David Straus
Founding Member at Reason Ventures
David Straus
Founding Member at Reason Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2011 - Current
We are dedicated to helping you ignite the leader inside you and your entire organization. To remind you how to reconnect your drive with your passion, and to ultimately give you the tools to listen to the vision you have deep inside for the company you lead, the customers and shareholders that depend on you and the life you continue to build.
Founding Member
2012
Reason Ventures is a group of innovators and social entrepreneurs investing in businesses that yield both human and fiscal prosperity. We believe companies are enriched when they are able to make positive contributions to the lives of their employees and to the customers and societies that sustain their businesses.
Board Member
2008
Jewish World Watch works to mobilize synagogues, their schools, their members and the community to combat genocide and other egregious violations of human rights around the world. Build a World Without Genocide, Do Not Stand Idly By.
Board Member
2008
The Zimmer Children's Museum is an institution about big ideas; showing children, youth and adults that they can make a difference in their communities and nation wide.
President Rightsline division of Critical Mass Studios Inc
2013 - 2017
Co-Founder, CEO and Board Chair.
2012 - 2016
Critical Mass Studios, the first vertically integrated, next-gen studio, is transforming global, multi-platform distribution, rights management tracking and monetization for the entertainment and publishing industries using critical mass tracking technology. CMS has established a new content ecosystem designed to transform distribution and delivery workflow for media companies, putting it at the center of the entertainment industry’s value chain of rights – the nexus whereby right holders, licensors, distributors, promoters and brands will communicate and transact. By providing unparalleled rights and transactional tracking, along with seamless file delivery, CMS is changing the way technologically savvy companies are able to distribute content.
Head of Industry
2008 - 2011
CEO, Withoutabox a Division of IMDb
2008 - 2011
Co-Founder and CEO
2000 - 2011
Director and Producer
1992 - 1999