Talal Shamoon

Talal G. Shamoon is a Silicon Valley executive, computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. Currently, he is the CEO of Intertrust Technologies. Starting in 1999, Shamoon has been involved in the development of digital rights management (DRM) technology which was first targeted to copyrights holders such as movie studios, music labels and publishers. Recently, he is leading Intertrust to focus on using DRM technology to protect a wide variety of digital information, including personal digital information. He is the chairman of the Marlin Developer Community, an organization dedicated to Marlin, a DRM standard he helped to develop. Shamoon was one of the authors of Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia, an oft cited paper on digital watermarking published in the IEEE publication Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on (Volume:6, Issue: 12). This paper was awarded the Sustained Impact Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2015.

Shamoon joined Intertrust Technologies as a researcher in July 1997 where he worked with Robert Tarjan. Since then, he has held a number of executive positions at Intertrust, including executive vice president for business development and marketing, and head of Intertrust's initiatives in the entertainment and media sectors. He became CEO in 2003 when Sony and Philips acquired Intertrust and took it private. During his tenure, Intertrust has grown into a research and development lab as well as a billion dollar technology licensing business.

Shamoon has also overseen the spin out of several new companies from Intertrust. These new companies are focusing on providing trust, privacy, and security for digital media publishing, online advertising, big data, IoT (Internet of Things), and enterprise collaboration. In addition, Shamoon has been active in founding Internet companies and startups. In 2006, he was the founding investor in Seacert, a company providing custom managed PKI (public key infrastructure) services for use with Marlin (DRM) and IoT devices. In 2010, he helped create Personagraph, a startup developing a customer understanding platform for mobile devices. Other companies Shamoon has helped to build are Kabuto (secure peer-to-peer enterprise collaboration), ExpressPlay (cloud-based service for digital media protection), and Genecloud (cloud-based genetic analytics platform emphasizing privacy and security). Under his leadership, Intertrust has also invested in startups and was an early investor in Nest Labs (bought by Google in 2014), whiteCryption, Planet OS, Kiora, and SyncTV.

Shamoon also worked at NEC Research Institute Princeton from 1994 to 1997 doing research in the fields of signal processing and computer science.

1. Methods and Apparatus for Persistent Control and Protection of Content, Application number: 20140064484, Issued: March 6, 2014, Assignee: Intertrust Technologies Corporation
2. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Patent number: 8526610, Issued: September 3, 2013
3. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Patent number: 8130952, Issued: March 6, 2012
4. Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats, Patent number: 7987514, Issued: July 26, 2011
5. Methods and, Apparatus for Persistent Control and Protection of Content, Application number: 20110083009, Issued: April 7, 2011
6. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Patent number: 7822201, Issued: October 26, 2010
7. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Patent number: 7809138, Issued: October 5, 2010
8. Methods and Apparatus for Persistent Control and Protection of Content, Application number: 20080134342, Issued: June 5, 2008
9. Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats, Application number: 20070230698, Issued: October 4, 2007
10. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Patent number: 7233948, Issued: June 19, 2007
11. Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats, Patent number: 7190792, Issued: March 13, 2007
12. Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats, Patent number: 7050586, Issued: May 23, 2006
13. Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content, Application number: 20040107356, Issued: June 3, 2004
14. Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia data, Patent number: 6208735, Issued: March 27, 2001
15. Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia data, Patent number: 5930369, Issued: July 27, 1999

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