Faculte is a multimedia communications platform for professionals and organizations. The company was founded in 2007 with a simple mission: to help people and businesses use rich media (video, voice, visuals) to share and sell knowledge and information online. Our product design approach is straightforward: make it easy, and make it fun!
Our team spans professionals from various backgrounds and nationalities from the San Francisco Bay Area all the way to Cluj, Romania. We believe that technology not only bridges distances but also improves communication between people in the same location. We now have the ability to capture and communicate our thoughts using rich forms of media from video to voice to visuals.
Maher Hakim, founder and CEO of Faculte, is a seasoned technology executive and successful serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in software development and design, and expertise in business development, management and strategy. Maher has developed innovative services, products and solutions for industry-leading enterprise software companies.
Previous to Faculte, Maher founded Apexion Technologies, Inc. and served as President and CEO from early 2001 until the company's merger with Lawson Software, after which he served as VP of Product Management and Strategy for Lawson. Prior to this, Maher served as CTO for supply chain management solutions provider Neoforma, Inc., and was a co-founder of Pharos Technologies, an e-commerce catalog solution provider. Additionally, Maher served as Product Development Leader for Autodesk, Inc. a leading software company.
Maher received his doctorate in computer-aided engineering and management from Carnegie Mellon University and his master of science in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He attended Damascus University as an undergraduate where he received his bachelor of science in engineering.
As co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, Mark Valentine applies more than two decades of operations experience to managing finance, legal, and other administrative functions for Faculte. Additionally, he continues to serve as Chairman of the Board at SigmaQuest Inc., provider of on-demand, scalable solutions that help companies improve product quality and customer satisfaction using business intelligence techniques.
Previous to Faculte and SigmaQuest, Mark served as CEO of operations consulting firm OPS Central, where he successfully led his team in giving startups cost effective solutions for managing procurement, manufacturing, and logistics functions. Mark also served as VP of Operations at optical networking startup Geyser Networks Inc., where he managed all manufacturing/engineering, test and quality, IT, customer service, supply chain and facilities programs. Prior to Geyser, Mark served as Director of Strategic Accounts at Flextronics, where he managed global account managers and oversaw major accounts, including Lucent, Philips, Sony and WebTV. He successfully developed supply chain solutions to provide efficient and cost-effective manufacturing and distribution of global products.
Mark spent the first ten years of his career at Tandem Computers, serving in various capacities, including Director of Worldwide Logistics, with responsibility for global planning, procurement, and distribution. He also helped open the company's manufacturing facility in Scotland.
Mark received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University in 1986 and a master of science in industrial engineering from Stanford in 1987.
Web-based Platform Enables Easy, Quick, and Cost-Effective Production, Distribution and Management of Interactive Video Presentations
San Diego, Calif., September 22, 2009 - Faculte, Inc. today announced from DEMOfall 09 the availability of its new Broadcast Studio, a web-based multimedia communication platform designed to help organizations take their business communications to a new level by producing, distributing and managing captivating interactive video presentations quickly and at minimal cost.
With the new Faculte Broadcast Studio, organizations and professionals can sidestep third-party videographers and producers to easily and cost-effectively combine existing content (such as video and audio clips, PowerPoint slides, images, and documents) with voice and video cam recordings, to create compelling interactive video presentations, called "Broadcasts", that establish a personal connection with targeted audiences such as customers, partners and employees. Unlike pre-produced video, Broadcasts can be continually updated and modified, even after they've been published and shared online, enabling centralized control of brand and message.
"Today organizations are increasingly looking to online video to convey information and ideas, both internally and externally", said Maher Hakim, CEO and founder, Faculte. "But compelling video content is expensive and time consuming to create and distribute, and also difficult to modify and manage once published. With Broadcast Studio we're giving organizations the ability to quickly produce and distribute lively video content through a flexible, do-it-yourself platform that empowers them to inject life into their communications and engage any audience".
The Faculte Broadcast Studio mashes video, images, audio and other content with presentation tools such as narration and annotation without requiring expensive flash, web programming, content streaming and costly production or the installation of software and mastery of difficult applications. The result is branded Broadcasts that may be:
The Faculte Broadcast Studio platform is ideal for:
"Faculte's cost-effective platform supports our mission to identify and implement solutions that make environmental and economic sense", said Susan Corlett, Director of Development and Communications, Sustainable Conservation. "From educating the public regarding our climate change, clean air and water, and biodiversity initiatives, to enhancing our fundraising efforts and internal staff trainings, Faculte's easy-to-use Broadcast Studio has proven a valuable addition to our communications toolbox".
Anyone can use the new Faculte Broadcast Studio by visiting www.faculte.com. Faculte offers two types of accounts: free basic accounts, and premium professional accounts starting as low as $50 a month.
Faculte was founded in 2007 with the mission of helping professionals and organizations use media to share knowledge and information online. The company's multimedia communication platform enables its users to quickly and easily assemble media and other content to create captivating marketing, training and business communications. Its goal is to help businesses eradicate unnecessary loss of time, money and energy by simplifying the use of rich media to communicate online. For more information, please visit www.faculte.com.
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit www.demo.com.
Faculte is a startup that has the objective of letting users create and distribute rich video presentations. The startup is specially pitched at business users that want to come up with presentations to engage audiences with.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/faculte-com-video-presentations-made-accessibleFaculte, a startup that presented at last month's DEMO conference, is looking to help companies produce high-quality video presentations online, without having to deal with the uploading and editing hassles associated with desktop apps. The service can be used for any kind of presentation, but the company is primarily marketing towards businesses looking to create product demos, internal training videos, and customer support movies, among other things.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/faculte-streamlines-web-based-video-presentations-for-businesses/Seeking to help companies produce and manage interactive video presentations quickly and economically, Faculte has introduced its new Broadcast Studio, a web-based multimedia communication platform. This new tool helps companies make their own videos, eliminating the need for videographers.
http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv/articles/65860-faculte-launches-new-web-based-multimedia-communication-platform.htmCarla and Keith offer up analysis from their favorite companies and products that launched at DEMOfall 09. Find out why they liked Micello, Intelius (DateCheck), Emo Labs, Kryon Systems (Leo), Liaise, Zorap, TwirlTV, Third Iris, Waze, TrafficTalk, Faculte and TravelTrac.
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With the new Faculte Broadcast Studio, organizations and professionals can sidestep third-party videographers and producers to easily and cost-effectively combine existing content (such as video and audio clips, PowerPoint slides, images, and documents) with voice and video cam recordings, to create compelling interactive video presentations, called "Broadcasts", that establish a personal connection with targeted audiences such as customers, partners and employees.
http://www.bulldogreporter.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=243…And indeed, making a video slideshow with Faculte's software did seem like a simple matter of dragging and dropping individual pieces of video--from easy-to-access folders--into a stream. Further, at least according to the demo, it seemed simple to add new elements after publishing, or delete pieces you don't like.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10359934-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20Faculte's web-based "Broadcast Studio" platform is aimed at businesses that want to set up interactive video presentations. Businesses can add video, voice and other visuals to an online presentation, which they can then distribute across the web. They can also use Faculte's platform to charge viewers who want to watch it.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-faculte-raises-2.8-million-for-video-presentation-platform/It lets companies add branding and interactive features to its videos, including password protection, and registration forms to capture leads and provide payments through PayPal. More casual users can upload and elaborate upon existing PowerPoint presentations. For example, they can draw on top of or annotate slides and rearrange them in different configurations to enhance their points.
http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009/09/01/faculte-bags-27m-for-rich-media-presentations-made-easy/If you want to pitch something, anything, and you want to get the maximum impact then plain old text isn't going to cut it. Flash? Expensive and complicated. Nope, you're going to want to move to video so you can not only tell but also show as well.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2009/081709web1.htmlI was recently clued into a a service, Faculte that offers a drop dead simple, feature rich and quite fun solution to create presentations and slide shows - what they call broadcasts. Faculte is NOT filled with confusing menus or hard to use options, but Faculte (yeah I tried it myself) is slick and its web service operates better than any desktop program.
http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2009/07/want-to-create-slick-eye-catch.htmlMSR Communications
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