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Randy Saaf was the chief executive officer,〔(Record labels turn piracy into a marketing opportunity )〕 and founder, of MediaDefender, Inc., which was purchased by ARTISTdirect, Inc. in 2005 for $42.5 million in cash.〔http://www.freshnews.com/news/fresh-money/article_25776.html?Intel http://businessweek.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?SessionID=TnLNj4St_v_lJit&ID=4564826 http://billboard.blogs.com/billboardpostplay/2005/08/index.html〕 Saaf co-founded Jirbo, a large developer of iPhone games, in 2008. Jirbo was sold to Insight Venture Partners in 2010.〔http://www.insightpartners.com/portfolio/jirbo〕 Saaf is currently the founding CEO of AlphaGenius. AlphaGenius is an investment and technology development firm that farms social media data and produces trading models for the hedge fund industry. == Biography == Saaf has testified before Congress on Internet piracy at least three times,〔http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=623&wit_id=2276〕〔(Piracy of Intellectual Property on Peer-to-Peer Networks )〕〔(United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary )〕 and has worked with Senator Patrick Leahy,〔(Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy: "The Dark Side Of A Bright Idea: Could Personal And National Security Risks Compromise The Potential Of Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Networks?" )〕 Senator Arlen Specter,〔(United States Senator Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania : Home )〕 and Senator Orrin Hatch〔(heise online - US-Senator will bei illegalem Musiktausch PCs zerstören lassen )〕 to prevent piracy. In 2004, he donated $2,000 dollars to California Senator Barbara Boxer.〔(Randy Saaf - $2,000 in Political Contributions for 2004 )〕 Saaf appeared in a “60 Minutes” segment on piracy on 31 October 2003, where he talked about his efforts to prevent piracy.〔(Pirates Of The Internet , High-Tech Thieves Are Coming After Hollywood - CBS News )〕 He has also been a prime source for other leading news organizations, and has authored many articles against piracy.〔(Written Testimony for the Oversight Hearing on “The Prevalence of Pornography, Including Child Pornography, on Peer-to-Peer Networks” by Randy Saaf, President of MediaDefender, Inc., March 13th, 2003 ) http://web.archive.org/web/20060222091859/http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/Saaf_P2P1102news.pdf〕 A Fresno native, Saaf attended the University of California, Irvine, after graduating from Edison Computech High School (in 1994). He then transferred to Harvey Mudd College and graduated in 1998.〔(Randy Saaf Biography - Mediadefender )〕 Saaf graduated with a B.S. degree in engineering. He spent less than a year with defense technology giant Raytheon, where he worked closely with airborne signal processing—systems that extinguish incoming missiles. Saaf left Raytheon to start the website with friends, InterFriendly.net. It was designed to use P2P technology to give small businesses the ability to transfer large and numerous files.〔http://www.onsystems.com/anonymous/news/oc_register_08_29_00.html〕 He then enrolled in the UCLA School of Law.〔(Новости - Журнал "Компьютерра" )〕 A year later, he left, noting that "Law was too technical of a vocation for me."〔(Harvey Mudd College Bulletin Summer 2005 )〕 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「Randy Saaf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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