Tureaud has over twenty-five-years of experience founding, capitalizing and operating businesses within the media/technology, sports entertainment, event management, film/tv production, marketing/branding industries and over the course of his career has founded other industry leading companies such as; Pro Sport Marketing, HighRoad Entertainment, Strong Eagle Media, The Digital Ticket and Valor Media Group. Tureaud has developed, produced, marketed and distributed content (film, television, digital), events (sports, entertainment, branded) and products (physical, digital) to the global marketplace through a myriad of platforms and has decades of experience working with major film/tv studios, independent production companies, theatrical, streaming and television distributors, professional sports leagues, minor and major league international and domestic sports franchises, fortune 1000 companies, high-net worth and high profile estates, family offices and foundations to accomplish a wide range of business goals and objectives.
Tureaud is an American entrepreneur and businessman who is credited with co-founding the first ever company in history to develop and sell digital collectibles (digital trading cards) to the global marketplace and in doing so pioneered what is today the multi-billion-dollar industry of digital collectibles, digital goods and digital assets, which includes NFT’s. The company Tureaud co-founded was called CyberAction.
At CyberAction Tureaud was responsible for securing multi-year exclusive worldwide licenses with A-Tier Professional Sports and Entertainment Properties such as Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), The NFL’s Quarterback Club, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Viacom’s Star Trek, Universal Studios Hercules and Xena, among others. Tureaud also secured one-of-a kind and groundbreaking co-branding, distribution and marketing partnerships with companies such as General Motors, Sony Pictures, General Mills, Clairol, Skippy Peanut Butter and Check Mix resulting in millions of dollars in contracts for the company. CyberAction also pioneered the use of “trading card sized” CD-Roms which the company used as branded physical distribution vehicles in order to deliver the companies digital content onto consumers hard drives while at the same time creating a state-of-the art physical collectible for the owner.
Co-Founder & CEO of The Digital Legend Franchise
Most recently, Tureaud co-founded and is Chairman/CEO of Digital Legends, a sports &
entertainment media technology company driven by proprietary intellectual property. Digital
Legends will develop and deploy a diverse portfolio of “digital humans” (Digital Legends) that
are photo-realistic and life-sized of legendary figures (they may be deceased, retired or active)
in Sports, Music, Gaming, Lifestyle or other and assimilate them back into the marketplace in
“their prime”. These Digital Legends will compete and interact in real-time against living
humans within multiple verticals and environments such as made for television live-events,
location-based entertainment experiences, eSports & Mobile Apps, Gaming platforms,
Metaverse, Augmented and Virtual environments and more. Via an already granted patent,
Digital Legends will aggregate, store and publish (license and/or sell) data generated from a
“virtual participant competing in real-time against a living human”. The company has secured
and continues to expand on an IP portfolio that consists of multiple granted patents, multiple
pending patents, trademarks in a wide variety of classes and legendary multi-year exclusive
worldwide licenses in order to accomplish the company’s goals and objectives of breaking new
ground and pioneering an new industry and marketplace that has never existed before.
FILM'S Tureaud HAS directed and/or PRODUCED
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CHRISTIAN TUREAUD’S BUSINESS CAREER
Pro Sport Marketing, Inc. (PSM), was founded in 1994 and based in New York City and Miami Beach. PSM is a national and global market leader in the full-service sports and entertainment business. The Company secured strategic partnerships with The NFL’s Quarterback Club, Atlantic Records, House of Blues, DISHES supermodel foundation and several others to produce one of a kind VIP sports tour packages focused around major college and professional sporting events around the globe such as The Super Bowl, The Olympics, The World Cup, The World Series, The Ryder Cup, The Final Four and others. PSM’s VIP clients included; Chase, Citibank, Cantor Fitzgerald, Bear Sterns, Morgan Stanley, ESPN, CBS, Westwood One, BASF, NIKE, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Range Rover, Porsche, VISA, Mastercard, New York Life, American Express, VISA, Mastercard and Rolex, among others.
CYBERACTION was founded in 1995 in Silicon Alley, NYC and was the first company in history to create and sell digital collectibles, (trading cards) utilizing a patented encryption devise that delivered exclusively licensed digital content (audio, video, animation and text) over the internet through a proprietary database management system that tracked and monitored product ownership ensuring limited edition status and value to it’s owner. CyberAction held exclusive worldwide licenses with Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), World Championship Wrestling (WCW),Viacom's Star Trek, Universal Studios Hercules/Xena and also secured co-branding/marketing deals such as Sony’s 6th Day with General Motors, Skippy Peanut Butter with Derek Jeter, Clairol with the band 98 Degrees and more.
Mandalay and Peter Guber have earned a reputation over the years of pioneering next generation entertainment business models. Mandalay has been particularly effective at utilizing its expertise in the areas of entertainment content creation and marketing on multiple distribution platforms and brings this skill set to corporate clients in areas including feature films, television, internet, music, sports and live events. Mandalay Sports Action Entertainment offers corporate clients a new approach to brand reach and brand building through its myriad of entertainment and communications services. This marks the first time a major Hollywood production entity has stepped forward to lead Fortune 500 companies in the new world of entertainment content marketing.
HighRoad FilmWorks. LLC. is a full-service entertainment company that produces, distributes, markets, and supports entertainment content in all mediums worldwide. HMI’s Principals have produced a significant number of films, over one hundred episodes of original television content, as well as creating and developing world-wide brand marketing and advertising campaigns. They also have built a number of multi-tiered entertainment products that are designed for release in all mediums, including new media. The content they have produced has been distributed theatrically and aired on NBC, ABC, TBS, TNT, Fox, USA Network, Fox Sports Net, ABC Family, Telemundo, ESPN, PAX, Animal Planet, as well as more than 20 networks in over 200 countries internationally.
Strong Eagle Media (SEM) is an award winning production company comprised of business and entertainment executives spanning 4 decades. Strong Eagle enjoys distribution, production and merchandising agreements with the largest and most powerful retail merchandising companies in America. Strong Eagle was formed to capitalize on relationships that have been built over decades. These relationships include: the worlds largest retailer, the U.S department of defense, the largest home entertainment merchandising company in the country, and two digital networks with a dozen available channels.
Valor Media Group (VMG) is a full-service production and marketing company designed for the 21st century. the principals of the company have a combined forty-plus-year track record that encompasses all areas of creation, development, finance, production, marketing and distribution. VMG’s mission is to provide world-class content across non-scripted and scripted television series, non-scripted and scripted film, digital content and animation, all designed for distribution to the global marketplace.
Education
GRADUATE OF SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (SMU)