Bill Rosenblatt

Bill Rosenblatt is president of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies (www.giantstepsmts.com), a consulting firm whose clients include content providers and digital media technology companies. Bill bridges the gaps between business and technology in the digital media world. He brings content providers expertise in areas such as digital rights management, content management and distribution, cross-media strategy, and content monetization, and he provides technology vendors with market strategy, business development, and product management services.

Bill is author of the book Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and white papers including The New Content Monetization Opportunities for Publishers: Best Practices, Strategy and Architecture (2010). Bill is also an author of technical books for the publisher O'Reilly & Associates, and he was a contributor to the book Electronic Publishing Strategies (Pira International, 1997). He is a guest lecturer on digital copyright at leading universities and law schools and publishes the blog Copyright and Technology (www.copyrightandtechnology.com).

Before founding GiantSteps in 2000, Bill was chief technology officer of Fathom, an Internet content and education company backed by Columbia University and other scholarly institutions. He has been a technology and new media executive at McGraw-Hill and Times Mirror Company, and he served as manager of strategic marketing for media and publishing at Sun Microsystems. He was the architect of Moody’s Investors Service’s digital publishing platform in the pre-Internet early 90s.

Bill has a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and executive education from Harvard and University of Southern California business schools.