Richard D. Titus
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Richard D. Titus is a musician and entrepreneur and movie producer. He was born on March 23, 1968 in Anaheim to Richard G. Titus, an executive at defense contractor Rockwell International and Susan Titus Osborn, a conservative Christian author.
His career began as a roadie and sound engineer for The Beach Boys on whose Summer in Paradise he worked as a recording engineer. This album was the first by a major artist recorded entirely on Pro Tools.
A prolific internet entrepreneur and digerati Titus founded or co-founded nine companies including a video game division of MPCA(where he created and produced Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders), and Tag Media, the Los Angeles office of what became Razorfish. In 2002 he co-founded interactive agency Schematic whose clients include ABC, Comcast, Microsoft, Sony, Time Warner and Target and are an industry leader in User Interface for VOD systems on Set-top boxes and broadband Video on Demand services and IPTV. He is a frequent public speaker and futurist speaking on the impact of technology on media & entertainment. Richard currently lives in London and and is the acting Head of User Experience and Design at the BBC, overseeing its audience facing services on the Internet, Mobile, ITV and iPlayer.
Richard founded production company Plinyminor with his wife, Tavin Marin Titus, where they have produced several SciFi feature films together including Emmy nominated Mammoth, Odysseus & the Isle of the Mysts, Riddle of the Sphinx and a pair of Sundance Film Festival selections: On line (which included the first scene filmed over the Internet), and 2006 hit eco-documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
