Jack Perry (entrepreneur)

Jack Perry
Born	(1963-09-18) September 18, 1963
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Occupation	Founder, Chairman and CEO, Syncbak Inc.

Jack Perry is the Founder and CEO of Syncbak,Inc., a media technology company, whose products and services power solutions for television broadcasters, including the CBS All Access app and a TV Everywhere solution for FOX networks.^[1][2] Syncbak is the first-ever mobile and tablet platform to integrate Nielsen measurement.^[3]

Prior to founding Syncbak, Perry was CEO of Decisionmark Corp (1996-2009)^[4] where his technology enabled satellite companies to provide distant network signals and local programming to their subscribers. He created his first software package, RunningCounts, in 1990.

In 2004, along with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Perry introduced CheckHD, an online tool designed to help consumer migrate from analog to digital television C-SPAN Consumers and Digital Television.

In 2011, at the CEA CES on the Hill event, Perry introduced the Syncbak OTT platform to assist over-the-air digital broadcasting to move to the Internet C-SPAN The Communicators at CES on the Hill 2011.

In 2016 Perry and his wife Annette founded Perry Development Partners (PDP).^[5] PDP is focused on developing properties in the historic uptown district of their hometown Marion, IA.

Awards

Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Industry Leadership) in 2004.^[6] He was elected to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2003 and was named one of Dealerscope's 40 most influential people under 40 in the consumer electronics industry that same year. In 2008, his TitanTV web studio won a Webby Award for Titan Greens, an edgy take on eco-news.

Patents

Perry holds twenty-one patents related to the delivery of entertainment content over-the-air, over-satellite and over-the-Internet.

U.S. Patent Number 6,147,642: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Satellite Communication^[7]

U.S. Patent Number 6,252,547: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet^[8]

U.S. Patent Number 6,714,754: Method and Apparatus for Limiting Access to Signals Delivered Via the Internet^[9]

U.S. Patent Number 6,785,904: Method and System for Providing Household Level Television Programming Information^[10]

U.S. Patent Number 6,832,070: System and Method for Aiding in Antenna Selections^[11]

U.S. Patent Number 7,028,323: System and Method for Delivering Rerun Video Programming on Non-HDTV Digital Side Channels^[12]

U.S. Patent Number 7,913,287: System and Method for Delivering Data Over an HDTV Digital Television Spectrum^[13]

U.S. Patent Number 8,010,981: Method and System for Creating Television Programming Guide^[14]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,940: Broadcast Area Authentication^[15]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,941: Broadcast Area Authentication^[16]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,942: Broadcast Area Authentication^[17]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,943: Broadcast Area Authentication^[18]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,944: Broadcast Area Authentication^[19]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,945: Broadcast Area Authentication^[20]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,946: Broadcast Area Authentication^[21]

U.S. Patent Number 8,255,947: Broadcast Area Authentication^[22]

U.S. Patent Number 8,909,246: Broadcast Tuning Concepts^[23]

U.S. Patent Number 8,910,196: Broadcast Area Identification and Content Distribution^[24]

U.S. Patent Number 8,966,544: Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts^[25]

U.S. Patent Number 8,966,549: Providing and Receiving Wireless Broadcasts^[26]

U.S. Patent Number 9,037,634: Broadcast Tuning Concepts^[27]

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