About Joe
Joe is an experienced, award-winning senior executive, investor, and entrepreneur with expertise across a number of industries including technology, media and finance. Joe is a Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm focused on growth with $85B AUM.
Previously Joe was Executive Vice President and Global Head of NFT at Crypto.com/NFT where he worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg, F1 Aston Martin, Lionel Richie, Boy George, and more. Joe launched the platform and grew it to over $213MM in revenue it’s first 9 months, then running ~$1B in Q1 of 2022.
Prior Joe was the Chief Strategy Officer of Downtown Music Holdings a music and technology company with nearly 600 employees operating in 23 markets on 6 continents and revenue in the region of $700MM. Joe is the Co-Founder of its subsidiary Songtrust where he owned the P&L and led its hyper growth. Joe worked on global strategy across the portfolio, completed over $300MM in M&A, oversaw strategic venture capital investments, managed various innovation endeavors and worked on a strategic review of the company leading to the divestiture of a division for a reported $400MM maximizing shareholder value.
Joe is a professional member of the 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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