Experience

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  Island pictures

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Assistant to the president
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  Red wagon productions

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Story editor

  § Developed Gladiator, Hollow Man, Stuart Little and many others. § Worked with top writers in all aspects of development.

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  Blue tulip productions

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Director of development

  Responsible for managing director Jan de Bont's overall deal with Fox, developing big budget projects; sought additional external opportunities for Blue Tulip.Highlights:§ Raised financing and made all deals for "SLC Punk!" beyond the deal with Fox§ Produced syndicated TV show for de Bont to direct ("The Judger")§ Developed big budget features for Blue Tulip/Jan de Bont, including "Minority Report" § Sold several projects to Fox including "Hindenburg," as well as to Fox Searchlight such as "Like a Hole in the Head" Show less

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  Robert green consulting

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Digital content consultant

  Web 1.0 content development for Threshold Entertainment, Comedy Central, Landscape Entertainment and other clients. Wrote business plan for ezflix.com, an early entrant into the short form content game. Helped raise 35MM for Landscape and Bob Cooper.

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  Media ventures pictures

  Dec 2001 - Jan 2005

  Head of production

  Ran production and finance company for Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures company (now Remote Control) with principal Jay Rifkin and investor Paul Fiore. We developed many projects and made a few, including "Waiting." Also worked with Werner Herzog as his producer while at MVP.Highlights:§ Operated and raised financing for film company§ Identified writers and source material for adaptation into screenplays§ Developed and sold projects to all major studios§ Found financing for and produced 3 films and one pilot, including "Waiting" for Lion's Gateand "Incident at Loch Ness" for Fox Video Show less

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  Granada international

  Jul 2005 - Jan 2008

  Vp, scripted entertainment

  Ran scripted entertainment for ITV at its American outpost in Los Angeles, where I executive produced original TV movies as well as selling & producing projects from the massive Granada library into the US marketplace in TV and film.

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  Another green world productions

  Jan 2008 - Jun 2016

  Founder, producer, consultant, speaker

  Created content and marketing strategies for a diverse group of clients. The Young Turks, Zype.com, eevo.com, What's Trending/Shira Lazar, Fotografiska StockholmProduction clients: Epix, Federated Media, Wyndham Resorts, American Express, Matt Koval, Warrior Poets/Morgan Spurlock, SwitchLa.com, The DeLeon GroupHelped eevo.com raise 1.2 million in a seed round, What's Trending with a raise, zype with strategic partnerships and TYT with strategic partnerships. Awards: 14 Webby nominations for my content at Conde Nast Entertainment. One Digiday Award (Codefellas), One PGA award (best short series, What's Inside)When demand increased for production processes and operations expertise married to content and program plan development, I have been able to launch Huffington Post Live, produced the launch of jash.com, and created content and built out production for 8 brands at Condé Nast: Wired, Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Teen Vogue, Vanity Fair, epicurious.com and style.com. This full lifecycle approach and attention to detail -- the "how"​ of production as well as the "what" -- has served me well in the form of increasing opportunity, and I have earned the chance to build successful studios, to create lean, high-functioning teams of producers and marketers , and to collaborate with some of the top content creators in the world. Show less

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  The huffington post

  May 2012 - Sept 2012

  Executive producer, huffpost live

  Led the Los Angeles launch of Huffington Post streaming video startup HuffPost Live. Hired and trained 40 person staff, created programming, and ran Shadow Convention, executive producing nearly 50 segments on topics including The War on Drugs and Money in Politics with such luminaries as Larry Lessig, Matt Taibbi, Howard Dean, Michael Moore and many others.

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  Condé nast

  Jan 2013 - Sept 2013

  Senior vp, creative, digital

  Responsible for developing, producing and managing the creation of original content for Condé Nast Entertainment's digital video channels, based on Condé Nast’s iconic brands. In close collaboration with leadership across editorial, marketing, advertising, and technology functions, laid a foundation for continued growth and maturation of the division’s digital content and distribution business from its current focus on dedicated digital video channels for specific brands to a contemplated expansion into affinity-based channels featuring related content from multiple brands, and beyond into development of new, original, digital-native CNE brands.Highlights:§ Built in-house digital video production capability for Condé Nast Entertainment division; hired, trained, and managed staff; repaired or established lines of cross-functional communication and collaboration§ Conceptualized, developed, and produced programming for 8 digital video channels, on both owned and operated sites and on youtube.§ Created original DV series and specials attuned to each brand's voice and constituency, attracting and growing active audiences and exceeding first stage goal of 100MM views within first 4 months of operation§ Drove enterprise revenue objectives by bringing new strategic content and production partnerships and actively helping to close $6MM in incremental ad sales§ Branded Entertainment Initiatives: Led Decades project, a collaboration between Vanity Fair and American Express, with such luminaries as Don Cheadle, Judd Apatow and numerous other A List filmmakers for both the VF site and AMEX IPTV. Concepted and ran project with GQ and Bacardi for The Great American Bartender, currently in production. Show less

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  Create a ripple

  Jan 2018 - Apr 2020

  Chief executive officer

  Made content and created strategies for brands from Samsung to startups and everyone in between. CGIVideo2D animationVR/AR/MRDecks and strategy

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  Cocreativ

  Apr 2020 - Jul 2021

  Senior vice president marketing

  I completely reworked all marketing materials and direction for multiple brands, both SaaS and production and ecommerce oriented, for holding company Cocreativ on behalf of Industrial Color, Smashbox, and Global Edit. I moved the company to a fully integrated Salesforce platform (Lightning) with all sales tracked and reporting in to me. Durning my tenure sales improved 30% year on year. I launched blogs, new websites for two of our properties, creating SEM campaigns, and running Instagram and LinkedIn accounts for three brands. I also brought in new clients like AMC Networks and Jefferies Credit Partners, continuing a long career of creating original content of quality at scale. Show less

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  Open plans ny

  Sept 2021 - Mar 2022

  Director of strategic communications
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  Sustainable media center

  Oct 2022 - now

  Advisor