Management Team

Tobias Batton, Founder and CEO

Tobias Batton is the Founder and CEO of Tranziztor, as well as Resistor Productions, a new online game development company dedicated to developing highly accessible MMORPGs that don’t require a lot of money to play.

Tobias started his professional career at AT&T in 2002.  His work as a corporate sales executive earned him many achievement based awards during his tenure, including a President’s Club award in 2005 for the top B2B sales in California.  Following his career at AT&T, in 2006 Tobias founded Liberatedfilms.com, a site that provided a medium for independent content creators to share their work with their fans and peers.  The site evolved into a more general video sharing site, and at its peak was included in the top 15 video sharing sites based on traffic and stats.  The site was acquired by an international media firm in early 2008.  Currently Tobias is the President of Platform264, a video technology suite that enables media companies to launch video centric web destinations quickly.

Marcus Hogue, CTO

Marcus Hogue brings a wide view of current technologies to Tranziztor from his previous work experience.  Marcus began his career at Allstate Insurance as a server engineer where he researched enterprise Windows and Linux interoperability.  He then took a position on the enterprise capacity management team where he was charged with overseeing enterprise applications and taking proactive measures to ensure high availability for the business.

In 2006, Marcus partnered with Tobias Batton to found Liberated Films and served as the CTO.  There, he created a low-cost scalable web architecture that allowed the company to run very cost effectively from day one.  His technological leadership allowed the company to grow quickly and effectively to the point of being acquired in early 2008.

After Liberated Films, Marcus once again teamed up with Tobias to design the software architecture for Tranziztor, a B2B software company specializing in providing high-definition video platforms for high profile companies, such as The Laugh Factory.

Marcus is currently working on his Master of Science in Information Technology at Northwestern University.  He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Networks and Systems and an Associates degree in Applied Science in Industrial Electronics Technology from Ferris State University.  In addition, Marcus has given presentations on enterprise network modeling and troubleshooting at Ferris State University and sits on the advisory board of the College of Technology.



Advisors

Sanjay Reddy

Sanjay Reddy was most recently the Senior Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Planning for Gemstar-TV Guide International (former ticker: GMST) where he headed up all business development, mergers & acquisitions and strategy for Gemstar, a leading media, entertainment and technology company, with businesses spanning interactive television technology, cable television, publishing, mobile and online. The company was acquired by Macrovision (ticker: MVSND) in May 2008 in a $2.3 billion cash and stock transaction with Sanjay leading the execution of the sale process. While at Gemstar-TV Guide, he also led the successful divestiture of SkyMall and the acquisitions of several niche web properties including JumpTheShark.com. He joined Gemstar in 2004 with broad media, technology and deal experience having worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, the finance industry on Wall Street and the technology industry in Silicon Valley.

He joined Gemstar-TV Guide after having served as a principal in an offshore animation company. Prior to this, Sanjay was a Vice president in the M&A group at Salomon Smith Barney and also served as Vice President, Corporate Development at Covad Communications, a publicly traded DSL company based in Santa Clara, CA, where he resolved several distressed channel partner situations involving reorganizations and asset purchases in bankruptcy. Between receiving a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from UCLA, Sanjay worked in the independent record business in Los Angeles and produced an MCA released Billboard Top 20 record. He currently serves as a board observer for BuddyTV and on the advisory boards of My Damn Channel, Inc. and Pixsy.



Barrett Lyon

Known as an "Internet Influencer" has been pushing advancements in the Internet from an entrepreneurial, artistic, and philosophical direction.

He is the creator of the Opte Project, which is an Internet mapping project. The project has gathered support world-wide and is featured at the Boston Museum of Science and The Museum of Modern Art.

Dayton Turner's work tracking Russian Denial of service attack extortion groups has been featured around the globe. He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov. The three men were at the heart of an extortion ring which was extorting money from banks, Internet casinos, and other web based businesses. Reported damages caused by Maksakov, Petrov, and Stenanov range in the the tens of millions of dollars. On October 8th 2007, Maksakov, Petrov, Stenanov were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty.

During the time Lyon worked with law enforcement, he created the world's first distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) filtering system. The service was provided via his company Prolexic Technologies, which later was sold to an investment group.

Currently, Lyon is a proponent in advancing the Internet's ability to scale video to the masses and is the CTO and co-founder of BitGravity a content delivery network.



Chase Norlin

Mr. Norlin is the CEO of Pixsy Corporation, the leading distributor of video and image search. Mr. Norlin has spent the last 15 years in the Internet and digital media industries. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as a senior executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK) where he managed publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick display ad network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions.

Prior to ValueClick, Mr. Norlin held the position of Senior Business Development Consultant to InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP) charged with publisher distribution and emerging applications for the paid search division. Previously, Mr. Norlin developed Sony's first online photo sharing venture and founded the web's first video sharing company ShareYourWorld. Mr. Norlin also served as an EIR at Boeing Ventures in launching Boeing's (NYSE:BA) online photo and video licensing division.

Mr. Norlin has served on the advisory board of CampusPoint and currently serves on the advisory boards of AdBid Central, VideoThang, Platform264, PickupPal and Adgregate. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of Chicago and is a regular speaker on digital media, online advertising, and search. Recent speaking engagements include the Goldman Sachs 9th Annual Global Media Conference, Goldman Sachs 17th Annual Communacopia Conference, Bear Stearns Annual Media Conference, OMMA, NATPE, iMediaConnection, Monaco Media Forum, AlwaysOn, TheDeal, Gnomedex, PubCon, and Digital Hollywood.

Peter Melnikov

Peter Melnikov is a founder and VP of MoveYourWeb – an international offshore outsourcing company focusing on providing cost-effective web development, game development, animation and internet marketing services.

His professional career started in 2001 when he founded an interactive design agency SkyStyling. Two years later it acquired Belarus based company CoolWay to serve as an offshore production office delivering web solutions to the customers across the globe. Being an expert in Internet industry and start-up business Peter setup Internet Marketing department  to grow the agency to a reputable international outsourcing house MoveYourWeb. Peter also co-founded the animation and game development company Apalon which untimely merged with MoveYourWeb allowing the company to develop complex web properties. In the past Peter also served as an advisor to a Belarus-based telecom retail outlet as well as advisor at the company GoodWin managing the chain of online gaming clubs.