James Odorczyk

James Michael Odorczyk is an American businessman, entrpreneur, and inventor. He is known for his work with the touchscreen, namely creating one of the first color flat panel displays which was then used on the NASA space shuttle mission in 1993. Other business ventures include being an early developer of public-access kiosk systems in the early 1890s, a pioneer of touchscreen and graphical user interfaces for medical and industrial uses in the 1990s and work with large format digital signage systems. He has been the Founder and CEO of Inter-Ad, Nation Integration Services (NIS), and Door Six, Inc.

Early life
Odorczyk was born on July 3, 1957, in Rochester, New York, to Chester and Victoria Odorczyk. After graduating from Gates Chili High School in 1975, Odorczyk went on to pursue a degree in Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After receiving his B.S., Odorczyk worked for Xerox before starting his first company.

Inter-Ad/NIS
Inter-Ad was the first of several companies that Odorczyk would start. It was a small company founded in 1982 which pioneered the use of the public access kiosk. Inter-ad's helped introduce touchscreens and graphical user interfaces as a way for the public to interact with a computer database. Inter-ads early systems focused on the use of the public access kiosk in the retail world for store directories, couponing systems, recipe dissemination, etc. Later systems became transactional in nature as they expanded into other industries and sectors. Inter-ad made the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing US companies in 1989. After directing the company for 10 years, Odorczyk left the firm in 1992 to pursue a new venture - National Integration Services (NIS).

NIS developed custom touchscreen monitors specifically for the medical and industrial fields. The company was instrumental improving and simplifing the operation of complex devices (like Blood Analyzers) by adding touchscreen controls. NIS quickly gained a reputation in the industry for innovation and quality. Besides the medical and industrial control fields NIS was chosen by NASA to design a flat panel, color touchscreen for use on the Space Shuttle Discovery. In addition, NIS provided the touchscreens used by John Madden's "electronic chalkboard" telestrators used in many of the Super Bowl broadcasts in the late 90's.

Odorczyk sold NIS to Tyco International in late 1999. Odorcyk continued to head up the Rochester division until 2002.

Door Six, Inc.
Odorczyk then started DoorSix, Inc. which manufactured and shipped a digital sign known as BrightBoard. The brightboard was a lower-cost freestanding sign system featuring full color, high resolution images and was also able to display full motion video. The system's price point, ease of use and simple installation set this system apart from competitive offerings. The systems were targeted at restaurants, retail stores, bars, lobbies or any place with traffic flow. Odorczyk sold the brightboard product line to POPAdVsions in 2007.

Currently Odorczyk provides mentoring and consulting for several small start-up companies in the Northeast.