Doug Sylvester has over 25 years of board, executive leadership, and operational roles in business services, early stage digital media, and traditional media companies. He has managed two successful sales of business services companies and has significant experience running private equity portfolio companies. He has also provided consulting and advisory services to private equity firms and media & entertainment companies.

Currently Doug is EVP, Corporate Development for GSN, owner of Game Show Network and GSN Games. Before GSN he was CEO and a Member of the Board of Directors of CAPS Payroll, a technology-driven payroll company serving entertainment industry clients. CAPS Payroll was sold to Cast & Crew Entertainment, a Silver Lake Partners company. Prior to CAPS Payroll, Doug spent 13 years at Vubiquity—a leading global provider of premium content services—and predecessor companies Avail-TVN and TVN Entertainment. During that time he served as President, COO, and Chief Strategy Officer and expanded the company’s global footprint to 37 countries. He negotiated significant long-term distribution agreements with major domestic TV service providers, international TV service providers, major studios, cable TV networks, sports leagues, and specialty programmers. Before Vubiquity and its predecessors, Doug spent 9 years in general management, strategic planning, and business development roles at IFILM, E! Entertainment Television, E! Online, and New Line Cinema. Earlier in his career Doug worked at Bankers Trust Company in New York and Hayes Microcomputer Products in Atlanta.

Doug received his bachelor in engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MBA from Harvard Business School.