Hal Oreif

Hal Oreif is an American businessman. A senior Technologist and Media Executive with substantial experience in Startups, Revenue Increase, New Media, online games Development and Publishing, Digital Marketing, Online/Mobile Products & Technologies.

Career

Hal founded and successfully sold two technology companies. He is currently serving as Chief Technology and Product Officer[1] in the travel industry.[2] Hal is the founder of iTwango, group-buy online service branded as spreebird.com, that was sold to local.com.[3][4] Before his last startup, Hal was Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer in IAC/InterActiveCorp for 3 years.[5] Hal also served for 9 years as Chief Technology Officer in Warner Bros. Entertainment where he scaled websites and mobile applications for brands such as Harry Potter and The Matrix getting hundreds of millions visitors per day.[6][7] Hal's first startup was an ERP company that was taken public.

Early Years and Education

Hal was born in Alexandria where he earned B.S. and Master's degrees in Computer Science & Engineering. He also went to UCLA Anderson School of Management to study business (MBA like). Hal's research was in the area of Artificial Interagency and SQL Query Optimization in Distributed Data Models.

Patents

Hal has 3 Patents in Digital Media Distribution over IP Networks and Artificial Inelegance/Natural Language Processing.

STRUCTURING DATA AROUND A TOPICAL MATTER AND A.I./N.L.P./ MACHINE LEARNING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM THAT ENHANCES SOURCE CONTENT BY IDENTIFYING CONTENT TOPICS AND KEYWORDS AND INTEGRATING ASSOCIATED/RELATED CONTENTS

Electronic Sell-Through of Multimedia Content through Points-of-Sale United States 20070174140 Filed January 15, 2007 A point-of-sale system for electronic sell-through of multimedia content comprises a kiosk for customer selection and transfer of multimedia content to a customer device. The kiosk may include a local multimedia library containing multimedia content in machine-readable form, a customer communication interface adapted to facilitate electronic communication between the kiosk and a customer device, and customer transaction logic adapted to facilitate customer selection and transfer of multimedia content in the multimedia library to the customer device via the communication interface. A main server may be provided that communicates with the kiosk and other kiosks of like kind in order to oversee kiosk operations and update the local multimedia libraries.

Video Delivery System And Related Method United States 20060074770 Filed June 15, 2006 A system that includes a server that is configured to be coupled to the Internet, a monitor, and a video appliance that is coupled to the monitor and configured to be coupled to the Internet. The server stores a media element, and the monitor is configured to display a copy of the media element. The server is configured to transmit the copy of the media element to the video appliance via the Internet. The video appliance is configured to receive the copy of the media element, and to prompt the monitor to display the copy of the media element for viewing by a user.

gollark: This is just a prediction market.
gollark: As planned.
gollark: Great!
gollark: Which atomic bombs, and per what?
gollark: > accusing me of being wrong> using farenheit

References
  1. https://www.eaglerider.com/about-us/team
  2. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-worlds-largest-motorcycle-rental-and-tour-company-announces-integration-options-for-partners-and-travel-companies-210620091.html
  3. http://localonliner.com/2011/01/07/local-com-buys-group-buying-start-up/
  4. http://blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2011/01/07/local-com-buys-group-buying-start-up/#.Un6785S2EdI
  5. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/khalid-hal-oreif
  6. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/khalid-hal-oreif
  7. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/by_genre/developerId,173798/
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