Gary Kaufman
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Industries: | Entertainment, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | Business, Copyrights, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Law, Leadership, Management, Sales, Writing |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Giving back, Meeting new people |
| Schools: | University of California System - Davis |
FEATURED STARTUP
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Marshall Media Inc. |
| Position: | Senior Vice President, Digital / Streaming Media Division |
| Time period: | February 2007 - January 2008 |
| Description: | Division manager, focusing primarily on new media and Internet applications development, with an emphasis on breakthrough-quality audio-video content delivery to PCs, game consoles and cellular devices. Leadership over 30 person design, engineering and application development teams at three locations in the greater Los Angeles area. Personnel reporting to the Division manager have core competencies in audio-video compression and television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV technologies; advanced Internet, telecommunications and cellular/WiFi network systems; high-performance computing, gaming and Internet/cellular content delivery infrastructure; Web site architecture, design and deployment; and music and motion picture/entertainment content acquisition, production and business development. |
| Employer: | Rosetel System Corp. |
| Position: | Vice President, Business Development / Co-Founder |
| Time period: | August 1995 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Co-founder and Vice President, Business Development of RoseTel System Corp. Conducted substantial network video applications and product development operations, as well as transactional and corporate business affairs dealings for this technology and telecommunications company that provides appliance-based broadcast quality video conferencing, video-on-demand, video surveillance, remote data storage, and other advanced data services primarily to government and educational entities throughout the United States, including the DOD, U.S. House of Representatives, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, California Youth Authority, Orange County Dept. of Education, the City of San Diego and Cox Communications. |
| Employer: | Dern & Donaldson |
| Position: | Partner / Attorney |
| Time period: | June 1990 - August 1995 |
| Description: | Specialization in entertainment transactional law. Extensive negotiating and drafting experience within theatrical motion picture, home video, and television arenas. Broad-based familiarity with the entire spectrum of motion picture and television production transactions and agreements, financing arrangements, acquisitions, distribution, licensing, and unions and guilds, as well as with intellectual property principals and practices, fine and commercial art law, and theatre and trade book publishing transactions. Clients included Michael Landon Productions ("Little House on the Prairie;" "Highway to Heaven"), Percy Adlon ("Bagdad Cafe;" "Rosalie Goes Shopping"), Academy Award-winner Chuck Workman, Dyson Lovell (“Lonesome Dove;” “Hamlet”), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Center Theatre Group, and the Mark Taper Forum (provided transactional services for the Pulitzer Prize-winning productions of “Angels in America” and “Kentucky Cycle”). Mr. Kaufman received producer credit for the feature-length motion picture "Decoy," which was historically important as the first U.S./Saskatchewan co-production. He acted as executive producer for the Austin, Texas feature-film project "Down in the Heart," based on the successful stage play entitled "In the West." |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Davis |
| Degree: | Animal Physiology, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | California State Bar - San Francisco, California
California State Bar Association United States District Court, Northern District of California - San Francisco, California Federal Bar, Northern District of California Virginia Avenue Project - Santa Monica, California Co-founder / Advisory Board Member - The Virginia Avenue Project, a non-profit organization formed to teach dramatic arts and collaborative skills to at-risk children |
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Atirsa
working on 3D reconstruction, a horizontal technology with applications in movies, cad/cam, defense and intelligence, video games, putting products online, and other verticals
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Slide
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
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Loc Ngo
Crafting amazing experiences for the web & mobile. Cofounder of JobAlchemist / Startuply.com
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Avish Dahiya
Global Software & New Media Entreprenuer President, DNA Global Network Inc. (Global Sourcing, Program Management, Management Consulting & Research)
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Adam Richman
I am a 17 year old entrepreneur who will be attending the University of Arizona in the Fall. I am the founder of Zambino-- the first video advertising network geared toward connecting advertisers directly with content producers