Dennis Charter
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| Dennis Charter | |
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| Born | 25 November 1952 Birchip, Victoria, Australia |
| 💼 Occupation | Inventor, entrepreneur, internet and multimedia developer, record producer, television producer-director, journalist, writer |
| Known for | PaySafe Inventor/Music Entrepreneur |
| 🏡 Home town | Beijing, China |
| 👶 Children | Hall, Arabella, William, Quan Li |
| 🌐 Website | dennischarter |
Dennis Charter (born 25 November 1952, Birchip) is an Australian entrepreneur. He had an early career in the local music and entertainment industry from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for teen-orientated newspaper, Go-Set, before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and regional areas of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.
He was a marketing and publicity manager at Mushroom Records and working for the label's artists including Skyhooks, Split Enz and Renée Geyer. He started managing artists: Spectrum, Chain, Air Supply, Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) and Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries).
As a concert promoter he organised tours by BB King (September 1976),[1] Deodato and Jeff Beck. He later worked with Elton John, Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Madonna.
He spent ten years in the United States and Asia developing technology-based businesses. In the mid-1990s Charter returned to the US to work with Internet-based technologies. In September 1996 he promoted a secure electronic payment system (PaySafe).[2][3] He was the CEO of Cyphercom Solutions in New York, which managed the PaySafe system,[3] by December that year his company was facing "liquidity difficulties".[4]
Charter returned to Australia to buy Johnny Young’s Young Talent Time television production and music studios. He turned the facilities into digital production and recording studios. This venture back into music and entertainment culminated in the signing of such new artists as Killing Heidi to recording, publishing and management. In 1997 Carter established Kiss Corporation as a director in South Yarra, by 1998 the company had collapsed and was later described as a "failed multimedia company with a recording studio facility".[5][6] In 2002 Charter was charged by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and convicted in the Melbourne County Court of "improperly diverting a cheque for $402,500."[5][7] He was sentenced to jail for 18-months but was required to serve nine months with "the balance to be served by way of a recognisance order."[5]
By 2005 Charter was back in Asia promoting the convergence of media, entertainment, telecommunications and the Internet in China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. In April 2014 Charter became a CEO of Radient Pharmaceuticals which sold a range of "medical diagnostic products."[8] By July that year the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had revoked the company's "registered securities" due to "failure to make required periodic filings with the Commission."[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Canberra Theatre Centre Ephemera Holdings, 1965-2006". ACT Heritage Library. p. 69. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ May, Kathy. "Dennis Charter". The Inventors. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Form 10-Q: Cyphercom Solutions". Securities and Exchange Commission. 30 September 1996. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ "Cyphercom Solutions Inc. Continuing Liquidity Difficulties". The Free Library. 22 January 1997. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "02/223 Former director of Kiss Corporation jailed". Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). 24 June 2002. Archived from the original on 17 February 2006. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ Eliezer, Christie (2 July 2002). "Charter Jailed". Music & Media Business News. Archived from the original on 2 August 2002. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ "10 Enforcement: Criminal Matters" (PDF). ASIC report of operations 2001-02. Australian Securities and Investments Commission: 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Company Overview of Radient Pharmaceuticals Corporation". Bloomberg Business. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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