Ken Zakalik

I developed the strategy to shift the organizational focus from traditional operations to innovation. It involved the development of the culture strategy, P&L, and ongoing C-suite oversite.

The results included:
• Creating a new “Innovation” division, industry-wide accoladed.
• Starting the first nonprofit accelerator.
• Multiple industry-disrupting partnerships.
• Securing multiple new patents for the organization.

Marvel Comics had a robust distribution pipeline and loyal fan base. I worked with leadership to define an opportunity to take their massive comics and character IP archive to develop a new subscription service.

Utilizing the new app store eco-system, I developed a business case whereby we could digitize the archive of comics, offering instant delivery to a loyal fan base while at the same time creating a new business-to-consumer business model.

I conceptualized, modeled, and led a project to innovate a pre-existing nonprofit capital campaign funding model to tokenize campus-based physical assets to virtual assets on the blockchain (NFT’s). These assets were viewable in an immersive private environment.

The project required unique physical assets to create an equivalent virtual asset/token. It maintained a 1:1 relationship (i.e., a specific room in the physical world would be tied exclusively to its virtual/tokenized representation in the virtual world).