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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

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