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Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, currently being held in a Colombian prison for extradition to the United States,〔http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2015/11/11/entrepreneurial-star-of-startup-com-claims-his-life-is-in-danger-in-horrific-columbian-jail/〕 is an entrepreneur and Managing Partner of KIT Capital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=KIT Capital )〕 Tuzman started his career at Goldman Sachs and has been in the digital media industry for more than 20 years, serving as President of JumpTV and chief executive officer and chairman of KIT digital, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=KIT digital, Inc. )〕 Tuzman was also co-founder of govWorks.com, the subject of the documentary ''Startup.com'' (2001), which followed the company from its founding to bankruptcy. On September 7, 2015, Tuzman was arrested on charges of accounting fraud. ==Entrepreneurial life== After graduating from Harvard University, Tuzman worked on Wall Street for five years at Goldman Sachs, before launching govWorks, Inc., an Internet startup, along with his childhood friend Tom Herman. As the company's CEO, Tuzman was able to quickly raise $60 million in venture capital; however, like many companies of the “dot-com” era, govWorks, Inc. was negatively affected by the burst of the "dot-com bubble" and was sold to First Data Corp. for nearly $20 million. The journey from the company's founding to its sale was chronicled in a documentary ''Startup.com'' (2001), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. Soon after govWorks.com folded, Tuzman founded Recognition Group (now known as KIT Capital), a company aimed at providing exit strategies, financial restructuring, and interim management for distressed companies. Among dozens of projects, KIT Capital managed the sale of Tigris Corp., a privately held strategic sourcing and supply chain consultancy based in New York City, to Verticalnet, Inc. in 2004. In 2001, KIT Capital/Recognition Group took over KPE, a struggling web development subsidiary of Grey Global Group, where Tuzman took the role of the CEO and chairman and sold the company to Mobilocity, Inc. (which was subsequently sold to Agency.com) less than a year later. In May 2005, Tuzman was brought in as the President of JumpTV, a small start-up that focused on delivering foreign Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) content. Under his leadership, the company grew to become a leading company in delivery of syndicated foreign television content over the Internet around the globe. In August 2006, Tuzman JumpTV's IPO with Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter, which allowed the company to raise over $60 million, and an additional $100 million in a secondary offering less than a year later. In late 2007, Tuzman sold a substantial portion of his shareholding interest in JumpTV in the public market, which subsequently floundered after his departure. In late 2007, Tuzman purchased a controlling interest in ROO Group and became the company’s CEO and chairman of the board. After financial restructuring and key acquisitions ROO, an Internet video technologies company, became one of the leading end-to-end IP video providers under the new name of KIT digital. KIT digital listed on the NASDAQ Global Market in August 2009 under the ticker "KITD". Tuzman left KIT digital in April 2012. After his departure, Tuzman made public bids to acquire the company in several open letters to KIT digital's board of directors, believing the company was being purposefully mismanaged to bankruptcy by insiders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaleil Isaza Tuzman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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