Principal: Brad Berens, Ph.D.
A trusted ear and adviser to companies of all sizes, Dr. Brad Berens has enjoyed a wide-ranging career with powerful storytelling as an organizing theme.
He serves on boards as disparate as a venture cap firm focused on artificial intelligence, a marketing community and events company, a startup trying to eradicate media bias, among others. Brad works with companies all over the world, and gives regular domestic and global keynote addresses as well.
He is also a Sr. Research Fellow and Strategic Advisor at the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, where he helps to lead the Center’s pathbreaking longitudinal research about the intersection of digital technology and everyday life. Previously, he was the Center’s Chief Strategy Officer. Earlier, Brad was Editor in Chief at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), had a long tenure as the Global Chief Content Officer at dmg events, as well as editorial and marketing work at iMedia and EarthLink, mentoring of startups, and still earlier time as a Hollywood story analyst. He started his career as an award-winning teacher of Shakespeare and writing at U.C. Berkeley, and he encourages all lovers of science fiction to read his novel, Redcrosse.
Throughout his life, Brad has endeavored to move gracefully from the digital world to the “real” world and back again.