Vice President of Mobile Strategies

Tony Caporicci currently serves as VP of Mobile Strategies for SkyWire Media Inc., executing new ideas, teams, and products for the company.. He has over 25 years’ experience in Technology and over 35 years as an Entrepreneur.
Prior to joining SkyWire, Tony was one of the Co-Founders and the CTO of Intermagine, LLC., a mobile content enabler, where he created a mobile loyalty payment platform. Prior to Intermagine, Tony provided high-level advisory services to companies that served in the Lottery, Oil, Gaming and Entertainment industries.

As a Technology Entrepreneur, Tony was the founder and served as the Chairman/CEO/President of NetBooth Corporation, an early stage kiosk pioneer which developed wi-fi and self-service technology for government, casinos and entertainment. As a self-service machine vendor, Tony once had the largest Internet kiosk company in Nevada. Tony also founded Vegas Media, which serviced the Hard Rock Hotel, Caesars, Hollywood Roosevelt, and many other accounts as a web development, PC kiosk, global OEM kiosk hardware, and in-room Internet company, with over 30,000 hotel rooms and was a pioneer in enabling hotel properties with Wi-Fi for guests.

Mr. Caporicci led a team that created many back-office systems including one of the first online ticketing engines,showtickets.com, now owned by Expedia, and the first self-service sports betting kiosk approved by Nevada Gaming Control. A serial entrepreneur, Tony has also been instrumental to small technology companies having risen over $10m in equity investment for his own company and several millions for start-ups. He built one of the largest mail-order computer companies on the West Coast called Discount Micro. Tony was one of two founders of Discount Micro, which shipped thousands of boxes per day in the early 90’s creating the first white-label Creative Labs Soundcard and CD-ROM Multimedia kits.

As a technologist, Mr. Caporicci created the company Dynamic Research, a sister company of Achieve Microsystems, one of the largest providers of Monochrome Graphics Cards in the world, as one of the first Novell Network Station bundle companies. Tony also spent time as an early member of Softeam, introducing software titles such as Dbase, Lotus, Wordstar, and PC-DOS, MS-DOS, which was acquired for cash, by Ingram Micro, the largest book distributor, where Tony went on to create a great relationship for them with Intel ( a startup chip company) and Valcom Computers. He also was part of the early education software uprising, being part of the team that introduced such titles as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Reader Rabbit, Math Rabbit, from Jan Davidson of Davidson Software and many Disney software education titles in their first releases as book and toy store products. Tony has been in business on his own since the age of 12, but for the last 25 years has focused solely on technology.

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