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Hamilton Technology
Advisors helps business leaders
navigate challenges of growth and
change in today's rapidly evolving
business world through the
creation of
high-performing teams, agile
business processes, and the
rapid delivery of great
products and services.
Working with early-
and mid- stage companies serving
domestic and international markets, Hamilton Technology
Advisors leverages decades of
experience to keep you ahead of emerging
markets, processes, and
technologies; focused on
attaining a balance of delighted
customers, engaged and empowered
employees, and profitable returns
for shareholders and investors.
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Michael
Enright
Michael Enright
brings
together
deep technical knowledge
and experience with business
acumen, general management
skills, and the ability to
listen and communicate with
business leaders and
technologists. Mr. Enright's
expertise
includes:
- Leading organizations
through
growth and change, evolving the
people, process, technologies, and organizational
structures to deliver on the
potential of new or expanded
products and markets
- Consumer-focused
entertainment
products and services,
including deep knowledge of
products and services in the
rapidly evolving global
online interactive games
industry
- Multimedia, digital
video and audio
production and delivery
- Collaboration and community
services and systems
- Wireless/mobile applications,
content, architecture,
networks, services
- Interactive Web 2.0/Web
3.0 and "long tail" technologies, products, and
services
- High-performance
computing and scalable
networked systems
- Operating systems, networking design
and implementation
(Microsoft, Unix,
Linux, Real-time operating
systems)
- 3D graphics and data
visualization
- Products and services
for distance learning and higher education
- Professional
services/custom software
development
- Content and knowledge
management systems
Mr. Enright is currently VP &
Chief Technology Officer,
Hasbro Online Media,
responsible for driving
entertainment experiences, and the
platforms and technology supporting
them, for Hasbro's toy and game
brands (e.g. GI Joe, Transformers,
My Little Pony, Monopoly, Scrabble,
...). A major focus of Hasbro's
online entertainment efforts is the
launch of a new kid-centric
entertainment destination
HubWorld.com, providing fans of
the new HubTV network (a joint
venture between Hasbro and
Discovery Communications) an
online destination for fun and
entertainment.
Previously Michael served as
Chief Technology Officer,
Chief Strategic Development Officer,
and SVP Products
at
GSN
Digital (a subsidiary
of
Liberty Media Corporation
and, via GSN Television,
Sony
Corporation). GSN Digital is
a combined television network
(reaching over 67 million US homes),
online advertising network, and
online game destination, and as the
senior strategic technical executive
Mr. Enright led the growth and
integration of consumer
entertainment products and
advertising solutions supporting all
the company's products. Through its
WorldWinner business GSN
Digital supports the most profitable online interactive
game business model, with direct
traffic as well as through strategic
partnerships with major Internet
brands such as
EA/Pogo,
MSN,
AOL,
Yahoo,
and other
free and skill-based cash
entertainment networks. As
Chief Technology Officer Mr. Enright directly
oversaw
the technology and product
management organizations, including
all game development (creative and
technical), tournament and web
customer experience (creative and
technical) and the company's
entertainment product pipeline.
Mr. Enright organization led the launch
and operation of cross-platform
media entertainment products such as
Bingo America (with over 7
million interactive downloads since
launch in March 2007),
Catch-21 (a top television
as well as high-performing free and
cash online game franchise), and the
successful launch of an Internet
streaming and broadcast terrestrial
radio product,
GSN Radio. Since joining
WorldWinner/GSN Digital Mr. Enright
has been principally focused on
positioning the team and company for
growth, with an emphasis on
recruiting and retaining top talent,
improving process and procedure,
updating the technology platforms
and creating a long term technology
strategy to meet aggressive business
objectives. In addition
identification and assessment of
potential acquisition and/or
strategic partnerships is an ongoing
aspect of the role. Michael was
asked by
Boston Mayor Tom Menino to serve
as a founding member of the
Boston Mayoral Game Industry
Steering Committee.
Prior to his
position at WorldWinner/FUN, Michael
served as Vice President,
Domestic and International
Publishing and Vice President, Technology
and Project Management at
Turbine, Inc.,
one of
North America's leading
creators of Massively Multiplayer
Online Games (MMOG).
At Turbine Mr.
Enright led the game technology
(client, server, networking) as
well as the service technology
team (billing, account
management, web applications)
through the successful on time
and on budget launch of
Turbine's second and third major titles,
Lord of
the Rings Online
(2007 PC Game of the Year)
and
Dungeons and Dragons Online. In
his role
overseeing Publishing and Project Management,
Mr. Enright oversaw the successful
localization, customization,
integration, and launch of
Turbine's products in North
America as well as with major regional
entertainment entities in Asia (Shanda
Entertainment and
CDC Corporation serving
China,
Sakura Internet serving
Japan, and
ValueSpace/LetsGame serving
Korea) and Europe (CodeMasters
serving England, Germany,
France).
Prior joining
Turbine, Mr. Enright was Chief
Technology Officer at Harvard
Business School Interactive,
where he led the development and
launch of several new global
multimedia distance
learning products for the
Harvard Business School,
including P&L responsibility
along with sales, product
management, product and service
delivery, and technology responsibility for
key HBSI products and services.
Prior
to HBS Mr. Enright served as
Chief Technology Officer for
MyWay.com, CMGI's
international "white-label"
portal service business, serving
deep and rich portal content
aggregated real-time from
hundreds of sources through 900+
customized business sites to millions
of end-users via an industry
leading personalized custom
portal web technical
infrastructure. Mr. Enright also helped CMGI
develop business and technology
strategies for wireless and
broadband products and services, and oversaw
the development and successful rollout of
several wireless
and broadband Internet products
and services for MyWay.com.
As CTO, Mr.
Enright led the on-time and
on-budget deployment of a major
upgrade to MyWay's web serving
infrastructure, significantly
increasing system performance,
reliability, and customer
experience while reducing
platform cost and easing partner
integration, providing MyWay
with a stable technology
backbone to support business
growth while improving customer
satisfaction.
As Director of
Development at Spyglass
Technologies' East Coast
Development Center Mr. Enright led the
successful development of
software and custom software
development professional services which
enabled non-PC devices to access
web and multimedia Internet content
via wireless and wired platforms, e.g. WAP/web
browsers for cell phones,
Internet browsers for Palm and PocketPC PDAs, as well as web
browsers for TV
set-top-boxes.
Mr. Enright's experience
includes engineering leadership roles at
Digital Equipment Corporation
and Compaq Computer Corporation,
where he led the development of
major portions of a large-scale,
complex, custom engineered
video-server product for
telecommunications corporations
and led the mission-critical
UNIX operating system networking
team.
Serving in engineering as
well as
marketing and business
development roles at Wavefront
Technologies and Cambridge
Research Associates,
Mr. Enright led product
management
and business development,
creating partnerships and joint
offerings between his company and strategic
product and channel partners
such as Silicon Graphics.
While in sales at IBM, Mr.
Enright developed successful
product development
relationships between IBM's
product development teams and
key University of California
early adopter technology users,
and successfully sold and
installed first generation UNIX
systems to the nine-campus UC
Universities as well as Lawrence
Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratories.
A licensed commercial pilot,
Mr. Enright holds an Airline
Transport Pilot rating, and has
served as an FAA Check Airman
and Airline Instructor Pilot
in
addition to serving as an
aircraft Captain for Atlantic Coast Airlines/United
Express (now FlyI Airlines), a regional
passenger airline serving the US
East Coast. Mr. Enright was
asked to serve as Interim
Regional Flight Manager during
the planning and integration of
a successful merger of two
airlines, overseeing all flight
operations and over 600+ airline
pilots.
An avid outdoorsman, Mr.
Enright has participated in land
and water expeditions in the
continental US, Alaska, Asia and Africa,
including an ascent of 16,000'+
Mt. Kenya, and has
crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a
61' sailboat.
In 2004 Mr. Enright completed
the Boston Marathon, his first
marathon, dedicating his run to
support Tufts University's
Health and Nutrition research
efforts.
Mr. Enright
holds a BS in Computer Science
from Tufts University and
completed Harvard Business
School's Delivery Information
Services Executive Program.
See our News and Publications
page for more information on Mr.
Enright's recent work |
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