Name Guy Primus | ||
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Education Penn Hills High School; BS & MS in Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech; MBA, Harvard Business School Title CEO & co-founder, The Virtual Reality Company Board member of Georgia Tech Advisory Board; Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (chairman) Residence Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
Guy primus speaking at platform summit 2015
Guy Primus (born July 1969), is an American businessman. He is co-founder and CEO of The Virtual Reality Company and is the chairman of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering advisory board at Georgia Tech. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. After graduating from Penn Hills High School, he attended Georgia Tech, earning a BS in Industrial Engineering in 1992 and an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1995. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 2000. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Contents
- Guy primus speaking at platform summit 2015
- Guy primus coo of overbrook entertainment keynote speaker iie annual conference and expo 2013
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
In 2013, Primus was named a Captain of Industry by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Guy primus coo of overbrook entertainment keynote speaker iie annual conference and expo 2013
Early life and education
Guy Primus was born in 1969 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Primus is a 1987 graduate of Penn Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned his BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Georgia tech in 1992 and was president of the African American Student Union. He received his MS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1995 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2000.
Career
After graduating from Georgia Tech with his master's degree, Primus started his career as at CAPS Logistics, a logistics software company started by his mentor and former professor, H. Donald Ratliff before becoming a consultant with A.T. Kearney in Alexandria, Virginia. Primus left Kearney in 1998 to pursue his MBA, and, upon graduating from Harvard Business School, he combined his passions of technology and media to start an online market research company called UrbanIQ, which later became the basis for Blue Flame Marketing + Advertising, the agency founded by entertainment mogul Sean Combs. After leaving Blue Flame, Primus joined Microsoft, where he became group product marketing manager for MSN Entertainment. There, he conceived "The Scenario" which was recognized as Best Branded Entertainment Experience at the 2005 ad:Tech awards.
Primus then joined Starbucks as head of digital media for Starbucks Entertainment where he led the creation of the popular Pick of the Week program for Starbucks and Apple. Primus was then recruited to Overbrook Entertainment where he rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer, reporting directly to co-CEOs Will Smith and James Lassiter. While at Overbrook, Primus co-founded Tentpole Ventures, a seed-stage investment vehicle whose portfolio includes Pinterest and DogVacay.
Primus left Overbrook in 2013 to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors and co-founded The Core Venture Studio and The Collider co-working space before co-founding The Virtual Reality Company (VRC) with Robert Stromberg, Chris Edwards and Joel Newton. He became CEO of VRC in the summer of 2015.
Personal life
Guy Primus is married to Heather Thompson Primus and the couple has two children, Grant and Clarke. He is a two time judge of the InVenture Prize venture competition, He is also a member of the Television Academy.
Primus assisted former Intel CEO Paul Otellini on the President's Jobs Council