Chase Norlin

Chase Norlin (born July 16, 1968) is an American internet entrepreneur and executive, as well as the founder of multiple online media companies. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Alphabird, an online video syndication company focused on audience development based in San Francisco. He regularly speaks at events about his work with video syndication, online advertising, and search.

Norlin was born in New York, New York and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BA in History. He also received an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

Norlin served as CEO of Pixsy, a business-to-business media search platform for photo and video content which he co-founded in 2005. Initially started as side project it was a "pioneer in syndicated video search". Prior to Pixsy, Norlin served as a senior executive at ValueClick and consultant to InfoSpace. He also worked for Sony, developing their first online photo sharing venture. In 1998, Norlin founded the first online video hosting company ShareYourWorld, considered a model and forerunner to YouTube, that was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Companies of 2006. Norlin served as a consultant for Boeing, in the establishment of their online video and image licensing division.