David Straus

Chief Executive Officer

2011

We are dedicated to helping you ignite the leader inside you and your entire organization. To remind you how to reconnect your drive with your passion, and to ultimately give you the tools to listen to the vision you have deep inside for the company you lead, the customers and shareholders that depend on you and the life you continue to build.

Founding Member

2012

Reason Ventures is a group of innovators and social entrepreneurs investing in businesses that yield both human and fiscal prosperity. We believe companies are enriched when they are able to make positive contributions to the lives of their employees and to the customers and societies that sustain their businesses.

Board Member

2008

Jewish World Watch works to mobilize synagogues, their schools, their members and the community to combat genocide and other egregious violations of human rights around the world. Build a World Without Genocide, Do Not Stand Idly By.

Board Member

2008

The Zimmer Children's Museum is an institution about big ideas; showing children, youth and adults that they can make a difference in their communities and nation wide.

President Rightsline division of Critical Mass Studios Inc

2013 - 2017

Co-Founder, CEO and Board Chair.

2012 - 2016

Critical Mass Studios, the first vertically integrated, next-gen studio, is transforming global, multi-platform distribution, rights management tracking and monetization for the entertainment and publishing industries using critical mass tracking technology. CMS has established a new content ecosystem designed to transform distribution and delivery workflow for media companies, putting it at the center of the entertainment industry’s value chain of rights – the nexus whereby right holders, licensors, distributors, promoters and brands will communicate and transact. By providing unparalleled rights and transactional tracking, along with seamless file delivery, CMS is changing the way technologically savvy companies are able to distribute content.

Head of Industry

2008 - 2011

CEO, Withoutabox a Division of IMDb

2008 - 2011

Co-Founder and CEO

2000 - 2011

Director and Producer

1992 - 1999