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 in the travel industry. Hal is the founder of iTwango, group-buy online service branded as spreebird.com, that was sold to local.com.
Before his last startup, Hal was Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer in IAC/InterActiveCorp for 3 years.
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 100s of Millions Visitors per day.
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. 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.

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.
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.