Anthony Stonefield

Featured in WIRED Magazine, Next Step, on CNN, and listed as “one of the top 50 mobile content executives” by Mobile Entertainment Magazine, Stonefield spearheaded the multibillion-dollar digital song & ringtone industries. He authored 11 patents; raised >$38M in tech venture financing; co-founded or advises hot startups internationally; and is a deal scout for VC, PE and DFI funds.

Stonefield founded AutoRegenic to productize tissue engineering and formulation of regenerative cell treatments for debilitating diseases and functions as EVP Business Development for stem cell-based cosmeceuticals product company, Rejenis. His enterprise roster covers disruptive innovation businesses including a Web3, community-based telecommunications service, World Mobile, remote wellbeing monitoring solution for elderly and disabled dependents, OXLABS; digital currency automated algorithm trading platform, IDATco; real-time media post-production collaboration tool, Louper; a suite of growth-boosting superfoods for crops from BioAge; and partnering with the C-Suite startup support team at TheLuminal. Favoring impact initiatives, Stonefield is lead innovation advisor for investment boutique AIDA where he scouts and develops “Leapfrog Technologies” into and out of resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to these engagements, Stonefield headed the Nokia’s app developer ecosystem in company’s largest market region—India, Middle East and Africa—managing 33 staff spread across the region to source, finance and support new concepts, applications and businesses that added value to wireless devices and local communities.

Prior to joining Nokia, Stonefield served as CEO-in-Residence for a Qualcomm Labs (San Diego) project, Yagatta, a visionary media collaboration app. Before the Qualcomm engagement, Stonefield raised $14M in US venture capital to build and sell Emotive Communications (Los Angeles), a pioneering solution for sharing interactive media programs between smartphones, which was acquired by Appconomy.

Ahead of developing the Emotive venture, Stonefield founded Premium Wireless Services/ Yourmobile.com which pioneered mobile content distribution and he sold to Vivendi Universal Networks in 2002 and resold it to InfoSpace in 2003, where it dominated the US and UK mobile content markets, selling over $1.5B in mobile content creating the global mobile content industry. Moviso was sold again in 2007 for $135M.

An exponential organization consultant, Stonefield earned a degree in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a CMEI pilot license from the FAA.