Susan Brazer is a digital media, mobile and consumer electronics exec who's led the strategy, product and business development for world leading companies-- Apple, DirecTV, SES Astra, FIFA World Cup, Viacom, Virgin Mobile and Nokia. Susan is currently the CEO of LionShare Media, a strategy and immersive development studio that develops new media and entertainment platforms for the 2020s that harnesses the power of 5G networks, video streaming, AR/VR, AI and blockchain. Prior to this, Susan was VP of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia, VP, Corporate Development and Video Services at Virgin Mobile USA, EVP, Corporate Development at KirchMedia's Prisma iVentures for the FIFA World Cup. Prior to this, she was SVP Network Marketing and Operations for Viacom's Showtime service (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg and Discovery). She was the VP Digital TV at SES ASTRA and Director of Marketing, who launched DirecTV for Compression Labs. Susan began her career in Silicon Vally at Apple Computer, where she launched its 1st portable computer and PDA, the Newton and Knowledge Navigator, the blueprint for the iPAD and Siri. Susan started her career at Phillip Morris as an International Treasury Analyst trading foreign currency and PepsiCo in M&A corporate planning. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University, an MBA from Kellogg and attended the London School of Economics. She is an Executive Director of Global Women in Blockchain, a frequent media, mobile and blockchain speaker, a mentor at Princeton University for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a voting member of the Television Academy/Emmy Interactive Group and Grammy Recording Academy.
