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Doug currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Avail-TVN. Previously he was President and Chief Operating Officer at TVN Entertainment. Prior to joining the company, Doug was president, COO and a member of the Board of Directors of iFILM, an online media company. Prior to iFILM, Mr. Sylvester was president of The Cottage Group, a private venture capital organization. He joined The Cottage Group after five years at E! Entertainment Television, where he created and managed the New Business Development and Corporate Planning departments. Doug was also the co-founder of E! Online, E!’s Internet business, and served as the company’s senior executive. He began his entertainment and media career at New Line Cinema, where he managed all West Coast business development activities. Prior to New Line Cinema, he worked at Bankers Trust Company in New York and Hayes Microcomputer Products in Atlanta.

Doug holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.