation (a public broadcasting company) for $2.2B – doubling TEGNA’s broadcasting business and resulting in 30%+ increase in TEGNA’s share price upon announcement, (iii) acquisition of Cars.com (a leading digital auto classifieds site) for $1.8B – cementing TEGNA’s position as scaled digital media company, (iv) two public company spinoffs – creating a pure play publishing business (Gannett) and pure play automotive classifieds business (Cars.com) and (v) a series of acquisitions and partnerships resulting in formation of several new business adjacencies. (Summary deal sheet available upon request). Spearheaded the launch of TEGNA’s corporate venturing program to drive innovation across the existing business and provide cost effective approach to pursue new business lines. Represent TEGNA on several Boards: 4INFO (household identity management business, sold to Cadent), Livestream (video services subscription business sold to IAC), CareerBuilder (listings and human capital software), Sherman’s Travel (curated travel discounts).

Responsible for the overall strategic direction, operations, and financial performance of Premion, TEGNA’s 10x award-winning streaming advertising business.Developed new sales channels and enhanced existing channels focused on both local and national advertisers further diversifying Premion’s clients and propelling revenue growth from $100M to $275M annually over three years. Delivered significant operational improvements to scale the business, enabling substantially higher volumes of campaigns while simultaneously delivering higher quality results and improved customer satisfaction scores. Initiated numerous financial and operational analysis to improve margins and identify efficiencies resulting in a 10x improvement in EBITDA over three years to more than $45M annually. Drove innovative product strategy focused on delivering fraud-free, brand safe inventory, demonstrating measurable ROI through differentiated attribution tools, streamlining the media buying process for clients, and delivering exceptional customer service.Spearheaded the formation of Premion as a separate corporate entity in conjunction with adding a strategic equity partner to further accelerate Premion’s trajectory.

CareerBuilder is a global, end-to-end human capital solutions company focused on helping employers find, hire and manage great talent. Combining advertising, software and services, CareerBuilder leads the industry in recruiting solutions, employment screening and human capital management. CareerBuilder is majority-owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, LLC.

Sherman's Travel is a leading provider of curated travel deals.

Company was sold to Cadent in December 2019. 4INFO ensures that digital marketers and their partners maximize value from their customers by identifying and mapping more people to more data across more screens, more accurately than anyone.

Company was sold to IAC / Vimeo in October 2017. Livestream is a SAAS company focused on providing live video services.

Co-founded an executive-level consulting firm specializing in developing creative strategies, identifying and negotiating transformative partnerships, and providing execution guidance supporting clients launch new products and businesses. Stratique Partners assisted over a dozen companies ranging from early-stage start-ups to leading consumer-facing product companies reaching more than 50M users.

Led cross-functional team responsible for identifying, structuring, and negotiating partnerships with specific focus on restructuring the existing business, launching new revenue-producing products and distribution initiatives, as well as leading numerous operations-related functions. Identified and managed product development and engineering teams to launch and optimize new revenue and distribution opportunities towards generating incremental annual revenues.Member of the executive team and played a critical role in positioning and facilitating the sale of Myspace.

Directed all business development functions across AOL’s Product portfolio, including portals, email, messaging, social networking, video, voice, and other key assets supporting an organization reaching over 95M monthly visitors and generating more than $300M in annual revenues. Managed execution of 100+ transactions annually, including multi-million dollar licensing, production, distribution, syndication, promotion, and advertising deals.Served as strategic management consultant to business units and operating teams on strategy and operations related issues.

Led team responsible for driving AOL’s acquisition strategy and partnered with executive management on the strategic and financial evaluation of acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, and divestitures. Instituted and managed processes for organically identifying acquisition candidates internally as well as evaluating in-bound solicitations, evaluating over 200 potential equity-oriented opportunities and completing over $150M in M&A transactions and launching 3 joint ventures.

Managed strategy and operations-related efforts to maximize existing asset portfolio as well as expand AOL’s product and programming offerings by launching new products and partnerships. Initiated and developed processes and best-practices to systematically ensure delivery of the division’s plan of record as well as address gating issues and solve operational and resource-related challenges, many of these process were subsequently adopted across AOL. Led AOL-wide business analysis efforts to evaluate and craft AOL’s open Web strategy to freely distribute AOL’s services and applications – the foundation of AOL’s current business model.

Devised partnership model and drove revenue channel development in establishing leading health and fitness industry B2B procurement platform. Drafted business plans to gain optimal response from potential corporate partners, venture capital firms, and potential investors.