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The Wharton School

Princeton University

Entertainment & Technology Executive (YouTube, Google)  -  Founder (3x acquired)  -  Video & Emerging Tech Strategist, XR, Metaverse  -  Right and Left-brained Producer

San Francisco Bay Area

AR House is a co-working/co-living house in LA that attracts top augmented reality creator & developer talent that has resulted in 80+ creators, 200+ metaverse projects, 10B+ content views, and $25M+ in funding raised for projects.

AR House

Advisor

California manufacturer and distributor of NIOSH-approved N95 respirators using filtration materials sourced from U.S. manufacturers. <a href="http://www.advoquesafeguard.com">www.advoquesafeguard.com</a>

Advoque SafeGuard

Co-Founder, COO

Buffer Festival is the world's largest international digital-first film festival. Curating and celebrating video premieres from today's acclaimed digital creators. Featuring theatrical screenings, red carpets, educational keynotes, and awards. Buffer Festival is a showcase of video premieres, celebrating artistic and innovative content from acclaimed digital creators.

Buffer Festival

Member of the Board of Directors

Led technical development team under the vision and direction of Guy Laliberté (founder of Cirque Du Soleil) to create prototypes of new worlds and experiences that merge the physical and digital (Phygital) with a new community designed to support creators, performing artists, musicians, crypto natives, sister communities, and all those new to Web3

Hanai World

Chief Product Officer

Led the production of XR Phygital Location Based Experiences.
- Produced the first live-streamed volumetric capture of a DJ using Microsoft Holoportation technology into a custom designed surreal forest environment in Alt-Space.
- Produced the first AR seating dining experience for four that paired shared tabletop holographic performances with real food served at the table using Microsoft's  Hololens2 and Mixed Reality Capture Studio technology.

Executive Producer

Arcturus brings the human performance to the Metaverse. The Arcturus HoloSuite platform enables creators to author, edit & stream directable, interactive and holographic captured actors, performers and environments to power your virtual worlds and interactive human experiences.

Arcturus

Founder

Achieved a 2019 Lumiere award, a 2020 daytime-Emmy nomination, a Grammy-winning musician jam session format, multiple product launches, and a $5M venture capital financing round with a team of 20, by leading the company efforts in finance, operations, fundraising, and executive producing of 360/180 video.

President and COO

River Studios creates 360 videos, builds interactive virtual worlds and develops ground-breaking Virtual Reality apps, all to bring empathy and wonder to millions of people, using the incredible medium of Virtual Reality.

River Studios

Executive Director

The YouTube Creator Technology Group connects emerging technology together with content creators at YouTube Spaces to inspire and create new forms of media (360 video,VR,AR,XR)
- Launched 360 Video on Youtube in March 2015 with top creator content.
- Led "lighthouse video content" creation efforts for 5 product launches producing 7 videos totaling 20M+ views on YouTube.
- Led product development & testing between YouTube Creators and the Google Odyssey camera, YouTube multi-angle playback (YourView), 360 Playback on YouTube Desktop, Android and iOS, Cardboard/VR playback on YouTube.
- Developed and presented talks on the Future of Immersive Video.

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YouTube

Head of Creator Technology, YouTube Spaces

The Alchemy is a nonprofit arts organization based in Los Angeles that supports and networks artists, creative projects and communities…mixing people, art, technology and dreams in the crucible of creativity.

The Alchemy

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Produced and hosted multiple experimental interactive theater shows in a 50-person theatrical venue I created. Productions included the rock opera Cinderfella, the variety show The Alchemy Salon, immersive theater productions of Film Noir Murder Mystery Dinner and Houdini's Last Seance, and many many musical jam sessions.

Board of Advisors

Championing collaborations between YouTube creators/partners and the YouTube Product Management leadership.
- Acting CTO for internal systems supporting the YouTube Content organization, including a custom scaled education platform, community platform, and a studio scheduling and inventory management platform.
- Created and led semi-annual process for gathering and prioritizing all creator/partner input from the content leadership to inform and influence product roadmap development in the product management leadership.
- Developed curriculum, delivered in-person training, and created educational videos on the topic of "How to Earn Money with YouTube".
- Designed and launched the Creator Hub, the central destination for resources for YouTube creators at <a href="http://youtube.com/creators">youtube.com/creators</a>.
- Trusted confidant to top YouTube stars.
            

    
    

    
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Partner Product Manager

Product Manager for
- YouTube Partner Program: Led $XXXM global expansion and evolution of the YouTube Partner Program, enabling millions of YouTube creators to monetize their videos.
- YouTube Partner Payments and Reporting: Led development of the Revster ad revenue-share and reporting system which processed 2% of Google's revenue daily. Launched Video View Attribution for comScore and Nielsen enabling YouTube channels to be accurately represented in ad industry rankings. Launched Advance/Recoupment system for tracking at scale YouTube’s $XXXM Original Programming investments against partner earnings.
- YouTube Analytics: Led the 2010 redesign from Insight to YouTube Analytics including the addition of financial performance.
            

    
    

    
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Product Manager

Oortle is a Web 2.0 software company that enables a synchronized, live interaction experience with social media for internet users.

-  Coordinated design, development, testing of Videophlow, a shared-video-viewing web application, from concept to private beta.
-  Served as the public spokesperson for the company and products, including demonstrating Videophlow on stage at the 2008 Web2.0 Expo conference, and press coverage including TechCrunch.
-  Created product strategy, business plan and financial projections for Oortle's product portfolio.
-  Initiated partnership discussions and led company fund-raising efforts.
            

    
    

    
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Oortle

Co-founder / VP of Products

Mozes is a mobile marketing company that enables self-service Web 2.0 creation of mobile ad campaigns that involve voice, text, and web.

-  Directed development, testing and release of Mozes' web application and text message processing system, from prototype through beta in 12 months, resulting in 300K unique mobile users at launch.
-  Spearheaded launch of the Mozes Developer API, creation of online community resources, and direction of developer interaction resulting in increased Mozes adoption and new feature feedback.
-  Designed and implemented custom analytical tracking tools and automated reporting capabilities that produced real-time geographical viewing of SMS and system activity.
-  Led migration of technical platform from prototype to scalable MVC framework in 6 weeks, achieving increased development capacity while directly managing 8 developers in parallel development capabilities.
-  Negotiated a solution provider relationship with iLike to power their Garageband Faceoff national radio contest resulting in daily Mozes exposure on ClearChannel radio stations in 6 major US markets.
-  Led all internal efforts for operations, legal, HR, financial modeling and reporting, financial controls, and company infrastructure as the acting CFO
            

    
    

    
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Mozes, Inc. (acquired by ePrize)

Co-founder / VP Product Development

Independent Business and Technology Consultant

-  Acted as an in-house business/technology mentor for over 20 startups in the fbFund REV incubator program (summer 2009)
-  Advised a creative agency on creating the social media architecture for <a href="http://www.redbullairforce.com">www.redbullairforce.com</a> (launched 3/13/09) designed to grow Red Bull's online community.
-  Developed product positioning, created collateral, optimized on-line sales process and initiated direct sales efforts for <a href="http://iVouch.com">iVouch.com</a>, a word-of-mouth marketing platform for SMBs.
-  Created travel-based Facebook applications that have grown organically and are now licensed to a large Hotel/Casino chain as a lead-generation tool.
-  Developed and launched an online Start-up Kit with templates, examples and best practices for streamlining business operations management as well as building better corporate governance for start-up and emerging growth companies.
-  Produced business, product, operational, and financial plans for a start-up software company Lifebits, a home digital media products company helping consumers better share their personal videos through the internet, mobile devices, and cable set-top boxes.
-  Advised and created business plans for a variety of other tech companies focused on Web 2.0, social media, wireless and mobile device applications, blog management and search and management tools, password management, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
            

    
    

    
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Trellistar, LLC

Founder / Principal Consultant

- Directed design, development, testing and release of SAproxy, a desktop spam solution, from concept to market-leading position in 6 months, resulting in 7500 paying customers, 100K users and a #1 ranking by Consumer Reports (Aug 2003) on a $50K total budget.
-  Coordinated design, development, testing and release of Bloomba, the market-leading search-based email client, from concept to launch in Oct 2003, resulting in 1500 paying customer and 25K users.
-  Created and led the customer support department by creating policies and procedures and hiring a team of 7, resulting in a 81% reduction in support requests and an increase in customer satisfaction.
-  Initiated all initial product marketing, industry and competitive research efforts.

As acting CFO:
-  Responsible for P&L reporting for Company with 60 people and 2nd year revenues under $5M.
-  Led due diligence, transaction analysis and business integration for Yahoo! acquisition. Financial, Legal, and IT integrations were all completed within 2 months resulting in one of Yahoo!’s fastest and smoothest integrations.
-  Developed multiple operational budgeting models and long range forecasting models in Excel that allowed for 7 distributed department P&Ls to roll-up into the corporate P&L, reducing budget cycle time by 80%.
-  Conducted statistical analysis on existing sales, marketing and user behavior data resulting in optimally targeted marketing communications and future product development enhancements.
            

    
    

    
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Stata Labs (acquired by Yahoo!)

Co-founder / VP Product Management

Dealmaven (acquired by FactSet [FDS] in January 2008 for $14M) was a corporate finance software company developing online financial resources and Excel and Powerpoint analytical tools for investment banks and their clients.

-  Coordinated product development of DealMaven’s two flagship products enabling $140K of initial revenue in the third quarter of 2000.
-  Directed investor relations to facilitate the closing of a $300K seed round of angel financing in June and a $1M Series A round in August 2000.
-  Co-authored and presented business plan that was a finalist in both the 1999-2000 Wharton Business Plan Competition and the Bain Start-up Challenge 2000.
-  Managed public relations for DealMaven, interviewing with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Business Week, Fast Company, Red Herring, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal (4/10/2000 p.B1).
-  Designed and implemented website and technical system architecture.
            

    
    

    
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DealMaven (acquired by FactSet)

Co-founder / General Manager

- Developed and implemented numerous financial business applications via web design and programming with Oracle Financial Applications, Databases, Webservers and Development Tools.

Andy Stack