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Quincy Smith serves as Chief Executive Officer, CBS Interactive, a business unit within CBS Corporation that houses and operates all its interactive consumer properties. Smith has been at the helm of the division since joining the Company, serving as its President from November 2006 to June 2008.
In this role, Smith is responsible for overseeing CBS Corporation's entire interactive strategy and helping to guide its implementation across the company's varied divisions and online businesses.
Smith works in tandem with each CBS division to formulate new media strategies and partnerships involving all interactive platforms, including Internet, mobile and video gaming. Reporting to Smith is the wide variety of interactive media company-wide, including its wholly-owned Websites. In addition, Smith works closely with the Company's financial team to identify new businesses that could complement CBS's core assets and build its presence in the fast-growing digital counterpart to its existing programming platforms.
Prior to joining CBS in November 2006, Smith was an executive at Allen & Company, where he was involved with projects including multiple transactions for Google, Advertising.com's sale to AOL, the del.icio.us sale to Yahoo, Neopets' sale to Viacom, Loudeye's sale to Nokia and CNET's acquisition of Webshots, among other transactions. In this role he also worked with companies such as Comcast, the Weinstein Company and CBS, as well as investments for Allen & Company in SpotRunner, Fon, Ning and SlingMedia, among others.
Prior to Allen & Company, Smith was a Founding Partner of The Barksdale Group, a venture capital firm. Previously, Smith spent five years at Netscape where he ran Investor Relations and Corporate Development and played a role in over 20 joint ventures, investments and acquisitions including Netscape's ultimate sale to AOL. Prior to that, Smith was an investment banker for Morgan Stanley. | 