Managing Partner
For nearly twenty years, Nathan has been building successful businesses around great content. An Emmy Award-winning television producer, he combines creative instincts and business acumen to envision, create and monetize new products and experiences, building bridges with creative and strategic partners alike in service of a common vision.
Over the course of nearly a decade at National Geographic, Nathan worked across every modern media platform. Most recently, Nathan led North American consumer products and brand licensing, partnering with companies like The North Face, Vans, and Mattel on National Geographic-branded products. He also oversaw digital consumer products and licensing, where he ran National Geographic’s video game business and oversaw branded digital products like the Genographic Project, National Geographic’s DNA Ancestry analysis kit, and partnered with Amazon on the creation of kids Alexa skills for the Echo Dot. Before that, Nathan ran television production and business strategy for Nat Geo Kids, where he created and executive produced Weird But True!, winner of the 2019 Emmy Award for Best Educational/Informational Series.
As strategy and business development lead for National Geographic’s location-based entertainment initiatives, Nathan partnered with Lisa and SPE Partners on the development of National Geographic Encounter in Times Square, and worked with IP2 on the development of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer family activity centers, which launched in China in 2018.
In prior stints at Discovery, NPR and the Travel Channel, Nathan has negotiated hundreds of partnership and content deals across feature films, books, live entertainment, video games, and mobile apps. Now, he brings his expertise to THINK Creative, with the goal of building the world’s most impactful immersive entertainment company.