I've spent about thirty years at the intersection of media and technology, mostly building the plumbing that lets people watch, share, and create without having to think about how any of it works.
I started as a founder, not an employee. Mediabolic, an early connected home software platform, was acquired by Rovi in 2006. That led to Sling Media, where I was the first VP of Product Management and helped take the Slingbox from a sketch to a real shipped product, hardware and software both. DISH acquired Sling for close to $400M in 2007, an outcome I have spent a good chunk of my career since trying to be worthy of a second time.
I kept starting things after that. Legacy Locker, an early online will (sold to PasswordBox / Intel in 2013). Nudgemail, an email based reminder tool. And Dijit, a smart TV guide, whose acquisition brought me to CBS Interactive, where I ran product, social, and audience engagement across CNET.
From there I took on larger executive roles on purpose, not by drift: leading product for WarnerMedia's Innovation Lab, the small group inside a very large media company whose job is to sketch out what might be next, and later an interim stint as CPO at Joyn, Germany's answer to Hulu, helping launch their streaming service.
I left WarnerMedia in late 2021 and started Aug X Labs a few months later. We built Augie, an AI assisted video production platform. I'm doing this less because I think the model itself is the interesting part, and more because the whole stack around it, how media actually gets made and distributed, feels genuinely up for grabs again. That does not happen often, and I would rather be in the middle of it than watching from the sidelines.
Outside of work, I write and host Founder@50, a podcast and newsletter about building a career and a life that reflects who you actually are, especially once you're past the point where starting over is supposed to be normal. I tinker on a variety of projects that excite me. I advise a small number of early stage founders when I think I can be genuinely useful, and I speak at events when the topic and audience are a good fit.
For the record: father of three, a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon, board/card/social game nerd, massive movie fan, fitness and hiking enthusiast, and, as always, Go Habs Go!