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| Birthplace | Charleston, SC |
| Birthdate | 12/23/63 |
| University of Miami, Master of Science | 1992 |
| Signal Processing, Psychoacoustics, Computer Science |
Ted Tanner is a serial entrepreneur and has worked at some of the best software companies in the world.
About Ted Tanner Jr. With more than 20 years in the technical industry Mr. Tanner has been involved in all aspects of technology development from C-Level public engagements, R&D, Venture Capital due diligence and several M&A events. In total, he has had instrumental roles in 4 start-ups, including digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Creative Labs), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft for $75M) and BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). He is on the Board of Directors for Relocality.com and QVizLab, Inc. and is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee.

Tanner was the VP of Core Systems at Benefitfocus Inc the leading provider of Health related Benefits software in the nation. He oversaw R&D, Connected Systems, Developer Systems, Developer Community and Intellectual Property Strategy. He was responsible for the vision of the companies Benefits Operating System that was a semantic and predictive analytics engine for all Health Related Benefits data.
Formerly he was the CTO of BeliefNetworks, Inc a real time semantic and predictive analytics company focused on media and department of defense applications. BeliefNetworks was purchase by Benefitfocus in 2009. Customers included Forbes.com, Comcast / DailyCandy.com and the Department of Defense.
Prior to BeliefNetworks Inc he as an architect for seven years with Microsoft Corporation working on such products and technologies as the Windows Networking Stack, Vista Audio architecture, Metadata architectures, Secure Audio- Video path, and Media Center edition. Before leaving Microsoft in 2007, Mr. Tanner supported IPv6 and RFID solutions, Trustworthy Computing, Emergency/DataFusion Enterprise Architecture and Media architectures, in addition, Ted represented the Microsoft Corporation on the Presidential National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Research and Development Taskforce (NSTAC-RDTF) and the Next Generation Networks Taskforce.
Prior to Microsoft, he was VP of R&D for MongoMusic were he directed all aspects of knowledge discovery, machine learning, signal processing research, intellectual property management and venture capital assessment. MongoMusic was purchased by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000 for $75M. Prior to MongoMusic, Inc, Mr. Tanner was the Media Architect at Apple Computer Inc. where he worked on adaptive media processing architectures for OS9 and OSX underlying products such as iMovie, iTunes and GarageBand.
Mr. Tanner has published numerous articles in leading technical magazines and holds several patents in the areas of semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection. He is an active public speaker on advanced technology issues in a variety of industry forums and conferences including but not limited to government sponsored events and hearings such as those held by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
Specialties Health, Semantic Intelligence,Machine Learning,Data Mining, Signal Processing,Identity Management,RFID, Agile Software Development, Technical Policy, Serial Entrepreneur, Copy Protection Technologies, Technical Due Diligence, Intellectual Property Strategy
