Jason Ojalvo

CEO

Jason Ojalvo, CEO of TUSHY, has over 25 years of leadership experience in entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, marketing, and business development, with a focus in digital entertainment and disruptive innovation. He has lectured at universities, spoken on panels, and appeared on national news discussing digital strategy, entrepreneurship, publishing, acting, music, and more.

Ojalvo began his career at Disc Makers, America's leading designer and manufacturer of CDs for indie labels and artists. There he launched numerous artist-friendly projects including the world's largest unsigned band contest and started "Fast Forward," the world’s most widely-circulated music industry newsletter (print circulation 200,000).

After pursuing an MBA at Columbia University, Ojalvo worked with consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers on media projects in corporate strategy, including work for record labels, sports leagues, magazine publishers, and cable networks. Then, after a stint in business development at early social networking site Bolt, and leading operations of the fitness brand Fluidity, he launched the European headquarters of digital music distributor The Orchard in 2003 and later ran the company's global marketing and business development efforts, growing distribution and retail partnerships for its record-label clients.

From 2006 to 2016, Ojalvo was Senior Vice President at Audible, a division of Amazon.com, where he devised, built, and ran the groundbreaking ACX online marketplace service, as well as Audible Studios, the company's in-house production arm, which received dozens of award nominations every year, and won a Grammy Award 2013. Ojalvo also launched an M&A-focused corporate development team for Audible.

Talks About
#leadership

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica