Management team
David Schrieberg, Content Strategy Advisor
Internet executive David Schrieberg, a former award-winning journalist, and equity-holding Board of Directors member at CINELAN, has enjoyed a career spanning new and traditional media, as well as e-publishing. Schrieberg is CINELAN’s Content Strategy Advisor, helping to shape and guide the company’s film library and go to market strategy.
Schrieberg came to CINELAN via his association with London-based venture capital firm Arts Alliance, an investor in CINELAN which, in 2007, asked him to develop content strategy at one of its portfolio holdings, while exploring the viability of CINELAN as a business proposition. Previously, Schrieberg served as Vice President of Content and Programming for AOL Europe, based in Luxembourg. While there, he directed multi-disciplinary content teams across business cultures and languages while supervising AOL’s content in Europe. Before joining AOL, Schrieberg founded a Silicon Valley-based international web consultancy, e-ContentPower. In addition to coaching senior executives and staff in three languages and six countries, the consultancy expanded its purview to explore digital content strategies and effective web content development and presentation for its clients. As a journalist, foreign correspondent and writer, Schrieberg served as South America Bureau Chief at Newsweek Magazine (1994 – 1997) and Mexico Bureau Chief at McClatchy Newspapers (1990 – 1994). Additionally, among other awards, he is the co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and co-recipient of the George Polk Award. His freelance stories have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Mother Jones and West Magazine. He is also the co-author of a bestselling health book (U.S.). Schrieberg was a Stanford University John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, and a recipient of the Paris-based Journalistes en Europe fellowship. He graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in History. He is fluent in French and Spanish.