John Remo

Senior Vice President, Global Infrastructure & Cybersecurity

2018 - Current

Senior executive leading the global engineering and operations for AI, Cloud, Data, Enterprise, Collaboration, Cybersecurity and Service Delivery functions with an organization of ~120 people across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Directly responsible for driving WMG's continuous digital transformation to deliver the next-generation products and services that will scale WMG capabilities to redefine the media and entertainment industry. Key Accomplishments: 1. Transformed the global technology function in 12 months from an out-sourced / reactive / order-taking function to a fully-engaged, valued business partner. Creating an operating model grounded in transparency with an agree/commit OKRs structure . Yielding aligned, on-time, on-budget solutions that achieved a force multiplying effect throughout the company to better manage focus, capital and objectives. 2. Moved Tech to a product / PNE org focused on internal and external stakeholder journey’s where personas were defined, and tech built to provide delightful experiences and solutions with the data insights needed to propel the business to place their bigs bets and exceed their revenue and operational targets. This also eliminated bureaucratic processes and gatekeeping, kept the org lean and efficient. 3. Pioneered an AI first approach to all aspects Tech, cybersecurity, and business process to accelerate outcomes at a better opportunity cost. These initiatives reduced annual tool operating costs by $3M and improving staff efficiency by 20%.

Advisor

2022

An early-stage VC investing in Enterprise IT Startups at the post-product, post-revenue stage: the Seed Extension to Series A stage. Actively meeting with founders to review and advisor on their products, GTM, and vision.

Advisor

2021

Providing engineering and product guidance and recommendations for Cloud Infrastructure and Cybersecurity products in their seed and A phases.

Vice President, Cloud Engineering & Operations

2017 - 2018

• Rebuilt core revenue generating trading and risk software products from data center installed monoliths with waterfall delivery to public cloud native solutions with continuous agile delivery • Responsibility for product/engineering and operating budgets of $25M+, including deal and quarterly P/L commits within revenue margins, while scaling the global team and product features • Rebuilt global engineering team of cloud infrastructure architects/engineers, devops, and ops teams focused on building and shipping product as well as the supporting cybersecurity team

Senior Director, Enterprise & Infrastructure Engineering & Operations

2012 - 2016

• Designed and led the digital transformation of 200 revenue generating ($3B) business and broadcast applications and their infrastructure to AWS and Azure in 2 years • Completed divesture with Cablevision of 100+ of business applications, complete infrastructure and network rebuild, and migration to Office365 in 14 months for 1,500 users • Established global cybersecurity engineering and operations teams to protect broadcast and enterprise systems

Manager, Infrastructure Engineering & Operations

2008 - 2012

• Responsible engineering and operations for all server, OS, storage, firewalls and load balancers for Optimum Online (ISP), Interactive Optimum (TV/VOD) and Optimum WiFi supporting 4M+ users • Built one of the first and largest (400 sd/hd channels) streaming platform supporting 3M+ subscribers and 2M+ DAU on iOS and Droid devices • Built the nations largest free public WiFi solution with 2.5M+ ADU

Various Engineering Roles

2001 - 2007