Catherine Heald
| Catherine Heald | |
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| Born | Catherine E. Evans January 13, 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 🏫 Education | Columbia University (BA) |
| 💼 Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Simon Winchester (m. 1989; div.) Donald Heald (m. 2003) |
Catherine Heald (née Evans; born January 13, 1963) is an American businesswoman[1] most notable for founding InterOptica Publishing, Wanderlust Interactive (NASDAQ: LUST), Soliloquy, and Remote Lands, Inc.[2] Wanderlust Interactive became one of the first Silicon Alley companies to have an IPO.[3] [4]
Career
Multimedia software
In 1987 Heald moved to Hong Kong where she met Simon Winchester and they were married in 1989.[5] Together they founded one of the world's first e-book publishers called InterOptica Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong.[6] InterOptica produced 25 CD-ROM titles, many of them in the travel arena.[7] Apple, Inc. agreed to distribute InterOptica's CD-ROMs in 1993. InterOptica was bought by Take-Two Interactive in 1993.[8][9]
In 1994 Heald founded Wanderlust Interactive, becoming CEO and president of the company.[10] She raised $2m in financing in 1995.[11] She secured the rights to make The Pink Panther computer games through Wanderlust Interactive from a deal made between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists.[12][13] The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril was the first computer game released by Wanderlust Interactive in 1996.[14] The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink was released the following year.[15] In March 1996, Wanderlust Interactive went public with an Initial public offering priced at $7.00, raising $7.5 million.[16] In June 1997 Wanderlust Interactive faced financial difficulties leading to layoffs and a substantial decline in value in its stock. Heald stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Jay Smith.[17] She left Wanderlust Interactive in July 1997 to start a speech recognition company called Soliloquy.[18][19]
She was the winner of the Conde Nast Traveler award from 2015 - 2020.
Remote Lands
Heald founded Remote Lands in Manhattan with Jay Tindall in 2006 as an Asia luxury tour operator serving Wall Street executives and Forbes 400 CEOs.[20][21][22] [23] Heald was listed in Travel + Leisure's top travel experts A-list in 2012 and 2013.[24] Remote Lands was also on Condé Nast Travelers' list of top specialists in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.[25]
Early life
Heald was born on January 13, 1963 to Nan and George Evans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the second of three siblings.[26] She attended Valley School of Ligonier, Shady Side Academy, graduating in 1980, and then attended Barnard College at Columbia University majoring in computer science. She graduated from Columbia University in 1984 and worked on Wall Street at L.F. Rothschild. She attended New York University Stern School of Business but she moved to Hong Kong before completing her MBA.[27]
References
- ↑ King, Angela (August 16, 1996). "High-tech jobs boost city". Daily News.
- ↑ Dizik, Alina (December 30, 2020). "Post-Vaccine Vacation Dreamers Plot to 'Get the Hell Out of Their House'". Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "FROM WILD DOGS IN INDIA TO MOMOS WITH A QUEEN". Travel Week Asia. May 10, 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ↑ "Luxury Summer Games with Catherine Heald". Travelogues.
- ↑ "Evans-Winchester". The Pittsburgh Press. June 2, 1989.
- ↑ "CD-ROM wins approval". South China Morning Post. March 9, 1993.
- ↑ "Scribe service hits AOL; CD list online". Daily Variety. June 29, 1995.
- ↑ "Multimedia". The Economist. October 1993.
- ↑ Zuckerman, Laurence (June 28, 1993). "Disk Interaction: Hong Kong Firm Is Apple Of Computer Giant's". The Wall Street Journal Asia.
- ↑ Conrad, Sandra (March 1996). "High-Powered Women In A High-Powered Industry". Upgrade.
- ↑ Lane, Randall (May 8, 1995). "Computers are our friends". Forbes.
- ↑ "In The Bit Stream". The Hollywood Reporter. June 22, 1995.
- ↑ Major, Wade (September 1995). "The Pink Panther Goes Interactive". Entertainment Today.
- ↑ Simons, Ellen (July 1996). "Wanderlust Signs Exclusive Domestic Distribution Agreement With BMG". Video Game Advisor.
- ↑ "Adrenalin Interactive, Inc". Mobygames.
- ↑ "Companies are cashing in". Technology New Media. January 1996.
- ↑ Mannes, George (June 9, 1997). "Pink Panther in doghouse: Software startup thought it had a tiger but got scratched". Daily News.
- ↑ Neff, Jina (2005). "The Changing Place of Cultural Production: The Location of Social Networks in a Digital Media Industry". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 597: 134–152. doi:10.1177/0002716204270505. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Neff, Gina (2012). Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries. MIT Press. Search this book on
- ↑ Schensul, Jill (July 16, 2017). "Vacations of the 1%". The Star Press.
- ↑ "Made for you". Cigar Aficianado. March-April. 2007.
- ↑ Springer, Kate (September 11, 2020). "Rented penguins and $300,000 dinners: The wildest holiday requests from the super rich". CNN.
- ↑ "Native Intelligence". Town & Country Travel (Fall). 2008.
- ↑ Koumelis, Theodore. "Remote Lands CEO Catherine Heald named on Travel + Leisure A-List". Travel Daily News.
- ↑ Ekstein, Nikki. "The Coronavirus's Effect on Tourism Will Carry Into 2021, Experts Say". Bloomberg.
- ↑ "Nan Evans". Naples News. 2014.
- ↑ "A College For Women". Barnard. 2012.
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