Chris Piche
| Chris Piche | |
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| Born | 1971 Vancouver, Canada |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| 💼 Occupation |
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| 📆 Years active | 2000 – present |
| 🏅 Awards |
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Chris Piche is a Canadian technology entrepreneur.
Piche formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform.[1] Piche's company built Eyeball Chat – an early instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users in 2012.[2]
Education
Chris Piche was born in Vancouver, Canada. He began programming computers at age 11, entered university at the age of 13, and later graduated in computer science from the University of British Columbia.[1]
Career
Online multiplayer gaming
Beginning in 2000, Piche formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform.[1]
Piche and Ho later defeated patent trolls in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada,[3] where Piche was awarded US$1,361,418.79 in fees, costs, and damages.[4]
Video telephony
Piche created Eyeball Chat, a popular instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users.[2] Eyeball Chat was awarded as Best Communication Product of Internet World.[5]
In a joint venture with Nifty, a Japanese ISP and Fujitsu subsidiary, Piche created Eyeball Lite and Eyeball Pro, video telephony services for the Japanese market.[6][7][8]
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Piche was Canada's representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Information and Communications Technology Forum in Shanghai in 2001.[9]
Awards and recognition
- Canada's Top Young Leader, The Globe and Mail, 2000[10]
- Top 40 under 40, Business in Vancouver, 2000[11]
- Best of Internet World, 2001[5]
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist, 2006[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stueck, Wendy (May 16, 2000). "Vancouver computer whiz bets on venture with gambling tycoon". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Karydes, Megy (2012). "Eyeball Networks connects millions of subscribers with patented technologies". Advantage Magazine. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Adler, Eric (July 21, 2014). "Just Deserts: Patent Troll Edition". Patent and Technology Law. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Home Gambling Network, Inc., etal VS Chris Piche, etal. Filing 408". JUSTIA. April 6, 2015. Archived from the original on November 23, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Best of Show Spring 2001 Awards". Internet World. July 17, 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-07-17. Retrieved November 6, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 祐樹, 甲斐 (May 21, 2002). "@nifty、P2P型のビデオチャットサービス「EyeballパティオLite」". Broadband Watch. Archived from the original on December 30, 2002. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 敏之, 田口 (May 21, 2002). "ニフティ、P2P型ビデオチャットサービスを開始". ASCII. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ニフティ、P2P型のビデオチャットサービス開始". ITMedia. May 21, 2002. Archived from the original on February 17, 2004. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Executive Profile, Bloomberg". Bloomberg.
- ↑ Mclaren, Leah (July 1, 2000). "THE GLOBE AND MAIL YOUNG LEADERS". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ "The complete list of Business in Vancouver's annual forty under 40 winners, from 1990-2011". Business in Vancouver. October 30, 2012. Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Speakers | WebRTC Conference & Expo". WebRTC Expo. Archived from the original on November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018. Unknown parameter
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