David A. Wilson currently serves as SVP, BET Digital Content & Studios. He is a filmmaker, journalist and media entrepreneur. Most recently, he developed a market-entry company for brands looking to connect with Brazil’s 112 million Black consumers. David is the co-founder of theGrio.com, one of the largest digital news platforms focused on African-American perspectives. He and his partners launched theGrio in June of 2009 and sold it to NBCUniversal in 2011. However, in 2014 they reacquired the site from the media giant and in less than one year doubled its traffic and revenue. He sold the company yet again in 2016 to Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios. Wilson also co-directed and wrote MSNBC's 2008 critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary, "Meeting David Wilson." The film chronicled his journey to find answers to today's racial disparities in America and his encounter with a descendant of his family's former slave owners, also named David Wilson. Wilson has an extensive background in video and news productions. He served as lead producer for NNS (Network News Service), a national news gathering service and an ABC, CBS and Fox News conglomerate. Prior to working at NNS, David worked at King World Productions, where he helped launch a new talk show. Earlier on, he was a researcher and content developer for the CBS News magazine show, "48 Hours.” David broke into the news business at WABC-TV in New York and later WAFF-TV, an NBC affiliate in Huntsville, AL, where he produced and occasionally reported on the field. In 1998, David produced the documentary "Hidden Heroes: African-American Women in World War II," which has been inducted into Arlington's National Memorial. David has given talks around the world on race relations and media. In 2016 he was invited to give a lecture at Oxford University on “corporate intrapreunership.” David A. Wilson is a 1999 graduate of Rowan University with a B.A. in communication radio/TV/film. He was born and raised in Newark, NJ.