PodcastOne, a leading on demand pure play podcast platform offering a 360-degree turnkey solution, including content creation, brand integration and distribution, announced the appointment of Steve Lehman as its Vice Chairman, focusing on helping PodcastOne drive both organic and inorganic growth opportunities, as well as advising PodcastOne’s senior management with regard to PodcastOne’s mergers and acquisitions efforts and overall strategy and increasing its shareholder value.
Lehman will leverage his extensive background in business and finance, having headed both Nasdaq and NYSE companies, as well as start-up businesses in the media, entertainment, and tech industries.
“We are pleased to welcome Steve Lehman to PodcastOne. His unique knowledge of content and media, and his successful track record and history in merger, roll-up, and consolidation, perfectly aligns with PodcastOne’s strategy and vision for its long-term growth. We continue to launch new revenue channels with high margins atop of our existing strong infrastructure, and we look forward to leveraging Steve’s experience, leaning into his expertise and relationships as PodcastOne further builds its global brand,” said PodcastOne President and Co-Founder, Kit Gray.
Lehman has extensive experience on both boards, and advisory boards, with companies including Vymedic Biotech, Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF (Nasdaq), CoFoundersLab, DocuSign, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy, Code and multiple other start-ups to series A companies.
Lehman was a first round investor in Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com, a partner in merchant bank Broadstream Capital Partners, and a seasoned investor, entrepreneur, and lifelong business leader. Lehman was the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the largest radio network in the US, Premiere Networks (Nasdaq), which is now part of iHeartRadio’s empire of audio companies.