Gary Goldschmidt

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About Gary Goldschmidt

Professional, driven, high-performance executive leader with over 20 years of strategic business development experience and demonstrated success in building new businesses and launching innovative products and services. Collaborates cross-functionally to establish business proposal viability. Experienced with the nuances of distributing content via leading video platforms. Provides analytical business insight combined with a strong knowledge in the market realities of content distribution and monetization. Versatile and diverse experience in strategic leadership, content distribution, proposal strategy, and negotiation of complex business terms. Extensive expertise in solving contract compliance problems by partnering with C-suite stakeholders through comprehensive analysis and reconciliation of the provisions landscape—resulting in superior terms, cost-efficient risk management and critical breakthroughs. Thought leader, accomplished in providing sound business management, forming partner alliances, and setting strategic direction for major media companies. Key contributor and gatekeeper during all top affiliate contract negotiations for over a decade, resulting in new contracts and renewals being successfully negotiated with revenues up to $500M over 3-10-year contract lengths.(Scripps Networks Interactive / Discovery) Transformed ineffective reporting techniques and excel spreadsheet record-keeping into sophisticated processes by implementing new procedures to better control data and reporting, resulting in accurate information being communicated to the Board of Directors in professional-looking presentations and reports.(Scripps Networks Interactive) Developed financial analyses for new launch programs to effectively monitor affiliate incentives and maintain compliance with MFN provisions, maximizing financial terms for affiliates and achieving increases of up to 10M new subscribers per network per year.(Scripps Networks Interactive) Significant Strengths: Contract Compliance, Communications, Direct To Consumer (DTC), Digital Media, Affiliate Operations, Content Distribution, Video, Strategic Planning and Alliances, MFN, ADM, Negotiations, Project Management, Team Leadership, Television, Advertising, Budgets, VOD, Over the Top, OTT