CEO, Precept; Filmmaker; Web 2.0 Social Media guy
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Co-Founder & CEO at Precept Global Access
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- Founder & CEO at EzValidation, Inc.
- Product Manager, MPEG-4 Platforms at Ligos Corporation
- Business Dev & Product Mktg Mananger at Dazzle Multimedia
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- Education
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- Hollywood Film Institute
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Kentucky
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Shoieb Yunus’s Summary
Shoieb has produced and directed first film titled, "Streets of Karachi".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28311367@N03/
He is an Active Member of Los Altos-based Venture Capital-Private Equity Roundtable.
In August 2005, Shoieb co-founded Precept Global Access to produce high-quality entertainment content for the Southeast Asian market. He serves as CEO and Managing Director.
Shoieb has executive produced 100 hours of television entertainment programming. His credits include Geo TV's "Gaoo Celebrity Bunjaoo" (in English "Sing and Be a Celebrity"). - a grand music talent grooming show where amateur singers competed for a grand cash prize. Other production projects include three shorts titled, "The Shelter", "Hawk's Bay: a fisherman's story" and "From a Teenager's Diary", various 13-episode magazine shows titled, "Face Time", “Film Mag”, “Music Zone”, “Local Bands” and “Rockers Club”; a kids show titled, “Kids Planet”; a business-technology talk show titled, “Good Evening Silicon Valley”, and six tele-films (films made for television), and episodic drama.
In December 2001, Shoieb founded a software company, DreamzNet, Inc., with a focus to provide fingerprint-based security software for the consumer market. Later, the company changed its name to EzValidation, Inc. Shoieb served as the CEO of the company for five years.
Shoieb has worked in Silicon Valley in various technical, marketing and management positions with an emphasis on digital audio, video, computer-generated graphics and biometrics.
Shoieb attended University of California at Santa Cruz to learn about Hollywood scriptwriting techniques, and earned a diploma from Hollywood Film Institute in Feature Film Production and Cinema Direction.
Shoieb has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.
Shoieb Yunus’s Specialties:
Entertainment Content Creation and Production; Film; Television; Web 2.0; Social Media: Streaming Video; IPTV; Transforming Ideas into Realities - from Silicon Valley to Indus Valley; Start-ups; Branding; Marketing; Technology; Usability; User Interface (UI); User Experience (UX); Content Management Systems
Shoieb Yunus’s Experience
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Co-Founder & CEO
Precept Global Access
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Shoieb Yunus co-founded Precept Global Access in August 2005.
Precept Productions is a media arm of Precept Global Access. Precept Productions is focused on producing high-quality entertainment content for television and film.
Shoieb executive produced and conceived the idea of Precept's first television show titled, "Gaoo Celebrity Bunjaoo" (in English "Sing and Be a Celebrity"). This is a grand music talent grooming show where amateur singers compete for a grand cash prize.
The show airs on Pakistan's premiere television channel Geo TV. Besides being seen in Pakistan, this program is being aired to the international audience including the US, UK and UAE on Geo TV.
Shoieb is responsible for fund raising, overall corporate development, strategic planning, product strategy, branding, team development and strategic alliances.
Hired creative team and the development executive to transform concepts into entertainment content.
