Principal Consultant & Innovator
Where ambition meets what the technology will actually do.
Innovation strategy for entertainment, media, and experiential companies.
Innovation executive in entertainment and experiential technology. I work at the point where business intent, creative ambition, and engineering reality have to agree before anything ships. In senior roles at NEP Group and Creative Technology I led product strategy for a global broadcast enterprise, guided critical M&A, and directed the technical innovation pipeline behind Fortune 500 brand experiences — Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Disney, Blizzard. Today I advise entertainment, media, and experiential companies on where emerging technology is worth their money, and where it is not.
Innovation strategy · Cross-functional team leadership · Culture and capability building
Emerging technology assessment · Innovation portfolio management · Technical due diligence
Strategic partnerships · M&A integration · Vendor and ecosystem development
Stakeholder engagement · Translating technical complexity · Executive and client presentation
Concept-to-production pipelines · Technical standards and workflow · Global program delivery
IP program development · Invention harvesting · Licensing strategy
March 2023 – Present
Imagine Interactive Group · Houston, TX
Strategic technology consulting for entertainment, media, and experiential marketing companies.
April 2022 – February 2023
NEP Group · Global
Established the intellectual property function for a global broadcast and media services enterprise.
Accumulated intellectual property and copyrights across the period. Details available on request under NDA.
May 2021 – April 2022
NEP Group · Global
Led product strategy and market development for the virtual production and visual technology service lines.
January 2021 – April 2021
Creative Technology (NEP Live Events) · Global
Launched the global virtual production initiative during NEP's acquisition of Creative Technology.
August 2015 – December 2020
Creative Technology (NEP Live Events) · Global
Led the digital services division — technical innovation, workflow development, and event technology integration for a global Fortune 100 client base.
Clients in this period included Samsung, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Blizzard Entertainment.
January 2013 – July 2015
Creative Technology · Global
Technical architect and design lead for international live events and brand experiences.
Prior to Creative Technology, technical production and design for touring concerts and broadcast — lighting, scenic automation, screen production, and show control.
2016 – 2020
Multi-year LED environment programme for Samsung's flagship launch series. Repeat engagement across four consecutive years.
2020
Built the virtual production computer model — hardware architecture, workflow pipeline, and software integration — that became the foundation for global deployment.
2021 – 2022
Evaluated and integrated specialty visual technology capability into a global broadcast enterprise, expanding the virtual production service portfolio.
Disguise · Unreal Engine · Pixera · Pixotope · LED volume architecture · ICVFX pipelines
SMPTE 2110 · NDI · SRT · Precision timing (PTP) · Large-scale AV network design
Real-time rendering · Media server architecture · Multi-screen synchronisation · Generative AI in production workflow
Depth on any of these is on consult.show.
Work delivered for Samsung · Google · Apple · Microsoft · Ford · GM · Hyundai · Disney · Nickelodeon · Blizzard Entertainment — as Director of Digital Services and Senior Solutions Architect at Creative Technology, and in product leadership at NEP Group.
I take a small number of advisory engagements, and I consider senior roles where innovation is the mandate rather than a line item. Either way: if you are weighing a technology decision that does not have an obvious answer, that is the kind of problem worth a conversation.
Advisory on virtual production, AI adoption, and event technology strategy.
