Jim Spencer is a media and technology entrepreneur who has held leadership roles at established and start-up digital media companies. He helped build and grow teams and services that have made a significant impact in search, social, mobile and streaming video markets by delivering award-winning content and innovative products and technologies. Jim founded Newsy, an early online, mobile and streaming video news service (conjointly now a streaming and satellite news network) that was acquired by the E.W. Scripps Company. Previously, Jim was VP of Answers at Ask Jeeves where he was responsible for search queries and helped develop the answers format now used by many AI companies. Prior to Ask Jeeves, Jim was the GM of News and Information Programming at AOL (News, Sports, Health, Research and International) - advancing the content, business and partnership operations for channels and communities. Jim served as executive director of strategic partnerships for NBC based at 30 Rock and Microsoft’s Redmond, WA campus. Previously, Jim was GM of new media at Multimedia, Inc. leading up to its acquisition by Gannett/TEGNA. Jim has a bachelor’s degree in film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.
