Roger Wood(VII)
- Additional Crew
- Producer
- Executive
Roger's early career in Media, Entertainment and Technology began with tech. He began as head of strategy and marketing for Motorola / Nextel, where his portfolio included product placement in entertainment. His division's mobile phones and other land mobile products became a fixtures in 1990s action movies as plot devices in major hits
When Roger was appointed Corporate VP of Marketing for Reebok Ltd., the brand was the first major footwear and apparel to fully embrace digital media just as the Internet emerged as the defining force in global business. Reebok timed the Reality TV wave perfectly. Its footwear was a major product in Survivor, Season 1, the CBS/Mark Burnett hit that shaped the Reality entertainment genre for a decade afterward.
As a management consultant on Wall Street, Roger founded the Media, Entertainment & Technology (MET) Practice at Willis Group, the risk finance giant, then owned by KKR. While simultaneously serving as the COO of the Executive Risks Practice, his clients included Sony Pictures, Viacom (Paramount, Comedy Central, Country Music Television) Earthlink, PanAmSat and Barnes & Noble.
After his time at Willis Group, he then joined the founding team of Amobee Media, a startup backed by venture capital firms Accel and Sequoia. Amobee was acquired by SingTel and is now a goliath in mobile entertainment. Amobee is the largest distributor of mobile media, content and entertainment in Asia, outside of China. He then served as CEO of ORCA Payments, a finch company which, among other things, processed payments for Digital entertainment.
Roger would be appointed VP of DIgital Media for Hearst Corporation, a dominant publisher of women's media with Cosmo, Elle, Marie Claire, Bazaar, and Town & Country. At Hearst, he led Social, Mobile and Location-based media for iCrossing, the company's internal agency.
Roger founded several innovative technology platforms for AI in Movies, Entertainment, and Visual Media. Roger later applied that technology as a consultancy within Paradigm Talent Agency, recommending which celebrities could succeed with their own celebrity branded consumer products, and in which categories. Between 2014 and 2020, his platform produced dozens of recommendations for the biggest names in film and music.
When Roger was appointed Corporate VP of Marketing for Reebok Ltd., the brand was the first major footwear and apparel to fully embrace digital media just as the Internet emerged as the defining force in global business. Reebok timed the Reality TV wave perfectly. Its footwear was a major product in Survivor, Season 1, the CBS/Mark Burnett hit that shaped the Reality entertainment genre for a decade afterward.
As a management consultant on Wall Street, Roger founded the Media, Entertainment & Technology (MET) Practice at Willis Group, the risk finance giant, then owned by KKR. While simultaneously serving as the COO of the Executive Risks Practice, his clients included Sony Pictures, Viacom (Paramount, Comedy Central, Country Music Television) Earthlink, PanAmSat and Barnes & Noble.
After his time at Willis Group, he then joined the founding team of Amobee Media, a startup backed by venture capital firms Accel and Sequoia. Amobee was acquired by SingTel and is now a goliath in mobile entertainment. Amobee is the largest distributor of mobile media, content and entertainment in Asia, outside of China. He then served as CEO of ORCA Payments, a finch company which, among other things, processed payments for Digital entertainment.
Roger would be appointed VP of DIgital Media for Hearst Corporation, a dominant publisher of women's media with Cosmo, Elle, Marie Claire, Bazaar, and Town & Country. At Hearst, he led Social, Mobile and Location-based media for iCrossing, the company's internal agency.
Roger founded several innovative technology platforms for AI in Movies, Entertainment, and Visual Media. Roger later applied that technology as a consultancy within Paradigm Talent Agency, recommending which celebrities could succeed with their own celebrity branded consumer products, and in which categories. Between 2014 and 2020, his platform produced dozens of recommendations for the biggest names in film and music.
