As CEO of BUZZMEDIA, Tyler Goldman has built BUZZMEDIA into the fastest growing digital entertainment publisher. Leading the company, Tyler has helped originate the field of social programming and expand BUZZMEDIA’s audience from 3 to 112 million monthly users worldwide.
Tyler is based in Hollywood and oversees a team of over 200 employees across offices in Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland and Atlanta. Prior to BUZZMEDIA, Tyler worked extensively in digital publishing, helping found and build Broadband Sports, an early web publishing pioneer, and Movielink, a joint venture among Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures, which was sold to Blockbuster. Prior to these roles, Tyler was a venture capital attorney at Wilson, Sonsini and a sports attorney at Steinberg & Moorad, where he represented Steve Young and Troy Aikman. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Tyler attended law school at Northwestern University and business school at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, where he finished first in his class.
As CFO/COO of BUZZMEDIA, Matt is responsible for financial oversight of the company, including financial sourcing and strategic planning. Matt also serves in a senior operations capacity, directing much of the daily business operations of the company.
Prior to joining BUZZMEDIA, Matt was the CFO of Movielink where he was responsible for all financial strategy and operations of the company including leading the sale of Movielink to Blockbuster, Inc. in 2007. Matt began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provided financial advisory and accounting assurance services to companies in the technology, entertainment and manufacturing sectors, such as The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, ABC Networks, ADESA Corporation, and Hillenbrand Corporation. Matt is a graduate of Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business.
Coming to the company with over 15 years experience in engineering and operations, Sunny Walia serves as BUZZMEDIA’s Chief Information Officer. Previously he served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Demand Media. In addition, he co-founded answerbag.com (which is now owned by Demand Media) and is the President and Editor of totalplaystation.com, one of the longest running PlayStation fan sites online. Sunny holds a degree in Computer Science from California State University – East Bay.
Doug Rohrer brings unique experience to BUZZMEDIA. In addition to his key role at MTV Networks, where he spent more than 12 years, culminating in his promotion to Executive Vice President, Doug has more than 20 years of advertising sales experience. Before BUZZMEDIA, Doug ran a digital advisory firm servicing clients such as IAC, Firebrand, SheSpeaks and Virgin Mobile. Prior to the digital advisory firm, Doug was Chief Revenue Officer at Heavy.com.
As BUZZMEDIA’s Executive Vice President of Corporate and Business Development since 2007, Jay Westlin oversees strategic growth initiatives, including commerce, technology partnerships, commercial licenses, non-brand advertising monetization and the addition of new publications.
Prior to this role, Jay was Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Atomic Online (sister company of Gorilla Nation and now part of Evolve Media) where, among other achievements, he grew the company’s male lifestyle network, Crave Online, 406% and its hub website CraveOnline.com 413% (comScore Unique Visitors). Furthermore, during his 20 years of entertainment media experience with nearly 15 of those years in digital, Jay has been a founding president of a company and has also served on numerous advisory boards.
David Barry joined the company as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in April 2009. He brings extensive experience in corporate, licensing, and intellectual property matters. Prior to joining BUZZMEDIA, Mr. Barry was at Fenwick & West LLP where he represented public and private internet, social media and high tech companies, including BUZZMEDIA, in M&A transactions, corporate and securities law matters and equity financing transactions. Mr. Barry received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law, his M.B.A. from the I.E.S.E Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and his B.A. from Bucknell University.
Chris leads the teams responsible for driving Ad Sales revenue, including Integrated Marketing, Account Management, Ad Products, and Branded Entertainment. In this role, Chris is responsible for developing integrated marketing programs that deliver on the brand objectives of BUZZMEDIA’s properties and advertising partners.
Prior to joining BUZZMEDIA, Chris spent five years with Fox Interactive Media where he served as Vice President of Integrated Marketing and Ad Products focused on driving revenue for MySpace, IGN Entertainment and Photobucket. Chris started his career with FCB in San Francisco where he led brands such as Hewlett-Packard, SEGA, and Palm into the emerging world of digital marketing. He holds a BA degree in Advertising from Michigan State University.
Mike Porath, Executive Vice President, Programming. Mike oversees the company’s 40 digital properties that reach an audience of more than 100 million people each month. He has held a variety of writing, editing, producing and executive roles at ABC News, NBC News, The New York Times and AOL.
Prior to joining BUZZMEDIA, Mike was Editor-in-Chief of AOL News, where he built a team of more than 100 journalists and grew the audience and engagement on AOL News web sites to 40 million unique visitors and more than 1 billion page views. He got his start on the web at ABC News, where he was the network’s first overseas digital reporter. His multimedia stories on the war in Kosovo won the Society of Professional Journalist’s top honor. Mike is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.