Kevin Bermeister

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Kevin Bermeister has developed substantial businesses in the computers, video games and multimedia industries. He established Ozisoft in 1982, based in Sydney, Australia, which was one of the first interactive multimedia companies. By 1990 Ozisoft was Australia's largest international software distributor. Between 1989 and 1991 Ozisoft was sold to Tech Pacific and First Pacific of Hong Kong.

In 1992, with his partner, he engineered a management buyout, together with Sega Enterprises, to form a new company, Sega Ozisoft Pty Limited. Sega Ozisoft has represented exclusively the world's largest and most foremost publishers including, among others, Virgin Interactive, Sierra Entertainment, Viacom, Ocean, Accolade, Time Warner, Acclaim, Micropose and Starwave. During 1998, Dyne and Bermeister repurchased a majority interest and thereafter sold the company to Infogrammes (France).

In 1992, he formed a joint venture to establish Packard Bell Australia, which became Australia's largest manufacturer and distributor of personal computers to the home marketplace. In 1999 this interest was sold to NEC.

Kevin Bermeister established a $70 million interactive theme park in Darling Harbor in Sydney, Australia. This park utilized the latest in multimedia, entertainment and destination attraction events. The theme park operated through a joint venture company, the shareholders of which included Sega Enterprises Japan, Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui Corp. The major shareholders sold their interest in 1998 to an Australian property group.

During 1996, Bermeister launched Brilliant Digital Entertainment into the US public capital markets. In addition, Bermeister agreed to join the board of Tag-It Pacific, Inc., a specialty trim, printing and packaging company for the garment, accessories and related market areas.

Kevin Bermeister continues to focus his effort on Brilliant Digital Entertainment and recently established Altnet Inc. a division of the company that is focused on Peer to Peer network solutions for content providers, consumers and providing technology and enterprise solutions.