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Founded in 2009, RealGravity assembled a team of online video veterans to build the video platform we have always wanted for ourselves. We felt like there had to be an easier, lower cost way to get online video to work. RealGravity is strategically located in Los Angeles, the heart of the media industry, and in San Francisco, within arm’s reach of the country’s best engineering talent.
Co-Founder and CEOLuke McDonough is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over his 15-year career, Luke has worked at some of the most innovative companies in online video: In the mid 90’s, Luke was part of the team at Thinking Pictures that developed the first video streaming technology for IP networks. In 1998, Luke co-founded IFILM, the first UGC video portal on the web, and led the company as its President until 2002. Most recently, Luke was CEO of Wasserman Media Group’s Sportnet–now Grind Networks–the web's leading action sports video network.
Co-Founder and PresidentSid Conklin is the Co-Founder and President of RealGravity. He brings an extensive background in designing, building and maintaining online properties to the organization.
Most recently, Conklin was CTO and SVP of Wasserman Media Group’s Sportnet where he built a unified video publishing and advertising platform serving more than 10M unique visitors at over 20 sites covering over a dozen different sports.
Conklin was CTO of Pronto, one of the largest online shopping comparison engines. He was also CTO at ZeroDegrees, a social networking site for personal and business contacts, and a partner in the venture consulting firm, Pivotal VC.
VP Sales and Media PartnershipsDoug Neiman is Vice President of Sales and Media Partnerships at RealGravity. He brings 19 years of consultative sales, marketing, business development experience, including more than 15 years in digital media.
Most recently, Neiman was VP at Adconion Media Group and at NBC’s Universal Sports. As Vice President of Sales, he oversaw cross-platform media sales and operations efforts for NBC's Universal Sports cable network and digital platform, UniversalSports.com and the Universal Sports Partner Network (45+ sport specific online properties).
Previously, Neiman was Director of Sales at IAC InterActiveCorp. He held sales management positions at Excite@Home and Vivendi Universal Interactive.
VP Sales and Business DevelopmentDavid Parsons is Vice President of Sales and Business Development at RealGravity, bringing over 13 years of business development experience in emerging digital media industries.
Most recently, Parsons was Founder and CEO of VideoLantern, one of the web’s first and leading online video management operators. Previously he directed the programming team at RCN Telecom Services, a large cable operator and digital communications provider, and led business development initiatives in consumer and enterprise digital media mobile services at Nextel (currently Sprint/Nextel).
