Brooks Tobey’s role is to apply his knowledge and expertise in the media & telecom industry to assist on assessing potential partners and providing advice and introductions to our portfolio companies at both the Board and operational levels. He most recently served as Chairman of the Board of Kayne Partners III portfolio company, You.i Labs.

Tobey left Warner Media after serving as Head of Technology Strategy and Business Operations for Turner Broadcasting System. As part of Turner’s Global Technology Operations organization for 19 years, Tobey provided strategic technology leadership across audience data and analytics platforms, advertising systems and linear/digital video delivery technologies. He also led Turner’s cloud strategy, the Emerging Technologies groups and all M&A technology diligence and IP portfolio.

Mr. Tobey earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Regents College in New York, and a M.B.A. in technology management from the University of Phoenix. He has served on several boards (iStreamPlanet and Freewheel among them) and was a member of the Strategic Digital Video Advisory Committee for Adobe. Mr. Tobey has earned multiple distinctions as a member of the CableFAX Digital Hot List, and led the team responsible for a Technology & Engineering Emmy at Turner.