Sling Media Inc.

In the 5 years prior to co-founding Sling Media, Jason Krikorian acted as Partner in id8 Group Holdings, Inc. With id8 Group, Jason advised several companies on product and business strategy, including Microsoft, Hitachi, Viewsonic, and Synaptics. His areas of focus included mobile device platforms... and digital media devices. Jason also drove business development activities for id8 Group. Jason joined id8 Group after spending several years in management consulting with The Boston Consulting Group . While at BCG, Jason advised Fortune 100 clients in the retail, automotive, and utilities sectors. His work there spanned many areas, from retail inventory management to creation and negotiation of a global joint venture. Prior to BCG, Jason worked in corporate securities law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA and at Hale and Dorr in Boston, MA, where he assisted in the execution of numerous initial public offerings, acquisitions, and private placements. Jason received a Masters of Business Administration and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. Jason also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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An experienced entrepreneur, Blake Krikorian co-founded Sling Media after founding and serving as the CEO of id8 Group Holdings, a firm that both advised industry-leading companies on product strategy and invested in new product creation. id8 Group's client list has included, among others,... Microsoft, AMD, ARM Ltd, AT&T, Toshiba, Hitachi, Vulcan, Inc., Samsung Electronics, and Time Warner. Blake started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace . At General Magic, Blake assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies, including NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI, and Matsushita/Panasonic, in creating and defining new products, and partnerships. In 1994, Blake co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line. Blake then left Philips Mobile Computing Group to serve as Senior Vice President at Metis Associates, an information technology consulting firm and incubator of core technology companies. He led the creation of Metis' first incubated company, Mainbrace Corporation, which developed and licensed software technologies and manufacture-able device platforms to system OEMs, service providers, and semiconductor vendors. Blake served as the company's President for the first two years of its operation. Mainbrace was acquired by BSQUARE in 2000. Blake holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.
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