Peter Leyden is a serial innovator and entrepreneur who has worked at the front edge of technology and new media in a range of experiences attempting to help change the world for the better.
Leyden currently is Founder & CEO of Next Agenda, a content and new media company specializing in advancing big ideas through the innovative use of web video & online tools.
He also is Co-Founder of Torchline, which creates online learning labs led by remarkable people over interactive video that allow everyone to innovate together and learn the way forward.
Founder and CEO Peter Leyden has a wealth of experience in new media and new technology circles, having been part of the original Wired magazine that helped drive the digital revolution and invent the early world wide web.
Matt brings experience in a wide range of media and related technologies to Next Agenda including web development, graphic design, and audio/video production.
After studying Design at the University of Pennsylvania, Matt worked as a freelance designer and web developer for non-profits such as the Bus Project and Teens Living with Cancer in Portland, OR. He recently relocated to the San Francisco Mission district. In addition to his work for Next Agenda, he can be found performing locally as a VJ and musician.
Michael is also the Content Development Specialist for a Next Agenda, a startup company creating new ways to solve big problems fast, by making innovative use of video and the next generation of web collaboration tools.
He brings experience in a wide range of online content, including video, multimedia like Flash, and all written media. Michael received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Jim is Next Agenda's CFO and Vice President of Business Development. He is responsible for developing and managing the business of Next Agenda including revenues, finance and investor relations. Jim is excited to be working in a business whose product is solutions to the challenges facing our world. Jim is a serial entrepreneur whose career had an important stop at Intel Capital where Jim's passion for digital media and convergence was inspired.
EVP of Studio Operations, LTI3, an incubator of long tail content businesses. Ben’s experience is in media production, content development, management and social profit organizations. In media, Mr. Schick has served as Vice President of Operations at re:Sources, a premiere producer of pre-visualization and visual effects projects, on film projects that include "Armageddon," "Contact," and "Shrek.” The past six years he has been the General Manager and then CEO of MediaOne, the largest independent broadcast and video production company in Northern California.
This is just a quick update to let everybody know about what the Next Agenda team has been doing. We spent a lot of the summer working with the Breakthrough Institute, covering their inaugural Breakthrough Dialogue conference, "Modernizing Liberalism." The conference, which was put on in conjunction with launch of a new journal, brought together dozens of top thinkers from a range of disciplines to figure out new ideas that could adapt liberalism to today's realities.
