Cartwright Reed

Vice President, Application Development and Solutions at Ingram Digital Group

Greater Philadelphia Area

Current
Past
  • President and Founder at Audiofy Corporation
  • President and CTO at Prima Facie, Inc.
Education
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Cartwright Reed’s Summary

Cartwright Reed has been a leader in developing digital media content companies since 1990.

Cartwright is currently Vice President, Application Development and Solutions for Ingram Digital. He is developing and implementing digital media solutions and working with other Ingram divisions to develop IP and strategic options.

Formerly, Cartwright founded and was president of Audiofy (iofy) corporation. The Company has contracts with Simon & Schuster, Ingram, FranklinCovey, Blackstone Audio, Soundview and many other publishers.

Prior to founding iofy, Cartwright co-founded Intelligence at Large (IAL) in July of 1990. Between 1990 and 1997, the company developed and marketed the first multi-point video conferencing solution. IAL is now actively promoting its VOIP and videoconferencing patent portfolio in partnership with BTG (www.btgplc.com), a public company focused on technology licensing.

Cartwright was also the president of Prima Facie, a leading provider of transit video security systems. At Shipstone, his consulting company, he was president of PageCam, a Xerox spin-out that delivered the first practical camera-based software OCR solutions to the mobile market.

Cartwright is an inventor or co-inventor on eight U.S. patents for his work in Internet multimedia communications technology. He is a co-author of the popular "Programming Primer" series from Addison-Wesley.

Cartwright earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree that combined Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and English from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Cartwright blogs at cartwrightreed.com, twitters at twitter.com/cart, and has a FriendFeed at friendfeed.com/cart


Cartwright Reed’s Experience

  • Vice President, Application Development and Solutions

    Ingram Digital Group

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

    2008Present (1 year)

    Cartwright is responsible for proposing and implementing new Retail
    Solutions products and services, developing procedures to manage and develop intellectual property, and is working with Ingram Digital divisions in the strategic planning process.

  • Owner

    Shipstone Company

    (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    2000Present (9 years)

    Consulting agent for software, Internet and hardware development. Design, manage and evaluate IP, projects and business models. Contracts with Xerox, Audible, Franklin and other tech firms.

  • President

    Intelligence at Large, Inc.

    (Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

    July 1990Present (19 years 1 month)

    Cart co-founded Intelligence at Large (IAL) in July of 1990.

    Between 1990 and 1997, the company developed, patented and marketed the first multi-point video conferencing products for the Internet.

    In 1995, The Company developed a popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) application called WebTalk for Quarterdeck Corporation. The company also created products with Apple Corporation and Microsoft in the net multimedia space, particularly for Apple's QuickTime technology and Microsofts NetShow (now MediaPlayer) products.

    IAL is now actively promoting its VOIP and videoconferencing patent portfolio in partnership with BTG.

  • President and Founder

    Audiofy Corporation

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

    July 20032008 (5 years)

    Audiofy is a premiere direct sales and reseller of digital audiobook products, including sales from web sites including pimsleurdirect.com, audiofy.com, and many others. Audiofy is a partner with Ingram Digital, and offers digital spoken audio content using Ingram's iofy audiobook platform.

    Audiofy developed the iofy digital media platform for spoken audio that enables distributors, publishers, resellers and consumers a digital audio experience superior to any other solution and is compatible with almost every consumer electronics device on the market. The platform and the development team was acquired by Ingram Corporation in 2008.

    Audiofy has partnered with dozens of publishers and distributors, including Simon & Shuster, FranklinCovey, Ingram, and many others.

    Audiofy has been selling digital audiobooks on memory cards since 2004. Audiofy audiobook chips are available for sale at www.audiofy.com, www.pimsleurdirect.com and other sites.

  • President and CTO

    Prima Facie, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    19972000 (3 years)

    Led Prima Facie's hardware and software design and production team to create the RoadRecorder line of ruggedized mobile video and audio security systems. Secured and managed contracts for Chicago, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and many other municipal mass transit systems throughout the US. Company acquired in 2000.


Cartwright Reed’s Education

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    BA , EE/Math/English Combo , 19761983


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