An entrepreneur, marketing executive and online pioneer, Stuart Halperin has an array of experience in the motion picture, television and Internet industries. He is currently president of StuartHalperin.com, a strategic marketing consultancy focusing on the intersection of entertainment and technology.
Stuart launched Hollywood Online (now Hollywood.com) with a partner in 1993, using limited seed financing, and operated the business from cash flow for the first two years. The company initiated and promoted the widespread use of interactive multimedia online as a marketing tool for entertainment companies and won a CLIO Award for its "Forrest Gump" interactive marketing campaign.
More recently, Stuart was the head of marketing at MovieTickets.com, a leading Internet movie ticketing service. Previously, Stuart worked in marketing roles for Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox International and New Line Cinema, and was a newswriter for CNN. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BFA from the NYU Film School.