2. Enabling Talent
to Profit
• Providing the interactive
personal experience technology
to monetize networks of fans through the internet.
• IMAGE will become the brand name standard for
authentic autographs.
• IMAGE enables Talent to directly profit from
the high value autograph marketplace.
• IMAGE is selling shovels to gold miners.
3. The IMAGE Solution
IMAGE is an easy-to-use interface
on the Celebrity’s own website,
engaging fans to experience face-to-face
autograph signings … safe and secure
for the talent, allowing artists to control,
promote and profit from their own brand “image.”
IMAGE’s unique personalization options will
create market demand and provides
irrefutable authenticity to secure the
investment value of the autographed items.
4. They Say IMAGE Is Everything
IMAGE integrates into Talent’s website and is
accessible by consumers through any device
with Internet access.
Talent and IMAGE share profits from the sales
of Talent owned, licensed or purchased
autographed merchandise.
Talent markets their events to their networks of
fans through their website, along with
Facebook and Twitter.
5. Consumer
GUI
BACK END IMAGE Talent’s
Ecommerce Website
Storage Intersect
Signing
EVENT
Location
Patent # 7,852,372
6. The Current Autograph Business = $5B+
• Book Publishers
• Sports Leagues
• Fan Conventions
• Media Companies
• Promotion Companies
• Private Signings & Dealers
• Merchandise Manufacturers
• Celebrity Management Companies
• Autograph Signing Events Promoters
7. THE TEAM
Gary Sohmers - Chairman, CEO, Founder, Inventor, TV Celebrity,
Entrepreneur, Autograph Businessman, Showman
Deric Shea – Executive Vice President, formerly of Iron Mountain,
Cisco and Stratus
Arthur Petron – Lead Technologist, concluding Ph.D at MIT Media Lab
Michael Snyder – Vice President Sales & Marketing, formerly of
Comcast, Discovery Networks and Executive Producer of Music Videos
Board of Advisors includes:
David Billstrom, Fortune 100 Investor and Entrepreneur
David Bieber, Executive at The Boston Phoenix Media Group
Peter Rosegarten, Executive at Television company, Tyjar Prod.
Elliot Swan, Director of Technology Licensing. Raytheon Company
Lawrence S. Nannis, CPA, Katz, Nannis, Solomon, and
Chairman of the National Small Business Association
Neil Aronson, principle of Gennari/Aronson
Mike Reich - Seabourne Consulting
Ben Chandler, Executive Producer, StudioMetronome
8. IMAGE History
• Initial investments by Founders of $350,000
• Secured Patent and Trademarks, build Patent
Model, and secured relationships with Talent
and Autograph dealers.
• U.S. Patent No. 7,852,372 issued December
14, 2010 for specialized video and audio
interactive consumer experiences through all
electronic media delivery services.
• Own Trademarks Video Queue and
MeetandGreetTV
9. Celebrities + Fans + Autographs + Internet
For more Information contact:
Gary Sohmers, Chairman/CEO
gary@interactivemeetandgreet.com
508-864-4498
www.InteractiveMeetandGreet.com
www.IMAGEAutographs.com
www.MeetandGreet.TV