Jonathan Guttenberg

Summary

Jon is strategic advisor, business builder, deal maker and operating executive across a wide range of industries. BUSINESS BUILDER: A long history of identifying new trends and opportunities and building successful businesses around them. Jon has also played a wide range of roles within both start-ups and large multi-national corporations to help identify new business opportunities and successfully build businesses around those opportunities. Launched five cable/broadcast networks, two digital media divisions, two motion picture companies, a wireless content company, a new direct-mail continuity business, an infomercial joint venture (generated $30 million in revenue in its first year), a political marketing company (one of the first companies to leverage big data sets and social media to manage political campaigns), one of the first e-commerce companies (back in 1980). DEALMAKER: An excellent negotiator, able to create innovative, win-win scenarios across multiple parties with deals including financing, mergers, divestitures and acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Worked on over 25 M&A transactions and raised over $200 million in capital. OPERATING EXECUTIVE: An incisive, results-focused, broadly experienced operating executive and strategic advisor sought out by investors and owners to rapidly improve business performance and enterprise value. Expert at identifying and diagnosing sometimes ambiguous business challenges, researching causes and solutions, and organizing processes, people, transactions and operations, executing to results. Works with companies on strategic partnerships, product and marketing strategy, risk mitigation, improving operational efficiency, post transaction integration, and international expansion. INDUSTRIES COVERED: Media and entertainment, digital, marketing services, healthcare, consumer products and services, education, data and analytics, technology and travel.