Nicholas de Wolff

Chief Innovation Officer and Sustainable Business Strategist in Burbank, California

Nicholas de Wolff

Chief Innovation Officer and Sustainable Business Strategist in Burbank, California

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Nicholas is an award-winning strategic advisor with a career focused on emerging media and community-building experiences. He has a wealth of experience in developing and executing marketing strategies that increase brand awareness and drive revenue growth. He was part of the team at New Line Cinema that pioneered successful niche marketing strategies for films such as “My Own Private Idaho”, “Metropolitan”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, and “Nightmare on Elm Street”. He also led the teams that created Muppetworld, Dawsons’s Desktop, and Playhouse Disney, among many other pioneering properties.

As Chief Marketing Officer at Technicolor, Nicholas introduced innovative hardware/software solutions for content management, security, and distribution, and helped form the Digital Watermarking Alliance, conceptualize and launch the world’s first Innovation Centers (in China, France, Germany, and USA), co-found the New Media Council of the Producers Guild, and negotiate the Guild’s first corporate sponsorships.

With a strong background in emerging digital content channels, platforms, and technologies, Nicholas has led and advised numerous business incubator programs, government agencies, and startups, and has been responsible for the launch and development of over 60 businesses worldwide.

Currently, he focuses on helping start-ups, governments, and corporations refine their strategic plans, to better integrate sustainability, community, and creativity. He was invited by Vice President Al Gore to help lead the development of the Climate Reality Project in Los Angeles and founded two of the global organization's chapters there. He also chaired his city's Commission on Sustainability and is a founding member of the Interguild Green Narratives Committee (WGA and PGA). He has served on the Boards of numerous charitable organizations and presently lives in Burbank, California with his wife and daughter.

  • Education
    • Charterhouse School
    • Duke University