David Gratton

A Canadian New Media Award Winner, David has a proven record for developing technologies for the deployment and distribution of media on the Web. His company was the technical developer for the world famous BMW Films: The Hire series. Since 1999 he has worked and consulted for companies like Apple, Disney, Ford, Fox, PBS, and MTV.

In 2005 David founded Project Opus Technologies to develop social media technologies for the distribution and marketing of independent music. ProjectOpus.com was Canada’s first online social network for the licensing, distribution, and sale of indie music. The Opus Player was the industries first embedable music widget offering musicians the ability to sell their music directly from the Opus Player on any website. In the last 18 months Project Opus has been working with industry to build a new digital packaging format service for fans and artists. It is scheduled to launch summer 2008.