Drew Anderson

Drew is digitally transforming the experience of how people view media.

Drew is the founder and CEO of Cloud Media Works and has been a serial entrepreneur for the past 30 years. He is a visionary when it comes to advanced technology and an accomplished software architect in cyber security, artificial intelligence, digital media, mobile, peer-to-peer, eCommerce, micropayment, just to name few.

He has served as Head of Technology for iTexico where he heads up advanced business development, account management and solution architect roles for enterprise, medium, and small sized companies.

Drew has co-founded many startups, helped raise money, and helped some of them go public. Achievements include creating the core technology and intellectual property as the co-founder and COO of ZillionTV Corporation. He helped raise over $50 Million in VC and strategic investment. Drew also co-founded the startup media streaming company XTV. As CTO, he wrote the patents, built the teams, delivered the product and helped to take the company public on the Australian Stock Exchange. As CTO at HitLab, Inc., an independent music label, he helped build the ‘Can-U-Sing’ software that took 6 artists to the Grammy’s. Drew was an early peer-to-peer technology pioneer. As President of Gnuterra, he managed business and technical development for Morpheus peer-to-peer software, where he helped grow it to the 3rd most downloaded software of all time, with over 132 million users globally.

Credited as key inventor in more than a half dozen patents, Drew has created a wide array of IP for companies ranging from helping to develop the W3C WAP specification, to developing IP around clean-tech systems and digital distribution systems for music, TV and Film, spanning from advertising to user experience, and including business models, rewards, and social networking. Drew is also on the Board of Advisors at the Music Preservation Project, a non-profit dedicated to preserving endangered music archives and creating a cultural resource for educators and students.