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Linden Lab

Linden Lab

Second Life, created by Linden Lab, is the largest and most successful 3D virtual world, developed entirely by its users. Find friends, join groups, and message people around the world with text or voice as you explore new places and experiences. Today, tens of thousands of creators around the world continually develop exciting new environments, profiting from the sale of millions of virtual items on the marketplace.

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Democratizing the American Dream

Catherine Smith

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Creative communications and PR strategist with a love of technology, innovation and the outdoors.

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Founder and Managing Partner at Chemistry

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Talent Leader - Attract, Empower, Retain

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I spent 17 years as an engineer and building engineering teams - realizing talent was always the bottleneck, I turned to help solve that problem. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in exploring opportunities I might have or if you just want some career advice. Always hiring. You can reach me at: dbromley@roblox.com or connect with me here on Linkedin.

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Technologist, entrepreneur, and advisor. Currently focused on systems biology in neurodegeneration and longevity.

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nonprofit science and education

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Creative Leadership • Product Design • Brand Communications • Integrated Campaigns • Emerging Technologies JoRoan transcends traditional creative leadership by masterfully bridging tech-driven innovation with human-centered storytelling, demonstrating an unprecedented ability to deliver breakthrough ideas across both product design and brand campaigns while driving profitable agency growth. His transformative leadership is defined by standout achievements like launching NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service to 15 million subscribers and leading Burger King’s “Million Dollar Whopper” AI-driven campaign – initiatives that not only drive commercial success but also generate strategic insights through innovative approaches. By consistently transforming complex technological potential into compelling, measurable experiences, JoRoan represents a new paradigm of creative leadership that doesn’t just respond to market demands, but proactively reshapes them through a unique blend of strategic vision and narrative craft. Currently an ECD at experience.monks, JoRoan helps lead a 100+ person creative team across the Americas, sharing leadership for a substantial 8-figure portfolio of projects and accounts. Monks' groundbreaking work in AI earned Adweek's inaugural "AI Agency of the Year" recognition in 2023. His leadership has helped secure millions in new business from clients like Burger King, Google, Samsung Mobile, Coca-Cola. With two decades of experience rooted in Product Design for emerging technologies, JoRoan has been instrumental in industry-defining moments. As Design Director at AOL during the internet's formative period, he created the iconic AOL Running Man & led the design of software that introduced millions to the internet (instant messaging, email, shopping, news). Recognizing VR's potential early, he became Second Life's first Creative Director, pioneering VR experiences. His product design leadership continued at Elephant, where he led the team that designed & launched NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service, which achieved 15 million subscribers in its first 2 months. His strategic transition into advertising at prestigious agencies accelerated his evolution, offering rapid learning opportunities & the ability to deploy insights at scale. Through ECD roles at AKQA, BBH & Havas, JoRoan has consistently demonstrated his ability to build and mentor creative teams while driving substantial business growth. Public folio: JoRoanLazaro.com Essays: WanderingWonderingstar.com twitter.com/joroan threads.com/joroan joroan.bsky.social

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Results oriented, hands-on technology leader seeking opportunity to guide an organization into cloud native architectures for the coming decade.

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Experienced technology and operations executive with over 25 years working for cutting edge communications, healthcare, social networking, gaming and internet services companies. Specific accomplishments include: * Establishing and scaling 9 different organizations at Rally/Audax Health. * Stabilized and lead Engineering to deliver our Rally beta product one year after joining the company. * Established and scaled full customer lifecycle teams from account management to implementation, and finally to a differentiated consumer support experience for healthcare. * Built underlying operations infrastructure including key areas like IT and security with zero data breaches. * Helped lead the sale of Rally to Optum/United Healthcare and its integration into key areas of Optum including some of the organizations listed above that replaced existing Optum/UHC processes. * Stabilizing and scaling the Second Life GRID infrastructure, which includes over 9000 distributed hosts, and serves more than 750,000 monthly active users. Improved service availability up time by more than 80% in the first year of managing, and eventually to 99.9% reliability. * Directing operations at AOL including; 4 large-scale data centers, +30 international collocations facilities and + 35K host servers. • Overseeing operations for +80M registered accounts across various AOL properties. Focused on cost containment and efficiency through improved labor cost structure more efficient contract/vendor management and development of "smart" technology. • Helped to create and scale the world’s largest dial up/broadband ISP network, serving +30M members, delivering +7B hours of traffic, and connecting +3M members to the host infrastructure simultaneously at peak times. Directed all back office systems (Billing, CRM, and registration) Specialties: IT and network operations, engineering, data center operations, outsourcing, vendor/contract negotiation and management, customer service, product management, telecom, internet, media, content delivery.