| The University of California at Berkeley , B.S. in Neuroscience | |
| The University of California at San Diego, MD |
Miles Beckett is the CEO and co-founder of EQAL, the media company that builds influencer networks around celebrities and brands, as well as the co-creator and producer of lonelygirl15, the original online appointment serial programming and its International spin-off, Kate Modern, a partnership with Bebo, also a first.
Beckett holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He completed a one year internship in plastic surgery at the Loma Linda University Medical Center and conducted one year of tissue engineering research at the National Institute of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar. During medical school he was the founder and editor-in-chief of “The Pulse” a UCSD Medical School newsletter and “The Inhuman Condition,” an underground comedy newsletter.
Prior to creating lonelygirl15, Beckett was the founder and CEO of Shoutboy, a comedy podcast and the writer and director of West Wingers a political spoof of White House press conferences. Beckett is also known for his art nouveau film The Great Cloister Caper, completed in 2001-2002 while he lived in Bethesda, Maryland.
EQAL is a media company that builds influencer networks around celebrities and brands. Their celebrity and brand networks include the official websites and social media accounts for Tori Spelling, Lauren Conrad, Randy Jackson, Elle and Blair Fowler and the brand partnership with Philadelphia Cream Cheese that recently won a Gold Effie Award. Their celebrity networks generate close to 200 million impressions per month and reach 15 million people. EQAL’s “hub and spoke†strategy focuses on building an integrated media property by increasing social media numbers, driving traffic and engagement to the celebrity’s official website, and providing new revenue opportunities.
