Alain Simon Rossmann (born 1956[1]) is a French entrepreneur who was a member of the early Apple Macintosh team and who went on to found or co-found nine startups, of which three went public (Radius,[2] C-Cube Microsystems,[3] Unwired Planet[4]), three were acquired (EO by AT&T,[5] Vudu by Walmart,[6] PSS Systems by IBM[7]), and two were dissolved (Zonbu,[8] Klip[9]). The ninth is his current company, Machinify.[10]
He was vice-president of marketing and sales from 1986 to 1989.[2][10] Its IPO was in 1990.[17] He was vice-president of operations of C-Cube Microsystems, a leading developer of MPEGintegrated circuits, from 1989 to 1992.[3] Its IPO was in 1994. It was acquired by LSI Logic in 2001.[18]
After Unwired Planet, he was founder and CEO then chairman of PSS Systems, an information lifecycle governance company, from June 2001 to October 2010. It was acquired by IBM in 2010.[7] His online movie service, Vudu, was acquired by Walmart.[6] He was founder and CEO from June 2005 to March 2010.[22] Next Rossmann was founder and chairman of Zonbu, subscription-based personal computer maker, from April 2006 to December 2007.[8]
From March 2011 to January 2015 he worked at Klip, Inc., a social video start up, as founder and CEO.[9][10]
^ ab"Stanford's Progeny: A Sampling"(PDF). Business Week. 1997-08-25. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2015-10-24. 1986 Radius: Mike Boich, Burrell Smith, Alain Rossmann, Andy Hertzfeld
^ ab"The Top Entrepreneurs". Business Week. 2000-01-10. Archived from the original on 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2015-10-24. In five years, ALAIN ROSSMANN's Phone.com (PHCM), formerly known as Unwired Planet, ... Phone.com stock has soared 1,500%, to around $130, since its June initial public offering.
^ abStone, Brad (2010-02-22). "Wal-Mart Adds Its Clout to Movie Streaming". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-24. In 2008, Vudu's chief executive left the company and was replaced by Alain Rossmann, a co-founder who was an early Apple executive and a pioneer in making the Web accessible from cellphones.
^ abMarkoff, John (2007-07-16). "A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee -". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-24. That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise.
^ abHe belongs to the X1976 promotion, cf. the website of the Association des anciens élèves de l’École polytechnique (the AX) (the Old fellows association). His record shows that he is also an『ingénieur des ponts et chaussées』(i.e. civil works engineer, in his case coming from Polytechnique and so being a civil servant) and asked to be freed from his duties with the French State ("en disponibilité", i.e. on leave).
^Swartz, Jon; Krantz, Matt; Martin, Scott (2011-10-07). "What's next for Apple?". USA Today. Retrieved 2015-10-24. "We all live in the world that Steve invented," says Alain Rossmann, who worked with Jobs at Apple in the mid-1980s.
^Evangelista, Benny (2011-09-26). "Alain Rossmann's Flip: social video on smart phone". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-10-24. Rossmann was an Apple evangelist under Steve Jobs during the development of the first Macintosh computer.
^CNet Investor.com (2000-07-24). "Stock Wealth of CEOs". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-10-24. Alain Rossmann Phone.com +81,547,200 630,631,477
^Martin, Scott (2011-11-20). "Klip reels in $8 million". USA Today. Retrieved 2015-10-24. In the dot-com boom, he served as CEO of mobile browser start-up OpenWave, formerly Phone.com, which launched one of the sizzling-hot IPOs of the era.
^Stone, Brad (2007-04-29). "Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood - New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-24. 'This shift can look very slow in the beginning and very sudden at some moment in the future,' says Alain Rossmann, a Silicon Valley veteran and the chairman of Vudu.
