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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Video space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Stefano Migliorisi
Founder & CEO of swyMed Incorporated
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About swyMed Incorporated: swyMed’s solutions power truly mobile, real-time video telemedicine encounters at the lowest bandwidths.
James Jacobs
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ziva Dynamics
James Jacobs is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ziva Dynamics.
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About Ziva Dynamics: Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation.
Ryan Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Studios
Ryan Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. He sets the course for the organization with his extraordinary vision, strategic planning, and unshakeable passion. Under Ryan’s leadership as CEO, Finger Food has seen tremendous growth, transforming from a small basement startup to a multi-million dollar company with 180+ employees. Finger Food builds custom technology solutions to solve some of the most complex and challenging problems faced by businesses today in industries including games, retail, oil & gas, education, healthcare, mining and more. The company creates a competitive advantage for its clients by helping them own their technology stack, rather than simply deploying on the same technology platforms as their competitors. In-house expertise in AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Robotics, and IoT, enables Finger Food to create impactful and elegant cloud, web, mobile, machine and advanced-interface solutions built on top of emerging technologies. Finger Food sees an unprecedented market opportunity. Within 3 years, the cumulative R&D spend of the Global 1,000 will reach USD 1T. A conservative estimate would put the innovation spend of each of these companies at around USD 100MM annually.
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About Finger Food Studios: Finger Food delivers technology-driven business solutions that enable companies to move and innovate faster.
Matthew Watson
Chief Executive Officer and Chair of STN Video
Matthew Watson is the Chair and CEO of SendtoNews Video, the leading sports video distribution platform in North America. Matthew graduated from UBC Law School and began his professional career as a corporate lawyer in the Vancouver office of Canada’s largest law firm. Matthew Watson made his first investment and founded an ISP called Seaside which he subsequently sold to a large public company. Matthew then joined the executive team of a client, ACD Systems, helping to take them public and then running the operations, business and corporate development as they went from start up to world leader in digital imaging management software. In 2003 Matthew Watson moved to Carmanah Technologies as COO helping guide them from small marine lighting company to world leader in Solar LED lighting and a public company. Matthew was the first investor and CEO of Armorlogic which was acquired by Alert Logic. Matthew Watson is now Chair and CEO of SendtoNews, North American’s largest sports video platform serving over 700mm video views a month to over 40 million unique viewers.
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About STN Video: STN Video is an Online Video Platform delivering content, technology and monetization to over 1800 publishers
Sarah Hill
CEO & Chief Storyteller of Healium dba StoryUp Studios
Sarah Hill is the CEO of Healium and an interactive media tech professional with 25 years building successful platforms. Healium is the world’s first biometrically powered VR/AR channel controlled by the user’s brain and heart rate via their wearables. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for the NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. A national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America, National Sigma Delta Chi, and 12 time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller, she spent decades reporting about the world’s negativity and trauma in 5 continents.
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About Healium dba StoryUp Studios: Healium is an augmented and virtual reality channel powered by consumer wearables for the self-management of anxiety and sleep
Bernadette Butler
CEO & Founder of Storytap
CEO and chief storyteller, Bernadette is a 20 year veteran in marketing and advertising, and one of the creators of StoryTap.
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About Storytap: StoryTap is humanizing the online shopping experience with customer video reviews.
Spencer Smyl
Founder & CEO of Final Stage Entertainment
Spencer Smyl is the Founder and CEO of Final Stage Entertainment Inc.
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About Final Stage Entertainment: Final Stage Entertainment is a producer, distributor, and channel operator of gaming video content.
Jason Xu
Co-Founder & CEO of Battlefy
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Shahrzad Rafati
Founder & CEO of BBTV
A progressive entrepreneur and active investor, Shahrzad is the Founder and CEO of BroadbandTV (BBTV), a media-tech company that is advancing the world through the management, distribution, and monetization of content. Today, BBTV achieves tens of billions of monthly views and remains the second largest video property globally by monthly uniques. In addition to building an incredibly successful company that has experienced phenomenal growth, she has built a quadruple bottom line business that measures success not only on financial performance but also on people, social, and environmental KPIs. BBTV proudly has a 0% pay gap between male and female employees, and strives for a gender balanced (50/50) workforce overall. Shahrzad actively pursues ways to encourage social change, championing equality in all forms. She is passionate about job creation, education, and advancing opportunities for women, girls, and refugees. In September 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed her to represent Canada on the G20 Business Women Leader’s task force, a global initiative to drive actionable, measurable, and results-driven solutions to impact women’s economic empowerment. An active thought leader, Shahrzad contributes to a broad range of business publications including Forbes, and Fortune, and has been widely recognized over the last decade for her contributions to entrepreneurship, equal rights, and job creation. Recent awards include: 2018 Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year, Pacific, Technology Category; 2018 Canadian Innovation Awards Winner – Entrepreneur; 2017 The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Global Television; 2016 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner in the BMO Arts & Communications category; 2016 BCTIA’s Person of the Year.
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About BBTV: BBTV is a media-tech company that uses technology enabled solutions to help content creators become more successful.
PJ Taei
Founder & CEO of Uscreen
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About Uscreen: The #1 video monetization platform for entrepreneurs to sell, market, & manage their content.
TJ Leonard
Chief Executive Officer of StoryBlocks
TJ is the CEO at VideoBlocks, where he has been working since 2013 to bring high quality, affordable stock media to the creative community. VideoBlocks now supports more than 300,000 creatives through its unique membership model, and in 2015 launched its revolutionary video Marketplace which pays contributors 100% commissions. Prior to joining VideoBlocks, TJ led the marketing teams at BabbaCo, a subscription service offering creative, educational products for parents and toddlers, and Vlingo, Android’s first voice-enabled mobile virtual assistant. He currently lives in Washington DC with his wife, two kids, dog, two cats, and the occasional fish.
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About StoryBlocks: StoryBlocks is a subscription-based video and audio stock that provides unlimited download access to its users for royalty free content.
Wa’il Ashshowwaf
Founder & CEO of Reyets: Social Justice Network
Wa’il has an extensive professional career across a range of industries and geographies including roles at Pepsi, Walt Disney World, HSBC, and Rooam Inc., with experience both domestically and abroad. Having spent more than 15 years in financial services, Wa’il now oversees Unstuck Labs business operations, including product development for Reyets, and Fotomo. Leading marketing, partnerships, sales, finance, and business development strategy. Experience In addition to his primary role at Unstuck Labs, Wa’il serves as the Cofounder and Board Member for The Global Advisory Group, an international consulting firm that facilitates cross-border business alliances and transactions between companies in North America and the Middle East. In this role, he works closely with U.S. and international companies, including tech startups to provide strategic counsel on funding, marketing, negotiations, and business development. Prior to Unstuck Labs, Wa’il served as Vice President of International Commercial Banking at HSBC USA, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In this position, he managed over $1 billion in assets and structured and executed private placements. In addition, he helped U.S.-based companies assess, formulate, and implement financial strategies and solutions to support operations, sales growth, compliance and facilitate expansion into international markets. Before that, he was the Regional Manager of Government and Institutional Banking at HSBC USA, with a primary focus on Embassies. During his tenure at HSBC, he built relationships with numerous government and business leaders worldwide and analyzed their organizations’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and internal business processes. Expertise Wa’il is a Board Member at the American University KOGOD School of International Business and a US State Department Professional Fellow. He is a published columnist and guest speaker at panel discussions and conferences on topics related to hospitality, business, banking, fundraising, and more. He is passionate about environmental issues and has partnered on education and research projects with the National Environmental Education Foundation, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and World Wild Life Foundation. Education He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from California State University and a Master’s degree in Business Leadership from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He went on to receive Certifications in International Compliance from the University of Manchester and Business Strategy from Harvard Business School.
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About Reyets: Social Justice Network, Unstuck Labs: Reyets empowers safer community / police interactions through mobile enabled education, resource sharing, reporting and data analysis.
Kim Kaplan
CEO and Founder of Snack App
Kimberly Kaplan currently works as Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of the Snack App.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Snack App: Snack App is a video-first dating application in iOS that connects people online and focuses on Gen-Z.
Rick Allen
Founder & CEO of ViewLift
Rick Allen has run successful companies in nearly every form of media, and helped to develop or extend some of the country’s most prestigious brands. Rick is the CEO of SnagFilms which he helped to found with Ted Leonsis. The two produced Kicking It, which screened at Sundance, Tribeca and other film festivals and was aired globally by ESPN; for the film and their work on homelessness, Leonsis, Allen and colleagues received the 2009 Stewart B. McKinney Award from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. The two are producing a new documentary, A Fighting Chance, which will be released in the fall of 2010. Allen previously was President and CEO of Sporting News, the country’s oldest sports media company, leading a revitalization that saw it named twice to Adweek’s annual “Hot List†as a top-10 media property. Earlier, he served as President and CEO of the for-profit arm of the National Geographic Society, responsible for television and film; interactive products, websites and e-commerce; maps; travel; retail; catalog; and consumer products. Under his leadership, the National Geographic Channel was launched and became one of the fastest growing cable channels in recent history. Before coming to National Geographic, Rick was a senior executive at Discovery Communications, parent of the Discovery Channel, where he extended the company’s brand into filmed entertainment, education, technology and retail. He also served in the White House as a Deputy Assistant to President Clinton, helping to establish AmeriCorps (the domestic Peace Corps). Before his White House service, Allen was CEO of a privately-held group of 35 companies based in Los Angeles. He has written and lectured widely, and been active in civic affairs particularly dealing with education, including service with the advisory boards to the California State Board of Education and the Southern California Association of Governments, and as Vice Chairman of Project Exploration, a nonprofit science organization that makes science accessible to the public – especially minority youth and girls – through personalized experiences with scientists and science. He is a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, serving on its Enrollment and Admissions Committee, and as an elected member of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee. Rick lives in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and three sons.
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About ViewLift: An End to End Solution For Content Distribution and Monetization
Jon Malach
CEO of Native Ads Inc.
Currently Jon is focusing on an amazing opportunity to change the landscape of online advertising by providing leadership to NativeAds.com. Native Ads, Inc. is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform that facilitates the native ad buying and selling process for publishers and advertisers at scale across websites, mobile web and apps. The company has developed a scalable, easy to use, self-serve system for publishers and advertisers with a simple user interface. Within minutes, campaigns and widgets are generated to start spending or earning. The recommendation engine analyzes visitor behavior, page content and thousands of data points building up millions of in-depth user profiles. By using the power of big data, these profiles are used to recommend internal or promoted content based on relevance, yield and popularity. Jon prides himself on leading by example in sales, product & platform development, business analysis, partner relations, marketing, staff training, and public speaking. Previously Jon worked as the COO of an online advertising and media company focusing on assisting both advertisers and publishers to increase results. Models supported ranged from PPI, CPM/CPV, CPC-search, CPC-Shopping, and CPA/CPL, and throughout his tenure Jon connected over 30,000 advertisers to over 80,000 publishers.
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About Native Ads Inc.: Native Ads is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform for publishers and advertisers
Tammy Haddad
President & CEO of Haddad Media
Tammy Haddad is a media innovator whose clients include some of the top media companies in the world and shows include some of the most successful in their platform. She is the veteran television executive and executive producer behind MSNBC’S election coverage, Hardball, Larry King Live, the Today Show, and The Late Late Show. Haddad has more than 25 years of experience as an executive producer of web, cable and network programs. She is best known as the creator and executive producer of CNN’s Larry King Live, and helped launch the now-famous outdoor studio of NBC’s Today Show while serving as senior broadcast producer. Haddad later became MSNBC’s Vice President of Washington and Political Director in charge of the 2004 Presidential and 2006 and 2008 election coverage, and Executive Producer of Hardball with Chris Matthews.
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About Haddad Media: Haddad Media is a multimedia production and consulting company.
Clay Bartlett
Co-Founder & CEO of TeleTails
Clay Bartlett is the co-founder and CEO of TeleTails.
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About TeleTails: TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that provides live video, messaging, and payment capabilities for pet owners.
Ian Sharpe
CEO of Promethean TV
Ian Sharpe was born in London, UK, and now lives in British Columbia, Canada. Having worked for the BBC, IMG, Atari and Electronic Arts, he now helms Promethean TV. Given his background in content production and business development, is uniquely positioned to understand the convergence of sports, technology, and entertainment around streaming video.
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About Promethean TV: Promethean.tv provides solutions to maximize revenue on video content.
Hiroki Koike
Founder & CEO of Holotch
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About Holotch: Holotch specializes in VR, AR, MR, volumetric video and spatial computing.
Todd McCann
CEO & Co-Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
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About CamDo Solutions Inc.: The Cam-Do Waterproof Enclosures are designed for outdoor use in demanding environments.
Hernan Portugal
CEO, Founder of GoLive
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About GoLive, GoMusic, KuduVR: GoMusic is a multi-screen platform that provides streaming HD service to multiple screens.
Clint Stinchcomb
President & CEO of CuriosityStream
Clint Stinchcomb is the President and CEO of CuriosityStream. He sets the strategy and oversees all operations for the global factual entertainment company and streaming service. Stinchcomb has led CuriosityStream through 2 consecutive years of record growth, starting in 2018 as he joined Founder and Chairman John Hendricks to take the company through its first ever capital funding round, and ending that year surpassing 1 million paid subscribers. In 2019, under Stinchcomb’s leadership, CuriosityStream experienced 10x growth, hitting a milestone 10.5 million paid subscribers around the world. And after completing a successful reverse merger in October 2020, CuriosityStream is now the first publicly-traded streaming media company focused on delivering factual content, and the most distributed ‘pure play’ video streaming service to be publicly listed behind Netflix. Stinchcomb joined CuriosityStream in 2017 as Chief Distribution Officer. In that role, he was responsible for the strategic oversight and distribution of CuriosityStream across all global platforms, executing prominent deals with MVPDs, Smart TV manufacturers and streaming media service providers. Stinchcomb is an entrepreneurial executive with over 25 years of traditional and digital media experience. Leveraging a broad range of global roles in television and digital programming, production, content development, consumer marketing, operations, advertising sales, and network distribution, he has played a critical role in the launches and successful growth of several television networks, content franchises and enthusiast brands. He has held positions including CEO and co-founder of Poker Central, Managing Director of Worldwide Media Group, EVP and GM of Discovery Communications’ Emerging Television Networks, and SVP of Discovery’s New Media Operations and HDTV.
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About CuriosityStream: CuriosityStream is a factual entertainment media company with a global streaming service and pay TV channels around the world.
Tom Raycove
Founder CEO of Disrupted Logic
Founder at Disrupted Logic
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About Disrupted Logic: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Media Experiences
Tim Bieber
Chief Executive Officer of Immersive Tech
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About Flixstock, Immersive Tech: Immersive Tech is an industry leading Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) entertainment company.
Stephane Bourque
Chief Executive Officer, Founder & President of Incognito Software
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About Incognito Software: Provisioning and Resource Management
Luiz Persechini
Co-Founder and CEO of Sherwa Online Services
Luiz Persechini is the founder and CEO of Sherwa Online Services.
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About Sherwa Online Services: Sherwa is a platform that connects players into a friendly community where you can get help at your games and find new friends to play with
Anton Gelman
Founder & CEO of Cont3nt.com
He Is a photographer, cameraman, & startup guy in DC. CEO of @Cont3nt.com a realtime market for breaking news. I post news, help stories get out, and do what I can to help create a Free Market for a Free Press.
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About Cont3nt.com: Cont3nt.com is a real-time market for photo and video journalism.
Jay Newton-Small
Founder and CEO of MemoryWell
Jay has been a national journalist for more than 15 years, writing for TIME Magazine and Bloomberg News. When her father moved into an assisted living facility, the staff asked her to fill out a 20-page questionnaire about his life. Instead, she wrote down his story. His caregivers loved it, and MemoryWell was born.
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About MemoryWell: MemoryWell is a digital platform for storytelling that brings the skills of professional writers to the challenge.
David MacLaren
Founder & CEO of MediaValet
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About MediaValet: MediaValet stands at the forefront of the enterprise, cloud-based, digital asset management industry.
Stephen Byrd
Founder, President & CEO of Just Go Live
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About Just Go Live: Just Go Live lets people to stream 3-minute Live Video Comments on trending media content.
Jennie Bharaj
CEO of BasedGamer
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About BasedGamer: Create Game Reviews – By Gamers. For Gamers.
Larry Nelson
CEO and Founder of TrafficLand
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About TrafficLand: TrafficLand broadcasts on-demand live videos on internet and television, granting access through various IT-enabled devices.
Jeffrey Colombe
CEO of Insight Interfaces LLC
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About Insight Interfaces LLC, MITRE Corporation: Next-generation videoteleconferencing and remote meeting software
Jerry Brace
CEO of Embraceware
CEO, Embraceware.
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About Embraceware: Embraceware develops games and applications for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Android.
Max Rosenberg
Co-founder and CEO of Spottle
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About Spottle: Live video speed dates with people nearby
Mike Agerbo
CEO of Blink
As one of Canada’s most well-known technology figures, Mike is an award-winning television producer and veteran TV personality. You can watch him weekly on his GetConnectedTV show on The Business News Network, AMI, CityTV and CHECKTV across the country. His weekly appearances as GlobalBC’s tech expert, reach hundreds of thousands of British Columbians. He can also be heard every Saturday on CKNW AM 980 radio show and the Corus Radio Network throughout Canada. Mike is a successful tech entrepreneur, having founded three successful tech and media companies over the past 20 years, including Chalk Media (sold to Blackberry in 2006) and currently Blink Media, a leading Canadian digital creative agency.
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About Blink: Blink is a creative agency providing social campaigns and digital content.
Michael Kaplan
CEO & Founder of Taivaco LLC
Based in Washington DC & Taipei, Taiwan, Michael is Founder & CEO of Taivaco, a media technology company. Former Director of Marketing at Sanyo, Michael also served on the San Francisco Bay Waterfront Committee by mayoral appointment. A graduate of the University of Redlands, he also studied at Waseda Univ in Tokyo, George Mason Univ in Virginia and CCU in Taipei, Taiwan. Michael speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese & Spanish.
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About Taivaco LLC: Taivaco is a media technology firm that unlocks the value of an organization’s content by making it accessible, searchable & usable.
Angel Livas
Chief Executive Officer of Creative Introduction
Angel Livas is a Gracie Award-Winning Executive Producer, a Multi-Media Personality, the President and CEO of DC Media Connection, LLC; the Chief Engagement Officer of Creative Introduction, LLC; the Founder of The Woman Behind The Business; and the host of “The Woman Behind The Business” Talk Show, which airs on 96.3FM – HD4. With nearly two-decades of media experience, Angel believes in sharing her wealth of multi-media expertise to help propel the success of others. In 2016, Angel was highlighted in the Washington Business Journal under “People On The Move” and named “Influential Business Woman of 2016” by AI Magazine. Prior to launching Creative Introduction, Angel oversaw six-nationally syndicated talk-radio shows, which included producing programming for award-winning celebrity hosts: Larry King & Jane Pauley. Angel has continuously expanded audience reach, enhanced member engagement and increased brand recognition by crafting original content for web, radio, and social media. She launched her career in Washington, DC, as an intern  at WHUR – 96.3 FM. She later  transitioned into television, producing content for Bloomberg’s “Money & Politics†and NBC’s local Nightly News on WBAL-TV. Eventually, she returned to her radio roots, moved up the ranks, until ultimately overseeing the Radio Department at AARP for 10-years. Angel has completed two certificate programs (Advanced Project Management, Stanford University; Mini-MBA: Social Media Marketing, Rutgers University) post receiving her Master’s degree at The American University, with an emphasis in Interactive Journalism. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Howard University, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. Angel is a proud lady of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children.
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About Creative Introduction: Creative Introduction offers our clients a unique opportunity to share their interest, passion, qualifications.
