David Lipsey

DAM industry leader with a consultative-oriented business development and Digital Asset Management strategy focus. Skilled in the broad M&E, content, museum, not-for-profit and private sectors. Expert level knowledge on Digital Asset Management and allied consulting issues - applied to content industries as well as brand, CPG and Fine Arts / museum community. Creative thinker, highly tolerant of organizations in a state of uncertainty and looking for diverse approaches to attain goals. Strengths in selling, formulating go-to-market campaigns, alliances, industry relations, executive and conference speaking and presentations, technology partnerships, team building through hiring and training, team selling - and wrapped in the interest of solving the management of physical and digital content and their allied rights. Innovative, successful and eclectic contributor to growth with a keen eye towards organizational capacity building. Co-Founder and Chairman, DAM Foundation starting in 2011. Global Chair, The Henry Stewart Conference on The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media, starting 2005. Co-author of the DAM Capability Model. Co-Founder of the Canadian Content Asset Management Association. Co-Founder, Co-Director and Instructor, the Rutgers University Digital Asset Management Professional Certificate.

Specialties: Digital, media and brand asset management, digital risk analysis, rights management applications, sales, media industry knowledge, understanding of contemporary challenges in digital content strategy, intellectual property management, application software, cross-media advertising management, business development, organizational analysis and process improvement. Recruiting and placement in DAM, IT, MLIS and archive specialties.