Seth Shapiro

Principal, New Amsterdam Media (Los Angeles)

Seth Shapiro is a two-time Emmy® winner and a leader in the profitable application of new technology to emerging business models.

He has managed digital media initiatives with the Walt Disney Company, DIRECTV, Comcast, TiVo, Time Warner Cable, Showtime, HBO, STARZ, Sun Microsystems, Universal Studios, Goldman Sachs and a variety startups, venture and private equity partners.  Shapiro is Principal of New Amsterdam Media LLC, co-founder of Media Valuation Partners, a leading firm specializing in the economics of media, entertainment and emerging technologies, and partner at the Opportunity Management Company.  He is also a Founder of ARC: The A&R Channel, a VOD network available in 17,000,000 US cable homes via Comcast. Most recently, he provided litigation support for a series of matters before the Federal Communications Commission. 

 
As Head of Production at DIRECTV’s Advanced Services Group, Shapiro managed over 20 service launches across four platforms, designed the groundbreaking NFL Highlights On Demand Service and was the production/content lead for DIRECTV/TiVo, the world's first major DVR platform.  Shapiro is a member of OVP Venture Partners' Technology Advisory Group, the Television Academy's Blue Ribbon Emmy Committee, the PICNIC Amsterdam Advisory Board, the AFI Digital Content Lab, the IP Media Advisory Board, the Producer's Guild New Media Council and the Milken Institute. He is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University and was Adelbert Alumni Scholar at CWRU and the Cleveland Institute of Music.