Entrepreneur. Business Development Strategist. Author. Connector.

Norm Levy has spent more than three decades building bridges between bold ideas and the people who can bring them to life.

Throughout his career, he has developed an uncommon reputation for recognizing emerging technologies long before they become mainstream and for connecting entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, artists, and strategic partners to help transform ambitious ideas into successful businesses.

Whether in technology, entertainment, virtual reality, commercial space, or storytelling, Norm has always been drawn to what comes next.

Over the years, colleagues have come to know him as “Norm the Connector,” reflecting his ability to open doors, build relationships, and create opportunities where others see obstacles.

Norm earned his Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University and his Master of Arts from New York University before launching his entrepreneurial career.

In 2000, he founded Media Street, a company that became one of the early pioneers of the digital photography revolution.

At a time when consumer inkjet photographs faded quickly, Media Street introduced archival-quality inks, papers, and canvases capable of preserving photographs and fine art for generations. Norm also designed one of the world’s first commercially available continuous ink delivery systems for desktop inkjet printers, dramatically reducing printing costs while eliminating millions of disposable cartridges from landfills.

Under his leadership, Media Street products were sold in more than one hundred countries, generated approximately twenty million dollars in revenue, and the company was ultimately acquired by one of its worldwide competitors.

While others focused on improving printed photographs, Norm believed people would eventually want to enjoy their memories digitally.

That vision led to the creation of the award-winning eMotion Digital Photo Frame, one of the industry’s earliest premium digital photo frame product lines. The products were carried by major retailers including Best Buy, Target, Amazon, The Sharper Image, HSN, QVC, BJ’s, Frontgate, and hundreds of professional camera dealers throughout the United States.

Believing that digital frames should do more than simply display stored photographs, Norm developed LifeGoRound, an internet-connected platform that wirelessly streamed photos and videos directly to digital frames from online services.

Long before the phrase “Internet of Things” entered everyday vocabulary, Vint Cerf, widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet, praised Norm’s work, saying he had developed one of the very first Internet-connected devices, an early vision of what would later become known as the Internet of Things.

The platform later gained national attention when Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg demonstrated it during a Walt Mossberg technology conference in Silicon Valley, describing it as “one of the coolest ways to enjoy and share your Facebook photos.”

Norm’s passion for connecting people naturally led him into the music industry.

As physical album sales declined, he envisioned new ways for artists to build direct relationships with their fans. He created the vAMP Virtual Album MP3 Player and Beyond.FM, an artist-first platform that combined music, video, photography, and exclusive content into a single fan experience.

The project attracted support from legendary artists including Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DMC, Spyro Gyra, and many others while exploring new ways for artists to control their own distribution and fan engagement.

That work evolved into ShoutOmatic, a celebrity engagement platform that allowed artists, athletes, brands, and public figures to communicate directly with their audiences through personalized voice and text messaging.

ShoutOmatic was used by major record labels, professional sports organizations, television personalities, Fortune 500 companies, and two United States presidential campaigns. Artists including Katy Perry, Adam Levine, Luke Bryan, Rob Thomas, Meghan Trainor, Stevie Nicks, Sara Bareilles, Zendaya, DNCE, Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, and dozens of others used the platform to strengthen relationships with millions of fans around the world.

As new industries emerged, Norm continued following innovation wherever it led.

His consulting work with Grumman Studios introduced him to the business of major motion pictures and television production, where he developed relationships with many of Hollywood’s leading studios, producers, and production companies working with Marvel, Disney, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Amazon MGM Studios, Netflix, HBO, Showtime, and others.

As virtual reality began transforming entertainment, Nokia recruited Norm to help launch the groundbreaking OZO Professional Virtual Reality Camera, the world’s first professional end-to-end virtual reality production system. The experience expanded his expertise in immersive storytelling while introducing him to many of the pioneers shaping the future of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.

His lifelong fascination with humanity’s future in space eventually led him to Virgin Galactic, where he became involved with the ambitious Zero-G Colony Music Festival.

The project envisioned something the world had never seen before. Global superstar Lady Gaga was announced as the artist who would perform the first concert broadcast from space. More than a concert, the initiative sought to inspire a new generation to imagine humanity’s future beyond Earth by combining music, culture, and commercial spaceflight.

Although the Zero-G Colony Music Festival never came to fruition following setbacks in the commercial space industry, the experience left a lasting impression on Norm.

Working alongside pioneers who were helping shape humanity’s future beyond Earth, while witnessing the extraordinary advances taking place across the commercial space industry, fundamentally changed the questions Norm found himself asking.

For generations, humanity’s greatest challenge had been reaching space.

Today, thanks to extraordinary advances in commercial spaceflight, that challenge no longer feels impossible.

As reusable rockets land routinely, commercial space stations move from concept to reality, and the dream of a thriving space economy draws closer than ever before, the next great question is no longer how we get there.

It’s who builds what comes next.

Years later, those questions became the foundation for Band on the Run: Breaking Gravity, his young adult science fiction series.

We celebrate the astronauts, the visionaries, and the billionaires who reach for the stars. But who builds humanity’s first civilization beyond Earth?

Rather than focusing on how humanity reaches space, Band on the Run begins where many space adventures end, following the forgotten generation tasked with building humanity’s future among the stars.

Today, Norm works with entrepreneurs, startups, creative companies, and visionary founders, helping them accelerate growth through business development, strategic partnerships, investor introductions, market positioning, and commercialization strategy.

Whether helping a startup secure strategic relationships, introducing investors to breakthrough technologies, connecting creative talent with new opportunities, or developing original entertainment properties for publishers and Hollywood, he remains driven by the same belief that has guided his entire career.

Great ideas rarely change the world on their own.

The right people, brought together at the right moment, can change everything.

Every chapter of Norm’s career has centered on one simple mission.

Connecting people.

Connecting industries.

Connecting ideas.

Connecting the future.

Band on the Run: Breaking Gravity is the culmination of that journey.

It asks not how humanity reaches the stars.

It asks what happens the morning after we arrive.

If that question intrigues you, the journey begins at BandOnThe.Run