I’m an entrepreneur, media exec, journalist, and author. In April 2024, I became publisher, CEO and co-owner of The Daily Beast in a strategic partnership with Joanna Coles, former head of content at Hearst, and Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and founder of The Beast. Our mission is transform The Beast into a must-read intelligent tabloid with riveting journalism and a growing business to support its expanding endeavors.

Most recently, I was the founder and CEO of MOJO, a venture-backed tech and media platform on a mission to make youth sports fun, easy and accessible for everyone.

The MOJO app launched in February 2021 and quickly won the Webby Award for best sports app on the internet. Along the way, MOJO was named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and one of the best employers in sports by Front Office Sports. We partnered with the greatest leagues and teams including the NBA, MLB, NFL FLAG, MLS and FC Barcelona and our high quality instructional content has helped more than five million families in all 50 states and 178 countries.

In December 2023, MOJO was acquired by TeamSnap, the #1 youth sports tech platform with 25 million registered users and two million daily active users. TeamSnap is owned by Waud Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm. I now serve on the board of TeamSnap.

In my previous life, I was co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney ABC Television Group where I oversaw the company’s global television business (including the ABC network and owned stations, Disney Channels Worldwide, Freeform, Hulu, AETN) with 12,000 employees, $12.5 billion in revenue and 25,000 hours of original programming per year.

Before that, I served as president of ABC News, leading the organization to #1 in the ratings, every major award in broadcast journalism, record profitability, and groundbreaking partnerships with Univision and Yahoo! During my tenure, Good Morning America toppled NBC’s TODAY program, ending an 852-week streak and beginning a run at #1 that has lasted 12 years.

Along the way, I exec produced Good Morning America, senior produced NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and published four bestselling books, including Charlie St. Cloud (which was made into a Universal feature film), The Man Who Ate the 747 (in development as a Warner Brothers Discovery feature film), The Survivors Club, a New York Times nonfiction bestseller, and Red Mercury (under the stealthy pseudonym Max Barclay).

For the last 15 years, my favorite role has been coaching my boys and their teams in soccer, baseball, basketball and flag football.

I live in Los Angeles with my wife and teenage son. Our eldest son goes to college on the East Coast. We root for the Dodgers, Liverpool FC, the US Women’s National Team, and I am (a little) obsessed with pickleball, magic, and the royal family.