DIGITAL STRATEGY
Digital Strategy Consulting
Strategy consulting and website production for Rolex globally (2005 to 2009) and Ashes and snow. My last major web project was the lux-airport website.
Start-Up & Business Development
Europe Online (web portal); Syncast (interactive TV interface software); Bespeak, a fashion tech mobile app and e-commerce recommendation engine. And now FLOW ...
Special Project
Management
Ashes and snow: exhibition organization and management on three continents of the Nomadic Museum, the migrating exhibition hall of Gregory Colbert's art.
CHRIS BRUCK
I define myself as digital strategist and producer.
I have produced, conceived, advised, managed and invented in digital media for 30 years.
Start-ups, projects, staff functions and consulting, I act as a producer in support of business objectives on one side, and of the creative talent – artistic and programming – on the other.
I started in digital media upon returning to Europe from my studies in Japan in 1992, initiating the Japan Satellite TV Channel (JSTV) on the 2nd Astra satellite, producing CD-ROMs when there were only laser discs, until I co-founded the first European Internet portal in 1994: Heady times when Netscape's Jim Clark drew for me a cloud on a whiteboard in Mountain View to explain the Web.
Touring Europe alongside AOL and Compuserve executives, we told crowds how the Internet would change their lives, how a million people would embrace it and how some people might even spend money...
Beyond this digital archaeology, this website is a snapshot of what I am currently engaged in and what I strive to explore in the ever accelerating Digital Age.
30
Years Experience
3
Continents
TOP 500
App Out of 1 Million (The Times)
1st
European Internet Portal Founded
WWW
In charge of the Global Digital Initiative of Rolex from 2005 to 2009 reporting directly to the CEO in Geneva.
Luxembourg Airport website full redesign and mobile apps for Android and iOS launched in January 2017.
Pioneering the Internet in Europe, I co-founded and helped raise $75 million for the first European web portal in 1994. Achieved 80X valuation of First Round investment.
TECHNOLOGIES
All digital media build on top of the web and feed off each other.
The next big waves of change – virtual reality, blockchain, Internet of Things – are rolling in to further transform our world in the ongoing Digital Revolution.
Myriad of opportunities arise continually and strategic insight into the nature of digital technologies can be leveraged for business development.
The Next Big Thing: Frictionless transactions executed automatically, unhackable and unfakable ...
I am a co-founder of FLOW Digital Liquidity which introduces the LNFT (Liquid Non-Fungible Token.
In 2009, I produced a virtual reality enhanced walk-through of the Ashes and Snow exhibition at the Zocalo, Mexico City, developed with the Unity gaming platform compatible with the Oculus Rift VR headset to be released in 2016.
The Internet of Things – the other Next Big Thing (and related to blockchain in several ways) – in my case from the perspective of smart clothes that can recommend matching outfits (BeSpeak).
Over The Top (Internet instead of cable) delivery of TV channels to select audiences.
I deliver since 2016 a 20 TV channel live US TV package for US expatriates in Europe. .
CLIENTS
Here are some of the clients I assisted as a business consultant over the years.
LANGUAGES
Fluent
Fluent
Fluent
Proficient (a bit rusty)
Native
Did you know that Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774 – 1849) was a famed linguist and hyperpolyglot? His is the all time record of mastering 39 languages.
EDUCATION
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Business and Commerce from Keio University in Tokyo in 1992. I researched and defended my thesis on “Cultural Differences In International Negotiations” in Japanese, though I was thankfully allowed to write it in English.
1988: M.A. Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo. Thesis: “Japanese System Of Division Of Labor.” I became a lecturer with the joint venture of the EU and MITI (Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry) to teach European senior executives Japanese negotiating and management techniques.
Maîtrise (J.D.), International Business Law with Panthéon-Sorbonne, University Paris I, Paris in 1984.
