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Hamilton Technology Advisors helps business leaders navigate challenges of growth and change in today's rapidly evolving business world through the creation of high-performing teams, agile business processes, and the rapid delivery of great products and services.

Working with early- and mid- stage companies serving domestic and international markets, Hamilton Technology Advisors leverages decades of experience to keep you ahead of emerging markets, processes, and technologies; focused on attaining a balance of delighted customers, engaged and empowered employees, and profitable returns for shareholders and investors.


Michael EnrightMichael Enright

Michael Enright brings together deep technical knowledge and experience with business acumen, general management skills, and the ability to listen and communicate with business leaders and technologists. Mr. Enright's expertise includes:

  • Leading organizations through growth and change, evolving the people, process, technologies, and organizational structures to deliver on the potential of new or expanded products and markets
  • Consumer-focused entertainment products and services, including deep knowledge of products and services in the rapidly evolving global online interactive games industry
  • Multimedia, digital video and audio production and delivery
  • Collaboration and community services and systems
  • Wireless/mobile applications, content, architecture, networks, services
  • Interactive Web 2.0/Web 3.0 and "long tail" technologies, products, and services
  • High-performance computing and scalable networked systems
  • Operating systems, networking design and implementation (Microsoft, Unix, Linux, Real-time operating systems)
  • 3D graphics and data visualization
  • Products and services for distance learning and higher education
  • Professional services/custom software development
  • Content and knowledge management systems

Mr. Enright is currently VP & Chief Technology Officer, Hasbro Online Media, responsible for driving entertainment experiences, and the platforms and technology supporting them, for Hasbro's toy and game brands (e.g. GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony, Monopoly, Scrabble, ...). A major focus of Hasbro's online entertainment efforts is the launch of a new kid-centric entertainment destination HubWorld.com, providing fans of the new HubTV network (a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications) an online destination for fun and entertainment.

Previously Michael served as Chief Technology Officer, Chief Strategic Development Officer, and SVP Products at GSN Digital (a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and, via GSN Television, Sony Corporation). GSN Digital is a combined television network (reaching over 67 million US homes), online advertising network, and online game destination, and as the senior strategic technical executive Mr. Enright led the growth and integration of consumer entertainment products and advertising solutions supporting all the company's products. Through its WorldWinner business GSN Digital supports the most profitable online interactive game business model, with direct traffic as well as through strategic partnerships with major Internet brands such as EA/Pogo, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other free and skill-based cash entertainment networks. As Chief Technology Officer Mr. Enright directly oversaw the technology and product management organizations, including all game development (creative and technical), tournament and web customer experience (creative and technical) and the company's entertainment product pipeline. Mr. Enright organization led the launch and operation of cross-platform media entertainment products such as Bingo America (with over 7 million interactive downloads since launch in March 2007), Catch-21 (a top television as well as high-performing free and cash online game franchise), and the successful launch of an Internet streaming and broadcast terrestrial radio product, GSN Radio. Since joining WorldWinner/GSN Digital Mr. Enright has been principally focused on positioning the team and company for growth, with an emphasis on recruiting and retaining top talent, improving process and procedure, updating the technology platforms and creating a long term technology strategy to meet aggressive business objectives. In addition identification and assessment of potential acquisition and/or strategic partnerships is an ongoing aspect of the role. Michael was asked by Boston Mayor Tom Menino to serve as a founding member of the Boston Mayoral Game Industry Steering Committee.

Prior to his position at WorldWinner/FUN, Michael served as Vice President, Domestic and International Publishing and Vice President, Technology and Project Management at Turbine, Inc., one of North America's leading creators of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG).

At Turbine Mr. Enright led the game technology (client, server, networking) as well as the service technology team (billing, account management, web applications) through the successful on time and on budget launch of Turbine's second  and third major titles, Lord of the Rings Online (2007 PC Game of the Year) and Dungeons and Dragons Online. In his role overseeing Publishing and Project Management, Mr. Enright oversaw the successful localization, customization, integration, and launch of Turbine's products in North America as well as with major regional entertainment entities in Asia (Shanda Entertainment and CDC Corporation serving China, Sakura Internet serving Japan, and ValueSpace/LetsGame serving Korea) and Europe (CodeMasters serving England, Germany, France).

Prior joining Turbine, Mr. Enright was Chief Technology Officer at Harvard Business School Interactive, where he led the development and launch of several new global multimedia distance learning products for the Harvard Business School, including P&L responsibility along with sales, product management, product and service delivery, and technology responsibility for key HBSI products and services.

Prior to HBS Mr. Enright served as Chief Technology Officer for MyWay.com, CMGI's international "white-label" portal service business, serving deep and rich portal content aggregated real-time from hundreds of sources through 900+ customized business sites to millions of end-users via an industry leading personalized custom portal web technical infrastructure. Mr. Enright also helped CMGI develop business and technology strategies for wireless and broadband products and services, and oversaw the development and successful rollout of several wireless and broadband Internet products and services for MyWay.com.

As CTO, Mr. Enright led the on-time and on-budget deployment of a major upgrade to MyWay's web serving infrastructure, significantly increasing system performance, reliability, and customer experience while reducing platform cost and easing partner integration, providing MyWay with a stable technology backbone to support business growth while improving customer satisfaction.

As Director of Development at Spyglass Technologies' East Coast Development Center Mr. Enright led the successful development of software and custom software development professional services which enabled non-PC devices to access web and multimedia Internet content via wireless and wired platforms, e.g. WAP/web browsers for cell phones, Internet browsers for Palm and PocketPC PDAs, as well as web browsers for TV set-top-boxes.

Mr. Enright's experience includes engineering leadership roles at Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation, where he led the development of major portions of a large-scale, complex, custom engineered video-server product for telecommunications corporations and led the mission-critical UNIX operating system networking team.

Serving in engineering as well as marketing and business development roles at Wavefront Technologies and Cambridge Research Associates, Mr. Enright led product management and business development, creating partnerships and joint offerings between his company and strategic product and channel partners such as Silicon Graphics.

While in sales at IBM, Mr. Enright developed successful product development relationships between IBM's product development teams and key University of California early adopter technology users, and successfully sold and installed first generation UNIX systems to the nine-campus UC Universities as well as Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

A licensed commercial pilot, Mr. Enright holds an Airline Transport Pilot rating, and has served as an FAA Check Airman and Airline Instructor Pilot in addition to serving as an aircraft Captain for Atlantic Coast Airlines/United Express (now FlyI Airlines), a regional passenger airline serving the US East Coast. Mr. Enright was asked to serve as Interim Regional Flight Manager during the planning and integration of a successful merger of two airlines, overseeing all flight operations and over 600+ airline pilots.

An avid outdoorsman, Mr. Enright has participated in land and water expeditions in the continental US, Alaska, Asia and Africa, including an ascent of 16,000'+ Mt. Kenya, and has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a 61' sailboat.

In 2004 Mr. Enright completed the Boston Marathon, his first marathon, dedicating his run to support Tufts University's Health and Nutrition research efforts.

Mr. Enright holds a BS in Computer Science from Tufts University and completed Harvard Business School's Delivery Information Services Executive Program.

See our News and Publications page for more information on Mr. Enright's recent work

 

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