About Joe
Joe is an experienced, award-winning senior executive, investor, and entrepreneur with expertise spanning technology, media, and finance. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus, a global growth-focused private equity firm with $85B in assets under management and acting head of GTM for his portfolio company SuperDoc which helps deliver a next generation open source dev tool for companies with heavy legal document focused AI’s and workflows.
Previously, Joe was Executive Vice President at Crypto.com, where he launched a new product and scaled it to more than $213M in revenue in its first nine months, approaching an annualized run rate of ~$1B within a year. In that role, he partnered with global icons including Snoop Dogg, Aston Martin F1, Lionel Richie, Aloe Blacc, T-Pain, Boy George, UFC and many more.
Prior to that, Joe was Chief Strategy Officer of Downtown Music Holdings, a leading music technology company recognized as a top 10 global music business with 600 employees across 23 markets and revenues of ~$700M. He also co-founded its subsidiary, Songtrust, where he owned the P&L and drove its hypergrowth. At Downtown, Joe led global strategy, executed more than $300M in M&A, oversaw venture capital investments, managed innovation initiatives, and played a central role in a strategic review that led to the divestiture of a division for a reported $400M. That transaction maximized shareholder value and set the stage for the subsequent sale of the remaining business to Universal Music Group’s Virgin division for $775M.
Joe is a professional member of the Recording Academy, an art enthusiast, amateur aquascaper, serves on the young alumni board of Pace University’s Seidenberg school of Computer Science and Information Systems, and is a Techstars Music Mentor. Joe was named a Digital Power Player by Billboard Magazine four times consecutively. Prior to entering the music industry, Joe worked at a variety of technology startups, media, and finance companies in strategy, product and analysis focused roles.
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Specialties include
Technology leadership, SaaS, product development, product management, business operations, strategy, general management, digital, technology, digital supply chain, content, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and diligence.
Key Accomplishments
Built things people love
Execute hundreds of millions of dollars in M&A
Worked on a holistic strategic review for shareholders which ultimately led to a division being divested for a reported $400MM, maximizing shareholder value
Launched a new division of a company, reaching 8 figures in revenue in under 3 months, 9 figures in the first 9 months
Led a startup from 5 figures in revenue to 8 figures
Originated over a hundred million dollars in music IP transactions
Negotiated tens of millions of dollars in digital and other music licenses
Owned a P&L through hyperscale: 14->86 employees in ~18 months
Grew a B2B SaaS from <1k users to over 300k
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