Core Digital Media competitors

James Bidzos is president and chief executive officer of Verisign. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors and has been executive chairman since August 2009. As the founder of Verisign, Bidzos is an Internet and security industry pioneer whose accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer for authentication and encryption, and launching Verisign as a company in 1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for Internet commerce. Before returning to the president and chief executive role in August 2011, Bidzos served as Verisign's first president and CEO and also served as Verisign's chairman of the board of directors from April 1995 until December 2001, as vice chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO from July 2008 to August 2009. Bidzos served as president and CEO of RSA Security from 1986 to February 1999, and then served as RSA's vice chairman from 1999 to May 2002.

Bob Brisco is a Chief Executive Officer at WEBMD HEALTH CORP. and Founder at Classified Ventures and is based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked as President at Universal Citywalk Hollywood, President/CEO at Internet Brands, and President at Universal Studios Hollywood. Robert studied at University of Southern California between 1980 and 1984; University of California, Los Angeles between 1985 and 1987; and UCLA Anderson School of Management between 1985 and 1987.

Jeff Katz is a Chief Executive Officer at Nextag and Chief Executive Officer at Journera. He has worked as Board Member at RR DONNELLEY & SONS CO; Vice President at American Airlines, Inc.; and Board Member at Digital River Inc. Jeff works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at City of Hope National Cancer Research Institute. He studied at University of California - UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Rick Patch serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of LifePics Inc. Mr. Rick is a pioneering software executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in information technology and in building early-stage companies. He was a founding member and former President of Micro Decisionware Inc., a successful VC-backed company that was ultimately sold to Sybase Inc. He was also a founding partner at Sequel Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with over $400M in assets. As part of Sequel, he invested in and built numerous successful Internet and Enterprise software companies. Some examples include MatchLogic (acquired by Excite), Dante (acquired by WebMethods), Service Magic (acquired by IAC), Bid4Vacations (acquired by I.C.E.), and BlueCurve (acquired by Red Hat Inc.). He serves as Director of Productbuzz Inc. He served as Director of RioLabs. Mr. Patch earned his BS, Computer Based Information Systems, from the University of Colorado.