The Outrigger Media team brings together significant experience from both traditional and online media as well as expertise in advertising technology, sales, publishing and marketing.
Mike Henry, has more than 15 years of experience in online advertising. Under his leadership, Outrigger has developed successful lines of business in premium video advertising sales, sales marketing, consulting and new ad technology. Previously, Mike was SVP, Sales, for Veoh Networks, where he led the company's monetization strategy and built the ad sales and marketing teams. While at Veoh, Mike launched a ground-breaking user targeting platform that allowed marketers to address audiences based on the wide range of videos that they consumed. Before Veoh, Mike held several key posts at Dow Jones & Company, including SVP of Dow Jones Integrated Solutions, the company's cross platform global advertising division. He was also VP, Ad Sales, at The Wall Street Journal Online, where he built the company's first online sales, sales marketing and ad operations teams.
Paul O'Reilly is an award winning Creative Director with over 15 years of start-up and interactive agency experience. Paul is the visual conscience behind Outrigger's product offerings, bringing creative, information architecture and UX skills to our team. Paul recently worked with Accenture to define their mobile video user experience standards.
Amber J Lawson is a leader in online video content development, and recently served as the head of programming for AOL's video unit.
With more than 10 years of start-up and growth company experience, Parmila brings finance, accounting and operational skill-sets to Outrigger. Parmila received her MBA in Finance and MA in Global Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.
Paul Kontonis is an interactive media and brand content veteran that has executive produced over 25 web series, co-founded a pioneering web video studio and is recognized as a web video thought leader. Paul was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Web Television and is currently the Vice President/Group Director of Brand Content at The Third Act, Digitas' brand content entity.
Liam Collins runs operations for YouTube's Next Labs. He was previously the COO for Next New Networks with was acquired by YouTube in early 2010.
Dave Markley was our founding CTO. Dave now leads development for Amazon's cloud based gaming platform. He has an extended track record delivering technology product and strategy at a wide range of companies.
Tom Morgan is a 25-year veteran of the world of interactive services and digital media. For the past seven years Mr. Morgan’s efforts have centered on the business development of On-Demand and Internet based Television, with a particular focus on the new advertising models for DVR’s, VOD, and Broadband TV. Mr. Morgan also recently served as Chief Strategy Officer of Move Networks, the technology platform behind ABC.com, Fox.com, ESPN360 and other Internet Television based sites. Morgan’s previous positions include serving as the first Vice President of Business Development and West Coast General Manager for America Online, where he led the initial product launch in partnership with Apple Computer and developed the first pricing strategies for AOL. Mr. Morgan was also a founding Officer and EVP of Business Development for BroadVision.
Stuart Bogaty is a 15-year veteran of the interactive advertising community and most recently served as the EVP, Global Managing Partner at Universal McCann. Prior to UM, Bogaty served as CEO, NeoSearch@Ogilvy and Managing Director, Neo@Ogilvy New York. He was a key senior member of the management team that built mOne, which became Neo@Ogilvy. Stuart’s clients included Cisco, Lenovo, SAP and Yahoo. Throughout his career, Bogaty has worked at other leading agencies including Cone Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi and Grey Advertising. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Social Media Advertising Consortium (SMAC) and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Tribal Fusion, MetricMesh, Good Health Advertising, Adpiphany and Undertone Networks.
Josh Siegel is currently VP, Product Management at Target Media Partners Interactive. Products launched under his leadership have established market leading positions and also received Gartner, PC Magazine and other industry awards. Josh was formerly the Senior Director of Monetization for Veoh Networks where he led ad related strategy, business development, and products for this top ranked online video site. Before that, Josh launch and then inevitably headed the Yahoo! Publisher Network, the second largest contextual ad network in the US. Previously, Josh managed product and marketing efforts for Everdream, a SaaS for IT management now owned by Dell Corporation.