John Ousby Photography

John Ousby Photography offers a fresh take on event, portrait, and sports photography. 

John covers private and corporate parties and conferences, red carpet, festivals, public events, award ceremonies, and more. John has a large set of preferred locations to shoot family and seniors across Dallas, combined with a studio for headshots and more formal portraits. John provides live sports action coverage as well as T&I shoots, banners, posters, and other promo material. John provides high quality residential and commercial real estate photography and videography. John possesses a commercial Remote Pilot License from the FAA for drone flights.

Founder

MixLuv, Inc.

MixLuv is a collaborative social platform for musicians. John was responsible for internal and external asset creation, marketing, and product development alongside other essential business growth functions. MixLuv was established as a C Corp in early 2015. www.mixluv.com

President & Co-Founder

Music Is My First Language

Music is My First Language (MiMFL) is a start-up social enterprise organization with the vision to inspire global social change through music education, collaboration, and cultural exchange.

Internet Media Device Alliance

President, and Chair of the Automotive Working Group. The IMDA was a global non profit trade organization with the mission to develop and promote a set of open, interoperable standards and device profiles to maximise the growth of a global consumer market in internet-connected media devices.

President

Radio DNS

RadioDNS is open technology that lets broadcast radio and the internet work together: enhancing the listener experience, and making radio better.

Steering Board Member

vTuner

vTuner was a B2B company producing a guide to streamed media. 

I led product development, marketing and content provider relations for the vTuner service for connected devices across multiple platforms, including automotive, home audio, mobile and connected TV areas. Partners included Samsung, LG, Sony, Audi, Mercedes Benz.

 I played a lead role in developing vTuner's suite of recommendation products and was responsible for business development engagement with major ODMs, OEMs, brands and broadcasters across the globe. Project management with globally distributed developers, designers, business managers and outsourced services using cloud based collaboration , management and tracking tools.

Director

Audio & Music Interactive develops the digital offering of the ten national BBC radio brands as well as Classical music TV and the Proms and contributing to the overall music service. 

- Mobile & wireless – inbound and outbound SMS, MMS, WAP, digital radio on mobile TV.
- Internet – streaming, metadata guidelines, cross-platform publishing infrastructure. 
- Distribution – divisional responsibility for digital distribution cross-platform.
- Strategy development - Cross-platform, Commercial (with BBC worldwide), pan BBC Bus Dev, pan BBC Mobile, pan BBC Syndication, Connected Devices.
- Business Development - Major Account management and 3rd party syndication deals with MSN, AOL, Real Networks, Windows Media, Blue Yonder, Telewest, Wanadoo, Lycos
- Digital Radio - cross-platform text and data services. Launched pan network EPG in 2005. 
- Digital Television – EPG, 24/7, and enhanced TV services for A&M e.g., Glastonbury, Proms, world’s first browsable 24/7 application for radio on DTV in 2005.
- Digital Olympics Group (for London 2012) - A&M rep.

Head of Distribution Technologies, Audio & Music Interactive

Virgin Radio / SMG PLC

Management and development of new media activity for Virgin Radio and Ginger TV productions in the UK. Virgin Radio became the most listened to radio station on the web.
. Launched first radio station WAP service in the world, (6 figure sponsorship deal) 
. Launch and development of online strategy, business planning, budgeting, revenue generation, and management for Ginger Online.
. Launched first UK online media player with 'now playing' track metadata. 
. Established the first UK 'hear it buy it' e-commerce proposition (Virgin Radio). 
. Management, financial reporting, and business planning for Virgin Radio 
. Launched Virgin Radio website in '96, the first radio station to stream audio continuously over the internet in Europe. Produced several pioneering music webcasts, including Roger Taylor's Cyber Barn experience.

Director, Ginger Online

Sports, event, portrait photography, and videography. Development, marketing, and e-commerce for NTRvbpics.com and TAVvbpics.com John has received several awards for his photography and has exhibited in Dallas, London, and New York.

Since arriving in the US in 2009, John has founded three companies and a non-profit organization in the music education and arts areas.

Previously, John was a pioneering leader, business development executive, marketer, and product developer within several high growth global media businesses. John managed high-level relationships and business development within consumer electronics, automotive, media, and entertainment sectors including Samsung, LG, Mercedes Benz, Sony, MSN. John has deep experience of business creation and growth throughout his career and has been in the interactive space for over 25 years.

Specialties: photography, music, radio, connected devices, automotive, marketing, ODM, OEM, business development, connected TV, iOS, Android, infotainment, Jira, Confluence

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