Sling Media
Chief Creative Officer
Benjamin White
A transformational leader, entrepreneur, investor, and creator with 20 years experience building products, teams, content, brands, and companies.
A transformational leader, entrepreneur, investor, and creator with 20 years experience building products, teams, content, brands, and companies.
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Experience
MTV Networks
VP, Digital Media
Complex Media
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Chief Creative Officer
Founder
Igluu
Advisor
3bounce
Advisor
Craques .com
Advisor
ZOONY
Advisor
Imagine Fashion
Advisor
Site Sustentavel
Advisor
REDEF
Advisor
Sixup
Advisor
Exit
Galore
Advisor
Board Member, Common
PagPop
Board Member
Employee
Advisor
Board Member
Education
About
Achievements
Founder of 21212, the leading digital accelerator in Brazil, where I invested in 40+ companies and advised over 200 founders, partnered with Federal Government of Brazil (StartupBrasil), and had exits including acquisition of Zero Paper by Intuit.
Chief Creative Officer at Sling Media where I built NYC office, recruiting and leading a 30+ person product team (w/ alums from MLB, ESPN and MTV). Led new product development including the premium on-demand TV portal, Sling.com. Sling was acquired by Echostar in late 2007 for $380M.
VP of Digital at MTV and led MTV.com, MTV Mobile. Built the MTV Overdrive video platform and created an entire slate of original video programming, pioneering the “Aftershow” 2nd screen format (pushing viewers from marquee MTV shows like The Hills to The Hills Aftershow on the web).
Chief Creative Officer and founding Editor-in-Chief at Complex Media, a leading youth culture publisher which today ranks as the #4 online media brand in MAUs w/ millennials.
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