Currently Director of Worldwide Content and Licensing at Savtira Corporation, I am responsible for sourcing, negotiation and licensing worldwide of both digital and physical content for Savtira’s cloud “Entertainment Distribution Network” (EDN) B2B platform and eStore.  Content categories include  Major Studio Theatrical Releases, VOD/PPV, Independent films, linear Network and Cable TV channels, IPTV channels, OTT channels, IP Radio, Video Games, Books/eBooks and Audio Books, and Music.

Savtira is a B2B SaaS provider of digital distribution with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform that provides a turnkey system for the distribution, marketing, merchandising, and selling of both digital media and physical goods in a single store and a single, unified shopping cart. Savtira enables B2C Savtira-powered stores that are designed to meet the specific needs of retail partners and are custom-branded for our partners.  To facilitate the delivery of digital content, Savtira has built the next carrier-class “Entertainment Distribution Network” (EDN), streaming all digital media from the cloud, with a feature set that eclipses anything on the market.  The company is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and London, U.K.  Take a Tour of the Savtira eStore at: http://estore.savtira.net and also our cloud digital locker for all your media, data and applications at http://1locker.com or go here to see what Savtira does:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAvxGlvK5g

I've been at Augme Technologies, Inc,  Bill Gross’s idealab, MCI/Verizon Telecommunications, MGM/UA, and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable and several dot.com start-ups.

I founded iWatchNow Inc. a 'Netflix-type' service streaming over 3,000 classic films and TV shows on the Internet for nearly 5 years and was sold to a outside group of investors.

My roots began in Cable TV (Group W) at Z Channel, The Travel Channel and Home Theater Network. I founded and launched on satellite one of first movie pay-per-view cable services ‘The People’s Choice’.  While at MGM/UA I managed their TV division and was Executive in Charge of Production for 2 seasons for ‘Sid and Marty Krofft’s ‘DC Follies’ starring Fred Willard seen in over 170 TV markets across the county.

At idealab, I worked with dot.com start-ups HomePage, Woodstock and cloud computing SaaS/IaaS provider Frontera (later sold to Marc Andreessen’s ‘Loudcloud’).  Post idealab, I moved over to Verizon Telecommunications Business IT Solutions and Hosting Group managing channel and VAR sales for Oracle and Cisco products, web hosting and SaaS/IaaS landing Vivendi/Universal, PopCap Games, Mp3, Mattel and Honda.

Graduated with a degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with an emphasis on Communications Law in 1977. I am a contributor and member to the Forbes.com Business and Financial Network, belong to several media groups; Media Professionals Worldwide, Telecom Professionals, Milken Institute, ThoseinMedia and the Tampa Bay Tech Community Group (TMPBY).  I am a mentor for start-up’s at http://gazellelab.com/

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