Product, technology, and media operator and two-time founder. Two decades operating media businesses and building what replaces them across existential platform shifts: linear TV to digital video at MTV/Viacom, terrestrial radio to podcasting at New York Public Radio, and satellite radio to streaming audio at SiriusXM/Pandora. Delivers quarterly results in the core business while innovating toward product-market fit in new, fiercely competitive markets.

Strategy & Advisory Founder of Agora Advisors (2023–present), advising nonprofits, venture-backed startups, and publicly traded media companies on AI-generated content strategy, including provenance, discovery, and monetization, and on the return to physical experiences as an antidote to digital isolation (URL → IRL). Thought partner and co-author of corporate and product strategy for CEOs and Boards.

Enterprise Scale Product Leader Head of Product and acting CPO at SiriusXM/Pandora (2020–2023). Responsible for all consumer-facing screens and surfaces across 150M MAUs, 34M subscribers, and a $1.3B ad business. Set product strategy for the ~1,000-person engineering and product org and directly managed ~100 staff across product, design, data science, analytics, operations, and UX research. Rebuilt the music and podcast genome and built the company's first personalization team. Integrated Stitcher and Simplecast into a unified podcast stack, building the foundation for SiriusXM's ~$500M podcast ad business.

GM with P&L Responsibility Rose from Technical Project Manager to SVP/GM at Viacom/MTV, running a ~$100M P&L across product, partnerships, licensing, and revenue as linear TV migrated to digital. Nearly doubled MTV's digital audience from 30M to 53M MAUs. Led MTV's first Spotify partnership, pioneering human-curated discovery. Secured major-label terms for independent labels, starting with Beggars Group, and struck partnerships with Warner Music Group and Live Nation.

Mission-Driven Institution Builder GM and first Chief Transformation Officer at New York Public Radio (2017–2019). Restored WQXR to the number-one classical station in the US; won Board approval to take classical music national; raised $12M against a $10M venture philanthropy goal. Founding member of the noncomMUSIC Alliance, a national coalition that pushed policymakers for copyright and licensing reform.

Early-Stage Founder Co-founded First Press (2025–2026), a pre-seed startup that created trusted, tradeable scores for music, so creators share in the value of their work and consumers get a signal to make better media choices. Raised $500K and shipped a working product in four weeks using AI-native agentic engineering. Earlier, founded The Yams, a conversational music and podcast recommendation service that pioneered Curation-as-a-Service and grew to 3,000 paying members.

Speaking & Recognition Speaker at SXSW, SF MusicTech, and the Yale School of Management. Punch Sulzberger Fellow, Columbia Journalism School. Advisor to Pitchfork, the Brooklyn Museum, Techstars Music. Two-time Billboard honoree. Led teams whose work won Webby, Emmy, and Peabody awards.