Managing Partner Silicon Hill Ventures LLC, Co-founder Looptronic IoT wearables. Advisor IG Ventures.
About
Successful media entrepreneur and investor with an international track record of building successful technologies, enterprises, and strategic partnerships have resulted in several M&As. His career has been defined by his pioneering new technologies that spearheaded new industries.He started as a software engineer with Meridian Data, soon acquired by IBM, after which he joined Sony Corporation. At 28, he co-founded Round Book Publishing with colleagues from Sony.Founded Media Galleries, multimedia publishing company: produced first film using QuickTime 1.0. Designed and co-produced "35 years of Grammy's" award-winning multimedia. Published first Digital Multimedia Magazine PC ROCK with Poland's largest national radio RFM. Published Multimedia Chopin Encyclopedia, with UCSC Professor Anatoly Leikin.1998 Founded MGE, to post-produce Hollywood films to DVD.1999 Published NETFLIX first original content making, creating a first national company recognition, with CNN, Wall Street Journal front coverage.2000 He created a first national campaign for the first Master Card branded gift card—GiftAmerica Card by OneNetwork.2002 Sold MGE to a company servicing Netflix's postproduction needs (Left Coast Digital) 2003 founded MGE FILM; distributing European Films: NETFLIX, Amazon.In 2008, co-founded Silicon Hill Ventures to develop break-through ideas into valuable companies with strong exits in the fields of media creation and distribution, revolutionary advertising platforms, big data analytics, and life sciences. 2009, he founded in and became the CEO of Magic Screen, a holographic advertising platform. Clients included Red Bull, Tao Club. In 2013, Magic Screen was acquired by publicly-traded company Nanotech.2014 Co-founded NovoSensus, a big-data analytics company, with Phil Sakakihara, Hewlett Packard's first CTO. 2015 Co-founded VPILA. Company dedicated to a tennis or golf ball tracking.2016 Co-founded DotHot. The company focus mobile proximity advertising platform based on GPS and IoT.2017 CoFunded Under the Sun/Yachtbook, SAAS platform for management of Yachts and Villas.2017 CoFunded Looptronic. IoT company that is utilizing a wearables for authentication and transactions.Advisor for several start-ups, as well as an accomplished inventor with multiple U.S. patent applications