My Experience
I have spent the past 25 years working throughout entertainment, media and technology. For the past eight years, I have led a team on Apple’s App Store, managing our business relationships with partners across Entertainment, Music, Sports, News, Photo & Video, Social Networking, Weather, Books and Reference. Over the past five years, I have managed entertainment, sports, music and news, resulting in a 500% billings growth over five years and over $550M in new business via new partners coming to iOS/tvOS. I have helped grow the App Store businesses of a wide array of partners including Amazon, Google, NBA, MLB, HBO, Facebook, Instagram, VSCO, Netflix, New York Times, NBC, Hulu, ESPN and hundreds of others.
20 years in partnerships and business development throughout tech and entertainment
8 years managing Apple’s App Store partnerships across entertainment, sports, music, news, social networking, photo & video and education
Helped launch and manage significant digital businesses, including ESPN+, Amazon Prime Video, NBA League Pass and YouTube Premium
Sourced, negotiated and closed hundreds of agreements (music, tv, film, digital distribution)
Board Member at mental-health nonprofit, Bring Change to Mind
BA in Sociology, Boston College
In addition to Apple, I’ve held business development and licensing roles at SNOCAP, MTV Networks, Moderati,
Personal
I am originally from a small town in Northern New Jersey. I grew up passionate about sports, music, news and entertainment, and somehow ended up working across those fields. I graduated from Boston College in 1996 and then moved to Brooklyn, NY, where I lived for six years. After living on the East Coast my entire life (save a few years in LA as a baby), I moved out to the Bay Area on New Years Day 2005 and lived in San Francisco for eight years before moving to San Jose where I’ve now lived for six years. I have a ten-year-old dog named Bennett. I am a massive music fan having collected vinyl records since I was a child (just about to cross 1500 records in total). My sports teams, all of whom I follow very closely, are the Yankees (Cole!), Knicks (Yikes), Steelers (basically always good), Louisville basketball (#3 as of this writing) and, of course, Boston College (not so great). My favorite movies are You Can Count on Me, Being There and Rushmore. My favorite records are Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town",” Richard Buckner’s “Devotion & Doubt” and Uncle Tupelo’s “Still Feel Gone.” My favorite books are Bill Morrissey’s Edson and Albert Camus’ The Fall.
