Kaleil Isaza Tuzman Joins JumpTV Board of Directors
July 15, 2005NEW YORK, July 15, 2005 - Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, expert in the startup and growth of small businesses and an influential voice in the world of entrepreneurship, has joined the board of directors and will oversee content acquisition for JumpTV, the innovative Internet broadcasting network that brings international content to PC users in the Untied States and Europe.
JumpTV is the solution for first generation, native language speaking U.S. and European immigrant populations looking for real-time news, information and sports from their home countries broadcast live on the Internet. JumpTV licenses Internet retransmission rights directly from internationally located, domestic-television stations and then broadcasts them in real-time over its website – www.jumptv.com.
Consumers with broadband access and a PC subscribe through the network to individual channels (for $9.95 per month) and are instantly privy to real-time, relevant content from their home country. As the world’s leading Internet TV broadcaster, JumpTV boasts over 30 channels from 26 different countries, and a subscriber base growth of over 10 percent per month.
Mr. Isaza Tuzman, a Harvard graduate, is the President of Recognition Group, a New York-based merchant bank focused on emerging growth companies. In addition to being a well-known entrepreneur and venture capitalist having founded or led companies in software, media and business services fields, Mr. Isaza Tuzman has also worked in investment banking and proprietary investing at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Mr. Isaza Tuzman regularly appears or comments in international media outlets, including CNN, CNBC, FOX, The Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine, and recently published The Entrepreneur's Success Kit: A 5- Step Lesson Plan to Create and Grow Your Own Business (St. Martin's Press, 2005). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has acted as a trade representative under the Bush Administration. Mr. Isaza Tuzman is also a board member of leading e-government software provider, Versa Systems, Inc.