William Odonnell

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About William Odonnell

William is a successful Business Development executive in 2022: a thought leader with a potent mix of 3D content SME, compassionate leadership and strategic thinker focused on tangible solutions that bring ROI for clients, and compelling experiences for customers. His experience allows him to see through the fluff of the zeitgeist to bring innovative but pragmatic thinking for both clients and production teams. In short, William is really good at business development and account management and has a healthy insight on all things Metaverse and the future of content. Over the past 20+ years, William has built a career spanning digital advertising, streaming video, mobile product development, digital twins, and the Metaverse. He as a track record of working with innovative technology and trends from the earliest websites, to video, to mobile application development to 3D & Digital Twins and immersive content. In all cases, he was an early participant in the spaces working hands on in the development of content for these platforms. Coupled with his work in traditional broadcast production and supporting AOR's with content development, he has the capacity for visualizing new techniques and products. He has evolved into the subject matter expert in the room with both the internal and client facing c-suite, able to shape solutions that focus on value for customer and ROI for the brand because of the relevance of the past experience that forms the foundation for his strategic thinking. Due to both his creative gregariousness, and insatiable desire to learn, William is blessed with a global network of former colleagues and friends now in leadership positions at the agencies, platforms, game engines, consultancies, and innovative production outfits that utilize game engines, motion capture and LED Studios. He is based in NYC and is currently consulting with Beautiful Destinations as a Metaverse strategist, providing client's insights on building sustainable virtual destinations and events. Strengths- GTM Strategy SOW Creation Leading RFP Responses Building Staffing Plans C-Suite Interaction and Management Content Production: Traditional, VFX, XR, Web3 Enterprise XR solutions Management of Multi Million Dollar, Multi year projects