John Anthony Mugavero

John Anthony "Tony" Mugavero is the CEO at Rad. He is an experienced tech entrepreneur and executive with a media, business, and computer engineering background. He's been a speaker at countless events in media, XR, and blockchain, raised 10s of millions across numerous companies, sold his first video company, and co-founded one of the biggest co-working and education companies in the US that is still going, Galvanize. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Littlstar, a premium immersive network on PlayStation, Smart TVs, and mobile, with content from Disney, Fox, Showtime, NBCU, and more. He's also the co-creator of the blockchain platform Ara. Ara is a decentralized system for all digital content that makes it easy to publish, monetize, and be rewarded as a peer, all tracked on the blockchain.

He was a co-founder and CTO at Galvanize, Inc, which was acquired by K12 for $165M in January 2020.. While there he co-founded and launched the 6-month boot camp / engineering program, the co-working space, and Galvanize Venture Fund I (now called Upslope Ventures) focusing on early-stage venture capital. In addition, he evaluated tech and media investments, raised money for Galvanize, and mentored startups on a daily basis. His work there won awards and countless features in the press. While at Galvanize his efforts took the company from $0 to $200k per month recurring revenue, sold-out classes at Galvanize University with all graduates getting $60k per year jobs or better, and multiple investments in companies like Keen.io, Dabble, Pangea Organics, and more.

Prior to building Galvanize, he was the Founder/CEO of MoovAtom, a simple API for providing cloud-based media encoding and delivery, which was successfully acquired in 2012. MoovAtom had clients like American Airlines, Pepsi, MEC Global, and TriNet.

He was a Co-Founder of the music discovery app GigBeat, which was a Google MWC/IO Partner and AppCircus winner with over 1 Million users.