DJ Nitrogen

DJ Nitrogen makes it easy to legally share remixes of copyrighted media.

The first launch from our platform is Sharetones, a simple solution to disrupt the ringtone market. Sharetones are ringtones you share. We match your music with someone else's "ringtone recipe" to give you a ringtone from the song, instantly. We leverage the advantages of user-generated social media while protecting the owners of the copyrighted music.

Sharetones works across multiple platforms and devices, from the desktop to the breakthrough app for the Android (July'09) and WinMobile (August'09) platforms.

Sharetones is built on the DJ Nitrogen content collaboration platform that lets users legally share their mash-ups and remixes with others who own the same source content. The ringtone "recipes" are created and shared by users of a Sharetones desktop application or the new Sharetones add-on for the Songbird Media Player. Each of these applications features full audio editing capabilities, resulting in a huge database of custom ringtones. This powers the experience for the smart-phone users. For example, the soon-to-release Android app matches these recipes to the music stores on a user's Android handset, giving instant access to a large and growing selection of ringtones for song he/she already owns. It all happens right on the handset - no more browsing the carrier's high-priced selection or shopping third party sites.

The company has several patents (issued and pending) for the technology that powers its platform, including the “recipe sharing” technology that let's users legally share remixes and mash-ups of copyrighted content. The platform can support any digital media - including audio, video and user created mash-ups - but we're focusing on music ringtones first.

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Founder/CEO: Christopher Sindoni
Chris has more than 20 years of experience in the architecture, design and development of mission critical customer facing enterprise applications. For the last ten years he has worked almost exclusively on architecting and building high availability, high volume customer facing commerce applications. His clients include: The Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Intel, The Sharper Image, PeoplePC, HP, Smith and Hawken and Western Digital. Chris has served as architect and manager of several multi-million dollar software development efforts.

VP of Product Strategy: Boris Ratchev
Boris has 10 years of software (Object Oriented C++ and Java programming) and hardware design experience, which he gained in the programmable logic industry. He was also a consultant specializing in product strategy and development at high-technology companies from $2B to $60B in size. As acting CEO at Alter-G, he helped develop and pitch the first business plan for the successful Silicon Valley company. Boris has an ECE Degree from UW-Madison and a degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

VP of Marketing: Bill Hensley
Bill brings over 20 years of marketing experience in consumer products, E-commerce, financial services, advertising and Web 2.0. His accomplishments were recognized by Advertising Age magazine which named him as one of its "Marketing 100" top marketers. Bill is perhaps best known for leading marketing at Sanrio, Inc. where he developed and directed the integrated marketing and communications strategies that transformed the company's Hello Kitty property from a girls' age 4-10 character to a $4 billion lifestyle brand for women of all ages.

VP of Engineering: Alex Bagerman
Alex has more than 20 years of experience in the architecture, design and development of mission critical customer facing enterprise applications. For the last ten years he has worked almost exclusively on architecting and building high availability, high volume customer facing commerce applications. His clients include: The Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Intel, HP, The Sharper Image and Wells Fargo. Alexander is a project lead in the Open Source community contributing to JBoss Rules.

SaaS platform powering desktop and smart-phone devices. Three-tier architecture.

Our solution leverages the advantages of user-generated content in a way that protects copyright holders and adds value to all partners in the ecosystem.