Tom Hartle

Tom Hartle is a publishing entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of CoherentRx, a private software company that develops patient education solutions for healthcare providers.

In 1995, Hartle founded Hour Media, which publishes Hour Detroit - a Detroit lifestyle magazine and website, with business partners John Balardo and Stefan Wanczyk. Crain's Detroit Business named Hartle as one of the magazine's 40 under 40 in 1998.[1]

In 2000, he sold out of the company and launched Hartle Media with then partner Heather Hartle. Hartle Media launched 7x7, a bimonthly San Francisco lifestyle magazine and website, in 2001.[2] In 2004, Hartle Media bought California Home + Design, a California home and garden magazine and website, with partner, the McEvoy Group.[3]

In 2006, Hartle Media partnered with the McEvoy Group to buy Spin Media, publisher of Spin, a music magazine and website. Hartle served as president of Spin until February 2010.[4] In April 2010, he co-founded Bandwdth Publishing, an app publishing house devoted to the arts and sciences. Bandwdth Publishing creates educational products for app-enabled devices. Titles include: Bygone Days, an American history app for the iPad,[5] the Bandwdth Artist Dashboard for the Samsung Smart TV, KoЯn and Uproar Tour apps for the iPhone, a KoЯn SMS program, and a Patti Smith: Dream of Life app for the iPad, a virtual art gallery complement to the documentary of the same name.

Hartle is an alumnus of Boston University and Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan.

References

  1. ↑ Benes, Ross (October 3, 2013). "Hour Media founder Tom Hartle back in Michigan, ready to launch health care app company". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Engardio, Joel P. (March 14, 2001). "Magazine Dreams: Will San Francisco finally get the city magazine it deserves?". SF Weekly. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ "DeSilva+Phillips Investment Bank - Deals". Mediabankers.com. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  4. ↑ Raine, George (June 24, 2011). "S.F. group buys 20-year-old rock music magazine Spin / Nion McEvoy leads company created for the acquisition". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  5. ↑ http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/editors_notebook.php?p=3666
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