Days Of Futures Passed

A podcast with guests who share the grand visions of the future from history and science fiction that inspired them as children.

Host

Theo Priestley

Keynote speaker, fractional CxO, advisor, startup mentor, storyteller, technology evangelist, author, futurist, entrepreneur, gamer, cat slave, sci-fi aficionado.
 
For all speaker enquiries please visit: https://www.theopriestley.com

Keynote Speaker, Fractional CxO

HackerNoon

Winner - Most Read Stories of 2023
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2022
Nominated - Tech Storyteller of the Year 2022
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2021

Contributing Writer

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A comprehensive history of tomorrow, exploring groundbreaking topics including Virtual Reality, AI, Privacy, Education, Economics and the Future of Work.

"The more people that read this, the better the quality of debate and planning going forward. If you have any interest in the shape of the future then this is a must-read!"
 
"This book is a fantastic collation of ideas, insights and analysis on what the future holds. It will challenge you and make you think about how your actions impact the future."

Order the book - now available through Bloomsbury directly, Amazon, Target, Waterstones, and many other international booksellers.

Author - The Future Starts Now

Metanomic

Raised venture capital to build a web3 and video game real-time analytics platform using AI. Led a fully remote, international team to deliver two products in rapid succession (one MVP, one full v1.0), built the client and partner pipeline before handing over to Sales.

Acquired in 2023.

FutureOn

Driving marketing, branding and PR for a unique cloud-based real-time visualization and collaboration platform – FieldTwin – helping Integrated Energy Companies make smarter and faster decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Vice President Marketing

We Didn't Start The Fire

A 13 episode podcast series that covered a multitude of business and technology trends leaving no stone unturned.

CSignum

Ownership of marketing, branding and PR for an offshore engineering company that manufactures patented wireless and cable-free data communications systems for the energy, environmental, transportation and aquaculture sectors.

Rebranded from WFS Technologies following a management buyout.

RawShark Studios

Bootstrapped game design studio working on web3 game projects.

Founder/ Head Of Studio

HTC Vive

Startup Mentor

Please note I no longer use LinkedIn on a regular basis. 
Visit theopriestley.com for contact details, or medium.com/@theo for articles.

Cornerstone OnDemand

Leading the development of a spatial learning & generative AI ecosystem for Cornerstone's 7K customers and 125M users.

Leveraging what we built at Talespin to anchor our ecosystem strategy and expose customers to high quality spatial learning, we intend to help elevate the XR space and bring the value of its innovation to the scale of Cornerstone's customer base.

Global GM XR & Spatial / AI

Talespin

Talespin is a Skills Mobility and Corporate Experience Platform company. As the nature of work continues to evolve, we use XR technology to assess and deploy skills that help empower individuals to better prepare for new opportunities. Our platform offers a range of solutions that can help organizations adapt to changing business and communication needs, and support their employees in developing the skills needed to thrive in the modern workforce. By providing a comprehensive and immersive experience platform, we aim to help individuals and organizations stay ahead of the curve and succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.

Chief Executive Officer

Being Human

Over 15+ years Being Human has built several large media campuses, multiple software companies, and made dozens of investments across content and technology.

Being Human started in 2006 as my personal consulting and investing vehicle.  It has since expanded into a venture studio with a mission to move forward the most unique aspect of what it means to be human, our ability to express our imagination and creativity. Our investments are changing the paradigm of storytelling & education to advance our human superpower.

Being Human exists to create efficiencies throughout the creative process and build capabilities that create new content and software categories. Though investments and infrastructure projects in ground breaking technologies we empower content creators and educators in their journey towards building category defining assets.

Founder

Open Drives

From the beginning, OpenDrives has architected and brought to market highly performant enterprise storage solutions driven largely by what our customers tell us they need. 

Our company was founded in 2011 by professionals in the media and entertainment industry who were trying to solve challenging data storage problems for their own M&E projects because leading storage vendors of the time weren’t doing so. Since that time, we’ve continued to outperform our competition, because we know that when we excel then so do our customers.

The concept of being "open" is incredibly important to our company, so much so that it helps to define the three pillars of our corporate values as well as the name of the company.

Co Founder

Siren Studios

SIREN DIGITAL was a technology services innovator offering digital workflow, editorial, VFX, post audio, and final delivery for the film, TV, commercial and new media industries. 

SIREN DIGITAL was the technology nerve center and end-to-end post services division for Siren Studios. 

With eight stages across a 100,000 sq. ft. campus in Hollywood, millions of dollars of equipment, and cutting edge technology assets, Siren Studios delivers unparalleled production efficiencies, infrastructure, and service to the creative industries.

Siren Studios sold Siren Digital in 2014 and has since come a hub for content housing Buzzfeed at the main campus.

President - Siren Digital

Waterfront FIlm Fund

Identify and qualify film and TV investments that match the fund's criteria.  Focused most on finishing funds and late stage investments.  Fund's returns were >30% IRR across 18 projects.

Fund Manager

Tunnel Post

Co-Founder / CEO

GoDigital Media Group

GoDigital Media Group is a diversified new media firm providing a range of strategic services. We work closely with every client to determine what service mix meets their needs. Our service offerings are:

Video Distribution – Worldwide digital distribution to online retail, VOD, mobile, PPD, and ad-supported destinations for movies, television shows, music videos

AdShare – Identification, tracking and monetization of unlicensed uses of professional content in UGC on social media websites.

Digital Marketing – An in-house team of online PR and viral and interactive marketing experts that plan and execute campaigns for film, music, television, and branded clients.

Sync Licensing – Motion picture, television, commercial, and video game licensing.

Audio Distribution – Worldwide digital distribution to online retail, mobile, and ad-supported destinations.

Digital Supply Chain Management – Custom solutions for marketing and distribution based upon the ContentBridge, our proprietary digital supply chain automation platform.

Chief Information Officier

Apple Computer

Final Cut Pro Professional Workflow and Training Development

Autodesk

Computer Animator / Designer / Programmer

Founded and served as an executive in five companies who collectively represent a breadth of work that includes large enterprise software product development and deployments, dozens of technology and media investments, defining and owning product strategy, investment portfolio management, and post production on 350+ feature films and hundreds of hours of television programming.  Hybrid between creative, tech / software development, and business savvy.

Achievements include:
- Two prior tech company exits
- Previously involved in over $70M+ in content financing
- Responsible for fulfillment of $100M+ in service / product contract value
- Over 30% ROI across 18 content investments
- Billions of dollars of production assets managed on Open Drives software / hardware (a company I co-founded)
- Placed 16 Investments in Seed Stage AI & Mobile companies
- Have repeatedly built start-ups to seven figures of revenue within first 12 months
- Seasoned in international business endeavors in Asia / Europe

Avid skier, artist, lover of nature, infinitely curious, and an all in problem solver.

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