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| Blog | williamsager.com |
| @williamsager | |
| Birthplace | New York City, NY |
| Birthdate | 7/11/55 |
| University of Wisconsin- Madison, B of A | 1978 |
| Communications Law, Radio TV and Film |
William resides in Palm Harbor Florida by the beach with his family. He is currently head of the SaaS ‘mobile’ cloud efforts at Augme.com (AUGT:OTC)
Senior Vice President & General Manager - Mobile SaaS at Augme Technologies, Inc. (OTC:AUGT). AugMe provides strategic services and mobile technology to leading consumer and healthcare brands. I am spearheading their new ‘cloud’ product initiatives for business and enterprise.
I’ve been at Bill Gross’s idealab, MCI/Verizon Telecommunications, MGM/UA, and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable and several dot.com start-ups. I founded iWatchNow Inc. a ‘Netflix-type’ service streaming over 3,000 classic films and TV shows on the Internet for nearly 5 years and was sold to a outside group of investors.
My roots began in Cable TV (Group W) at Z Channel, The Travel Channel and Home Theater Network. I founded and launched on satellite one of first movie pay-per-view cable services ‘The People’s Choice’. While at MGM/UA I managed their TV division and was Executive in Charge of Production for 2 seasons for ‘Sid and Marty Krofft’s ‘DC Follies’ starring Fred Willard seen in over 170 TV markets across the county.
At idealab, I worked with dot.com start-ups HomePage, Woodstock and cloud computing SaaS/IaaS provider Frontera (later sold to Marc Andreessen’s ‘Loudcloud’). Post idealab, I moved over to Verizon Telecommunications Business IT Solutions and Hosting Group managing channel and VAR sales for Oracle and Cisco products, web hosting and SaaS/IaaS landing Vivendi/Universal, PopCap Games, Mp3, Mattel and Honda.
Graduated with a degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with an emphasis on Communications Law in 1977. I am a contributor and member to the Forbes.com Business and Financial Network, belong to several media groups; Media Professionals Worldwide, Telecom Professionals, Milken Institute, ThoseinMedia and the Tampa Bay Tech Community Group (TMPBY).
I host a tech Blog: http://williamsager.com. | Twitter: @williamsager. Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamsager | GoogleMe: http://vizibility.com/williamsager
