Karl Hirsch
• United States: Greater Seattle Area
• computer software
Current: President & CEO, Protexis
Greater Seattle AreaKarl Hirsch
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Address: Greater Seattle Area
Current:
- President & CEO at Protexis
Past:
- President & CEO at OneChannel, Inc.
- Founder & EVP Business Development at Preview Systems, Inc.
- Stanford University
- UCLA
Education:
People Network: 159
Industry: Internet
Karl Hirsch’s Summary
18 Years senior management leadership in driving rapid growth for high technology companies.
Expertise/Pioneer in Digital Rights Management DRM / Electronic Commerce / Digital Content.
Founder of two Internet Technology companies - Preview Systems(IPO), OneChannel.net (M&A). Raised $60M+ Venture Capital across 10 rounds financing last 12 years.
3 time CEO. Strong Business Development / multi-million dollar, strategic deal making.
Karl Hirsch’s Specialties:
Electronic commerce, Strategy, M&A, analytics, digital rights management, DRM, ESD, digital distribution, online retail, venture capital, investing, business development, music, speaking, electronic licensing, software distribution.
President & CEO
Protexis
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — Present (4 years)
Privately held company, founded in 2000. Protexis provides a fully self-serve global digital distribution platform and distribution network for content publishers. Major online retailers connect seamlessly to Protexis "RED" digital catalog for sales and fulfillment of goods direct to their customers. Originally positioned for copy protection of software in DRM market, joined Protexis in June of 2004 as CEO to reposition and steer company into leadership role as Digital Distributor enabling retailers in growing multi-billion digital distribution market - leveraging the unique technology foundation for digital packaging and remote authentication of digitally fulfilled goods.
Protexis supports software sales in over 100 countries, with over 5000 software titles now enabled and available for sale, with 8+ million copies of Protexis-enabled software sold to date. Funded with over $16M dollars by Growthworks Capital, Trudell Medical, SunWolfe Ventures, CNET [NASDAQ: CNET]:
Eductional Details:
Stanford University
Graduate Work - Negotiation & Influence Strategies February 1998 — March 1998
Additional Information
Karl Hirsch’s Groups:
2 years Chairman and Internet Division Board member of the Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA)
Internet Committee on Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) and Electronic Commerce for the Computer Trade Industry Association (CompTIA)
Architect partner of the RosettaNet E-com Initiative