MILES BECKETT
Co-Founder and CEO, EQAL
Co-Creator and Executive Producer, lonelygirl15 and KateModern www.LG15.com
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Miles Beckett is the co-founder and CEO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and is the co-creator and executive producer of the online video series lonelygirl15 and KateModern. After graduating from medical school and practicing to become a plastic surgeon, Beckett came up with the idea of posting a serialized drama on the Internet and along with Mesh Flinders and Greg Goodfried, created lonelygirl15 in summer 2006. Beckett and Goodfried followed this success with KateModern in summer 2007 and forming EQAL to develop and create new interactive shows. lonelygirl15 and KateModern became pop culture phenomenons, and are the most popular online interactive shows, collectively receiving more than 150 million views to date.

Beckett holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He completed an internship year in the Integrated Plastic Surgery residency program at Loma Linda University Medical Center and one year of tissue engineering research at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of “The Pulse,” a UCSD Medical School newsletter and “The Inhuman Condition,” a UCSD Medical School underground comedy newsletter as well as the design editor and staff writer for “The Heuristic Squelch,” the UC Berkeley humor magazine. Prior to forming EQAL, Beckett was the founder and CEO of SHOUTBOY (shoutboy.com), a comedy video podcast Web site and the writer/director of the political spoof, “West Wingers.

As an expert on the convergence of entertainment and technology and online video, Beckett has spoken on panels throughout Europe, Australia and across the US and Canada and was a co-host with Greg Goodfried of Mixed Media, a live streaming web show on NowLive (nowlive.com).

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