Karl Slatoff is a partner at ZelnickMedia who specializes in the area of music, interactive entertainment, direct marketing, broadcast and new media.

Before joining ZelnickMedia in 2001, Mr. Slatoff served as Vice President, New Media for BMG Entertainment, one of the world’s largest music companies whose labels include Arista Records, RCA Records and J Records and is home to such worldwide superstars as Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Christina Aguilera, Santana, Sarah McLachlan and the Dave Matthews Band, among many others. 

In this position, he was responsible for guiding BMG’s online digital strategies, including the development of commercial digital distribution initiatives and new business models for the sale and syndication of online content.  He was also responsible for maintaining relationships and leading negotiations with major software developers, consumer electronics manufactures and online retailers/portals, as well as representing BMG’s interests in various industry consortiums relating to the development of digital businesses. 

Mr. Slatoff joined BMG in 1998 as Manager, Corporate Development. In this position he worked closely with the company’s then President and CEO Strauss Zelnick on a variety of corporate development initiatives. 

Prior to BMG, Mr. Slatoff worked in strategic planning at the Walt Disney Company, where he focused on the consumer products, studio and broadcast divisions, as well as several initiatives in the educational, publishing and new media sectors. He was also an active member of the integration team for Disney’s 1996 acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC. 

Prior to Disney, Mr. Slatoff worked in the corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions units at Lehman Brothers where he focused on the consumer products and retail/merchandising industries. 

Mr. Slatoff received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and holds bachelor of arts degrees in English literature and economics from Kenyon College.