I'm a strategic advisor working with an extraordinary group of consumer media, entertainment, and technology businesses. I help these ambitious companies connect with the world, build success, and become amazing brands. I’m attracted to fast-forward media & entertainment companies (games, esports, itv, voice, spatial ar/vr/xr, eLearning, streaming, and commerce), passionate consumer brands (food, fashion, travel, finance, etc), technology innovators (web3, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, wearable ecosystems, adtech, mobile devices, sensor tech) as well as creative agencies and enlightened venture investors. Together, we build groundbreaking products, services and brands that attract customers, investors, employees, and the attention of the world. My clients have included: Riot Games, Coca Cola, Emirates Airlines, Akamai, American Idol, Optimus Ride, Ogilvy, Mightier, The Martin Agency, AT&T, Hershey, The Creative Group, Bunge, General Electric, Foodgraph, GameStop, and Groups Recover Together

I’m a mentor with the Anjal Z Techstars Founder Catalyst Program, a partnership between the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, the Abu Dhabi Investment Office and Techstars. With a portfolio of over 1,700 companies in 1,000 startup ecosystems around the world, Techstars brings opportunities to startups in communities all over the world so that they can grow and thrive. I’m advising growing ventures in the early child development space who are dedicated to helping kids and their families along four key pillars of Health & Nutrition, Early Care & Education, Child Protection, and Family Support. I bring a ton of kid and mom experience, from games to consumer goods and media, and have worked with stellar brands such as Disney, Hasbro, School of Rock, The Girl Scouts, J&J, Stride Rite, Riot Games, General Mills and many startups like Mightier. I’m also mentor in MIT’s Morningside Academy DesignX Program, where I help new ventures like Romps, an innovative children’s brand that creates shoes that grow with you. I’m so excited to be part of the Anjal Z Techstars Founder Catalyst Program to help our cohort founder’s launch and scale their brands for the children and families of Abu Dhabi and the world.

Alakazam is a web-based extended reality (XR) platform for creating lively, immersive virtual worlds, 3D websites and event environments. We're a team of game industry pros who built popular player brands such as Myst, Command & Conquer, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Age of Empires, Madden, Lord of the Rings Online, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, God of War, Kerbal Space Program, Monopoly, Blade Runner, Neverwinter Nights, and other notable franchises at studios like Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Sony, Turbine, Kabam, Cyan Worlds, Novalogic, Westwood Studios, Vicarious Visions, and Cyberlore.

In beta development and coming soon. Audiodrop is a fun new way to liven up online conversations with sound. Audiodrop provides endless expressive audio memes and emojis that make any chatstream more interesting and shareable.

Earplay is the leading platform for creating and distributing interactive play-with-your-voice experiences across all voice-enabled media and devices – on your mobile devices, in your car, and throughout your connected home. Our clients and partners include Google, Amazon, Bose, Capstone, NBCUniversal, A+E, USA Network, WBUR, Xandra, Paradox Interactive and NPR. For two years in a row, Earplay has been named Alexa Developer of the Year and has won three Webby Awards for its work. Some popular Earplay experiences have included Mr Robot, Jurassic World, and Jack Ryan. Our collaborative voice-first tools enable teams of creators to produce smart, entertaining content while achieving fast development cycles, instant distribution, and dynamic updates across all popular media channels.

Mightier helps kids discover their emotional strength and succeed in life through immersive play. At its heart, Mightier is a neurotech game system that benefits kids with emotional and cognitive challenges. A noble and important mission powered by engaging bioresponsive intelligence, wearable sensors and real-world clinicians,. I have been advising the Mightier team on brand strategy, product development and business growth along with special projects like developing their Brand Foundation and Messaging.

The Ad Club promotes and advances world-class networking, education, professional development, advocacy, and diversity across the creative marketing, media & communications industry. The Ad Club presents dozens of popular events and programs every year like the Equity Project, Media Innovation Day, The Edge Conference, The Hatch Awards, Women’s Leadership Forum, CMO Breakfasts as well as professional development courses and meetups. My fellow board members include leaders from Google, Amazon, Digitas, John Hancock, MullenLowe, Rapid7, Hill Holliday, Chewy, Havas, Boston Globe, Eastern Bank, iRobot, Allen & Gerritsen, Wolverine, Bank of America, and more.

50Skills helps companies hire better people faster. It’s an all-in-one recruiting platform that delivers everything you need to attract, engage, incentivize and manage job seekers and referrers. Powered with AI learning and responsive Bot technology, 50Skills provides more effective hires and job sharing through messaging apps, job boards and all varieties of social media. Our rapid-growing customer base includes consumer and enterprise brands, retail and restaurant chains, municipal governments, travel and hospitality services, burgeoning tech ventures, and more.

Once a fulltime job, presently my passion and hobby. Produced and performed with artists on Sire / Warner Brothers Records, Cleopatra Records, Play It Again Sam Records, Dark Entries Records, Fundamental Records, Red Records, Verdugo Records, Pyramid Records. Featured in Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, Andy Warhol’s Interview, Rockpool, Rock America, MTV 120 Minutes, Universal Television / Miami Vice, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone and more. Toured the world playing infamous venues such as Danceteria, CBGB, Limelight and festivals like Pukkelpop. Also composed and produced scores for television, movies, theatre, dance and performance art - Paramount Pictures, Comcast, Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA), Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, University of the Arts and more.

Whipper is a gamified Web3 messaging brand that gives people the ability to chat and play in real-time as their favorite characters across all media and devices. Co-founded with friends from Riot Games, Netflix, EA, Popcap and Amazon, I served the company as Chief Strategy and Creative Officer and a Board Director to guide its product, brand, business, and cultural growth. Whipper's business is built on delighting users with virtual cosplay and advanced speech recognition/creation technology with a blockchain-enabled digital goods marketplace. Ultimately, Whipper achieved a satisfying exit and was acquired by an international investor group.

With my partners at Archtop Ventures, I invest in people and fuel ideas that help make the world a better, more interesting and rewarding place. Our mission is to provide people more value, choice, convenience, control and excitement in their lives. Specifically, Archtop Ventures helps innovative companies succeed at the forefront of media, entertainment, and technology: Streaming, Community, iTV, Mobile, Social, Games, Ecommerce, eSports, eLearning, Big Data, and all things Lifestyle Passion. Providing capital and strategic guidance to emerging growth and middle market companies, we're also honored to have a supporting relationship with Brown Brothers Capital Partners. Archtop built three significant growth platforms, Mediatech (w/ the Musicmaker / School of Rock learning network), Healthtech (w/predictive health innovator HGE Health, acquired by Vapotherm (NYSE:VAPO)) and Foodtech (w/ superfood aggregator Combine-X), positioning them all for rapid growth and market leadership.

As an advisor to d50 Media/Sokolove, I supported the management team and helped this direct response juggernaut organize, optimize and prepare for the eventual sale of the company. d50 is focused on considered consumer brands and products, legal and financial services, experiential entertainment, healthcare, education, and non-profit organizations. They obsessively and repeatedly drive tremendous results across big dynamic media placements with data smarts, agile targeting, and mass deployment.

I met the Riot Games team at a perfect moment, just as their brand was poised to go stellar. Building on that momentum, I advised them on growing the Riot brand around the world, furthering the popularity of League of Legends, seizing the lead on eSports and streaming, developing new products, new brands, new audiences, building and enabling global teams and nurturing a passionate, welcoming, durable culture.

We created Full Contact with the mission of becoming the best little world-class agency in the land. Full Contact promptly established itself as an outstanding creative shop offering highly innovative programs that build brands and incite their customers... from integrated strategic planning to campaign development and every sort of offline, online, mobile, social, digital production and product development. In the fall of 2012, I sold my ownership interest in the company to my remaining partners.Full Contact clients included: Zipcar, Calvin Klein, Disney Digital Books, Sam Adams/Boston Beer, Disney’s Toontown, Family.com, Aston Martin, Safety 1st, Boston.com, Stride Rite, City Sports, Monster.com, Boston Globe Media, Mass Audubon, Yankee Candle, Cumberland Farms, Olivio, Constant Contact, Au Bon Pain, Kayem, High Liner Foods, Signature Brands, Friendly’s, Beverly Hospital, ONI/GE Healthcare, One Mission, WeSpire

Together with longtime pal and partner Christopher Keefe, we created a crossmedia creative agency, aptly named Keefe and Young. Honest, hardworking and brimming with optimism and energy, we delivered strategic brand planning, product development and creative campaign deployment for world-class brands. Disney was our premiere (and exclusive) client for our first few years and subsequently. we attracted other wonderful brands like Comcast, Microsoft and Coca Cola. In 2006, we rebranded as Full Contact (see above) to reflect our fast-growing company.Keefe and Young clients included: The Walt Disney Company, Disney.com, Microsoft MSN, Playhouse Disney, Comcast, Shasta Sodas, Readers Digest, Movies.com, The Girl Scouts, McCann Worldgroup, National Beverages, MMB, Subway, The Martin Agency, The Creative Group

Working with Disney was a dream come true. I’m so fortunate to have helped Disney launch and grow awesome products and games and movies and digital destinations. From developing a far-reaching plan for Disney.com to launching the world’s first massively multiuser online world for kids, I’ve never had so much fun and professional satisfaction.Brands/Projects: Disney.com, Toontown, Playhouse Disney, Movies.com, The Incredibles, Disney Digital Books, Family.com, Disney XD, Disney Synergy, WDIG - Walt Disney Interactive Group

I created Omnicom Group’s Tribal DDB with my partners Matt Freeman and Steven Marrs (under the wise mentorship of Keith Reinhard) to be the creative business of the future (and a place we wanted to work at). Together, we developed a world-renown 46 office agency network in 28 countries and over 1000 professionals practicing strategy & planning, creative, media, production, technology, and digital business transformation for a prestigious portfolio of clients.Our clients at Tribal included: Pepsi, McDonalds, Budweiser / Anheuser Busch, Microsoft, Sony Electronics, Hasbro, HP, Compaq, Unilever, Best Buy, Universal Studios, Diesel Jeans, Sephora, Saks 5th Ave, Hanes, Volkswagen, American Airlines, Michelin, SC Johnson, ING Berings, Discover Card, Amtrak, ExxonMobil, General Mills, Lockheed Martin, Frito Lay, Hershey’s, Altavista, FTD, Robert Half, State Farm, Midway Games, Bentley.The results were astounding. We grew Tribal DDB's business from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in our first few years. And our work, like Budweiser Whassup and Pepsi Stuff, was praised from here to Cannes for its creativity, innovation, and effectiveness. We hope Bill Bernbach would be proud.

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It’s not often you win a big brand account right in the middle of a pitch. That was my beginning with Hasbro. In the following years, over several agencies and media holding companies, I got to work with stellar teams and help grow their most famous and beloved brands. And we also created some nice new ones. Thanks Hasbro!Brands / Projects: Hasbro.com, Monopoly, Frogger, Battleship, Transformers, Games.com, Boggle, Candy Land, Centipede, Clue, Game of Life, Family Game Night, Furby, Glover, Trivial Pursuit, Tonka, Playskool, H.E.D.Z., Jeopardy!, Mr Potato Head, GI Joe, Hasbro Collectors

I helped create the first global digital agency network, Poppe Tyson (also called Poppe.com). Through trailblazing growth and acquisitions, Poppe rapidly grew from a handful of Internet renegades to a formidable network with 15 full-service agency offices around the world. I developed and led a passionate organization consisting of 400 award-winning strategists, creatives and technologists who delivered ground-breaking, award-winning work for our client brands. Fueling the Internet boom, we innovated many digital firsts – the first online ad, the first cybercast, the first personalized site, the first cyber auto showroom, the first online travel bookings, the first sentient online AI bot, the first supercomputer vs world chess champion showdown (Kasparov vs Deep Blue), and many more.We also internally nurtured and spun-out revolutionary digital businesses such as Doubleclick (the famous media network bought by Google), Neterra (personalization software), DecisionTree (online research), and CyberPR (online public relations). From 1994 to 1998, Poppe’s revenue grew from zero to over eight figures and with a merger with Modem Media, the combined company executed a successful IPO on NASDAQ (MMPT). Later, the company was acquired and is presently part of the Publicis Groupe (PUB).Our clients at both Poppe and Modem included: Netscape, Playstation, Hasbro, IBM, P&G, Priceline, Lycos, Citibank, Doubleclick, Cadillac, J&J, Kraft, Minolta, Dean Witter, eTrade, Edward Jones, Discover Card, KeyBank, Jeep, T Rowe Price, Valvoline, Lenscrafters, Dow Chemical, BASF, MILK, iVillage, The Country of Indonesia, Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Toshiba, NBC, Instinet, The White House

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As a brand designer, I caught the digital fever early and pioneered many commercial uses of interactive media. Then the web emerged and I built out some of the world’s first agency offerings – from engagement strategy and creative development to cyber-fueled commerce, customer care and community. Our clients included brands like: Aquent/MacTemps, Waterstones Booksellers, Etonic, Massport, Sun Life, Star Markets, Goodwill Industries