Jason Alves

About

I started with the technology, then built the teams that sell it.

My career runs through product management, technical evangelism, enterprise sales, specialist leadership, partner activation and platform adoption. That path means I can sit with engineers, buyers, sellers and executives and help them work from the same plan.

Today my focus is leadership: building specialist and overlay organizations, setting clear ownership, and holding teams — including myself — accountable for outcomes.

Jason Alves at the coast in a flat cap and black rectangular glasses

Career path

  1. Solution Architecture

    Started close to the technology — designing networks, connectivity and infrastructure for enterprises that could not afford downtime. Learned that the architecture is only as good as the business problem it solves.

  2. Product Management

    Moved from designing solutions to defining them. Owned the commercial logic of a portfolio: what to build, how to price it, and how to make it sellable at scale.

  3. Strategic Sales

    Carried the number on the most complex enterprise and media accounts. Discovered that technical credibility earns the executive meeting — but business outcomes win the deal.

  4. Sales Leadership

    Took on fragmented and underperforming teams and rebuilt them around qualification, coaching and clear ownership. Performance followed structure.

  5. GTM Leadership

    Built and scaled go-to-market organizations for emerging technology — CDN, IT video, satellite uplink/downlink, edge, managed services, security and AI — turning new categories into repeatable enterprise revenue engines.

Companies

  • LTN GlobalMedia transport
  • Internap / VitalStreamHosting, CDN and services
  • Lumen / Level 3CDN, media, edge and enterprise
  • NTT DATAEnterprise technology services

Customers and platforms supported

Organizations I supported through my employers' account, commercial and launch teams. Logos identify the work; they do not imply endorsement.

Streaming & entertainment

  • Disney
  • Disney+
  • Hulu
  • Peacock
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Showtime
  • HBO
  • Vimeo

Media & live events

  • NBCUniversal
  • MTV
  • TikTok
  • NFL
  • MLB

Enterprise & technology

  • Amazon
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Bloomberg
Jason Alves on the coast

Away from work, I'm usually near the water. It's where the thinking gets clearer and the noise gets smaller.

I read constantly, mostly about how businesses are built and why they stall, and I still get excited about a new architecture or a market that hasn't found its motion yet.