Nate Pagel

Current

• President and Founder at Podaddies

Past

• Consultant (Self-employed)
• Senior Director, Business Development and Marketing at PRISMIQ
• Vice President, Production at SiteBurst, Inc.

• Vice President, User Experience at Passporta
• Creative Director at Mongomusic
• Producer at Human Code

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Education

• University of Sydney
• Rice University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Nate

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Twitter Page

Nate Pagel’s Summary

Experience:

Managing teams of executives, creatives and developers to craft products; sourcing and managing outside agencies and partnering with relevant firms in this capacity.

Business development with media companies, ad agencies, social networks, video sharing sites, large advertisers and technology companies.

Managing the development of video projects, viral video launches, large ecommerce sites, video installations and marcom projects.

Nate Pagel’s Specialties:

Management, design and product management, business development, strategy, finance, media art, large video installations.

Web 2.0, Social Media, Social Advertising, Video Advertising, Content Syndication, Social Networks, Widgets, Social Applications, User Interface Design, Technology Entrepreneurship.

Nate Pagel’s Experience

• President and Founder

  Podaddies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  Bringing extensive knowledge of the online video space, video production, advertising and creative to develop compelling video publishing and distribution tools that enable agencies to make clients happy - and publishers and widget companies to easily monetize their video content. Think ad network, podcasts and viral video.

• Consultant

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  May 2004 — April 2006 (2 years )

  Media and Business Development Consultant. Including large video installations, media consulting (specifically web, video, advertising and marketing)
  1. Project Managed the rebrand and relaunch of Digital Impact as Acxiom Digital - www.axiomdigital.com
  2. Helped Actiontec to find video publishers including MTV and CBS, for their consumer focused P2P video download and share service and client software.
  3. Created opportunities via business development efforts for Actiontec, Frontline Selling (outsourced lead generation company), Microsoft, BEA, ArcSight (security software), Centivia (security software), and SCA (supply chain software company).
  4. Video Productions for the United Nations, SF MOMA, the Natural World Museum, Obscura Digital, the University of Texas, Google, the Black Eyed Peas (#1 Hip-hop band in US) and Lightrhythm Visuals.

• Senior Director, Business Development and Marketing

  PRISMIQ

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  Secure relationships with content and broadband services companies to enhance product functionality and profit margin. Design and product management. Work with service providers on product trials and rollouts.

• Vice President, Production

  SiteBurst, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  Directed marketing campaigns with clients through the SiteBurst enterprise software system. Worked with Engineering to revamp the UI and prototype future products.

• Vice President, User Experience

  Passporta

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — September 2000 (1 year )

  Selected and directed outside agencies on production of dynamic multilingual, multicurrency ecommerce website and backend maintenance tools. Managed budget of $1M+ for this start-up.

• Creative Director

  Mongomusic

  (Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  A consumer focused heuristic-analysis music software company. Purchased by Microsoft.

• Producer

  Human Code

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1999 (5 years )

  A interactive and online services firm based in Austin. Started as ninth person. Got the company involved in the early days of the web. Company grew to 220 employees and was purchased by Sapient for $200M.

Nate Pagel’s Education

• University of Sydney

  Postgraduate Diploma , Fine Arts , 1991 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Understanding (Rotary Club)

• Rice University

  BA , Managerial Studies, Chemical Engineering , 1985 — 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  National Merit Scholar, Society of Petroleum Engineers' Scholarship

Additional Information

Nate Pagel’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Twitter Page

Nate Pagel’s Groups:

•    Grow Brands Focus Group
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Advertising Professional
•    Facebook.com
•    OpenNetworker.com
•    Web 2.0
•    Association of Rice Alumni
•    CDN Industry
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    Digital Media: Video Content Distribution Experts
•    Sr level Internet Marketers Group, Internet Marketing Professionals Only.
•    Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Network
•    Startup Specialists
•    Fans of Mashable
•    Advertising Professionals
•    The Sales Association
•    BASN-San Francisco Bay Area Startup Network
•    Social Media Today
•    Digital LA
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Advertising Industry Professionals Worldwide
•    Shopping.com API
•    Media & Entertainment Professionals
•    TopLinked Entrepreneurs
•    Net Work (ing)
•    Future Trends
•    TopFollowed.com (Twitter Open Networkers)
•    Future Social Media
•    Professional Keynote Speakers - by Jorge Olson
•    The future of video advertising
•    Software CEO
•    Digital Engagement
•    TEDx San Francisco Bay Area
•    Data Driven Marketing Tools
•    San Francisco Entrepreneur / Investor Network

Nate Pagel’s Honors:

Selected Awards for Products Designed:
TechHome Mark of Excellence, Consumer Electronics Association
Best of Consumer Electronics Show, CES
Top Product of the Year & Editor’s Choice, Computer Shopper
Gadget of the Week, Time Magazine
Editor’s Choice, PC Magazine
Top 100 Editor’s Pick (top rating), Buy.com
Best of 2003, PC Magazine
Editor’s Choice, Connected Home
Editor’s Choice and Top 100, C|Net
Product of the Year, Electronic House
Creative Technical Excellence (Silver), New Media Magazine Invision Award
CD-ROM (Gold), New Media Magazine Invision Award
Best Digital F/X (Silver), New Media Magazine Invision Award
Marketing/Sales Kiosk (Silver), New Media Magazine Invision Award
Best of Show, Forbes Best of the Web