Nick Tangborn

Guiness World Record Holder, Patent Owner, and Award-Winning executive with specialties in digital media and technology, among other disciplines, Nick Tangborn is currently working on an advertising platform powered by generative AI. Former CEO of Otter Network LLC, developers of Otter Director, the most affordable and simplest multi-camera video platform on the market. Tangborn was also COO of Batter Blaster, the acclaimed and lamented pancake and waffle batter in a can. There, he led operations and marketing, distributing and selling ready-made, fresh pancake batter in a whipped-cream-style can, available in 11,000+ stores. The 2011 recipient of the Grocery Manufacturers Association Award for Innovation and Creativity, BB also won awards from Good Housekeeping, Brandweek and press from Consumer Reports, The Today Show and USA Today. He previously ran products for Diggit, a digital advertising startup offering marketing data culled from peer to peer networks and ran marketing for Daily Greens, a fresh-pressed green juice made in Austin TX. Tangborn also ran Product Marketing for BitTorrent, started the Jackpine Social Club record label, releasing records featuring John Doe, Tom Verlaine, Sonny Smith, Kelley Stoltz , and Oranger, was the indie label rep at Napster in its original incarnation, and was first employee at Listen.com (now Rhapsody), as VP, Content and Editor in Chief, building and leading a team of 40+ indexing and reviewing online music, many of whom now form the backbone of digital media from iTunes to Pandora to Spotify. He helped found digital distributor IODA, which sold to Sony in 2010, consulted on publicity and strategy for Minneapolis-based label Susstones, started his own consumer magazine and served as its editor in chief, edited and wrote daily news stories and reviews for SonicNet and served as the head of publicity for the Minneapolis / St. Paul International Film Festival. Nick curated the Noise Pop Film Festival in SF until 2007. He still likes comic books, horror movies and good music.