From INKT to Tsunami XR: Alex Herns 25 years of Entrepreneurial Experience

Tsunami XR CEO Alex Hern might be one of the most prolific entrepreneurs of our time that you’ve never heard of. More of a behind the scenes actor, Hern has been apart of some major tech start-ups that have served as pioneers of the internet. With over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, it could be that Hern is only now heating up. His new endeavors with Tsunami XR show that Hern is ready to utilize his experience to capitalize on the next new tech. Here is a look at Hern’s history in which he has mainly focused on start-up companies and on the development and incubation of tech companies.

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One of Hern’s earliest successes was as Founder and Board Member of Newhomes.com. New Home Reality specialized in assisting relocation buyers in purchasing newly constructed houses. The Newhomes.com web-enabled tech platform generates and distributes leads to real estate agents. The Forum allows the company to establish a national presence without the cost of a brick and mortar real estate brokerage firm. By keeping the important aspects of the brokerage business while cutting the overhead fat, Hern demonstrated with Newhomes.com that he could outperform and underspend tradition business models.

Hern co-founded and served as the Director of Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO (INKT), which was the search technology for MSN, Yahoo and AOL. For anyone under 20, AOL and Yahoo might not ring a bell but to a large generation of internet users were Yahoo was the original google and AOL or America Online was the internet browser around until internet explorer came on the scene. Make no bones about it Inktomi Goldman Sachs-led IPO will go down in the annuls of history. And Hern was right there in the thick of it.

Hern also co-founded and acted as director of Yesmail Alex Brown led IPO (YESM). YESM was an email marketing and web directory startup that went public and then sold to now ModusLink Global Solutions, for $650 million less than a year later.

Hern has also used his talents to serve the needs of the military. He co-founded Military Commercial Technologies a technology commercialization incubator funded by Lockheed and L-3, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Further, Mr. Hern co-founded and served as Director for Arcsight (ARST), a cyber security company, which again went public and sold out to HP for $1.5 billion.

From 2005-2007 Hern turned his efforts towards serving on the Board of Agiliance, a Big Data Risk Company. Agiliance is an independent provider of integrated solutions for Operational and Security Risk programs. Agiliance RiskVision works with businesses, managing assets, data, people, and processes to attain total risk and compliance coverage. Agiliance RiskVision real-time risk analysis leads to optimized business performance and better investment decisions. And once again we have Mr. Hern to thank for guiding the company in its early years.

Tsunami XR

Fast forward to 2014, when Hern has compiled all of his knowledge and expertise to co-found one of the hottest workplace VR solution providers in the business. It was four years ago when Hern founded Tsunami XR based out of the greater Los Angeles area. Specifically, Tsunami develops and provides immerse VR and AR software applications for companies in a host of different global enterprise markets.

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The two main products that Tsunami is currently offering is Tsunami workplaces and Tsunami Studio. Workplaces essentially act’s as a virtual meeting place where project’s get worked on by company members from different offices, locations, cities and even countries. Instant global collaboration has never been so easy with Tsunami workplaces. Tsunami Studios on the other hand, is software that allows for complete 3D rendering, animation, simulation and visualization solution. This allows that same group of collaborators’ to be able to work on a 3D model of whatever they are working on and seeing changes happen in real time. These applications are finding themselves useful and companies from all sorts of industries are beginning to take notice.

Utilized by a host of the globes top companies, Tsunami’s software solutions can operate across leading hardware devices, such as iphones and P.C.’s, and comprise enterprise-class levels of security, scalability and management. This means that your engineer in Indonesia can hope on a Tsunami XR workspace from a device that is familiar to her.

Under Alex Hern’s leadership Tsunami XR has a world-class management team who has pioneered transformative new companies and tech in digital media, security, SaaS, security, mobility and communications. It is this diverse sample of technology expertise that allows Tsunami XR to ride the cutting edge of VR and create such multi-faceted solutions to problems that have been plaguing companies for ages. It’s is also this solid background in all things tech that make it hard to say which direction the company will take next. One thing is certain, success is in Tsunami XR’’s future.

Connect with Alex Hern and Tsunami XR on LinkedIn.