Wright State University

Head of Global PR/Spire Global, Shazam, Membit, Grooveshark, BrightLine, Amazon, Audible, Razorfish Employee #64, Harpo Productions, Hughes Entertainment

Appointed as the first internal Director of Public Relations for Zeta Global. Zeta Global (NYSE:ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world.

Zeta Global

Director of Public Relations

Forbes Communications Council, an invitation-only community for executives in communications, marketing, and public relations.

Forbes Communications Council

Offical Member & Contributor 

Advisor to AI-Powered Commerce Platform and Stylist led by ex-google play, HK, and Audible veteran, Chia-Lin Simmons.

LookyLoo

Advisor

First internal Head of Global Public Relations for EmitBio™ a life science company using the precise delivery of light to stimulate, protect, and heal the body through light therapy. Our experienced team is comprised of internationally recognized light science specialists merged with immunology and virology life science experts, prepared to react quickly to the pandemic and rapidly scale manufacturing for lifesaving medical breakthroughs. EmitBio is currently using advanced LED technology to create light that is fundamental to human health, harnessed for healing and bodily defense.

EmitBio Inc.

Head of Global Public Relations 

Spire Global Inc. is a space to cloud analytics company that utilizes proprietary satellite data and algorithms to provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. As of January 2021, Spire Global has over 100 satellites in orbit that are collecting hundreds of million messages per day. Spire will continue to provide more data and insights to enable the digital transformation of organizations towards data-driven opportunities in the maritime industry.

Spire’s data analytics is backed by a wholly owned and developed constellation of nanosatellites, a global ground station network, and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth. Spire operates the world's largest fleet of remote sensing satellites and has launched strategic partnerships across a myriad of different verticals. In August 2018, NASA announced it will pursue contracts to purchase commercial data from Spire and the company was recently named to Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. Spire Global announced plans this March to go public through a merger with SPAC NavSight Holdings. The merger values Spire at a $1.6 billion equity valuation based on the PIPE.

Spire

Head of Global Communications

Membit ™ is a new way to share memories. When you make a membit, you leave an image in place for other Membit users to find and enjoy. With Membit, you can share the past of a place with the present, or share the present of a place with the future. Membit is a geolocative photo sharing app that allows pictures to be placed and viewed in the exact location they were captured. Membit’s patented Human Positioning System (TM) allows for markerless Augmented Reality to be used anytime, anywhere, by anyone. 


“About as close as we got to seeing a time machine at TC Disrupt.”
-The 20 most fascinating iOS apps from TechCrunch Disrupt, MacWorld

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Membit Inc.

Pearson hired, created and oversaw Shazam’s global team of regional publicists and agencies. He was responsible for all aspects of Shazam’s Global Communications and led the global comms element of acquisition of Shazam by Apple. He served as Head of Global Communications when the app more than doubled its user base, surpassed one billion downloads, launched "Shazam For Brands" and achieved profitability. Sole Shazam PR contact with partners such as Kanye West, The Today Show, and Snapchat's first music app integration. Served as sole Shazam PR contact for Beat Shazam hosted by Jamie Foxx. Shazam is one of the world’s most popular apps, used by more than 120 million people each month to magically connect to the world around them. Building on its pioneering leadership in music identification, Shazam now helps people discover, interact with, and share video, audio, or printed content on TV, radio, movie screens, magazines, newspapers, packaged goods, and retail stores -- and now Shazam lets music fans follow their favorite artists to see their Shazams and share in the thrill of discovery. The app has exceeded 20 billion total Shazams since its launch, and users Shazam over 20 million times each day.

Shazam

Vice President, Global Communications

Grooveshark was a digital music service that united music fans, bands, music labels, and brands. With nearly 30 million monthly active users at its peak, Grooveshark was one of the largest digital music services on the Internet. Grooveshark was also an open audio distribution platform for creators, and a music discovery tool for fans. 

As a cloud-based streaming service, Grooveshark enabled content owners to instantly share their music with a worldwide audience of millions. Everyone from signed artists, to self-published musicians leveraged Grooveshark to promote their work and directly engage consumers. 
Grooveshark was built to fundamentally change the way audio content is created, distributed, and marketed. We are accomplishing this through providing a distribution model that complements the everyday media mix of today’s consumer. Grooveshark – Search. Discover.

Grooveshark

Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications

Appointed to EVP in an effort to develop global brand strategy for the world's leading provider of interactive advertising.

BrightLine

Amazon

Director of Corporate Communications

Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady computer-based and wireless mobile devices. Audible has over 40,000 audio programs from more than 470 content providers that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple's iTunes Store.
Consumers shop, purchase, and download audio content from www.audible.com (United States), www.audible.co.uk (United Kingdom), www.audible.de (Germany), or www.audible.fr (France) directly to personal computers for listening in a variety of ways.

Audible Inc. (audible.com)

Public Relations Brand development, web site traffic growth. Developed brand PR strategy and systems. 
Strategic PR Consulting, including business plan & PR strategy development. 
Advising new businesses on PR Policy and Crisis Management

Rubenstein

Associate Vice President

Branding, media and press relations strategy for Razorfish from inception through its 55,200,000 million dollar initial public offering.  While at Razorfish he developed media plans and public relations strategies with Giorgio Armani, The Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, 3M, Charles Schwab, Wireless Application Protocol Forum, SEGA, NatWest, SONY Japan, ARTE, Financial Times, HBO, PBS, UK Channel 4, Cartier, and Coca Cola Nordic Services.

James A. Pearson