Charlie Fink

Charlie Fink is best known for his roles as VP @ Disney, SVP @ AOL, and President of AG Interactive.

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Charlie Fink's Experience:

• Contributor at Forbes, Huffington Post , VR Voice, Virtual Reality Pop, Cinematic VR, Haptical

  February 2017 - Present | Greater New York City Area

  Covering VR, AR, and new media for Forbes.com

• Chairman of the Board at New York Musical Theatre Festival

  October 2006 - Present | New York, NY

  NYMF is best known as incubator of Broadway hits “Next to Normal” & “Title of Show” Special 2012 Drama Desk Award for outstanding contribution to theater Responsible for 1.3 million dollar budget, fund raising, board recruitment and management, and strategic planning

• Founder & Artistic Director at New Musical Foundation, Inc.

  October 2005 - Present

  The New Musical Foundation is a 501c3 tax-exempt foundation whose mission is to support the creation of new musicals through commissions, readings, and workshop productions. All rights are retained by the artists.

• Founder & CEO at Charlie Company, LLC

  December 2005 - October 2016

  Founded and operated digital marketing agency specializing in integrated lifestyle marketing campaigns for global brands, startups, and non-profits leveraging SEM, SEO, social, content creation, viral, guerilla and experiential channels; clients included Sprint, eBay, Phoenix Education, Capital One, Moveon.org and others Developed and executed go-to-market strategy for Erodr, a venture backed geo social app for college campuses, driving 300,000 trials, 2012 - 2014 Created “The Other 98%” for Moveon.org, which today has 2.75 MM followers on Facebook Created & Produced YouTube series “The Two McCains”, 1 MM views, 2008 Sold company in private transaction to Wildfire Marketing, San Francisco

• President & Chief Creative Officer at AmericanGreetings.com

  October 2000 - November 2005

  Preident and Chief Creative Officer for online e card company that once upon a time was among the top ten most popular sites on the web (we started charging for online greeings in 2001, which saved the company but made it a lot less popular ;) I was responsible (in part, naturally) for acquisition and integration of Egreetings and BlueMoutain.com, and led the conversion of company from free to fee.

• Founder & CEO at eAgents, Inc.

  November 1999 - October 2000

  Raised 3M Series A round from venture capital firms New Atlantic Ventures, Lazard Technology Partners, and Shamrock, to create platform for personalized delivery of e news, headlines, photos and cartoons through email opt –in system Signed content syndication agreements with major media partners including The New York Times, People, ESPN, Disney, E!, CBS and The New Yorker Led thirty-person team to acquire 5M subscribers in less than 6 weeks after launch via deal with Yahoo Acquired by American Greetings Interactive three months later.

• Senior Vice President, Chief Creative Officer, AOL Studios at America Online, Inc.

  January 1996 - June 1999

  Creative Director of AOL’s original content production arm. Supervised the development and launch of some of the formative Internet’s leading brands, including The Motley Fool, Love@AOL Personals (sold to Match.com), Real Fans Sports Network (sold to ESPN), Electra (sold to Oxygen Media), and Entertainment Asylum (AOL Entertainment LA) Executive Producer, “Santa’s Home Page”, ABC TV Network Special, Christmas 1997 Managed Entertainment, Music, Lifestyles & Kids Channels with staff of over 100 including programmers, designers, and ad sales personnel

• EVP, Chief Operating Officer & Director at Virtual World Entertainment, Inc.

  April 1992 - December 1995

  Created the first commercially-available immersive VR gaming experience at dedicated gaming centers in malls and other retail venues across the country; created LAN-based computing solution allowing for real-time, competitive head-to-head play at high bandwidths in a pre-broadband environment; produced theatrical-quality bumpers using A-list talent and screenwriting; software side of the company sold to Microsoft and became the core Xbox software team; public gaming centers sold to Dave & Busters Producer, VirtualWorld.com, Cool Site of the Year, Games Category in 1994 Produced “The World’s First Virtual Sport Championship” for the SyFy Channel in 1995 Produced 13 episode “Battletech” animated TV series for Fox Network in 1995

• Vice President at Disney

  January 1986 - June 1992

  Supervised the development and production of animated and live action feature films and theme park productions Created the concept for “Lion King” (Bambi in Africa) and supervised its development. Supervised development of “Aladdin”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Rescuers Down Under”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Oliver and Company”, “Roger Rabbit”, “Prince and the Pauper”, and “Cranium Command” at Epcot, as well as live action features “The Incredible Journey”, “Dinosaur” and “Bi-Centennial Man” Managed creative development process for animated features, supervising multiple teams of writers, artists and composers assigned to develop concepts and art for future pictures

Charlie Fink's Education:

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  1981 – 1983
  MFA

• Sarah Lawrence College

  1977 – 1981
  Bachelor's Degree
  Concentration: Film/Cinema/Video Studies & Political Science

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