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About Contrieve, Inc.

Contrieve, Inc. is a network technology research and development company founded in August 2000 by Mr. Harry Tarnoff and a small group of colleagues.  Mr. Tarnoff founded the company in response to frustrations with inefficiencies in and problems with established network operation.  The goal:  leverage, combine and develop technologies to automate and improve radically the speed, accuracy, trustfulness and reliability of the transfer of network data.

The group's original objective was to develop a filter for children, but the scope was quickly expanded to work with the transmisson of any kind of network data.  Several years of technical development has lead to a complete range of innovative technology and an initial release of core technology "RevBot™" products for which Contrieve has several patents pending.

In 2002, as Contrieve matured, its Board wanted a more combined approach between its technical and its finance and marketing efforts.  As a result, the Board appointed Mr. Jeff Klein as Chief Executive Officer.  During his tenure, Contrieve has expanded its Intellectual Property with additional patent filings and has reduced its technology to practice in a number of exciting RevBot-based products.

In 2003, Mr. Martin Vann was brought on so that the company could draw from his sales and marketing expertise.

• Jeff Klein, Director and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned business leader and manager.  Mr. Klein was Co-president of Complete Post, a leading provider of film and television services and technology to the entertainment industry.  During his 15 years at the company revenues grew from $12 million to $35 million dollars annually, employment grew from 80 employees to over 225 employees, and profitability grew year over year.  Additionally, Mr. Klein led the introduction of several new businesses for Complete Post, including Complete Sound, which became one of the largest sound production faculties in North America.  Mr. Klein was one of the founders of YouCanPlay.com where he led the development of key applications including a breakthrough market research and data-mining tool for Internet gaming.  Mr. Klein also helped design several media platforms integrating Internet, television, radio, telephone and wireless applications into a single solution.  Mr. Klein started his career in 1979 as a Certified Public Accountant, following graduation from the University of Southern California, (USC), with a degree in Business Administration.
• Martin Vann, Director and Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Contrieve, is an accomplished sales, marketing and operational leader.  Mr. Vann began his career at IBM in sales and marketing positions and has worked with several venture backed organizations in the communications, collaborative software, content and entertainment markets.  Mr. Vann held various senior positions at Avid Technology, the world’s largest professional provider of digital editing and media creation tools, where he was responsible for all sales, marketing and business development efforts for Avid’s entertainment and broadcast operations.  During his six years at Avid, corporate revenue grew from $10 million to $450 million.  Additionally, Mr. Vann was on the team which earned both an Emmy™ and an Oscar™ for various Avid products.  In 2000, Mr. Vann successfully sold entertainment marketing and e-commerce company StudioXchange to iFilm at which point he was named Vice President Sales and Marketing where he was responsible for developing business strategies, managing several corporate acquisitions and heading all sales, product marketing and business development activities.  In 2001, he began working with DMOD, a Digital Rights Management company building the sales organization and closing initial customer business.
• Harry L. Tarnoff, shareholder, is the founder and principal executive of DataPlex, Inc., a 25-year-old technology development corporation specializing in new product design.  Mr. Tarnoff is internationally recognized as a key inventor and developer of several innovative technologies and has provided technical consulting to several start-ups.  Mr. Tarnoff was Director of Engineering for Axiom Edwards-CPE, Inc. a printer manufacturer where he oversaw the design, development and production of various types of printers.  One of his designs became the basis for the label printer now used by the United States Postal Service.  Mr. Tarnoff was on the initial engineering teams for 3D Systems, Inc. and Soligen, Inc., companies that now define the solid imaging and rapid prototyping markets.  At 3D Systems, he was Software Manager and also part of the advanced research team.  He has designed unique hardware and software systems, built prototypes, and successfully resolved interoperability issues with computer networks' data formats and communication protocols.  Many of his original designs validated novel concepts, and he is named on over thirty patents.  At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Mr. Tarnoff engaged a study program that combined Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics, worked in the UCLA laboratories where the Internet was born, and, in 1983, graduated from UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science with a degree in Electrical Engineering.