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About Me

SUMMARY

Entrepreneur with a passion for starting and improving online businesses through the effective use of exceptional business and interpersonal skills. An expressive leader and communicator who develops and implements solutions to complex problems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pilates Anytime, Inc. 2009 - Present
CEO and Co-Founder, Los Angeles, CA
Subscription website featuring hundreds of Pilates classes from some of the worlds greatest Pilates teachers.

JoMa Ventures, Inc 2009 - Present
CEO and Co-Founder, Los Angeles, CA
Online technology incubator focused on creating new online services supported through either ad revenue or subscriptions.

Pasadena Angels 2009 - Present
Member of angel investment group with a focus on evaluating digital media business opportunities.

Technorati, Inc. 2008 - 2009
VP and GM Ad Services, Los Angeles, CA
Responsible for integrating the AdEngage business into Technorati and managing over 50% of the company’s revenue.

AdEngage, Inc. 2005 - 2008
President and CEO, Los Angeles, CA
Managed an online ad network that profitably grew from one to 15 employees. AdEngage displayed over 12 billion ads per month on over 4000 websites to over 50 million unique visitors per month.

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. 2000 - 2004
Director, Business Development, Irvine, CA
Served as General Manager of the “SurfHere” Wi-Fi (wireless) public access broadband Internet business unit with profit and loss responsibility.

Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) 1987 - 2000
Based in London, Guildford, UK, Dallas and Los Angeles
Served in a variety of roles in this multi-national oil and gas company.

Britoil plc 1983 - 1987
Petroleum Engineer, Glasgow and Aberdeen, UK

Location:
United States, Manhattan Beach, CA
Current organization:
Pilates Anytime, Inc.
Current role:
CEO & Co-Founder
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
online advertising, Online Content
I am:
Business leader, Business mentor, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Parent, Startup
Associations:
Leadership Manhattan Beach, Pasadena Angels
Languages:
English
My website links:
Pilates Anytime, List Alert
Universities:
University of Liverpool, UK, Imperial College, London, London Business School
TED conferences attended:
TEDActive 2014, TEDGlobal 2013, TEDActive 2013, TEDActive 2012, TEDActive 2011, TED2010
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I'm passionate about

Travel, education, diet, exercise and friends

An idea worth spreading

We are all capable of doing more than we think is possible. As a society we need to convince ourselves that we should take the risk of doing projects that we are not confident that we can complete. The risk of failure is minimal and the opportunity to learn and create is huge.

Talk to me about

TEDx, Start Ups, Sustainability, Pilates

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    A comment on Conversation: How do we capture the collective wisdom and engage the global TEDx communities?

    Feb 11 2011: The question "How do we help these communities take action, both locally and globally?" leads to the question "Are the TEDx Events about just sharing ideas or are they also about making ideas happen?" I believe that it has to be about both and a way to do this is for TEDx Organizers to partner with other community groups that are focused on specific issues.

    To help TEDx Organizers do this TED could publish case studies of how this has been done and share best practices. The risk exists that some partner organizations may wish to take over the TEDx event and not understand the roles and responsibilities of the parties.

    Another idea that could be used to connect Organizers would be to have global TEDx days like TEDxYouth on specific issues that are important to many groups. This would create an opportunity for collaboration and from those connections action would happen.

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