Kelly Day is currently chief digital officer at AwesomenessTV, a youth-skewing digital entertainment unit owned by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. DreamWorks Animation acquired AwesomenessTV last May in a deal valued at $117 million. Since then, a growing number of YouTube video producers have been acquired by media companies eager to tap a youth audience that no longer gravitates toward...
Mich Mathews is the former SVP and CMO of Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Mathews oversaw a multi-billion marketing spend and over 7,000 marketers. She retired from Microsoft after 22 years with the company in 2011. Mathews now spends her time Angel Investing, and sits on the Digital Advisory Board of Unilever and the Boards of Oanda, True [x] and Bitium. She also starts teaching at Annenberg...
Jeff Bader is currently President, Program Planning, Strategy and Research at NBC Entertainment. He is responsible for overseeing long and short term program planning for NBC's primetime, daytime, and late night programming. The NBC Entertainment scheduling department reports to him as well as the division's research team. He also supervises the windowing strategy for primetime and late night...
On Oct 17, 2013, David C. McCourt, Chairman and CEO of Granahan McCourt Capital, a private investment firm with operations in the US and Europe, led off M{2e}'s Strategy Session Series for the 2013-14 academic year before a rapt group of students and faculty in USC Annenberg's Geoffrey Cowan Forum. Afterward, he caught up with M{2e}'s senior program assistant Katelyn Foley for an in-depth...
In a conversation led by M{2e} co-director, Christopher Holmes Smith, ΔLΞC MONOPOLY shared how the deep impact of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal changed the trajectory of his career.
On Nov. 6, 2013, celebrated graffiti artist ΔLΞC MONOPOLY joined students in M{2e}'s COMM 454 - "Media, Money & Society" class...
Facebook's Kay M. Madati joins Katelyn Foley for an in-depth discussion on Facebook's efforts to help entertainment and media partners cultivate a successful presence on the social network. Madati served as the M{2e} program's Executive-in-Residence in January...
William H. Janeway is senior advisor at Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building the information technology investment practice. Previously, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems, Nuance Communications, and O'Reilly Media, and a member of the board of managers of Roubini Global...