Steve Messere

Steve Messere founded Revenue Spark after spending eighteen years in senior leadership positions with some of the preeminent licensors of editorial and commercial photography, motion picture and television images, as well as leading information technology firms including Oracle, Adobe and Apple Computer.

His earliest professional work concentrated on the emerging convergence of computing platforms with traditional media technologies. He worked on the development of the first computer video digitizing technologies including the launch of Apple’s QuickTime and interactive news gathering platforms in the late 1980s for ABCNews that preceded the introduction of today's consumer news web sites.

Steve participated in MIT Media Lab prototyping programs that pioneered the earliest forms of hypertext using Apple's HyperCard platform - a forerunner to today’s HTML based web browsers. He also worked with one of the world's largest newspaper companies, KnightRidder, to develop and market news photo delivery platforms for newsrooms and early prototypes of digital consumer handheld readers that share many of the aspects of the recently realized Amazon Kindle and Apple's new Internet tablet the iPad.

Steve has spent time working in New York, London, Paris, Washington DC and Seattle. He has extensive knowledge in developing technology business operations systems and has a significant portfolio of experience in Fortune 500 operational procedures.

Prior to starting Revenue Spark, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at one the leading executive sales outsourcing firms in the United States, Corporate Rain International. CRI was an early pioneer in the area of domestic sales outsourcing for senior level business meetings. In the course of 15 years, CRI supported hundreds of business ranging for early-stage start-up to Fortune 50 companies, they created thousands of meetings that lead to new revenue streams and created new jobs.

He graduated as Centennial Scholar in Information Marketing from the University of Rhode Island and pursued post-graduate doctoral work in Consumer Behavioral Studies related to newly emerging Internet services and Interactive Online trial programs at the dawn of the Internet age.

Steve has served as the president of the National Association of Sales Outsourcers, president of the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors, and have been an active member of the Board of Trustees for the International Documentary Association and the British Academy of Film and Television.

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