John Pavley

Current SVP Engineering Viacom bringing the future of education and entertainment to the cable industry.  Former SVP of Huffington Post, Spotify, Limewire, and significant technical contributor to Apple and Yahoo.  John is one of the world’s experts on Agile development and blogs extensively on the subject. John is a technology leader with over two decades of experience in mobile, web, server, and desktop applications. Along that way he has worked with some of the greatest people at many of the most innovative companies on earth: Apple, DoubleClick, Yahoo!, LimeWire, Spotify, Huffington Post, and currently Viacom. Pavley is also an Adjunct Instructor at NYU. Pavley has led teams at startups, tech companies, and media companies. He has led the design and development of award winning products, such as Apple’s ClarisWorks for Kids, DoubleClick’s DART5, Spotify’s streaming radio service, and HuffPost’s verified identify. But his absolute favorite thing to do is to recruit and lead product development teams with insanely productive agile processes and world-class teams.