Jack Perry (entrepreneur)

Jack Perry
Born	(1963-09-18)September 18, 1963
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Occupation	Founder, Chairman and CEO, Syncbak Inc.

Jack Perry (born September 18, 1963) is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Syncbak, a media technology company and Internet TV platform for broadcasting. Prior to founding Syncbak, Perry was CEO of Decisionmark Corp (1996-2009) where he invented the technology that enables satellite companies to provide distant network signals and local programming to their subscribers.^[1]

Education

Perry graduated from the University of Iowa in 1988. He attended Grand Rapids Junior College where he played hockey for two years. Perry graduated from Ottawa Hills High School where he ran cross country and played hockey. He was the captain of both teams.

Career

Perry founded Syncbak in March 2009. His authentication and streaming platform launched in March 2012 in Spokane, WA. It is being deployed in television stations across the country, most recently as the technology powering live, local streaming into CBS network's All Access OTT platform.^[2] Syncbak's internet broadcasting technology enables broadcasters to distribute live programming to mobile phones and connected devices. CBS is an investor in Syncbak.^[3] In April 2014, Perry's Syncbak became the first-ever mobile and tablet platform to integrate Nielsen measurement.^[4] Prior to that Perry was CEO of Decisionmark from 1996 to 2009, an Inc. 500 fastest growing company in 2003, where he created the technology that enables satellite companies to provide distant network singals and local programming to their subscribers.^[5] He also created TitanTV.com, an online search utility for television; AntennaWeb.org, a consumer website supporting the transition to digital broadcasting; and ProximityTV.com, a web-based technology used by ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox television stations.

Perry holds twenty patents related to delivery of entertainment content over the air, over satellite and over the Internet.^[6][7][8]

Awards

Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Industry Leadership) in 2004.^[9] He was elected to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2003 and was named one of Dealerscope's 40 most influential people under 40 in the consumer electronics industry that same year. In 2008, his TitanTV web studio won a Webby Award for Titan Greens, an edgy take on eco-news. Comedian, Michael Somerville, was part of the TitanTV Studio team during that same time, writing and producing the eponymous, Love, Somerville, web series.

Personal life

Perry was born on the Marine Corps Base in 29 Palms, California. He is a lifelong runner (completing 13 marathons) and avid fan of the Chicago Bears and Detroit Tigers. He started his first software company in his basement in 1989. The Running Counts package helped runners log and track mileage and sold several thousand copies.

Perry’s wife, Annette, and oldest daughter, Jillian, work with in the digital media space. His youngest daughter, Lauren, graduated from the University of Iowa with a nursing degree and recently started her career. Lauren is married to Allen Reisner, tight end for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and currently the Baltimore Ravens. . His son, Jackson, is in middle school. Jillian is married to Jay Borschel, a 2010 NCAA wrestling champion at 174 pounds who is a wrestling coach at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.^[10]

Perry and his family live in Marion, Iowa.

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