Our board members bring a vast amount of experience in a number of areas.
Joe brings over 30 years of cable television network and Internet experience to the project. One of the founding members of the startup management team at the Food Network, he was instrumental in creating the concept and original business plan as well.
While at the network he created their first website and learned about the potential that the medium would hold for the future of media. Subsequent to leaving the network, he founded the first broadband food network for Real Networks. Being a little ahead of its time, he now believes the future for Internet Television is now - and through the newspaper.
One of the founders of Media Program Network, Gianni brings years of innovative technical experience and expertise in Television, Video and New Media industries to the company.
An award-winning DP/Cameraman and founder of Gallo Productions, Inc., Gianni is internationally renowned for his excellence in capturing moving images. With over twenty-five years experience in television, Gianni has produced for RAI, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, DISCOVERY, CNN, TF1, ZDF, and MEDIASET. Gianni has shot on locations throughout the world, from the depths of the Amazon, to the arid dunes of the Sahara.
As DP, Gianni has covered major news events such as the Gulf Oil Spill, the Earthquake in Haiti, and the United States Presidential Campaigns of 2004 & 2008. He has produced and collaborated on documentaries, including Godfathers and The Rising, and has shot interviews with many prominent world figures such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu, and celebrity personalities including Richard Gere, Sofia Loren, and Bruce Springsteen.
Gianni is also partnered with FtaMarket, a leading provider in North America for VOIP and IPTV. With FtaMarket, Gianni is currently developing ItalicaTV, an IPTV platform to deliver Italian television programming throughout the world.
Dr. Keith Jarrett serves as an advisor and investor to private growth companies, as well as a board member of several corporations.
Current and recent public company directorships include:
Current and recent private company boards include:
He is also Chairman of Rockport Funding, LLC, Managing Partner in Ajax Mountain Partners, and an Advisor to The Retirement Income Industry Association, Salmon River Capital, LLC, Hamilton Investment Partners, Recognia, Inc., and Vestmark, Inc.
From 1986-2001, Keith was a founding member and senior executive of Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters, Inc.), a leading vendor of information and technology solutions to the global financial community. During this time, Keith founded and directed Thomson Financial's Corporate Venture Capital Group, served as the CEO of all International operations for seven years, and founded and developed many of the products and services for Thomson Financial's Straight Through Processing ("STP") initiatives, including the Thomson Electronic Settlement Group (now "Omgeo") and AutEx-TradeRoute. Keith joined Thomson Financial in 1986, with the acquisition of First Call/Technical Data Corporation, where he was a Principal and Chief Economist.
Keith has an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Doctorate of Business Administration in Financial Economics from the Harvard Business School. He worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School and as a Professor at Simmons College Graduate Management Program. Previously, Keith served as a Captain in the U.S. Army after graduating with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
David Blundin is the founder of Link Ventures and serves on the boards of many high technology and internet related companies.
He currently serves as the Chairman of Vestmark, Inc. which he co-founded in 2001. Vestmark is the leading portfolio accounting platform provider for the managed accounts industry. He also serves as the CEO of Cogo Labs, a technology-based incubator. Prior to its sale to ADP in 2011, David was the Chairman of Autotegrity, Inc., a data analytics and online marketing company that runs an automotive shopping service connecting consumers with auto dealers.
Previously, David was Chief Technologist at Vignette Corporation which had over 1,000 enterprise customers including seven of the top ten firms in the Financial Services sector. Prior to Vignette, David was the founder, CEO and Chairman of DataSage, Inc. DataSage was acquired by Vignette in a half-billion dollar transaction in January of 2000. DataSage's software enabled businesses to centrally capture and analyze all of their electronic interactions - often involving terabytes of information - and use that information to personalize interactions with customers. Prior to 1997, David was the President and CEO of Cirrus Recognition Systems, a data mining software company. Previously, he was among the first ten employees at MicroStrategy and, subsequently, served on Microstrategy's board of directors in 2003 and 2004.
David received a BS in Computer Science degree from MIT where he researched neural network technology at the AI lab.
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