Our Story

As the Chief Business Development Officer at Viral Nation, Emma is responsible for driving business growth through identifying new clients and customizing strategic approaches for their success.

Emma leads the new business and proposal development teams, evangelizing and delivering on the promise of an industry-wide marketing shift to digital while championing modern marketing services for B2B, B2C and D2C clients.

Throughout her tenure at Viral Nation, Emma has built a reputation for strategies that inspire virality across creative, influencer, performance media, social, and experiential campaigns.

Embracing the core values of integrity, innovation and growth. Emma is distinguished by her passion for business, her focus on collaborative team-building, and her commitment to meeting customer and market demands. Emma holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and is a valued speaker and educator on social transformation.

As in-house counsel at Viral Nation, Anthony oversees the corporate legal department and is responsible for the legal affairs of the organization.Anthony provides business-focused advice to leadership and implements initiatives and processes that set standards and reinforce a culture of integrity, quality, and responsibility across the business.

Anthony has over 25 years of experience in the legal field. Before Viral Nation, he was co-owner and in-house counsel for the award-winning assisted-living facility, Waterdown Manor. Prior to that, he was legal counsel at Stockey and Associates. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Windsor Law School.

As CFO, Rob Curcio leads all finance-related functions including financial reporting, core accounting, treasury, financial planning & analysis, tax, corporate financial strategy and operations, M&A, internal systems and controls, and investor relations. Throughout his career, Rob has spearheaded modernizing the Finance function from hindsight to foresight and is passionate about providing strategic insight to leadership as a key business partner.

Rob is a Canadian CPA, CA with over a decade of experience ranging from auditing private and public companies listed on the TSX and NYSE at PwC to scaling finance teams from Seed to IPO in the Toronto tech ecosystem. In his prior role as VP, Finance at TouchBistro, Rob helped the company raise over $250M CAD from Series B to Series E and led all IPO readiness activities.

His most important role is being a father and role model to his children. As an avid soccer (football) fan, you can find him playing soccer all over the city or being glued to the TV watching his club and country compete!

As Chief Product Officer, Nicholas brings his extensive product experience in social platforms to help us grow and expand our Product suite. He joins Viral Nation from Snapchat where he led go-to-market strategy for the platform’s solutions across advertising, AI, and creator engagement. Prior to Snapchat, Nicholas worked for Twitter where he served as Director of the Product Specialist organization, leading a team of 30 product, marketing, and technology experts. Previous to that Nicholas worked at Meta on Augmented Reality Ads and Audience Network before moving to Team Lead for Facebook Small Business and then Senior Team Lead for Facebook’s Partner Ecosystem.

Nicholas is an experienced product strategy, growth, and marketing leader with a demonstrated history of driving impact in technology and digital marketing. He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and received his Master of Business Administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As Viral Nation’s Vice President of International Operations, Vikash is responsible for building market share by boosting brand recognition and driving business development in international markets.

In this role, he oversees Viral Nation’s global technology infrastructure, develops financial opportunities with global partners, provides oversight for business and operational strategy, and leads global client and proposal development, and program execution.

Based in the Caribbean, Vikash has over eight years’ experience in international business development and information technology.

An entertainment and media executive born in traditional Hollywood merged with the emerging digital entertainment landscape, focusing on branded entertainment, creative dealmaking, marketing, and representation of top-tier digital-native talent.

Before joining Viral Nation as VP of Talent, Damian was the General Manager of The ICON Agency, SVP of Talent at Bottle Rocket Management, SVP of Talent at Studio71, Head of Talent Development at AwesomenessTV, and Senior Talent Manager at Fullscreen, focusing on digital-native talent growth, development, and revenue generation. Before joining the digital entertainment business, Damian worked at Hollywood Management company, Untitled Entertainment, in Talent and Branded Entertainment departments.

Damian is also an associate professor at the University of New Haven in the Pompea College of Business, instructing Talent Management in the department’s Masters of Esports and Sports Management program.

As Vice President, Agency Operations, Alvin is responsible for cross-functional business enablement across the marketing agency, establishing & evolving core functions, implementing new technologies, and ensuring Viral Nation and its people are well equipped to continue providing innovative marketing solutions with the creator economy.

With over a decade of global experience in social media and influencer marketing, Alvin is passionate about driving measurable impact for Viral Nation’s clients and the industry as a whole. He has been instrumental in building the agency’s success to date and continues to focus on discovering, nurturing, and integrating top talent within the industry to expand the agency’s services and market positioning.

Todd L. Boehly is Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Eldridge Industries.

Eldridge Industries employs more than 5,000 people and has made investments in over 100 operating businesses, including Security Benefit, of which Mr. Boehly is Chairman, A24, Fulwell 73, and Penske Media, which includes The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Music Business Worldwide, dick clark productions, Life is Beautiful, and the investment in South by Southwest.

Mr. Boehly is Chairman and owner of Chelsea Football Club and an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Sparks, and Cloud9.

He is on the boards of the Los Angeles Lakers, Flexjet, PayActiv, CAIS, Chelsea Football Club, Cain International, Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW), and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT). Mr. Boehly was formerly on the boards of Truebill, which was sold to Rocket Mortgage, and DraftKings.

Prior to founding Eldridge Industries, Mr. Boehly was President of Guggenheim Partners and founded the credit business at Guggenheim.

He received his B.B.A. from The College of William & Mary, where he later founded The Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance, and studied at the London School of Economics. Mr. Boehly supports epilepsy research, Focused Ultrasound Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Brunswick School, The College of William & Mary, and The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.

John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity, a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategies.

John is also the Founder of OMERS Ventures, which has invested over USD$500 million in over 40 disruptive technology companies across North America, including growth investments in Shopify, Xanadu, Wattpad, Wave, Hootsuite, Rover, Desire 2 Learn, Hopper, DuckDuckGo, TouchBistro and League. During his tenure at OMERS, John also formed OMERS Platform Investments, and led investments in Purpose Financial, PointNorth Capital, District Ventures, OneEleven and ArcTern Ventures.

As an active board member in the profit and not-for-profit sectors, John works with many leading innovative organizations including AI Partnerships Corp., engineering.com, Ether Capital, OneEleven, ArcTern Ventures, RIV Capital, the David Suzuki Foundation, the CIBC Foundation, the Royal Ontario Museum, Caldwell’s Top 40 Under 40, the Investigative Journalism Foundation, and the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Schulich School of Business.

Jeff Wilbur is a Principal at Eldridge. He arrived at Eldridge from Mediabistro Holdings (“MBH”), where he served as CEO and oversaw all activities of the business units and corporate functions of the MBH platform, which included the following brands: The CLIO Awards, Mediabistro, ADWEEK, and the Film Expo Group.

Previously, Jeff was the Chief Financial Officer of Prometheus Global Media and a member of the Corporate Credit Group at Guggenheim Partners. Mr. Wilbur currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aurify Brands and Dragontail Systems (ASX: DTS), and as Vice President for Horizon Acquisition Corporation II (NYSE: HZON).

He received his B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Williams College.

As the One Commercial Partner Lead, Suzanne helps businesses innovate, grow and achieve their full potential. An accomplished leader and sales executive with more than 33 years of experience in technology, Suzanne’s knowledge and expertise encompasses a wide range of industries, the Canadian channel, and customer engagements from the intelligent cloud to the intelligent edge.

Most recently Vice President of Sales for Fujitsu Canada, Suzanne spent much of her career at HP, where she held several increasingly senior roles, including Canadian sales leader, client executive for large Canadian financial institutions, Canada/US business unit director, and director of infrastructure services division. Prior to HP, Suzanne spent 10 years with IBM Global Services in technical and sales roles.

A strong advocate for women in technology, she volunteers her time mentoring women and is the executive sponsor for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Microsoft Canada.