Jason Herskowitz

Vice President - Product Management at Lime Wire, LLC

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Current
Past
  • Vice President - Product Management at TotalMusic, LLC
  • Vice President - Social Media at Strands
  • Director - Music Products at AOL
  • Program Director - Digital Media Services at AOL
  • Director of Product Marketing - Platform Tools at Analog Devices
  • Director of Market Development - Audio Rendering Technology Center at Analog Devices
  • Vice President/Co-Founder at Propellant Farm
  • Vice President - Product Marketing & Development at DigiScents
  • Vice President - Product/Strategic Marketing at InterAct Acessories (A Recoton Company)
  • President / Founder at Prodigal Sun Records (Sole Proprietorship)
  • Artist Manager at Tundra 212 (Self-employed)
Education
  • University of Georgia
  • Virginia Tech
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Online Media

Jason Herskowitz’s Summary

Senior digital/interactive media management executive with over 14 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience in product management, product marketing, brand marketing, strategy, market/business development and product development.

Proven ability in identifying and translating market needs into innovative products and successful business plans that had immense positive impact on corporate bottom line. Driven to create solutions that meet and exceed the customer and market expectations.

Jason Herskowitz’s Specialties:

Digital Media, Converged Network/Entertainment Devices, Consumer Electronics, Computer Hardware & Software, Audio Rendering Technologies


Jason Herskowitz’s Experience

  • Vice President - Product Management

    Lime Wire, LLC

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

  • Vice President - Product Management

    TotalMusic, LLC

    (Online Media industry)

    November 2008February 2009 (4 months)

    A joint venture of Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group.

  • Vice President - Social Media

    Strands

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2007November 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  • Director - Music Products

    AOL

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TWX; Online Media industry)

    March 2007August 2007 (6 months)

    Directed product management teams for AOL Radio, AOLmusic.com, Winamp and SHOUTcast.

  • Program Director - Digital Media Services

    AOL

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TWX; Online Media industry)

    November 2004March 2007 (2 years 5 months)

    Digital Media Services includes AOL Music Now, Winamp, and other (future) premium media products and services.

  • Director of Product Marketing - Platform Tools

    Analog Devices

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADI; Semiconductors industry)

    January 2002October 2004 (2 years 10 months)

    Provides system-level design tools and components that enable system engineers to easily create DSP signal chains that include industry standard audio/video/speech algorithms & protocols, proprietary and generic post- and pre-processing algorithms and device drivers within an efficient, customizable and pluggable software framework.

  • Director of Market Development - Audio Rendering Technology Center

    Analog Devices

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADI; Computer Software industry)

    December 2001December 2002 (1 year 1 month)

    This technology center of Analog Devices concieves and creates complimentary new audio rendering technologies, applications and development tools targeted at video game and multimedia developers to help drive market adoption and brand awareness of “SoundMAX” computer audio subsystem, Blackfin & SHARC digital signal processors.

  • Vice President/Co-Founder

    Propellant Farm

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2000December 2001 (1 year 6 months)

    Provided business development, corporate development and strategic marketing services for growth- and expansion-stage companies. Clients included companies focused on wireless entertainment/applications (gaming), content management and aggregation, web services, peer-to-peer networking, financial services, network infrastructure and Internet traffic management.

  • Vice President - Product Marketing & Development

    DigiScents

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    September 1999August 2000 (1 year )

    A biotechnology offshoot that developed a complete hardware and software platform for incorporating scent into all forms of media, including movies and music, interactive games, advertising, e-commerce, and educational software.

  • Vice President - Product/Strategic Marketing

    InterAct Acessories (A Recoton Company)

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RCOT; Computer Hardware industry)

    December 1996September 1999 (2 years 10 months)

    At the time, InterAct Accessories was the world's largest video game accessory company (joysticks, controllers, memory cards, etc.) and official third-party hardware partner to Nintendo, Sony & Sega. InterAct was also the distributor of GameShark, the best-selling video game "enhancer" of all time.

  • President / Founder

    Prodigal Sun Records (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Music industry)

    April 1994June 1996 (2 years 3 months)

    Independent record label that was one of the first (major or independent) to provide streaming audio clips of artists online. Prodigal Sun artist "biohio" generated major-label showcases at New Music Seminar and CMJ Music Marathon. Currently members of biohio can be found in the bands "emmet swimming", "Smartbomb" and "Quitter UK".

  • Artist Manager

    Tundra 212 (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

    June 1989April 1994 (4 years 11 months)

    Managed, marketed and co-produced a mid-Atlantic touring rock band - originally known as "The Push" and later as "Tundra 212".


Jason Herskowitz’s Education

  • University of Georgia

    MBA , Media Organization Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing , August 1994June 1996

  • Virginia Tech

    BS , Mechanical Engineering , September 1988June 1992


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