Brad Hunstable

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Brad Hunstable
Born September 26, 1978 (age 33)
Tarrant County, Texas
Occupation Founder, President and Interim CEO, Ustream, Inc.
Spouse April Hunstable (m. 2003) «start: (2003)»"Marriage: April Hunstable to Brad Hunstable" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Hunstable)
Children 2
Website
http://www.ustream.tv

Brad Hunstable (born 1978) is co-founder and President of the popular San Francisco, California-based live video microbroadcasting website Ustream.tv, one of the largest consumer live video sites on the Internet.[1] Since November, 2011 he also serves as Interim CEO of the company.[2]

Ranked among 50 "Digital Power Players" by the Hollywood Reporter in 2010[3], Hunstable was announced on Variety (magazine) Producers Guild of America's 2010 Digital 25: Visionaries, Innovators and Producers list for his work at Ustream.[4]

Ustream.tv was selected as a PC Magazine Editor's Choice.[5] Notable investors include Softbank,[6] DCM,[6] Frank J. Caufield,[7] and the Band Of Angels.[8] General Wesley Clark[8] serves Ustream.TV's board of advisors.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Fred Bradley Hunstable was born on September 26, 1978 in Tarrant County, Texas, and grew up near Fort Worth, Texas, with a younger sister (Ashlee) and a younger brother (Nathan). His parents are Fred Eugene Hunstable, an electrical engineer, and Candace "Candy" Lee Cotter, a school teacher. Since childhood, he has shown an interest in technology. At age 11, he started one of the largest Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) called the Dark Realms.[9]

He graduated from Granbury High School, Granbury in 1997, where his mother still works. He went on to receive his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering management from the United States Military Academy in 2001. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, working primarily as an operations officer. Later, through the Army, Hunstable attended the Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business where he received his Master of Business Administration degree in finance and real estate in 2005.[10]

[edit] After West Point

Hunstable was required to serve five years in the U.S. Army. He served in various capacities around the world working jobs both for the Army and the Department of Defense directly.

In 2005, he left the military to work for Hillwood Development, a real estate company owned by Ross Perot developing master planned communities in Dallas/Fort Worth.[10]

[edit] Ustream

Ustream.tv was born when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Dr. Gyula Feher) wanted a way for their friends in the Army, who were deployed overseas in Iraq during the war, to be able to communicate with their families back home. A product like Ustream would provide them with a way to talk to all of their relatives at once when free time in the war zone was limited.[11]

Previously, these three had worked together on an internet based event photo sharing website using technology created by Dr. Feher. In 2003, both Brad and John Ham were deployed to active duty, putting an end to this venture. After returning to civilian life, Brad and John discussed the idea of the general public using the Internet to share live video. Seeing this as a viable product, they contacted their former partner, Dr. Feher, in order to develop the technology required. Ustream.tv was founded in 2006, as experiments in broadcasting Brad's brothers's band proved successful. Early testing involved Brad in the audience with a camera wired to a laptop (with a cellular card) in his backpack, sending the stream back to their test server.[10]

Launching their public beta in March 2007, Ustream.tv was the first of a series of live video sites include Justin.tv and Operator11.com. The company has seen "growth" in the political, entertainment, and technology fields.[12]

Ustream.tv have hosted streamings from politicians Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards[13] and artists Tori Amos and the Plain White T's.[14] The technology community has also adopted Ustream to include Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, Chris Pirillo, and Cali Lewis.

Ustream.tv has raised over $90 million in funding, most recently from Softbank.[6]

[edit] Personal life

Hunstable is married to April Hunstable. They have two children together.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.quantcast.com/p-22sNmkTMKNC-A
  2. ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/ustream-ceo-john-ham-steps-down-to-work-on-new-startup/
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ New Ways to Webcam - Ustream.tv - Reviews by PC Magazine
  6. ^ a b c [3]
  7. ^ Merry Christmas, Mom: Ustream links soldiers with home | Crave : The gadget blog
  8. ^ a b UStream.TV Gets Some Cash And General Wesley Clark
  9. ^ [4]
  10. ^ a b c [cdn2.ustream.tv/mediakit/Ustream_Executive_Bios.pdf
  11. ^ [5]
  12. ^ Ustream.TV Experiences Significant Business Growth; Company Adds New CEO, Industry Partners and Thousands of Users
  13. ^ YouTube and UStream Go Political
  14. ^ The Ustream.TV Blog » Blog Archive » Plain White T’s Event Serves 130,000

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