Company InformationBased in Los Angeles, California, GetBack Media is a broadband entertainment community, and pop culture marketplace that provides social networking around premium media content. GetBack is geared around media from years past with a strong editorial treatment to guide users through a rich and deep media archive experience. GetBack is a “feel good” environment of content, interactivity, community, and commerce connected to happy memories. GetBack Media was created by the founders of Rhino Records, Shout Factory! and digital media veterans from IFILM, and MTV Networks. What is getback.com?
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Careers Executive TeamChris Dominguez, President, GetBack Media Inc.Prior to joining GetBack Media, Chris was Senior Vice President of Business Development at MTV Networks Entertainment Group specializing in digital video initiatives (IFILM). Chris was a member of the senior management team at IFILM Corporation that completed the $49M acquisition by Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) in October of 2005. From 1995-2005, Chris was co-founder and President of Stockpoint, Inc., an ASP financial technology company. Chris completed an M&A transaction with Screaming Media (NASDAQ: SCRM), and subsequently served as Executive Vice President at Screaming Media through May 2002. Prior to Stockpoint, he worked in the publishing business and held positions at Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and Research Magazine. Chris was a pioneer in developing online financial content and application functionality for the financial services community, and was at the forefront of the digital video revolution creating ways to apply business models to web and mobile based video applications. Shawn Amos, Vice President | ContentPrior to joining GetBack Media, Shawn was Vice President of Music & Original Content at Shout! Factory. He worked with Shout! Factory&rsquot;s co-founders at Rhino Entertainment, where the produced classic historic compilations, including the GRAMMY®-nominated Rhapsodies in Black: Music And Words From The Harlem Renaissance; Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America; and Q: The Musical Autobiography of Quincy Jones. In early 2008, Shawn conceived and co-produced In The Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2, a new collection of African artists interpreting songs the Irish supergroup and executive produced Solomon Burke’s new release Like A Fire. Currently Vice President of Content at GetBack Media, Inc., Shawn is also the producer and host of GetBack’s original daily web program, Retro Minute. In addition to his own work as a singer-songwriter, Shawn Amos has been a trusted tastemaker, content creator and custodian of pop culture for the past decade. He has been entrusted with the musical legacies of icons Quincy Jones, Herb Alpert, Solomon Burke and dozens of heritage artists. Shawn has also produced albums for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Phil Spector protégée, Darlene Love and Comedy Central broadcasts for the Upright Citizens Brigade. He&rsquot;s directed DVDs for comedians Pablo Francisco & Doug Stanhope and driven CD, DVD, web and broadcast projects for hundreds of artists and icons ranging from INXS to William Shatner. In between the two positions, Shawn was Executive Director of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation. There, he spearheaded house building and entrepreneurship programs in South Africa. Shawn has released three albums including Thank You Shir-lee May [A Love Story] (2005), In Between (2002), Harlem (2000) and contributed a song to Solomon Burke&rsquot;s 2006 album Nashville. Two singles, “Burned” with Matthew Sweet and “Long Time Gone” with Julie Miller, were released exclusively on iTunes in 2007. Sean Endler, Vice President | Product DevelopmentPrior to joining GetBack, Sean served as Director of Product Development for SPIKE Digital Entertainment a MTV Networks Company. In this role he lead the development of product features and functions for iFilm as well as the product merger of iFilm and SPIKE TV. Previously, Sean was serving a leadership role within Yahoo! Media Group as part of the Central UED Group. In this role Sean’s responsibilities included global experiences across all YMG products. Some notable products include: Yahoo! Food, Health, Lifestyles, and Games. Before that, Sean was a member of Sony Design Center, a internal group for product development for Sony Electronics. Sean’s focus was on Research and Development across Sony’s broad range of international businesses (electronics, music, and pictures), developing patentable intellectual property for various next generation products and services. Some notable products include: Metreon Entertainment Center in San Francisco (with Sony Development), Sony eMarker, Sony Sports audio products, and next generation VAIO hardware and software. FitzJohn J. Flynn, Vice President | Business DevelopmentPrior to GetBack Media, FitzJohn J. Flynn was Founder, Director and CEO of La Tierra Partners, Inc., an investment advisory firm and media consultancy serving institutional investors, major film studios, recording labels and award winning independent content producers. La Tierra Partners was engaged by Shout! Factory in 2006 to develop its digital media strategy that has become GetBack Media, Inc. Prior to founding La Tierra Partners, Mr. Flynn was a senior partner in several financial services firms, and a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, and the Pacific Options Exchange. Before his career in Financial Derivatives and Advisory, Mr. Flynn worked as a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young’s where he was responsible for managing large client teams and a consulting staff serving Fortune 100 clients. Representative clients included the CIS (Former Soviet Union), The World Bank, USAID, Hewlett Packard, Samsung Electronics, BP, Chevron and Koch Industries. David W. Huseby, Vice President | EngineeringPrior to GetBack Media, David W. Huseby was a Senior Software Engineering consultant with Tectura Corporation building on-board, real-time flight test software for the Boeing 787 project. Prior to Tectura, David spent four years writing PC, PS2, and Xbox video games for Surreal Software, a Midway studio. His game credits include: The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2002), Black Label Games; The Suffering (2004), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.; The Suffering: Ties That Bind (2005), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc. Prior to his hiatus in video games and aerospace, Mr. Huseby was the senior systems engineer for Fusion, Inc. a web design start-up focused on developing Flash-based multimedia web experiences. He was a featured speaker on the topic of data driven and dynamic Flash-based web sites at the Flash Forward web design conferences in New York and San Francisco in 1999 and 2000. While at Fusion, he developed custom server software to power the first web community written entirely in Flash and the first Flash streaming audio player. |
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