I am CEO & Founder of Ryse.Co, a social network, utility and marketplace for brands and agencies to engage with startups launching this spring. Built from decades of agency experience helping big brands discover marketing and market opportunities in "the next big thing" in innovation, Ryse solves the problem of making discovery, evaluation and fit easy for emerging technologies and platforms.
Before founding Ryse, I founded and headed Real Branding, a leading digital marketing agency acquired by Schawk/Anthem in 2010.
I’ve been involved as founder/entrepreneur in several digital marketing companies since 1994. At Real Branding, we successfully fostered and developed winning strategies for marquee companies in Consumer Packaged Goods/Retail, Entertainment and Technology as well as Financial Services including: AOL, ABC/Disney, Anheuser-Busch, Barclays Global Investors, Coca-Cola, Corona, Darden Restaurants, Diageo, HBO, Logitech, New Line Cinema, Quicken Loans, PepsiCo, Salesforce.Com, Scottish Courage, The North Face, Warner Home Video and Unilever.
Previously as Strategic Planning and New Business for Omnicom DAS agency, Bernard Hodes, I was instrumental in launching Career Mosaic in early 1994, one of the earliest online properties of any kind. Clients included AMD, Baynetworks, National Semiconductor and Symantec. In '94 also launched RealBeer.com and ProBrewer.com for the love of beer and the greater good of the brewing industry.
I'm an active speaker, advisor, investor and founder. My thesis is all-in on Tech's transformative effect on capital, commerce, content and culture.
