Jason has lectured at Stanford University and has been a frequent speaker at industry events including South by Southwest, the Silicon Valley Microfinance 2.0 Summit, Harvard Business School’s Cyberposium, Inside Social Apps, GamesBeat, SNAP Summit, TieCon, 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.
As VP, Social Applications at ngmoco:) Jason oversees product management and engineering for the plus+ and Mobage West social networks. During ngmoco’s period of hyper growth Jason also ran technical operations for the company- leading the design and implementation of new network architecture, migration to a new data center and selection of new server infrastructure and networking equipment.
Previously Jason served as SVP of Business Development at MySpace and GM of the MySpace Developer Platform. In this role he worked with partners including Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, RockYou, Flixster and others to grow the MySpace Open Platform to over 30 million monthly active users within 9 months of the platform’s launch.
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.
