Scott P. Dickey
CEO, Podium Audio
About ME
Industry Leading CEO with successful exits across media, content/tech, consumer products, and live events operating in both the private equity and public sectors.
At his core, Scott is an operator with a depth of expertise and experience resulting in a successful track record of building organizations from the ground up. Over the past 30 years, he has become an industry leading CEO with successful exits across media, content/tech, consumer products, and live event entertainment operating in both in the private equity and public sectors.
In 2019, Scott partnered with Presidio Investors (Austin, TX.) to take the helm as the CEO of Podium Publishing, an industry-leading independent audiobook publisher built upon the foundation of successful partnerships with self-published authors and narrators. With deep share of voice in the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Romance, the company has enjoyed quick commercial and critical acclaim, releasing over 3,000 audiobooks, numerous best-sellers, winning an Audie Award and five Voice Arts Awards. Podium is best-known for supporting, nurturing and discovering independent authors and narrators from the U.S. and around the world.
Prior to Podium, Dickey was the CEO of TEN: The Enthusiast Network, a business he led through a wide scale reorganization and a successful turnaround to become the world’s premier network of enthusiast media brands. In 2017, having built a dominant position in automotive as the largest producer of enthusiast content catering to car enthusiasts across every channel of distribution except broadcast, Dickey led the majority control sale of the business to Discovery Communication. Following the sale the company was renamed Motor Trend Group and in the fall of 2018 Dickey stepped down, a year following the sale and successful transition to Discovery.
Prior to joining TEN, Dickey was previously the President & CEO of Competitor Group, where he was instrumental in leading the development of the company’s media business as well as the rapid expansion of the company’s flagship the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, which grew from 5 events in 2007 to over 30 events around the world in 2012. Scott led the successful sale of the company in 2012 and then spent 2013 transitioning the business to new ownership.
Previously as President of Transworld Media, a former division of Time Warner, Scott led the reorganization and ultimate sale of the action sports media company to Bonnier Worldwide. He was recruited to Transworld from K2 Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of premier branded sporting goods equipment (NYSE: KTO), where for five years he was President of its K2 Licensed Products division as well as K2 Properties, a division he organized and launched.
Beginning in 2001, Scott was President and COO of Fotoball USA Inc., a publicly traded sports and entertainment licensed product manufacturer (NASDAQ: FUSA), where he completed a financial turnaround before selling to K2 Inc. in 2004. Earlier in his career, Dickey held top executive posts at leading sports and entertainment entities including The Walt Disney Company and the National Basketball Association.Scott has been an active contributor on several boards including as former Chairman of the Board of Javo Beverage LLC and former board director of JumpCrew, a sales lead generation digital agency. Scott currently sits on the board of GoNoodle, an educational video platform distributed in elementary schools across the U.S. and Centr, a leading digital fitness & equipment company launched by global celebrity Chris Hemsworth and backed by New York based private-equity firm, High Post Capital. Scott is also former board member of non-profit organizations Kids Korp USA & Voices for Children.
Through his career Scott has been an active speaker and panelist contributing at several industry conferences including World Congress of Sports, Running USA, The Running Event, Triathlon Business International, Spa Industry Association, AdMonsters, Folio, Magazine Publishers Assoc., and Digital Content Next.On a personal level, Scott is an active runner, skier, golfer and working on becoming a better waterman. He resides in Manhattan Beach with his wife, Ilia, and two boys, Charlie and Alex, and has been an active member of YPO Int’l (Young Presidents Organization) since 2002.
EXPERIENCE
I have a 25-year career of managing and transforming high-profile global businesses
Podium Audio
August 2019 - Present
Chief Executive Officer
Centr
April 2022 - Present
Chairman
GoNoodle
Jan 2019 - Present
Member, Board of Directors
JumpCrew
Jan 2019 - April 2022
Member, Board of Directors
TEN: The Enthusiast Network (now Motor Trend Group)
2014 - 2018
Chief Executive Officer
Javo Beverage LLC
2010 - 2013
Former Chairman of the Board, Director
Competitor Group
2008 - 2014
President / Chief Executive Officer
Transworld Media, LLC
2006 - 2007
President
K2 Licensing (Fotoball USA)
2001 - 2006
President / Chief Operating Officer
Sundance Entertainment
1999 - 2000
Chief Operating Officer
Disney Regional Entertainment
1997 - 1999
Director, Marketing & Sales
National Basketball Association
1993 - 1997
Director and Group Manager, Marketing & Sales
Education
Bates College
B.A., History
News
3/31/22 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HighPost Capital (“HighPost”), a leading private investment firm focused on the global consumer and consumer technology sectors, today announced the acquisitions of Centr, a personalized digital health and fitness platform curated by Chris Hemsworth and his hand-picked team of internationally renowned experts, and Inspire Fitness (“Inspire”), a leader in state-of-the-art fitness equipment. Financial terms were not disclosed.
10/26/21 - The audio-first publisher enters into multi-year deals with Travis Baldree, R.C. Bray, Luke Daniels, Tess Irondale, Heath Miller, Jeffrey Kafer, Adenrele Ojo, Andrea Parsneau, Nick Podehl, and Tim Gerard Reynolds (read more)
10/21/21 - Podium today announced an expansion beyond the audio realm into ebook publishing with the hiring of veteran digital publishing executive Nicole Passage as Editorial Director.
1/20/21 - Unlimited Access to Titles from Popular Podium Authors Craig Alanson, Terry Mancour, Edward W. Robertson and more.
11/29/19 -Podium Publishing was launched in Toronto in 2012 by audio engineer Greg Lawrence and financial entrepreneur James Tonn. The company first gained the attention of the industry with its audiobook adaptation of Andy Weir’s e-book original The Martian, which went on to win a 2015 Audie Award for best science fiction audiobook and became a big bestseller... (read more)
10/2/19 - Leading independent audiobook publisher Podium Publishing announced today that it has forged a long-term strategic partnership with New York Times best-selling author Craig Alanson and Audie Award-winning narrator R.C. Bray. Together the parties bring best-selling audiobooks... (read more)
9/17/19 - Independent audiobook publisher Podium Publishing has selected veteran media executive Scott P. Dickey as chief executive officer. Greg Lawrence, former CEO and co-founder, remains as... (read more)
9/12/19 - Leading independent audiobook publisher Podium Publishing announced earlier today the appointment of Scott P. Dickey as Chief Executive Officer. Former CEO & Co-Founder, Greg Lawrence, remains as Podiums's... (read more)
3/28/18 - Discovery Communications has formed a joint venture with automotive magazine publisher and content provider TEN: The Enthusiast Network, pairing its Velocity pay TV network with iconic industry brands like Motor Trend to create an offering that... (read more)
11/6/17 - Motor Trend is betting on paid subscriptions for streaming video with its 15-month-old Motor Trend OnDemand service, available for $5.99 a month or $99 for two years through Roku and Apple TV. Since launching, Motor Trend OnDemand has attracted... (read more)
8/3/17 - Discovery Communications is spinning off Velocity into a new joint venture with TEN: The Enthusiast Network, coupling the TV network with the digital and live-event businesses of TEN’s 20-plus automotive brands including Motor Trend and Hot Rod. The venture... (read more)
8/3/17 - Discovery Communications Inc. has struck a new partnership aimed at garnering a larger share of the lucrative automotive advertising market. The big cable programmer, which earlier this week agreed to pay nearly $12 billion... (read more)
1/2/16 - How badly do you want to watch motorsports and car shows anytime you want on demand? Enough to pay $4.99 a month? That's the going price to binge on at racing footage and get original MotorTrend videos before they reach... (read more)
4/6/15 - TEN: The Enthusiast Network is pleased to announce today the acquisition of TORQUE.TV, which will provide motorsports and automotive enthusiast programming for Motor Trend OnDemand, a new over-the-top video platform launching later this summer at... (read more)
2/25/14 - Enthusiast magazine publisher Source Interlink Media has named Scott Dickey as its new CEO, the company was set to announce today. Previously, Source Interlink Media and its sibling company, Source Interlink Distribution, had shared... (read more)
12/3/12 -Falconhead Capital swooped into triathlon and footracing this month 5 years ago, aggregating a sweep of brands that included Rock 'n' Roll marathons, Triathlete Magazine, Competitor Magazine, Muddy Buddy, VeloNews, and it has only... (read more)
9/5/12 - I recently spoke with Scott Dickey, who is the CEO of the Competitor Group, a Falconhead Portfolio Company dedicated to promoting the active lifestyle sports of running, cycling and triathlon. Scott has a 20-year career of managing high-profile global... (read more)
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