Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Stephen Youngwood was appointed to our board of directors in July 2014. Mr. Youngwood has served as Chief Operating Officer of Sesame Workshop, a non-profit organization that produces educational children’s media and outreach programs around the world, since April 2015.
From 1997 to 2014, he served with Viacom, most recently as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nickelodeon’s Digital Media and Entertainment Products, where he led all Nickelodeon Digital efforts, including websites, mobile, connected TVs, TV Everywhere and other emerging platforms. Mr. Youngwood also led Nickelodeon’s video, gaming, and book publishing businesses across all digital and traditional retail channels and oversaw the acquisition and integration of various digital companies. Earlier at Viacom, he held senior management positions working with Paramount, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon brands and focused on consumer products, television and magazines.

Prior to Viacom, Mr. Youngwood worked for McKinsey & Company in the U.S. and Germany and also at Disney Educational Publishing. He also has served from 2012 to 2014 on the board of directors of the private Educational Products Company, Learning Resources, and was a Media Industry Fellow at L2Inc from 2014 to 2015.

Mr. Youngwood earned his Masters of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale College. Mr. Youngwood has served as a member of our audit committee since December 2015. He is a proven and well respected leader in the children’s television and digital media industry. We believe his experience in building leading children’s entertainment media will benefit LeapFrog as we invest in growing our content portfolio and diversifying our business with new media delivery platforms. Mr. Youngwood was recommended to our board of directors by Mr. Barbour. Mr. Youngwood is an independent director under Section 303A.02 of the NYSE listing standards.