Founder at Medioh Inc.
Greater Denver Area
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- Founder/Chairman at Medioh Inc.
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- Founder & CEO at ClickCaster Inc.
- General Manager-CableTV/Telephony/Data at McLeodUSA
- Vice President- Strategic & Technology Planning at MCI
- Divisional Vice President & Director- High Speed Wireless Systems at Motorola
- Vice President-Viacom; Sr. Vice President, Paramount Digital Entertainment at Viacom / Paramount Pictures
- Sr. Group Manager, Apple Electronic Media Lab Director at Apple Computer
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Scott Converse’s Summary
Early stage Internet software startups (ClickCaster, Medioh!, Nimbus Games, Jaxbean).
Software, media & online community creation (Apple Computer, Paramount Pictures, ClickCaster Inc., Nimbus Games)
Carrier class communication & software environments focused on services (MCI, Motorola, McLeodUSA)
Scott Converse’s Specialties:
Expert at synthesis of concepts into ideas, businesses and products; especially where media, internet and telecommunications technologies intersect.
Build, motivate and produce results with world class development and product teams.
Expert in online/internet, media, tool creation, community and product creation.
Bootstrapping new products/services and companies.
Working with investors to fund new companies when appropriate.
Scott Converse’s Experience
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Founder/Chairman
Medioh Inc.
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (9 months)
Founder/chairman at Medioh Inc. We provide a flexible and highly scalable server based broadband television platform (The Guide) that provides access to 10's of millions of video's from thousands of different web sites with tools for users to easily create personalized TV networks, integrated advertising and API's for developers to simply integrate Medioh video services into any internet capable device (PC's, TV's and Cellphones).
Publishing platform (The Studio) that provides any video producer with the tools for publishing, selling and integrating revenue producing advertising into their content onto servers for distribution to any IP enable network or device.
www.medioh.com (Corporate site)
www.medioh.tv (The Guide for the internet)
www.distribustream.org (streaming P2P for video) -
Founder & CEO
ClickCaster Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — March 2008 (3 years 2 months)
Created one of the first Podcasting services on the internet providing access to tools for the creation, publishing and monitization of audio and video podcasts. URL, user base, service and a license for the software sold in early 2008. Intellectual property, assets and personnel now focused on a new business targeting broadband television platforms (Medioh Inc.).
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General Manager-CableTV/Telephony/Data
McLeodUSA
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MCLD; Telecommunications industry)
September 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 1 month)
General Manager of the Cable TV, High Speed Internet and Telephony business for McLeodUSA. Responsible for all aspects of the business including product development, business development, sales, marketing, field ops, customer service, billing, provisioning & finance/P&L.
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Vice President- Strategic & Technology Planning
MCI
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MCI; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1999 — January 2003 (3 years 7 months)
Ran all global services strategy planning for the intelligent services platform (ISP).
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Divisional Vice President & Director- High Speed Wireless Systems
Motorola
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Information Services industry)
February 1997 — April 1999 (2 years 3 months)
New multimedia product development for greenfield (Asia and S. American) markets.
Lead development and product management for all software for 4G (HighSpeed Wireless) division. -
Vice President-Viacom; Sr. Vice President, Paramount Digital Entertainment
Viacom / Paramount Pictures
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; VIA; Online Media industry)
October 1994 — February 1997 (2 years 5 months)
Head of development: Interactive services- Viacom Inc.
Founding executive of Paramount Pictures digital division (Paramount Digital Entertainment-PDE).
Ran PDE's advanced projects efforts. -
Sr. Group Manager, Apple Electronic Media Lab Director
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Information Services industry)
July 1987 — October 1994 (7 years 4 months)
Sr. Analyst, support-developed companywide support systems strategy.
Manager-Channel Systems-developed next generation support and communications systems for customers and developers
Sr. Manager, Developer Services- created and distributed all electronic information (online and CD-ROM based).
Sr. Manager/Director, Apple Online Services- Developed all client software for Apple's eWorld online service. Founded the Apple Eletronic Media Lab- advanced product research for all Apple online products.
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Scott Converse’s Interests:
artchitecture, building, coummunity radio, green building, not so big house design, Non Profits, NPO, New urbanism, storm chasing, photography, film, video, broadband video, ancient maps, music, recording, online gaming, casual gaming, startups, entrapenuership, renewable energy, bootstrapping, fundraising, directorships, media, software development, team building, zen, boulder, colorado, mountains, healthy eating, exercise, politics, UGC, long tail business models
