167 - How Does Where You Grow Up Affect Your World View? Mike Van - President Billboard

Mike Van is the President of Billboard. He is responsible for all revenue operations and the financial performance for the Billboard brand. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all brand revenue channels including direct digital, social, live events, branded content, licensing, and distribution.

In partnership with Billboard’s executive team, Mike also contributes to fiscal and strategic business planning, management, and operations. In 2018, Mike joined MRC Entertainment as Vice President of Sales where he was responsible for enterprise sales/partnerships across Dick Clark Productions, The Hollywood Reporter and MRC Films.

During that time, Mike and the team closed record breaking revenue partnerships with Youtube, Google, Honda, Apple, Tik Tok, Pepsi, 23 and Me, and Wells Fargo. In 2021, Van and his team notably generated a new era of partnerships with Samsung, Verizon, Honda, AMEX, META, Twitter and a host of other brand partners driving historic records for top and bottom-line growth for Billboard.

A seasoned media executive with experience at Pandora, Electronic Arts, Myspace, Complex, and ESPN, Mike brings his personal passions and longstanding relationships to his work.

Mike currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Billboard: Billboard is the world's most influential music brand reaching a massive influential audience across multiple platforms. The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and proprietary algorithm powering on latest news, issues and trends across all genres of music.

Billboard scales its reach through strategic relationships with artists/creators, the ecosystems of people/businesses around them, and with Fortune 500 brands across various verticals. These relationships leverage Billboard's longtime brand equity, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop digital products, live events, and award-winning content. 

In addition to North America, Billboard operates businesses globally and will expand further into Latin America, Asian and Europe in 2022.

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Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.

I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.

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