Jay Blomquist

Jay Blomquist has been inventing and writing software since he was 10 years old. For about 6 years he lead teams developing websites, taught corporate software classes, and consulted for companies like Northrup Grumman, Nercon, and others. Then in 2005, Jay founded MediaRecall. In the early years, he personally developed the software, systems, and infrastructure to digitize tens of thousands of hours of archive video content. He also hired, trained, and managed over 4,000 work-from-home contractors to create contextual metadata and human transcriptions for companies like “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson”, WGBH Boston, and National Geographic.

In 2010, Jay and his partners sold MediaRecall to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group. Jay continued on with Deluxe as CTO of the MediaRecall by Deluxe business unit for 3 years and worked on projects for companies such as Harpo Studios, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Polo Ralph Lauren, Warner Bros, NBCUniversal, Getty Images, Disney/ABC, Austin City Limits, and others. In 2012, Deluxe went through a strategic restructuring and Jay moved from the MediaRecall business into the role of Vice President of Development and Architecture for the main Deluxe Media business unit. There he was in charge of a large team of development and support staff architecting, building, and maintaining Deluxe’s proprietary supply chain management system DL3.

DL3 supports the servicing of the libraries of all major Hollywood studios, managing over 50,000+ digital deliveries per month to over 1,000 portals and broadcasters like iTunes, Netflix, Google, and XBox. It also manages the authoring of many of Hollywood’s DVDs and BluRays, and provides the tools and workflow management for one of the largest providers of scripting, subtitling, voice overdubbing, and other localization services in 50+ languages worldwide. Most recently he was promoted to VP Innovation & Architecture, in charge of future platform and architecture innovation, reporting to the CTO. Jay is a current member of Mensa International.