Sheldon Renan

Current

• Principal at Vision (+) Strategy

Past

• Consultant at The Florida State Technology Office
• CEO at Clarity Station
• Owner at Renan/Margolis

• Founding Director at Pacific Film Archive, UC, Berkeley
• Copywriter at various agencies

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Education

• Yale University
• Cleveland High School

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Sheldon Renan’s Summary

Core Competence: vision, branding, strategy + immersive media + executive communications.
Parallel Track: Write books, films, TV, theme park attractions, interactive.
Customers (technology): Intel, SAP, Xerox, Apple, IBM, AT&T, Sony, State of Florida.
Customers (entertainment): Universal, Disney, Busch, Paramount, Canon, PBS.
Special Interests: Moore's Law, Netness (ubiquitous connectivity), Digital archiving

Sheldon Renan’s Specialties:

Keynotes, vision events, market entry, trade shows, theme parks, prototyping new media.

Sheldon Renan’s Experience

• Principal

  Vision (+) Strategy

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

• Consultant

  The Florida State Technology Office

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

• CEO

  Clarity Station

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1996 — 2003 (7 years )

• Owner

  Renan/Margolis

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

  1976 — 1995 (19 years )

  Writing/producing PBS series, short and feature films, interactive programs, plus major corporate projects. Major strategy initiatives, trade show keynotes, starting in 1990. Also directed English versions of feature films (MEPHISTO and AKIRA) and various anime series. Also directed documentary feature KILLING OF AMERICA and treasure hunt "event" feature TREASURE.

• Founding Director

  Pacific Film Archive, UC, Berkeley

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  1968 — 1975 (7 years )

  Founded, built and ran the Pacific Film Archive at the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.
  Organized many exhibitions (including for Cinematheque Francise, Smithsonian, USIS.)
  Wrote many articles, catalog entries, film notes.
  Served on founding Public Media Panel, National Endowment for the Arts.
  Consulted for National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Copywriter

  various agencies

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1964 — 1967 (3 years )

  Writing advertising for various advertising agencies in NYC, San Francisco and Tokyo -- print, TV.
  At same time was writing first book - Introduction to American Underground Film (NY, 1967)

Sheldon Renan’s Education

• Yale University

  BA , English, Creative Writing , 1959 — 1963

  Scholar of the House Program

• Cleveland High School

Additional Information

Sheldon Renan’s Interests:

Growth/evolution of connectivity Democratizing access Films on Internet (+) Films for Internet Convergence of Architecture (+) Media Digital registration of IP (democratizing innovation)

Sheldon Renan’s Groups:

Writers Guild of America, ACM, IEEE, Internet Society, Emerging Telephony

•    FirstMile.US
•    Social Media Club PDX

Sheldon Renan’s Honors:

Mostly for film-making... ask if want to know

Sheldon Renan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests