Ty Roberts is widely recognized as one of the inventors of enhanced CD technology and is accredited with producing the industry’s first enhanced CDs. He joined Gracenote in November of 1998 after the company acquired ION, a multimedia and music technology company that he founded in 1993. Roberts serves as Gracenote’s chief technology strategist, providing technology direction and overseeing the creation of products and services that leverage the power of the Gracenote database to deliver information services.

Co-Founder, Chief Officer of Strategy and Business Development @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer @ Gracenote was aquired by Tribune Corporation of America Jan 31st, 2014. Gracenote will continue to offer unique and advanced multimedia networking services to the industry at large. Roberts will continue to develop leading edge connected media technology for music, film and television. . From February 2014 to November 2014 (10 months) Co-Founder & CTO @ I spend my days doing corporate and business development involving IP, Technology & Services. Sequioa, Bessemer, Scott A Jones and Simon Investments back the company. CDDB was created by my esteemed collegues Steve Scherf and Ti Khan. Gracenote was formed by combining CDDB and ION. From November 1998 to April 2008 (9 years 6 months) Co-Founder & CEO @ Produced the recording industry’s first enhanced audio CD titles, including David Bowie’s "Jump" and "Headcandy" from Brian Eno. He was the company’s lead technologist and innovator in adding multimedia content to traditional audio CDs. Other founders were Ann Greenberg, John Eric Greenberg and Lou Beach. Notable Alumni are Albhy Galuten, Roger Jones, Bill Schulze and Jason Winshell. From May 1992 to November 1998 (6 years 7 months) Fifth Beatle to Quicktime team @ Wrote the first computer controlled high quality frame grabber to digitize video. Connected Quicktime team to music artists to get real music videos as examples. Todd Rundgren, Michael Penn, Julian Hatfiled and the reclisive Residents all participated. Built Ty's Quicktime theater to showcase the videos on the Quicktime 1.0 rlelease. Worked with the orginal music multimedia pioneers Steve Nelson (Peter Gabriel), Tony Bove (SF Oracle), Marc Canter (Mediaband) to help music artists evolve music into an interactive platform. From 1989 to 1994 (5 years) Co-Founder & Director of Advanced Technology @ A software development company that produced multimedia and graphics editing software. Original idea was to make something like Photoshop, but then we found out the Knoll brothers had allready done it while working at ILM. During this time I very involved in the emerging field of digital video applications and was involved in the creation and commercialzation of QuickTime. Lightsource was founded by Rob Cook, Rick Smolan, Philip Moffit and myself. Backed by Venrock. Alumni include Michael Solomon, marketing genius of Aldus. From October 1988 to May 1992 (3 years 8 months) Senior Macintosh Developer @ Was the first Macintosh developer to work at PIXAR. Left with Rob Cook and Lauren Carpenter to found Lightsource. From January 1988 to October 1988 (10 months) Co-Founder & Mac Developer @ Developed Macintosh music applications including "Studio Session" and "Jam Session". Alumni from Bogas are Steve Kapps, co-creator of the Macintosh Finder, Neil Cormia creator of WAP and Gary Clayton sound expert extroidinare. From November 1983 to January 1988 (4 years 3 months) Game Developer @ Wrote games for Activision under Steven Kitchen's guidance. The big game here was 'Space Shuttle' which blew up for the first time just before I finished my Colecovision port. From October 1982 to November 1983 (1 year 2 months) Software Developer @ Developed Atari VCS2600 Game for Milton Bradley and system software for the NEC personal computer. Worked with Vic Ivashin and Dusty Duistermars. Survival Run was published in 1983 http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=24378 From November 1981 to May 1983 (1 year 7 months) Educational Software Developer @ Wrote Apple ][ educational software under contract for Spinaker Software. Product was 'SUM DUCKS' a childrens math game. From April 1982 to October 1982 (7 months)

Ty Roberts is skilled in: Music Technology, Live Events, Patents, Travel Photography, Video, Mobile Applications, Digital Audio, Multimedia, Sound, Digital Media, Music Industry, Mobile Devices, E-commerce, Streaming Media, Music