Brent Hurtig

Current

• Principal Consultant at Parker Remick, Inc.
• Management, Digital Communications, and Marketing Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)
• Writer/Editor - Periodicals, Books and Online (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

• COO / Co-founder at Winebuys.com
• Consulting Editorial Director at Harmony Central
• Contributing Editor at NewMedia Magazine

• Senior Product Manager at Digidesign Inc.
• Founding Editor-in-Chief at EQ Magazine
• Senior Editor and Author at GPI Books

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Education

• Brandeis University
• Brandeis University, Heller - The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

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Industry

Management Consulting

Brent Hurtig’s Summary

Integrated Management, Digital Communications & Marketing Consultant

Brent Hurtig’s Experience

• Principal Consultant

  Parker Remick, Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  Principal Consultant, managing key executive-leadership searches and assisting in business development. Parker Remick is retained to conduct top-tier global leadership searches, at the C-, V-, and Director-level, for world-changing companies such as Google, Amazon, Warburg Pincus, SAP, Oracle, FedEx, and others.

• Management, Digital Communications, and Marketing Consultant

  Sole Proprietorship

  (Sole Proprietorship; Management Consulting industry)

  1994 — Present (14 years)

  Consultant for numerous technology and other clients. Experience includes executive-level management, digital communications, media production, market research, creative direction, online architecture, M&A prep, and CRM. Project and client roster includes Parker Remick, Winebuys.com (Consulting COO), Baron & Co./PIER Systems, Harmony Central (Editorial Director), L.A. Times’ New Business Development division, Dolby, eBay, Avid Technologies, Digidesign, BIAS, Oracle, Apple, Saul Zaentz Film Center, Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Addison-Wesley Publishing, E-Loan, NetEarnings (LoanWise.com), c|net.com, and others.

• Writer/Editor - Periodicals, Books and Online

  Sole Proprietorship

  (Sole Proprietorship; Publishing industry)

  1987 — Present (21 years)

  Over 200 articles published in Wired, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, NewMedia (former Contributing Editor), c|net.com, Musician, Computer Life, Keyboard (former Columnist), Electronic Musician, Addicted to Noise (Contributing Editor), and other print and online periodicals. Founding Editor-in-Chief of EQ magazine (GPI/Miller Freeman/United Newspapers). Twelve books published as author or Senior Editor.

• COO / Co-founder

  Winebuys.com

  (Retail industry)

  2002 — 2007 (5 years)

  Co-founder of the first online venture to offer discounted fine wine supported by intensive enthusiast-oriented content. Executive-managed all facets, and co-architected the wine industry’s most highly featured website. Key achievements:
  • No. 1 ranking by BizRate — beating 4,000+ other retailers in overall customer satisfaction. (In Oct06, BizRate ranked Winebuys.com as No. 1 among all Gifts, Flowers & Food retailers; from Dec05 through Oct06, BizRate ranked Winebuys.com its No. 1 wine retailer, and the only one ranked “Outstanding” overall.)
  • Industry-leading 99.998% fulfillment accuracy.
  • Profiles by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
  • Triple-digit annual revenue growth.
  Despite such trends, by late 2006, 35 states still prohibited retail wine shipments, with nationwide legislative reform years away. In light of the resultant revenue limitations, we sold the assets to new ownership in 2007. (Winebuys.com continues as a substantially different entity.)

• Consulting Editorial Director

  Harmony Central

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Recruited to design, launch and direct digital media content for the world’s largest online community of musicians and related technology enthusiasts. Funded by Vulcan Ventures; 20M+ monthly page views; 1M+ monthly unique visitors. Hired a crack team of industry-leading journalists and videographers to produce rich-media features, reviews, blogs, virtual tradeshow tours, and news. Developed models for integration of expert content with community content. Worked closely with production and engineering departments on a variety of initiatives, including the development of a BroadVision platform for the site.

• Contributing Editor

  NewMedia Magazine

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years)

  Authored numerous feature articles, cover stories, and product reviews for the leading publication covering digital media and digital production. Areas of expertise: audio/video production and technology, computer hardware and software, interactive digital storytelling, streaming media, and more. Developed and managed testing lab for key feature articles about rich media and other technologies. Participated in nominations and selections for the magazine’s prestigious Hyper Awards and InVision Awards.

• Senior Product Manager

  Digidesign Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years)

  Recruited by the CEO of the leading manufacturer of digital audio tools to manage the marketing of Pro Tools and other software and hardware products. Worked with engineering, manufacturing, and creative in development and launch of new products. Implemented focus groups and other strategic initiatives. Extensive creative direction in print, plus video and other collateral. Evangelized vision to third-party developers and customers. Products received numerous awards and acclamations throughout my tenure.

• Founding Editor-in-Chief

  EQ Magazine

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1989 — 1990 (1 year)

  Conceived and founded the first magazine to define and target the project studio sector of recording professionals and serious enthusiasts, backed by hard-hitting investigative features and product reviews. Published by the GPI division of Miller Freeman/United Newspapers, with distribution in 46 countries. EQ was also the first magazine of its kind to introduce innovative elements such as print hyperlinks and running multipage sidebars (soon adopted by Wired, and now part of many mainstream periodicals).

• Senior Editor and Author

  GPI Books

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years)

  Supervised content, design, and production of books and special issue “one-shot” magazines for GPI, the industry-leading publisher of Guitar Player, Keyboard and other music magazines. Produced more than 20 books and one-shots; also authored the book “Multi-Track Recording for Musicians” (still used in numerous college curricula) and other books. Simultaneously served as Editor-in-Chief for GPI’s Home Recording, which evolved into EQ.