Stacey Olliff – SVP, Legal & Business Affairs, NBCU Digital
Stacey Olliff serves as the Senior Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, for NBCUniversal’s Digital division (formally known as Entertainment & Digital Network/Integrated Media (EDN/IM)), where he oversees legal and business affairs, as well as participating in setting corporate strategy and key company decisions as a member of the corporate management team. These properties include Fandango.com and Movies.com (online/mobile movie information and ticketing sites), DailyCandy.com (women’s lifestyle website and email service), and NBCU Digital Ad Sales (digital ad sales across the Digital portfolio).
Fandango.com is nation's leading moviegoer destination, selling tickets to more than 20,000 screens. Fandango is available online at by telephone at 1-800-FANDANGO, at mobile.fandango.com, and via over 100 digital devices, on all major platforms including iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows 7. Fandango theater partners include the nation's four leading exhibitors: AMC Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Cinemark Theatres, and Regal Entertainment Group, representing over 75% of the domestic box office, as well as many others. Fandango is also the exclusive movie ticketing provider for the movie information channel of all three of the Internet’s top information portals, Yahoo Movies, AOL Moviefone and MSN Movies. Fandango is consistently among the top-10 free entertainment apps on both the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms.
In 2012, Fandango had the best-performance in its 12-year history, with record highs in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. The records include a 171% surge in mobile ticket sales (accounting for over 30% of all Fandango ticket sales), a 57% increase in overall ticket sales, 34% percent annual growth in monthly visitors to its online and mobile destinations, 31 million downloads of its award-winning mobile apps, and up to 41 million monthly unique online and mobile visitors. Fandango also continues to roll out paperless mobile ticketing to thousands of new theater screens, allowing users to get movie tickets sent to their smartphones as mobile QR barcodes to be scanned at the box office, and was a founding partner in Apple’s Passbook app launch. Fandango is consistently among the top-10 free entertainment apps on both the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms in 2012. Another notable first for Fandango in 2012 was the launch of its original digital video series, “The Frontrunners.” Hosted by the nation’s leading movie award expert and Fandango’s new chief correspondent, Dave Karger, the series features one-of-a-kind video interviews with awards contenders such as Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman and Amy Adams. “The Frontrunners” premiered in December and debuts new episodes weekly through the end of movie awards season in February.
Stacey joined Fandango in October 2006 and helped arrange its acquisition by Comcast Interactive Media, Inc. (CIM), the digital division of Comcast Corporation, in April 2007. Stacey handled all legal aspects of the sale transaction to Comcast, as well as Fandango’s subsequent acquisition of Movies.com from The Walt Disney Company in June 2008. In January 2011, the CIM properties were merged into NBCU’s Digital division, as part of the Comcast acquisition of a majority interest in NBCUniversal, and Stacey’s role was expanded to encompass additional properties.
In his current position, Stacey oversees all corporate legal and business affairs matters, including advising senior management, participation in strategic business planning and analysis, intellectual property protection, contract development and review, software and other licensing matters, Internet and other technology issues, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance matters including privacy and data security, human resources and employment law matters, general corporate law, and supervision and coordination of outside legal counsel.
From March 2000 to October 2006, Stacey Olliff served as the General Counsel of Shopzilla, Inc., a leading comparison-shopping and merchant-rating Internet service located in Los Angeles. In June 2005, Stacey helped Shopzilla achieve a successful $525 million sale to the E.W. Scripps Company. Prior to that acquisition, Shopzilla raised over $77 million in three private equity rounds and pioneered the U.S. comparison-shopping and merchant-rating space on the Internet, as well asopening a satellite office in London tooffercomparison shopping in Europe.
Stacey graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1978, where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation, after receiving his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida in 1974. Following law school, he practiced banking and finance law at the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Los Angeles until 1981. At that time, he joined the Business Department of Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP, a mid-sized corporate law firm in Beverly Hills, where he was a partner practicing corporate and transactional law until January 2006.
Mr. Olliff has written extensively on corporate and commercial law topicsin a variety of legal publications and has been featured as a speaker or panelist at programs and seminars for members of the legal and business community, particularly on Internet and e-commerce issues, including:
•Moderator/panelist, “Cybersecurity: Preventing Cyber Attacks and Hacking,” Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Information Technology Law & eCommerce Committee panel, ACC 2012 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (October 2012)
•Speaker, “ATT Mobility v. Concepcion: Protection from Class Action Lawsuits,” Online Publishers Association (OPA) Legal & Legislative Day seminar, Washington, D.C. (June 2012)
•Board of Governors, Institute for Corporate Counsel, presented by USC Law School and the Los Angeles County Bar Association at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, CA (2010-12)
•Speaker, “Social Media for the In-House Lawyer,” 2010 Annual Seminar for Corporate Counsel, Corporate Law Departments Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Temecula, CA (September 2010)
•Moderator/panelist, “Enforcing Your Company’s IP Rights on the Internet,” Intellectual Property for In-House Counsel program sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California, Beverly Hills, CA (May 2007)
•Speaker, “Hot Topics in eCommerce and Technology Law,” Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Information Technology Law & eCommerce Committee, ACC 2006 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (October 2006)
•Speaker, “E-Commerce and Internet Advertising Law,” The E.W. Scripps Annual Legal Retreat, Cincinnati, OH (June 2006)
•Speaker, “E-Commerce and Internet Advertising Law,” 7th Annual Technology Law Conference, sponsored by the Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC), Pepperdine Law School, Malibu, CA (June 2006)
•Participant, Annual Stanford E-Commerce Best Practices Conference, sponsored by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, at Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA (June 2006-2012)
•Participant, General Counsel West Coast Roundtable: Balancing Risk and Reward in an Era of Global Competition, sponsored by The Economist, San Francisco, CA (June 2006)
•Speaker, “Common Legal Issues in Running an eCommerce Website,” Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Information Technology Law & eCommerce Committee, ACC 2005 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (October 2005)
Mr. Olliff is a member of the American, California, Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills Bar Associations, as well as the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC); the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC); the Executive Committee of the Corporate Law Departments Section and the Commercial Law Committee of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA); the Financial Lawyers Conference; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Association. He has also served on the Board of Trustees and as Chair of the Business and Corporations Law Section of the LACBA, and as Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, as well as on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Corporate Counsel and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation. In Spring 2012, he was a Visiting Professor, via the Senior Lawyers program of the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS), in Salzburg, Austria, teaching The U.S. Legal System, Business Transactions, and Internet Law, at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), in Sofia, Bulgaria.