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President and founder of Teleshuttle Corporation, Richard Reisman is a leader in developing new media technologies, with decades of experience.
A primary current focus of direct activity is on the development of CoTV™, coactive television, a power assist for the growing trend toward simultaneous, or “coactive,” use of TV and the Web. CoTV™ creates a powerful new compound medium that fully maintains the best of both (and works with ordinary TVs and PCs) – while riding the trend toward user-centered media multitasking in the wireless, networked home.Reisman has in recent years been involved as inventor and entrepreneur in business and patent development, working on a number of patent portfolios relating to media and e-business technologies, both directly and through strategic partners. One of his patent portfolios was developed in partnership with BTG International, a leading technology commercialization and licensing firm, and six additional patents that strengthen that portfolio were awarded in 2000-2004. That led to patent infringement suits against Microsoft and Apple in 2004, and in 2006 those patents were sold for a down payment of $35 million.
Other recent areas of independent development and patent filings beside CoTV™ and the BTG portfolio have included search (with three patents issued or allowed in 2005), data exchange for product usage data and ratings, and digital media storage management, and The Idea Adoption Agency (communities/marketplaces for intellectual property development).
Teleshuttle develops new media and business technologies and also provides strategic consulting services for media and electronic business. Clients include Dow Jones/Telerate, News Corporation/TVGuide, IDD Information Services, and AppliedTheory Communications. Reisman founded Teleshuttle in 1994 as an online software/service provider, based on some of the innovative technologies for which he created the patent portfolio that was commercialized and sold by BTG International, as noted above. Teleshuttle's most widely known product was the online update service that was integrated with the Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos CD-ROM to provide information on newly released films.Reisman also served as founding CTO and Managing Director, Operations and Technology for HealthSCOUT.com, an innovative and fast-growing Web-based B2B2C health information service. There, he delivered Web services through syndicated co-brand affiliations with hundreds of Web sites, including CompuServe, Prodigy, Yahoo!, Earthlink, Dr. Koop, iVillage, Snap, iWon, USA Today, Knight-Ridder, Scripps, Phys (Conde-Nast), BeWell (HealthGate), Physicians Online, and corporate clients, including Harvard Pilgrim and the US Government, managing a staff of 25+ and budget of $5+ million. (details)
In the early '90s, Reisman made technology and entrepreneurial contributions to a variety of online and new media developments. As co-founder of UNET, he developed the original versions of TV Guide Online (through consumer beta test) in a joint venture with News Corp. At BASELINE (since acquired by The New York Times), he developed pioneering consumer online services, as well as online information services to the film and TV industry.
His earlier work was in a variety of IT and information services management, consulting, planning, development, and operations roles. He directed electronic distribution operations for financial data for McGraw-Hill / Standard and Poor's, and managed strategy, planning, and operations for a variety of major computer and telecom services at Mobil Corporation and AT&T, starting out as a software developer.Reisman's involvement in hypermedia, electronic communities, and interactivity began in the 1960's. He has always been oriented to connectivity--powerful interactive tools and media for human communication, collaboration, knowledge work, commerce, and entertainment.
A finalist for the Multi-Media Entrepreneur of 1995 award from the NY Regional Plan Association's Silicon Alley Initiative, Reisman has spoken widely, and written for a variety of trade publications. He serves as an Exective Board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC, for whom he has organized numerous symposia, was an ACM National Lecturer, and holds an AB from Brown University and an MS from Lehigh University.
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