Seed Media Group: Team

Prior to joining Seed Media Group, Roy Kaplan was Chief Technology Officer at Digital Transaction Machines, Inc. where he applied his unique combination of technology expertise and large-scale product design and architecture experience to all aspects of technology within the company. In this role Roy led multiple globally dispersed teams of product designers, developers and engineers to create a centralized content management infrastructure optimized for securely transporting large volumes of digital media to many remote locations and present that content via a unique and innovative user experience. In addition, he led the design, manufacture and integration of custom robotic materials handling devices and other hardware components into ruggedized, unattended, remote production and delivery systems.

Prior to joining DTM, Roy was the Director of Global Architecture and Infrastructure for Moneyline-Telerate, a Reuters Company. In this role Roy was responsible for the end-to-end design and management of the development of Moneyline-Telerate's global financial market data aggregation and distribution infrastructure. This cutting-edge ticker plant technology processed and provided value-added transformations on real-time market data for distribution to financial analysts around the world.

Prior to Moneyline-Telerate, Roy worked for Cicada Corporation as the Vice President of Product Technology. Cicada's real-time market data processing was used to power the Deutsche Bourse stock exchange, and Roy was directly responsible for bringing this real-time content to the Web. Before working for Cicada he served as the Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at SageMaker Corporation, an Internet start-up whose technology normalized and distributed the content of thousands of publication and real-time news feeds through a simplified Internet portal user interface. Prior to SageMaker, Mr. Kaplan was the Global Product Architect for the Reuters 3000 series of analytic applications that have been installed on hundreds of thousands of financial professional's desktops and are still in active use today.

Roy majored in computer science and electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and currently resides with his family in New Canaan, CT.