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 is the Founder and CEO of Syncbak,Inc., a media technology company, whose products and services power solutions for television broadcasters, including the CBS All Access app and a TV Everywhere solution for FOX networks.[1][2] Syncbak is the first-ever mobile and tablet platform to integrate Nielsen measurement.[3]

Prior to founding Syncbak, Perry was CEO of Decisionmark Corp (1996-2009)[4] where his technology enabled satellite companies to provide distant network signals and local programming to their subscribers. He created his first software package, RunningCounts, in 1990.

In 2004, along with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Perry introduced CheckHD, an online tool designed to help consumer migrate from analog to digital television C-SPAN Consumers and Digital Television.

In 2011, at the CEA CES on the Hill event, Perry introduced the Syncbak OTT platform to assist over-the-air digital broadcasting to move to the Internet C-SPAN The Communicators at CES on the Hill 2011.

In 2016 Perry and his wife Annette founded Perry Development Partners (PDP).[5] PDP is focused on developing properties in the historic uptown district of their hometown Marion, IA.

Awards

Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Industry Leadership) in 2004.[6] 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.

Patents

Perry holds twenty-one patents related to the delivery of entertainment content over-the-air, over-satellite and over-the-Internet.

U.S. Patent Number 6,147,642: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Satellite Communication[7]

U.S. Patent Number 6,252,547: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet[8]

U.S. Patent Number 6,714,754: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet[9]

U.S. Patent Number 6,785,904: Method and System for Providing Household Level Television Programming Information[10]

U.S. Patent Number 6,832,070: System and Method for Aiding in Antenna Selections[11]

U.S. Patent Number 7,028,323: System and Method for Delivering Rerun Video Programming on Non-HDTV Digital Side Channels[12]

U.S. Patent Number 7,913,287: System and Method for Delivering Data Over an HDTV Digital Television Spectrum[13]

U.S. Patent Number 8,010,981: Method and System for Creating Television Programming Guide[14]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,940: Broadcast Area Authentication[15]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,941: Broadcast Area Authentication[16]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,942: Broadcast Area Authentication[17]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,943: Broadcast Area Authentication[18]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,944: Broadcast Area Authentication[19]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,945: Broadcast Area Authentication[20]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,946: Broadcast Area Authentication[21]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,947: Broadcast Area Authentication[22]

U.S. Patent Number 8,909,246: Broadcast Tuning Concepts[23]

U.S. Patent Number 8,910,196: Broadcast Area Identification and Content Distribution[24]

U.S. Patent Number 8,966,544: Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts[25]

U.S. Patent Number 8,966,549: Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts[26]

U.S. Patent Number 9,037,634: Broadcast Tuning Concepts[27]

References

  1. ↑ "Syncbak Powers CBS All Access OTT Service" TVNewsCheck' '2014-10-16'
  2. ↑ "Networks Adopt Different TV Everywhere Tech" TVNewsCheck' '2014-10-20'
  3. ↑ "Syncbak Syncs Up With Nielsen" MultiChannelNews' '2014-04-07'
  4. ↑ "Jack Perry named president and chief executive officer of Decisionmark Corp, Business Wire 1996-07-11
  5. ↑ "Rounding the corner in Marion" The Gazette
  6. ↑ "CEA announces 2004 Academy of Digital Television Pioneers Award nominees", TVTechnology 2005-03-02
  7. ↑ "Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Satellite Communication"
  8. ↑ "Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet"
  9. ↑ "Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet"
  10. ↑ "Method and System for Providing Household Level Television Programming Information"
  11. ↑ "System and Method for Aiding in Antenna Selections"
  12. ↑ "System and Method for Delivering Rerun Video Programming on Non-HDTV Digital Side Channels"
  13. ↑ "System and Method for Delivering Data Over an HDTV Digital Television Spectrum"
  14. ↑ "Method and System for Creating Television Programming Guide"
  15. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  16. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  17. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  18. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  19. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  20. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  21. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  22. ↑ "Broadcast Area Authentication"
  23. ↑ "Broadcast Tuning Concepts"
  24. ↑ "Broadcast Area Identification and Content Distribution"
  25. ↑ "Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts"
  26. ↑ "Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts"
  27. ↑ "Broadcast Tuning Concepts"
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