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Jonathan Dube joined FanWide’s Board of Directors in 2019 as an independent at large member, and has been an advisor to the company since early 2019. He is an award-winning leader and innovator in digital media. He has built and run major digital media businesses for AOL, CBS Sports, Disney, CBC and William Morris Endeavor - IMG Worldwide, and served as President of the international Online News Association. He also advises digital startups, mentors through TechStars, serves on the advisory board of SXSW, is an Executive in Residence with Progress Partners, and is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys).

During his career, Dube has built and run sports, news, lifestyle, entertainment, local, mobile, video and subscription and transactional digital businesses ($100M P&Ls). He has a strong track record in growing revenue & reach, building new businesses, designing creative marketing tactics, and developing innovative partnerships with companies like Facebook, Twitter and Apple. Dube has run some of the largest media sites in North America, including CBSSports.com, ABCNews.com, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC.ca, and more than a dozen businesses for AOL Media, including sports and news.

For more than a decade, Dube has played a prominent leadership role in the digital media industry. He frequently speaks at conferences and has served on boards of the SXSW Interactive Festival, the Online Publishers Association, the Online News Association and Landmark Ventures. He has a long track record of digital innovation, from products to partnerships: he was an early pioneer in TV-Digital convergence, the first journalist to use the blog format, one of Facebook’s and Twitter’s first media partners, and more recently, developed the first digital video network to launch on Apple TV.