THE MEDIABRIDGE TEAM
Our Principals and Strategic Advisors leverage deep industry knowledge, long-standing relationships and core functional expertise to deliver a superior level of service.
Senior Team
Led by John Bowen, Ethan Jacks and Courtney Spencer, the MediaBridge senior team has over 50 years of combined experience in digital media, technology and investment banking.
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John Bowen
Managing Partner
John Bowen spent over a decade working for IT industry leaders before becoming one of the first Wall Street analysts focused on the emerging media technology sector.
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Ethan Jacks
Managing Partner
Ethan Jacks served for 7 years as a senior executive at Avid Technology, growing its market value by 6X to $2.5 billion.
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Courtney Spencer
Managing Partner
Courtney Spencer has decades of senior management and M&A experience in pro audio, MI and broadcast.
Senior Strategic Advisor
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Leon Silverman
Leon Silverman, as head of Strategic Perspective Consulting, helps to drive industry strategy at the intersection of creativity and technology. His clients include major Hollywood Studios, as well as industry services and creative technology organizations. In addition, he serves as advisor for Strategy and Industry Relations for Movielabs, the joint venture technology think tank owned…
Senior Industry Advisors
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Angelo Santinelli
Angelo Santinelli is an experienced coach/advisor and board director with a more than 30-year track record of measurable success in both private and public companies. Success as a director, venture capital partner, limited partner, and in line operating roles provide the diverse range of skills and experiences needed to be an active, value-added executive coach,…
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Chad Knowles
Chad is a serial entrepreneur. He has co-founded four digital media companies. Chad has also held senior level executive positions at Dell EMC and IBM. Chad is the co-inventor of Storage Optimization based I/O Pattern Modeling U.S. Patent 10,228,860. Chad is the Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary film “Unknown Distance” and was an EY…
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David Schleifer
A 25-year veteran of the technology industry, David Schleifer has recently held positions ranging from COO of Primestream, Inc. to VP of Sales and Marketing for Algolith.
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Heather Rafter
Heather Dembert Rafter has been providing legal and business development services to the audio, music technology and digital media industries for over twenty-five years. As principal counsel at RafterMarsh US, she leads the RM team in providing sophisticated corporate and IP advice (US practice) and entertainment law services (UK) to content creators, hardware and software…
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Steve Bayes
Steve Bayes has been at the center of the design, development and marketing of modern video editing systems for over 35 years. Coming from a 10 year career in professional video editing, Steve became the first certified instructor for video editing pioneer Avid Technology. He traveled the world presenting at industry events and wrote The Avid…
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John Fargis
John Fargis is a senior executive with twenty-five years of general management experience in the China market, in telecom, media and technology industries. Google has purchased three of the companies he helped manage. John is currently co-founder and partner in BYG Advantage, a sales acceleration firm bridging top technology SME’s into APAC. He is also…
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Josh Kline
Josh is an entrepreneur and Emmy-winning technologist with a track record of innovation and leadership in the media and entertainment industry, with a focus on content production, management, and distribution. Josh co-founded and led Sample Digital, where he developed and patented Digital Dailies, a web-based streaming solution that revolutionized the review and approval process for…
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Martin Vann
Martin Vann is an accomplished executive and business leader with experience across venture-backed and publicly traded companies. Mr. Vann has led the sales, marketing, and support teams for several industry-defining organizations, executed business transformation processes, and led the acquisition and integration of seven companies. Mr. Vann recently served as an Operating Executive of Videndum plc,…
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Meri Weingarten
Meri Weingarten is the Director of Digital Media and Technology at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. In her role at USC, she oversees the management and strategic planning of digital media and technology in the school’s state of the art Production and Post Production facility. As part of the planning team…
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Richard Wear
Richard is CEO and founder of global executive search firm Interfacio, who specialize in the media technology sector, based in London and founded in 2002. Richard held previous roles as a Director and General Manager of Celestion, part of the Hong Kong based Gold Peak organization, and was global product lead for Fostex Corporation of…
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Jeff Allen
Jeff Allen is a strategy and M&A advisor for PE firms and their portfolio companies, working to maximize IRR through accretive inorganic growth. He is a former venture capitalist, 2X tech CEO, 10X Board member, and 5X head of corporate development for PE-backed and public SaaS companies. As a PE investor, Jeff has led over 50+…
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Roland MacBeth
Roland is the Founder/President of Focus CE and has over 40 years of executive and consulting experience in consumer electronics, pro audio, commercial AV, and the musical instrument industry. Roland has provided strategic business development, product development, and M&A advisory services to senior management and at a Board level to many companies including Gold Peak…
