Mr. Stuart Jacob
President, Programming & Creative Services, CBS Outernet


Stuart Jacob is a recognized new media pioneer who has been at the leading edge of video entertainment and related media for the past 25 years. During that time he created, operated, and implemented new services for start-ups and established firms in arenas such as Digital Television, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), Digital Signage, Video On Demand, Pay-TV, Pay-Per-View, and Satellite TV.

Mr. Jacob’s career highlights include:

• Establishing new media partnerships by negotiating unique premiere programming partnerships with leading television networks (CBS, NBC) and print publications (Meredith Publishers, Conde Nast)
• Developing and launching AlphaStar Digital Television Network, the first truly North American DBS service
• Conceiving and producing programming, as well as forging strategic alliances for Sign Storey, the largest out-of-home advertising television network
• Uniting national distributors, direct marketing companies, alternative business/consumer channels and more than 2,000 independent retailers in the first DBS distribution network
• Creating ProStar, the first satellite-delivered, niche network, attracting over 2,000 commercial establishments and multi-million dollar advertising commitments
• Commercially launching Visible World, a new digital personalized advertising service adopted by Comcast that reached over 22 million homes throughout 44 states

Most recently, in addition to operating Jacob Entertainment, a consulting and management company specializing in developing video businesses that unite traditional, digital and emerging media platforms, Mr. Jacob was a founding executive and Senior Vice President for SignStorey, the largest Digital Signage company in the supermarket industry, which was recently sold to CBS.

His prior positions include: Chief Marketing Officer and EVP for Visible World; and Vice President for GE Capital, where he was responsible for developing new media services for satellite and spinning off one of the first IPTV satellite-based Video companies. Mr. Jacob is a graduate of Excelsior College.