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John O. M-risano - Former Owner Of Danni.com, DHD

John hired Layne Thrasher to run Danni.com. Layne in turn hired people to impersonate Danni Ashe and make subscribers to Danni.com feel that she was still active in the company when in reality she's retired in Montana.

From Sunshinecompanies:

John O. M-risano has spent his entire 18-year career helping to build and run entertainment and media companies. From his first job forward, John has always found himself at the heart of a company's operations. John started his career at the Vista Organization, Ltd., a publicly-traded indie film company, and aided in its sale in 1989. After graduating from Pace University in 1989, he joined the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in its entertainment and media practice and received his CPA. In 1993, he moved to Paris to take over the European operations of Activision, a leading video game publisher. He subsequently moved back to the States and co-founded that company's biz dev group. John left Activision in 1995 and returned to NYC from L. A. where he served as interim CEO of Dewynters NA, a UK-based merchandising and licensing concern. In 1996, he joined forces with Tim Nye at Sunshine Amalgamedia. While at Sunshine, John has overseen the production of dozens of hours of television, numerous feature films, hundreds of hours of Internet content and a wide variety of other types of branded intellectual property. These included the development and sale of SonicNet to MTV, the positioning and construction of the Company's highly successful movie house - The Sunshine Cinema, Alltrue Networks and JetSet records, among others. John is responsible for the strategic positioning of SD's products. His expertise is in creating relationships that uniquely match the inventor's needs and talents to those of Sunshine Direct.

From CareerJournal.com:

Pets can also embarrass their owners in other ways. John O. M-risano, a principal of Sunshine, a small New York investment company, recalls a breakfast meeting attended by Milton, his partner's now-deceased husky. When a visiting executive denied the dog a bagel at the boardroom table, the dog walked over to a row of briefcases, sniffed out the offending executive's and relieved himself.

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Alltrue.com was conceived by Tim Nye and John O. M-risano, founders of Alltrue Networks, Inc., a division of Sunshine Amalgamedia, Inc. "Reality-video, no doubt about it, is the most popular television genre in the world today," said M-risano, Alltrue president and co-CEO.

All clips are pre-screened by the Alltrue.com editorial staff. Clips containing graphic sexual content, hate propaganda or gratuitous violence against man or animal will be excluded. Everything else will be put up on the site and users will ultimately determine the content that rises to the top.

From NYMag.com:

"I am, to my knowledge," says John M-risano, Alltrue Networks co-CEO, "the only Republican in the company -- and the only Republican, possibly, in Silicon Alley." M-risano is in his spartan office right next door to Nye's, in front of an eerily tidy steel-top desk watched over by two framed portraits of Ronald Reagan. (The first one he already had; the second was from Democratic colleagues intending to mock his devotion to the Gipper.) The Republican, says Nye, keeps this little multimedia-content company from coming unhinged. "It's taken discipline, and John just slaps me back into it." Not that M-risano was exactly eager to sign up for the job of slapping discipline into Silicon Alley's arty boy wonder. When he met Nye through a headhunter in 1995, "Tim greeted me in leather pants and had a roaring fire in his office. It was too like a scene -- and I am not a scene guy. But Tim is a charismatic guy. We started talking, and, you know, the way I always tell why Tim and I have hit it off and done fairly well together over the last few years is that guys like me do much better in the world with guys like Tim, and vice versa. I am a creative guy, but I am not the idea guy. Tim very much likes to be the idea guy and would rather have somebody else figure out if (a) is it executable?, and (b) how to execute it."

7/25/00

Banking on the soaring popularity of reality-based TV programming, Atlas Ventures yesterday announced it had invested $8 million in Alltrue.com, which the founders are building as reality-based video network.

"We'll have that video clip of the donkey chasing the guy with his pants around his ankles. That is the kind of content we will be offering on the site," said M-risano, one of Alltrue's co-CEOs.

M-risano said Alltrue's video collection will include pranks, scams, confessions, revelations, extreme action and other astonishing, but real, moments captured on video.

10/26/01

Just two years after paying a bundle to acquire music news and information pioneer SonicNet, Viacom-owned MTVi has pulled the plug on the Web radio network.

The streaming media play, which was co-founded by buddies Tim Nye and John M-risano as a bulletin board service for fans of modern rock, has had its share of corporate owners over the years.