Web 2.0 CTO - break.com (Break Media)
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- CTO at Break Media
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- SVP CTO at DMX MUSIC (Liberty Media)
- VP/Technology at Getty Images
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Nick Wilson (nick@nickwilson.net)’s Summary
I lead Technology development and operations activities in the Web 2.0 space. My background is in entertainment technology, media distribution, content management and social networking. I'm hands-on, yet highly business focused - as comfortable in the boardroom as I am in a late night debugging session!
Nick Wilson (nick@nickwilson.net)’s Specialties:
Systems architecture, development, team building, operations and corporate strategy.
Nick Wilson (nick@nickwilson.net)’s Experience
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SVP CTO
DMX MUSIC (Liberty Media)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)
April 1998 — December 2005 (7 years 9 months)
As CTO of DMX Music, a Liberty Media company, I spearheaded the dramtic growth of B2B digital music distribution. Everywhere from a fancy sushi bar in Manhattan to a SKY TV Subscriber in New Zealand enjoyed our music programming, which was listened to by a daily audience of over 300 million people. Our architecture was open source, with over 100,000 dedicated Linux servers around the globe powering the music playback.
We integrated digital rights management, global content distribution, encoding and a sophisticated content management system for rights payments. this was fully integrated from the end user to our internal team. As a member of the Executive Committee I played a key part in running the business as I oversaw a global development and operations team in North America, Europe and Asia -
VP/Technology
Getty Images
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GETY; Online Media industry)
April 1988 — May 1997 (9 years 2 months)
As one of the founders of Getty Images (by far the largest source of still and moving images), I headed a division of the company (called Digital Getty) that was responsible for leveraging our millions of analog content assets in the digital world. My team pioneered digitzation, encoding, indexing and search (we patented certain methods), and as eCommerce became a reality we embraced the Web, building one of the very first sites to accept a credit card back when Amazon.com was still in a Seattle garage! We successfully transformed an entire industry that was used to receiving film and images in analog form, to one that has over 95% of its transactions delivered electronically. The environment was C/C++, SunOs, Windows and Visual Basic.
