Tyler Tarr

Tyler Tarr is Samesurf’s Chief Financial Officer with primary responsibility for the development of its financial plans and monetization pursuits. Tyler brings extensive financial and operational experience in a wide array of environments ranging from early stage high technology companies to large multinational manufacturing enterprises. He formerly held senior financial and operational positions at a variety of companies including Brilliant Digital Entertainment (a publicly traded content distribution and peer-to-peer technology company), Astro Business Solutions, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon USA), Packard Bell NEC Electronics, Inc. and EMI Music Worldwide.

During his career, Tyler has been involved in the analysis, structuring and negotiation of secured financing transactions aggregating over $1.5 billion. He also successfully helped design, negotiate and implement the integration of several acquisitions, including the acquisition of SBK Records and Chrysalis Records while at EMI Music, the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems and the North American PC operation of NEC while at Packard Bell. Tyler has also provided mergers and acquisitions advisory services to middle market clients. Representative transactions include the purchase and subsequent sale of NEC's European PC operations to Acer and the take private of InFocus, a projector company with sales in excess of $200 million. He is a Certified Public Accountant formerly employed with the leading accounting firms Arthur Andersen, LLC and Coopers & Lybrand, LLC.