Joe Perez

Joe is the co-founder of Tastemade, a modern media company that creates award-winning video content and original programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Design for a direct-to-consumer, multi-platform experience in digital, mobile, streaming, and live television. He oversees product, technology and marketing efforts for the company, which reaches an audience of over 300 million users and streams more than 700 million monthly minutes watched globally. Since inception, Joe has focused on every detail of the Tastemade brand and software projects, leading efforts to name the company and has dedicated much of his time to growing the global community.

Prior to Tastemade, Joe was a part of the founding team and EVP of Product and Marketing at Demand Media, a digital media company which had an IPO on the NYSE in 2011. He was also the co-founder of The Daily Plate, a health and fitness subscription service that merged with LIVESTRONG.COM.

Previously, Joe was SVP of network & operations at Intermix Media, parent company of MySpace (acquired by Fox Interactive Media), where he was responsible for building and operating the online gaming and social media platform group. Earlier in his career, Joe was an executive in Silicon Valley where he worked for a variety of technology and gaming startups, including TEN/Pogo.com (acquired by EA) and Excite@Home.

Joe currently serves on the advisory board of the USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) whose mission is to bring together business and research innovators to study, accelerate, and create digital health solutions.