As Senior Vice President of Business Development for MySpace, Jason was responsible for structuring and negotiating deals to drive revenue and support the launch of innovative new products. Working with partners including Zynga, Playdom, RockYou, Flixster and others Jason grew the MySpace Open Platform to over 30 million monthly active users.
Prior to MySpace Jason served as Managing Director of Business Development and Product Management for Los Angeles Times Interactive where he structured deals with leading startups including Netvibes, Aggregate Knowledge, Eventful and Mixx.com and launched a redesign of latimes.com, ultimately generating enough online ad revenue to cover the Times’s entire editorial payroll, print and online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/12/la-times-online-advertising.
From 1999-2005 Jason served as VP of Strategy at Blast Radius, an interactive agency (http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/blastradius). Jason joined Blast as the 31st employee—while there he founded the strategy division of the company, served as a member of the senior management team and helped grow the company to 300 employees on a bootstrapped operating model with no outside funding. In this role Jason also led the design and development of content and commerce websites for Nintendo, Sony, Viacom, Atlantic Records, A&E Television Networks and others. Between 2002 and 2005 Jason worked with AOL developing AOL Shopping, AOL Search, AOL.com, and other products. Blast Radius was acquired by the WPP Group in 2007.
Jason has lectured at Stanford University and has been a frequent speaker at industry events including South by Southwest, TieCon, the Silicon Valley Microfinance 2.0 Summit, GamesBeat, Digital Hollywood, SNAP Summit, OMMA Global, Engage Expo and AdWeek DC. He has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mashable, PaidContent, The Wall St Journal, BusinessWeek, Variety and CNET.
