Joe Bogdan

Joe Bogdan is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Live & Performing Arts Management Major in the Business & Entrepreneurship Department of Columbia College Chicago. He began his career as an intellectual property attorney in private practice focusing on the leveraged exploitation of entertainment content through new media platforms. He is the past Sr. Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for World Wrestling Entertainment, where he held primary responsibility for running the day-to-day operation of the Business Affairs of the company. He is also the founding principal of Silvershift®, a firm providing both legal and business consulting services to clients connecting the lines of thinking between expanding markets and ideas.