David Frerichs

Current

• President, Executive Producer at NRI Media, Inc.
• Strategic Consultant at Media Tuners LLC

Past

• EVP, Strategic Marketing and Corporate Development at SRS Labs
• Vice President and US General Manager at Coding Technologies (acquired by Dolby Laboratories)
• Founder, CTO, President at iM Networks, fka Sonicbox

• Director of Product Marketing, Desktop Business at 3Dlabs
• Product Marketing Manager (Product Line Manager) at Silicon Graphics (SGI)
• Founder at Future Vision Technologies

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• frerichs.net - personal site
• Radio NRI - Bollywood & Beyond
• Tuner2 - Internet Radio

David Frerichs’s Summary

Senior executive working to fulfill customer expectations
of a unified digital world.

► 360° experience: product marketing, business development,
sales, engineering
► IP licensing craftsman, leveraging standards for sustained
revenue growth
► Insightful deal-maker, creating networks of success for new products
► Over a decade of international business success
► Innovator in Internet, connected device, and mobile content services
► Innovator in data visualization, virtual reality, and 3D UI
► Startup successes include Dolby acquisition of Coding Technologies

David Frerichs’s Specialties:

Keywords: 3D graphics, 3G, audio codecs, consumer electronics, content licensing, Internet content monetization, Web services, digital broadcast, human interface, India, intellectual property licensing, Japan, Korea, location-based services, mobile, MPEG-4 HE AAC, radio syndication, streaming, targeted ads, venture capital fund raising, virtual reality, WiMAX

David Frerichs’s Experience

• President, Executive Producer

  NRI Media, Inc.

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Radio NRI, a service of NRI Media, syndicates high-quality radio shows and channels for Indians worldwide. Crafted especially for the new global desi, Radio NRI features music, news, and interviews from all across India.
  
  Radio NRI channels are featured on AOL Radio, CBS Radio Online, Apple iTunes radio, and on Apple iPhone 3G. Radio NRI shows are syndicated to AM and FM stations across North America.

• Strategic Consultant

  Media Tuners LLC

  (Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Providing strategic marketing, business development, product plan, content service architecture, and business plan consulting for companies including Centrl, MyWire, Pioneer Electronics, and SRS Labs. Areas of specialty include consumer electronics, content licensing, intellectual property licensing, location-based services, mobile service monetization, and Internet service monetization.

• EVP, Strategic Marketing and Corporate Development

  SRS Labs

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; SRSL; Consumer Electronics industry)

  November 2005 — July 2006 (9 months)

  Core strategist for established audio IP licensing company. Responsible for brand management, product marketing, marketing communications, and business development.

• Vice President and US General Manager

  Coding Technologies (acquired by Dolby Laboratories)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2002 — October 2005 (3 years 4 months)

  Opened US office for European audio compression IP licensing company. Focused on mobile, broadcast, and content markets. Responsible for product strategy, sales, marketing, and business development in North America, Korea, Japan as well as for the global Internet content market.
  
  Key product: MPEG-4 aacPlus (HE AAC, AAC+)
  
  Key content, customer, and standards wins: 3GPP2, AOL, DirecTV, KDDI, LG Electronics, MediaFLO, Motorola, Orban, Qualcomm, Real Networks, Samsung, Sirius, Sprint, SK Telecom, Verizon, Yahoo.

• Founder, CTO, President

  iM Networks, fka Sonicbox

  (Internet industry)

  May 1999 — June 2002 (3 years 2 months)

  iM Networks created the world's first Internet radio device and OEMed the embedded tuner technology, content aggregation, and ad insertion service to companies like Philips, Panasonic, Creative Labs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFZLB7H2OU

• Director of Product Marketing, Desktop Business

  3Dlabs

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; CREAF; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1998 — June 1999 (10 months)

  Assemble and lead the team to define and promote line of consumer PC graphics processors. Responsible for product definition, OEM sales support, developer relations, and marketing communications.

• Product Marketing Manager (Product Line Manager)

  Silicon Graphics (SGI)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 8 months)

  Built a team to execute on product management for 3D Web client, VRML standardization, business development and evangelism.

• Founder

  Future Vision Technologies

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 1991 — February 1995 (3 years 9 months)

  Virtual environments (virtual reality) products company that was acquired by Fujitsu Microelectronics. First foray into consumer electronics and IP licensing with the Stuntmaster head-mounted display. Participated in writing the business plan that was eventually used to start graphics chip pioneer 3Dfx.

David Frerichs’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BS , Computer Engineering , 1987 — 1991

Additional Information

David Frerichs’s Websites:

• frerichs.net - personal site
• Radio NRI - Bollywood & Beyond
• Tuner2 - Internet Radio

David Frerichs’s Interests:

mountain biking, skiing, 3D user interface design, data visualization

David Frerichs’s Groups:

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Siggraph, 3GPP2, NRSC, ISMA, AYSO, Web3D

•    MobilOpen :: the mobile business group
•    UIUC Networking
•    Sustainable Investment Forum
•    CleanTechies Around The World
•    Fighting Illini Alumni
•    India Leadership Network
•    Mobile Telecoms industry group
•    CleanTech Network
•    Hooray for Hollyworld!
•    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming
•    TiE Southern California
•    Ex-SGI
•    Internet Radio
•    Ziff-Davis Alumni
•    O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference
•    TiE SoCal

David Frerichs’s Honors:

US Patent No. 5,323,174. "Device for determining an orientation of at least a portion of a living body."

US Patent No. 5,353,042. "Method for determining an orientation of an object."

US Patent No. 6,684,249. "Adding advertisements over streaming audio based upon a user profile."

Other patents pending.

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