Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Syncbak
Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States Regions Midwestern US Gender Male
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Jack Perry is a pioneer in the media technology industry, creating a number of ground-breaking solutions for broadcasters and electronics manufacturers over the course of his 26-year career. In 2009, Perry founded Syncbak, Inc., whose products and services power OTT and TV Everywhere solutions for television broadcasters, including CBS and FOX
networks.
Prior to Syncbak, Perry was President and CEO of TitanTV (formerly Decisionmark Corp.), a 2004 Inc. 500 fastest growing company. During Perry’s thirteen-year tenure with this company, he developed the technology used by satellite companies and broadcasters to manage the delivery of network programming over satellite, he also created titan.com, the first-web based EPG/DVR utility, AntennaWeb.org and MediaStar.
Perry holds twenty patents related to delivery of entertainment content over-the-air, over-satellite and over-the-Internet. He is a respected figure inside the beltway on issues related to digital entertainment, copyright and communications law and has testified before US Congress twice. In 2005 he joined representatives of Microsoft, Verizon and Comcast to brief Congress on the impact of internet protocol-enabled services in the communications industry.
Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers in 2002 and nominated for an Academy Award (Best Industry Leadership) in 2005. He was also elected to National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2003 and named one of the 40 most influential people in the consumer electronics industry the same year. He continues to be a frequent speaker on the future of television, content and copyright protection at broadcast industry events including CES, NAB, NATPE, NAB Futures Summit, iHollywood, ATSC, Digital Hollywood, DTV Symposium and others.
Perry has also held CEO posts at Interactive Resources and Spanning Tree Technologies and leadership positions at Powercore (Network Scheduler, 1993) and CE Software (QuickMail, 1995). In 1989, he founded his first software company, RunningCounts, and later joined forces with Prisma Software to market the product as RunningBest.
