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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Leading go to market, customer to product strategy alignment for Multi-Industry, ISVs and customer innovation. Orchestrating teams, fine-tuning of GTM, engaging customers on complex opportunities.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Customer engagement in complex and novel themes of geospatial: Location. 5G. Mobile Edge Compute. Z axis. AI. ML. Open Source. Augmented Reality. IOT. Drones. Smart Cities. Green wave. Intelligent Transportation Services. Robotics. Street Level Imagery. Lidar. And more.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Led the data strategy for the leading, neutral, global, scale provider of cloud-based location platform services in areas of advertising data, tracking & positioning, and mapping. Represented the company as a thought leader at industry events and conferences.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Spearheaded a new go-to-market strategy for a digital transformation initiative, from the ground up, to enter the media and advertising sectors. This includes directing and molding a team of seven sales executives into future thought leaders, engaging with a 100-member team and working cross-functionally. -Developed and maintained a large revenue pipeline across 30 clients in the media, advertising, and telecom sectors. -Partnered with a team to land the first ten deals in the industry.-Created a product roadmap in the areas of web services, advanced datasets, and data science. -Led a corporate development review of key market players to identify possible acquisition targets.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

Advising HERE around location intelligence as applied to advertising.

New York City, Ny, Us

HAND (Human & Digital) is a world-class Talent ID Registry that brings simplicity and scale to talent identity in an interconnected human and digital world. As an ISO-level standard under the DOI Foundation, HAND applies Citation-Backed NotabilityTM to assign persistent, unique, and resolvable IDs to real and virtual talent across Performing Arts and Sports.

Provided advice to small, medium, and large companies in the areas of digital media, advertising, television, big data, content, metadata, broadband networks, consumer electronics, and data analytics. My focus was on product marketing strategies, business development, financing, and M&A activities.-EIDR: Grew the European membership for a content identification consortium led by major film studios, content distributors, and digital media infrastructure providers. -HERE Technologies: Conducted analysis to assess the viability of entering various media and advertising markets.-Samsung: Spearheaded a “Big Data” business strategy consisting of audience measurement and data analytics.-FusionSeven: Led a corporate reorganization and go-to-market strategy for a media billing settlement firm.-Velope: Enhanced service offerings for connected devices at a company that services studios, consumers, and OEM’s. (Samsung, Netflix, NBCU Fandango, Warner Bros / Flixster)-ZeeTV: Conducted due diligence for the acquisition of a Swedish peer-to-peer video services company.

High-volume financial transaction processing and settlement for AdTech.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Content marketing platform.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Velope is an engineering services company behind the Connected TV and 2nd applications used by tens of million of users. It has developed, ported, integrated and help deploy those services for Netflix, Warner Bros / Flixster, Microsoft xBox and many other leading consumer services.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Developed the reach and membership of the Entertainment Identifier Registry, a global web service for premium content identification, and identifiers cross-resolution service.

Senior Executive Consultant in the field of digital media. Specializes in (i) Marketing and product marketing strategies, alliances and business development; (ii) Financing, Business Plan, and M&A activities.Expertise covers digital media, television, advertising, big data, content metadada, broadband networks and services, consumer electronics.Please visit my website at www.utheza.com for more information.Clients were:* Samsung* LOEWE* HERE* Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), a consortium between MovieLabs and CableLabs* FusionSeven* MovieLabs* Tradescape* ZeeTV* Bouygues Telecom / Winnovation* ExtendMedia (now part of Cisco)* Pluritas (IP portfolio agency)Leadership development:* how to listen, truly* how to create an environment where team members flourish* how to read the corporate subconscious* how to detect blind spots* how to see what's in those blind spots, and which can kill the organization* how to create string brans, cultures, and lead with the heart Technology areas:* advertising * location based services* content metadata* audience measurement, usage data* data for television and media* Internet of Things (IOT)* 2nd Screen TV apps, mobile services * Over the Top (OTT)* web based platforms for digital media distribution, Platforms As A Service* broadcast TV and traditional digital TV platforms* middleware platforms, conditional access, applications* consumer electronics, embedded systems, reference platforms, SoCs* content programmers and rights owners* digital TV standardsBusiness areas: * Monetization of new, early stage concepts* Business modeling, pricing models* Business and Partnerships Development* Product Marketing* Marketing and PR* Operations* Contracts and Licensing (software and patent IPR)* Board of Directors experience* Funding and private equity investments* Joint Ventures * Corporate M&A transactions* Sales under quota

Digital TV experience platform company focused on product placement advertising for the 2nd screen.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading hardware product design & development firm.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed operations, financial planning, budgeting, reporting, recruiting, patent portfolio, projects, corporate documentation, and benefits administration for this 50-employee provider of time-based metadata to drive new television entertainment and advertising experiences (later acquired by Comcast).-Pivoted the company from a sole to a multi-product/industry SaaS provider of metadata syndication services (NBCU, CBS, FOX, Amazon).-Landed multi-million-dollar contracts with Walt Disney Pictures, Netflix, NBCU/Comcast/ Fandango, Grupo Salinas/Total Movie as well as a $10M Series A investment from Motorola Mobility and Sony/Gracenote.

Product management function for this place shifting pioneer company.-Provided funding for growth by successfully leading patent litigation along with outside counsel and achieving a multi-million-dollar litigation settlement.

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Areas of responsibility included, after arrival of new management team: establishing and analyzing various strategic scenarios; then negotiating divestiture of corporate assets (50% of headcount).

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Led the product strategy and management of the company• Managed team of 12 product marketing managers (about $1.5 million annual budget) responsible for the product roadmap of all the digital television product lines; • Steered the company product strategy to abandon the analog TV set top box market (80% of revenues in 1998) and focus on the digital TV set top box segment (100% of consumer products revenues in 2002); led to 12 million deployed cable households worldwide. • Rationalized the Company product portfolio in a downturn economic environment, allowing the company to minimize revenue impact at a time of 45% headcount reduction. • Led product integration strategies with key industry players such as News Corp’s NDS, Nagravision / Kudelski, Pace Microsystems, Motorola and Cisco – S.A.

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Led the product strategy and management of the company• Managed team of 12 product marketing managers (about $1.5 million annual budget) responsible for the product roadmap of all the digital television product lines; • Steered the company product strategy to abandon the analog TV set top box market (80% of revenues in 1998) and focus on the digital TV set top box segment (100% of consumer products revenues in 2002); led to 12 million deployed cable households worldwide. • Rationalized the Company product portfolio in a downturn economic environment, allowing the company to minimize revenue impact at a time of 45% headcount reduction. • Led product integration strategies with key industry players such as News Corp’s NDS, Nagravision / Kudelski, Pace Microsystems, Motorola and Cisco – S.A.

• Negotiated and closed over $20 million in committed prepaid booking deals with key EMEA service providers.• NTL and Telewest deals brought about $30 million and $25 million in revenues over time.

A member of the founding team at OpenTV, I was its company's first contract and licensing manager, establishing its worldwide licensing policies and procedures. I played a lead role in OpenTV deployment agreements with BSkyB (News Corp.), British Interactive Broadcasting, Television Par Satellite. I also designed and implemented the company's intellectual property and patent filing strategies.My role at OpenTV grew from his positions at parent companies Thomson-RCA and Thomson/CSF Ventures, where I focused on emerging technologies for interactive TV and venture capital issues, respectively.

- Analyzed the nascent digital television market (software aspects; hardware reference platforms; communications capabilities) to identified possible Thomson strategic decisions and directions- Recommended and developed alliances, and was instrumental in the business modeling, negotiation and creation of THOMSON SUN Interactive, a JV between Thomson and SUN Microsystems, for the development and marketing of Thomson's new interactive TV platform, OpenTV, whose funding at inception reached about $ 30 million.

THOMSON VENTURES was the corporate venture capital arm of the French electronics giant Thomson-CSF.- Developed venture capital deal flow- Analyzed business plans and evaluated potential deals- Recommended investment decisions - Negotiated investments in two start-ups, and participated in the winding down of VPL Research

Mba, International Tax & Law

Baccalaureat C, Science Track Of Studies