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Alex is an expert in digital media business models, revenue streams, and technical backbones, specifically around hosting, delivery, and optimization of the user experience. Since joining RampRate in 2004, he has served as a business planning and strategy advisor to technology giants like Microsoft, Sony, and Intel on subjects like mapping of the digital value chain and associated revenue flows, partner strategies, and pioneering business models, including some of the earliest mobile video and digital home business plans. As a sourcing advisor, he has helped both major TV networks (e.g. NBC, Fox) and industry pioneers (e.g. iFilm, Audible) reduce costs, improve performance, and reinvest negotiated savings in innovative technologies. A big focus of these efforts has been optimization of content delivery strategies, where he has helped build multi-CDN platforms for both major events (including the Super Bowl and the first March Madness online broadcast) and ongoing optimization of cost and performance. His expertise extends to adjacent markets such as gaming (where he has worked with companies like Blizzard and Riot to scale rapidly), mobile (MVNO strategies, ringtones, mobile delivery), and sports. Prior to RampRate, Alex covered subjects such as peer-to-peer delivery and Web analytics as a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group.