David Mathison

Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs

Universidad Internacional

State University of New York College at Brockport

Brunel University

Chair & CEO at CDO Club / CDO Summit. CEO & Publisher at Be The Media, an NFT event space and marketplace for creators and their fans.

New York, New York, United States

The CDO Club is the world’s first, largest, and most powerful community of C-suite digital, data, and analytics leaders.

Our 5,000+ registered members receive access to breaking news, original research, career development support, networking opportunities, and inspirational events such as the CDO Summit.

CDO Club members include leading digital and data strategists and practitioners at the world’s most influential organizations, with the following titles represented:

-  Chief Digital Officers
-  Chief Data Officers
-  Chief Analytics Officers
-  Chief Marketing Officers
-  Chief Marketing Technologists
-  Chief Information Officers
-  Chief Technology Officers
-  Chief Human Resource Officers
-  Chief Executive Officers
-  Board/NonExecutive Directors

We help our members and their organizations:
-  Attract and retain exceptional leaders
-  Build effective teams
-  Create competitive advantage
-  Deal with digital disruption
-  Engage with customers and partners more deeply and authentically

For more information:
-  Website: <a href="http://CDOClub.com">http://CDOClub.com</a>
-  LinkedIn CDO Group: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Chief-Digital-Officers-CDO-Club-4176032">http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Chief-Digital-Officers-CDO-Club-4176032</a>

CDO Club

Chairman and CEO

Transformative Leadership Pace University Lubin School of Business

Board Member

Check out our IBM CDO/CTO Summit Series 2021 schedule:
-  Feb 24 2021: How Leading Organizations Have Adapted and Are Accelerating Into 2021
-  Apr 21 2021: CDOs and CTOs Leading in Turbulent Times
-  Jun 16 2021: Getting Students, Fans, Employees, and Customers Back in the Building
-  Aug 18 2021: Building and Creating Trust in Data
-  Oct 20 2021: Balancing Innovation and Growth With Risk and Regulation
-  Dec 08 2021: Year-End Recap, Awards, and Finale

To watch previous IBM CDO/CTO Summits online, or to register for upcoming summits visit: <a href="https://bit.ly/IBM-CDO-Summit">https://bit.ly/IBM-CDO-Summit</a>

CDO Summit

BE THE MEDIA was published in 2008 and was a clarion call for the creator economy. The site is now an NFT event space and marketplace for creators and their true fans.

Be The Media teaches creators how to build their platform and grow their audience.

If you are a musician, author, educator, filmmaker, consultant, trainer, speaker, politician, activist, entrepreneur, or coach, then Be The Media is for you.

But don't take my word for it. Here's what legendary broadcaster Phil Donahue had to say:

- David Mathison's BE THE MEDIA offers the preposterous idea that broadcasting and publishing need not be exclusive to industrial titans.  You (yes, he means you) can take the "big" out of "media" and return this most important feature of democracy to the people.  The practical advice offered in this book are ideas whose time has come ... and none too soon. For those who've come to understand that the "news" and what's hot in popular culture are decisions made by large corporations, this book is must reading.  Here is the hand book for those Americans who want to join and help lead the revolution that is urgently returning to the people, the power of conveying information to a populace starved for new ideas from outside the box of big business commercialism.” - Phil Donahue

And Ruth Ann Harnisch, the President of the Harnisch Foundation:

- We love good books, and when we find one that can help people create social change, increase their philanthropic capabilities, and become more personally empowered, we want to share that book with others. BE THE MEDIA is one of those books. We knew this book could help nonprofits. We knew this book could help aspiring journalists. We knew this book could help teachers. So we have underwritten the distribution of thousands of copies of BE THE MEDIA to schools, nonprofits, women's causes, and other individuals whose work we want to encourage and support.”

For more information, visit <a href="http://BeTheMedia.com">BeTheMedia.com</a>

Be The Media

Publisher, CEO

I was founder and Managing Director of the Digital Media practice at Chadick Ellig, a premier executive search firm that Business Week named one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters."

The Digital Media practice places exceptional leaders into outstanding companies at both established enterprises and funded start-ups that want to:
-  Increase revenues from new and existing digital assets;
-  Cut costs by leveraging digital distribution and fulfillment;
-  Improve customer service via online tools, services, and social media; and
-  Increase web traffic, conversions, and online/mobile ROI through improved measurement and analytics.

Chadick Ellig

Managing Director, Digital Media

Home Aid is a leading national non-profit provider of shelter for today's homeless.

We build and renovate multi-unit shelters for America's temporarily homeless families and individuals, more than one million of whom are children, while they rebuild their lives.

Home Aid has provided shelter for more than 100,000 individuals who have been rendered temporarily homeless due to circumstances beyond their control, including:

-  Abused children
-  Victims of domestic violence
-  At-risk teens
-  People living with HIV/AIDS
-  Those who are temporarily out of work
-  Victims of natural disasters and other catastrophes

For more information or to help, visit <a href="http://HomeAid.Org">HomeAid.Org</a>

HomeAid America

Director, Board Of Directors

The Kinecta Corporation is the leading provider of systems that enable global publishers to manage robust content relationships through syndication and aggregation.

Kinecta won awards from Seybold Publishing, ComputerWorld Magazine and Crossroads.

Kinecta was backed by Adobe Ventures, Granite Ventures, Fenway Partners, Canaan Partners, Reuters, Fidelity Ventures and Outlook Ventures.

SUMMARY:
-  Managed multimillion dollar P&L and balance sheet. Built original business plans and revenue models.
-  Developed long-term direction, 6-month operating plans, and quarterly MBOs. Set staffing levels, determined incentive compensation and stock option awards. Directed investment decisions. Led and conducted monthly Board meetings.
-  Raised $30 million in venture and strategic funding over three rounds, including a $17 million third round which closed in December 2000.
-  Closed first major accounts and drove first year bookings from $0 to $1.27 million. Customers included Reuters, The Financial Times, Fidelity Investments, The Economist, Dow Jones, Red Herring, MSNBC, Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos, among others.
-  Achieved significant visibility with industry analysts, from an unknown to a recognized leading player covered by Yankee Group, Delphi, Forrester, Gartner, Jupiter, Seybold, and the Harvard Business Review.
-  Staffed entire original management team with no outside recruitment.
-  Reduced monthly operating expenses from $1.3 million (12/00) to under $600k, with $12m cash on hand (6/01).
-  Drove global VAR, alliance, channel and OEM strategies. Partners include Open Market, Documentum, among others
-  Fielded M&A inquiries from top industry players (Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum, more).

In 2002, Kinecta was acquired by the Stellent Corporation, a provider of enterprise content management solutions with more than 4,400 customers, including much of the Global 2000.

In November 2006, Stellent was acquired for $440 million by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

Kinecta Corporation (an Oracle company)

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. It owns the world's largest international news agency with journalists, photographers, and camera operators in 216 bureaus.

They supply the global financial markets and media with real-time financial and investment data, numerical, textual, historical, and graphical databases, photos, and video.

Mathison held Vice President positions in Technical Development, Marketing, and Technical Sales, ultimately becoming Vice President of Global Syndication reporting to world headquarters in London.

Mathison's products, specifically Target News, pioneered content syndication on the Internet, years before RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was invented.

SUMMARY:
-  Conceived, built, launched & supported Target News (1998). Cost: $500k; bookings exceeded $1.6 million within 8 months.
-  Released: Tru.Quote; A/V Clips service; Planet Reuters; a java-based interactive news product; first <a href="http://Reuters.com">Reuters.com</a> webmaster.
-  Built and maintained relationships with key technology suppliers. Leveraged partnerships, investments, strategic alliances and joint application development efforts with Netscape, Sun, Microsoft, among others.
-  Managed development projects, budgets, forecasts and staff. Guaranteed standards of service and efficient development processes – local, virtual, internal and external.
-  Recruited, hired, trained, and evaluated employees. Direct authority over developers, matrix responsibility to sales, marketing and product management. Migrated products to new host, zero-tolerance for downtime to existing customers.
-  Built Y2K millennium-compliance into revenue-producing products. Evaluated and recommended end-of-life for less profitable services.
-  Product Manager for the Reuters Business Alert Server, the forerunner of Factiva, the Dow Jones/Reuters joint venture.

On May 15, 2007, The Thomson Corporation merged with Reuters in a deal valued at US $17.2 billion.

Thomson Reuters

Vice President, Syndication

Software Spectrum is a global corporation that helps organizations increase business value from information technology.

As Director for Client/Server Products and Services, Mathison established a regional office that provided consulting, training, application development and support for applications from Microsoft, Novell, Lotus, Oracle, Sybase and Powersoft, among others.

Level 3 Communications acquired Spectrum for $109 million in 2002.

Software Spectrum (An Insight company)

Director

Ovid Technologies provides sophisticated search software for full text bibliographic and summary content databases to the scientific, technical and medical markets. Ovid supports the diverse research needs of its 13 million users worldwide.

In North America alone, Ovid is used by 93% of medical libraries, 97% of teaching hospitals, and 87% of US hospitals with more than 200 beds, as well as the top 30 pharmaceutical companies.

SUMMARY:
-  European Sales Manager: opened Ovid's European headquarters based in Holland (1993).
-  Interim Manager for International Sales based in London, England (1992).
-  Sales Manager, Latin America (1991).
-  Sales representative: Sold medical databases such as MEDLINE, CancerLit, and CINAHL on CD-ROM and network systems (1989-91).

In 2000, the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer, NV acquired Ovid for $200 million.

Ovid Technologies (A Wolters Kluwer company)

Sales

Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) is a Columbia University and Sloan Foundation industry research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media.

Mathison monitored international telecommunications journals for Professor Eli Noam in preparation for his book "Telecommunications In Europe."

Professor Noam has published 30 books and over 300 articles. His recent books include: Media Ownership and Concentration in America (Oxford); Peer-to-Peer Video (Springer); Media Concentration Around the World (ed., Oxford, forthcoming); and Media Management (4-volumes, forthcoming).

Professor Noam focuses on the economics and management of media, communications, and the Internet, both in America and around the world. He served as New York State's Public Service Commissioner, regulating the telecommunications and energy industries, and on a White House Presidential Board on electronic technology. Noam received his BA, MA, Ph.D (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Munich (2006) and the University of Marseilles (2008).

Columbia University Business School

Research

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business  (CJEB) was established to enhance understanding of the Japanese and Asia–Pacific economies and their business, financial and managerial systems.

Mathison organized a conference on the privatization of NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) and the liberalization of the telecommunications laws in Japan for Professor Hugh Patrick.

Hugh Patrick is director of CJEB, co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus. His publications include sixteen books and some sixty articles and essays. He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1960.

Conference coordinator

The London Electricity Board was the public sector utility company responsible for electricity generation and electrical infrastructure maintenance in London prior to 1990.

At its peak, London Electricity supplied energy to 2 million customers.

From 1981-1982, Mathison did data entry using an electronic database of LEB's extensive land-holding documents, including rights-of-way leases written on original parchment. He was based in their New Broad Street headquarters in London, England.

Electricite De France (EDF) purchased LEgroup from the American company Entergy in 1998.