Bio:

AL LIEBERMAN is Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Entertainment, Media & Technology Program at New York University, a state-of-the-art program designed to help MBA and undergraduate students understand the strategy and operating principles that drive each sector of the entertainment industry, the financing of start-ups and product development, the marketing and management of entertainment companies, and relevant technologies that connect entertainment products with consumers.

Lieberman has extensive international and domestic marketing and advertising management experience with global communications companies. He worked at Young & Rubicam in New York, Milan, Italy and Sao Paulo, Brazil, managing Fortune 500 companies' advertising accounts before becoming Executive Vice President of the Wunderman Direct Response Division of Young & Rubicam.

Lieberman later joined Simon and Schuster as Worldwide Director of Marketing, becoming Executive Vice President of its Silhouette Books division. Most recently, he founded and served as CEO of Grey Entertainment, an advertising and marketing company whose entertainment, leisure and recreation clients have included Warner Bros. Studios, ABC Entertainment, Harper Collins, Westinghouse/Group W Radio, Viking Penguin, and Bertelsmann. He continues to maintain an entertainment consulting business.