Mike Henry is CEO of media consulting firm Paragon and a 2012 Peabody Award winner. Mike has 30+ years experience consulting radio, record labels, TV, cable, satellite radio, digital media, emerging technology, media lenders and buyers. Specialties include media start-ups, creating new media content and business models, social, mobile and public media. Mike is a long-time music and format specialist who helped create over a dozen new radio formats over the past 30 years, including Alternative, Triple A, Modern AC and Adult Hits (“Jack FM”). Mike currently has helped launch or consults many public media Music Discovery stations, including WFUV/New York, KCMP/Minneapolis, KKXT/Dallas, KUTX/Austin and RadioMilwaukee. He also has a history of working for digital media start-ups, including Sony eMarker, Clip Interactive and “Music X” (code name). As a partner in Media Mechanics, Mike won a 2012 Peabody Award for producing the public radio series “Inside the National Recording Registry.”