Navarrow Wright

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    • Country: United States
    • Region: New Jersey
    • Position: CTO
    • Company: Interactive One
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  Navarrow Wright is the CTO of Interactive One, Interactive One is a digital and print media company
  focusing on the African-American and urban market. As CTO Wright is responsible for the technical strategy
  of all the Interactive One online properties which include Hellobeautiful, The UrbanDaily, NewsOne, Elev8
  and BlackPlanet. He is also responsible for the technical management of the Radio One Network’s radio
  sites.

  With more than 18 years experience in the technology and media industry, Wright has established himself as
  someone who can conceptualize and develop advanced technology solutions for leading global organizations.
  Wright’s unique understanding of the Internet space and ability to marry those technical advances with
  consumer demand has placed him as one of the premier technology experts in Internet and media. He prides
  himself on showing youth how technology can enable them to achieve their dreams. He speaks to youth
  groups up and down the east coast for various organizations and was recently given a commendation from
  the city of Newark for his work with events that have a positive impact on young people. He has made it
  his mission to be a voice for technology adoption in underserved areas and to ensure that the entrepreneurial
  spirit is developed in urban youth. Wright currently blogs about these issues on his site Navarrowwright.com.
  His blog posts have been featured on blackweb20.com and the huffingtonpost.com. You can also follow him
  on twitter @navarrowwright.

  Navarrow Co-founded with Hip Hop Mogul, Russell Simmons to create a social media site catering to
  the hip-hop perspective, Global Grind.com. With funding from Accel Partners, the primary investors of
  Facebook, “Global Grind’s mission is to be a platform that allowed the urban audience to show its
  depth and breadth,” said Navarrow Wright, founder of Global Grind “by allowing its talented and diverse
  members a place to find all the content that’s important to them, and giving creative entrepreneurs a place
  to monetize their content and showcase it to largest audience possible. This network will be a significant
  value to advertisers who are eager to reach this unique audience in a targeted and meaningful way.” Wright
  successfully launched the product and raised the series A round of capitol. Wright also launched a vertical ad
  network and celebrity blogger network while at Globalgrind.

  Before joining Global Grind, Wright was SVP of Technology for Medical Broadcasting Company, a division
  of the Internet marketing firm Digitas Inc. Prior to that, he served as CTO of Viacom’s BET Interactive. At
  BET.com he created and implemented new technologies growing the Web site 300%, making it the leading
  entertainment online destination for African Americans. It was during his tenure at BET that Wright realized
  there was a need for a platform to showcase and promote all the creative content that is available on the net,
  as well as promote content that is most important to them in a unique way. Which began to shape that idea
  that eventually became Globalgrind.com

  Navarrow Wright has appeared on Run’s house, Irv Gotti’s show Gotti’s Way NPR’s News and Notes and
  the Steve Harvey radio show. He was picked by Network Journal Magazine as of the their “ 40 Under forty”
  professionals to watch in 2009 and selected by the Innovation Generation as one of the nation’s top 100
  GenerationNEXT and Information Technology leaders. Wright holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
  Rider University in Computer Science.

 

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