James H. Rosenfield’s career spans across several media， including television， satellite， teletext， Internet and interactive television， and in each he played a major role in shaping the medium and its commercial applications.
Mr. Rosenfield is currently President of JHR & Associates， consultants to traditional media， interactive media， communications and entertainment companies. Previously， he was a Managing Director with Veronis， Suhler & Associates， a merchant banking firm， for four years. Prior to VSA， Mr. Rosenfield was Chairman and CEO of John Blair Communications， Inc.， a company he acquired in 1987 with Saratoga Partners/Dillon Reed， and SIFCORP， London， England， as financial partners. Blair Television is a leading national sales representative for 134 television stations and Blair Entertainment produced and distributed syndicated programs. The company was sold to Petry Inc. in 1994.Now he also is Parkview Ventures' senior advisor.
Earlier， Mr. Rosenfield had a long and distinguished career at CBS. When he left CBS in 1985， he had attained the position of CBS/Broadcast Group Senior Executive Vice President， responsible for all the network’s broadcast activities. Mr. Rosenfeld also worked on creating a DBS consortium with Comsat and other strategic partners， and was involved in the development of Teletext and videotext， which led to a consortium with Sears and IBM that created the first online transaction service， Prodigy.
