An operator in the boardroom.
Most boards get either a technologist or a businessperson. I’ve owned the annual budget and the P&L — and led the teams that built the platform the whole company runs on. Open to board and advisory conversations.
What I bring to the table
Operator, not observer
A sitting co-founder & CTO who still ships. Board advice grounded in running product, architecture, and launch end to end — not in slideware.
Commercial & budget ownership
Owned Broadway Podcast Network’s annual budget and built the ad-sales engineering that optimizes its revenue. Reads a P&L and the codebase behind it.
Licensing & org-building
Built an engineering organization from zero and turned the platform into licensable software other podcast networks now pay for.
Governance & executive stakeholders
Worked directly with Google’s C-suite and senior legal counsel; navigated European Works Councils compliance on systems affecting 180,000+ employees’ ratings and compensation.
AI strategy that ships
Builds agentic AI systems that run in production. Can pressure-test an AI roadmap — or a vendor’s claims — from first-hand experience, not analyst reports.
Brand-name partnerships
Delivered alongside Disney Theatrical (first official podcast, Webby winner), American Express, BroadwayWorld, and Spotify.
Rooms I’ve delivered in
- Disney Theatrical
- American Express
- BroadwayWorld
- Spotify
- Thomson Reuters
Where I add the most value
Media, entertainment & creator companies
Streaming, podcasting, live events, and fan commerce — I’ve built the infrastructure these businesses run on.
AI-native and AI-adopting companies
A director who can separate agentic-AI substance from hype, and knows what production-grade looks like.
Founder-led companies scaling engineering
From first hire to a functioning org — I’ve done the zero-to-one and the org-building that follows.
Common questions
Is Alan Seales available for board or advisory roles?
Yes. Alan Seales is always open to board and advisory roles, and to conversations about them. He is a sitting co-founder and CTO, so he joins boards as a working operator rather than as a retired one.
What does Alan bring to a board that a typical technologist doesn’t?
Most boards get either a technologist or a businessperson. Alan Seales has owned an annual budget and a P&L and led the teams that built the platform the whole company runs on — he reads a P&L and the codebase behind it. That combination is what makes his technology advice commercially grounded instead of theoretical.
Does Alan Seales have commercial and revenue responsibility?
Yes. Alan Seales owns Broadway Podcast Network’s annual budget and built the ad-sales engineering that optimizes its revenue. He also built the engineering organization from zero and turned the platform into licensable software that other podcast networks now pay for — so he has taken an internal system to market, not just run one.
What governance and executive-stakeholder experience does he have?
Alan Seales worked directly with Google’s C-suite and senior legal counsel, and navigated European Works Councils compliance on systems affecting more than 180,000 employees’ ratings and compensation. That is governance under real regulatory and human stakes, not committee practice.
What kinds of companies is Alan Seales the right board fit for?
Three kinds. Alan Seales fits media, entertainment, and creator companies — streaming, podcasting, live events, and fan commerce — because he built the infrastructure those businesses run on. He also fits AI-native and AI-adopting companies that need a director who can separate agentic-AI substance from hype, and founder-led companies scaling engineering, where he has done both the zero-to-one and the org-building that follows.
Can Alan Seales evaluate an AI roadmap or a vendor’s claims?
Yes, and from practice rather than research. Alan Seales builds agentic AI systems that run in production, so he knows what production-grade looks like and where demos quietly stop working. He can tell a board which parts of an AI plan are substance and which are hype.
What is Alan Seales’s engineering background?
Alan Seales spent eleven years at Google, beginning as the Technical Program Manager on the Developer Infrastructure team, where he drove the open-sourcing of Bazel and led the tooling an estimated 50,000 internal Google engineers built on at the time. He is now Co-Founder and CTO of Broadway Podcast Network — over 200 podcasts and tens of millions of downloads — and Founder and CEO of CalendarPA, a scheduling SaaS he built solo to public beta in seven days with zero downtime.
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