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Founders and key advisors to MusicLink.COM combine more than 80 years of experience in software, Internet, music, journalism and payment services. Here are mini-bios of the principals:
Guy Nouri, chairman/CEO and co-founder, 48. Nouri has been a technology innovator and entrepreneur in animation, multimedia and video games and a lifelong visual artist. Nouri created Paint and MovieMaker the first paint and animation programs licensed to Atari and Microsoft in the 1980s. He has developed software for Prodigy, Electronic Arts, CBS, Scholastic, Spinnaker, McGraw Hill, HBO and Phillips, among others. He has lectured extensively in the U.S. and Europe and appeared on NPR, The Today Show and the CBS Morning News. His visual art has been shwon at the deCordova, the Corocoran, and the Norman Rockwell museums. He studied computer graphics at Princeton University.
Kenneth H. Appleman, co-founder and CTO, 43. Appleman has more than 20 years experience in cutting-edge technology. Most recently, he was founding CTO of ABOUT.com, which rose to be the sixth most-visited site on the Internet. Prior to that, he was a key architect on several generations of the Prodigy Internet service, a joint venture of Sears, IBM and CBS. He is listed on 10 Internet and online patents for his work at both places. He has worked on online banking systems and on advanced microcomputer graphics systems. Appleman holds an M.S. in computer science from Pace University and a B.A. in English from the University at Albany.
Eric R. Noren, chief financial officer. 37. Noren is also a managing director of the D70 Consulting Group, of New York. A CPA, he specializes in the entertainment and media industries. He has 13 years experience in business management, business development, strategic planning, controllership, forecasting, financial reporting and systems development. Prior to co-founding D70, Norne served nine years in roles at EMI Music, including as director of financial reporting and systems. Earlier, he was vp-finance and operations at Caroline Distribution, and a VP-business manager at Golden Books Family Entertainment. Noren earned his Masters of Accountancy in 1988 and B.S. in accounting in 1987 from the University of Denver. Eric earned his CPA in the State of New York in 1991. He began his career at Arthur Andersen in New York where he worked for four years before joining EMI Music. Eric is a member of the New York State Society of CPAs and of its its Sports and Entertainment Committee. Noren is also a composer and musician.
Rachel Cyrene Blackman, consulting associate, artist & community development. Blackman has worked in performing-arts administration and production for 20 years. Her career has included roles as events manager and publicist at Tufts University and in production with Blackside Films Inc., and the Boston Ballet Co., and Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, all in metro Boston. She has been a diversity trainer for Fortune 500 clients, including BankAmerica. She has performed and produced multi track/MIDI studio projects, composed music, sound-edited CD-ROMs, lectured on multimedia subjects at Harvard University and the Women in Multimedia Conference, and has authored film scores for Burger King, J Howard Associates and the BigSister organization. Her classical works have been performed in Boston and New York. She holds a BA in arts management/musical composition from Hampshire College and an MFA in classical composition from the Milton Avery School at Bard College.
Bill Densmore, operations consultant, 49. Densmore co-founded Newshare Corp. in 1994 as an Internet technology and consulting company. Newshare conceived and pioneered development of the Clickshare Service for online content sales and shared-user management before selling it in 1997 to the current operator, Clickshare Service Corp. Prior to 1994, Densmore owned and published weeklies in Berkshire County, Mass., was New York bureau chief for Business Insurance Magazine (Crain Communications Inc.), edited a monthly for the Chicago legal community and spent four years as an Associated Press editor/reporter in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Springfield, Ill. Densmore has written for ComputerWorld magazine's web site, and has spoken at industry conferences and seminars sponsored by The Gartner Group, McKinsey & Co., the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley, Editor & Publisher Interactive and The Associated Press and have been a judge of the E&P Online Newspapers contest since its 1996 inception. He holds a B.A. in environnmental policy and communications from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He began his career as a alternative-rock FM-radio disc jockey.
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