Shapiro has managed digital media initiatives for and with partners including Disney, DIRECTV, TiVo, HBO, STARZ, CBS, NBC, FOX, ESPN, the NFL, MLB, Microsoft, Wink, Cendant, Jones Intercable and ACTV.  He is Principal of New Amsterdam Media LLC (www.newamsmedia.com), SVP Strategy of the Opportunity Management Company and a partner at Media Valuation Partners.

As a consultant, Shapiro has worked with media clients including Showtime, Time Warner Cable, Sun Microsystems, CompleteTV, DigisoftTV, Goldman Sachs, Endemol and SVT. Most recently, he is co-founder and CEO of ARC: The A&R Channel (www.archannel.tv), a Comcast On Demand channel available in 15,000,000 US cable homes.

As Head of Production at DIRECTV Advanced Services, Shapiro managed over 20 service launches across four platforms, led production on DIRECTV/TiVo, designed the groundbreaking NFL DVR Highlights On Demand Service and was a key contributor to the 2002 DIRECTV/TiVo Master Agreement.

Shapiro is a member of OVP Venture Partners’ Technology Advisory Group, the IP Media Conference/SATCON Advisory Board, the Television Academy’s Blue Ribbon Emmy Committee and the Producer’s Guild. He is a magna cum laude graduate of NYU and was Adelbert Alumni Scholar at Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Institute of Music.