Alex Hartman

Alexander (Alex) Hartman (born 3 July 1980) is an entrepreneur, involved in public health services for young people and the digital preservation of historical artefacts. Hartman won the Young Australian of the Year Award for Career Achievement in 2001. Hartman is Managing Director of Newzulu and Directeur Général of Citizenside. He is co-founder of Matilda Media and subsidiaries Matilda Books, 3DVRX and Rightstrade. Hartman is co-founder of the Digital Museum of Australia.

Biography
Alexander (Alex) James Hartman was born 3 July 1980 in Sydney, Australia. He attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and the University of Technology, Sydney. Hartman was Vice-President of ClubMac aged 13 and a weekly columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald aged 16. Hartman founded Amicus Software in 1996 and licensed software to Telstra as the user interface for Australia's largest internet service BigPond. Hartman joined Gresham Advisory Partners and co-founded Mytek in 2001. Hartman assisted Destra Corporation secure investment from Prime Television in 2007. Hartman was Director of Central Station Records, Oyster Magazine, home shopping channel 9021go, electronic music newspaper 3D World and managed rock band The Cracks.

Hartman is co-founder of Matilda Media Group with Peter Scarf and Matilda Media Ventures with Katherine Keating. The headquarters of Matilda Media is in SoHo, New York; the company also has representative offices in Studio City, California; Paris, France; and Sydney, Australia. Hartman is co-founder of Rightstrade. Rightstrade assists film and TV sales agencies promote titles for licensing rights and for digital delivery through the RightsCloud high-speed network. In May 2012 film services industry pioneer Technicolor announced it had partnered with Rightstrade. Hartman is co-founder of Newzulu, crowd sourced news wire, freelance journalism marketplace and citizen journalism platform and its advertising newtwork Adzulu, a crowd sourced advertising platform. Hartman is co-founder of 3DVRX, a digital home entertainment platform.

On May 28, 2013 it was announced that Matilda Media would acquire Citizenside from Agence France-Presse, IAM and the original founders of Scooplive. Matilda has launched a crowd sourced news platform, named Newzulu, based on the Citizenside technology platform and headquartered in Paris.

Newzulu is headquartered in Paris and operates as a crowd sourced news wire, freelance journalism marketplace and citizen journalism platform, in partnership with the world's third largest news wire, Agence France-Presse. Newzulu provides a marketplace for freelance journalists, photographers and videographers and also distributes articles, photos and videos from citizen journalists around the world, through 7000 media outlets in partnership with AFP. Since acquiring Citizenside, Newzulu has extended its partnership with AFP and entered additional partnerships with The Press Association, the national news wire of the UK & Ireland, as well as Australian Associated Press, the national news wire of Australia and New Zealand.

Alexander Hartman was previously an executive of FilmOn.TV and assisted the company to enter agreements with stars including actor Charlie Sheen, musician and actor Ice-T, Coco Austin, Janice Dickinson and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. [

Hartman is a corporate speaker and is active in public policy development related to technology, innovation and mental health. Hartman is a founding Trustee of the Digital Museum of Australia established on 26 January 2012. Digital Museum of Australia Limited is a non-profit online conservatory for Australia's historical artefacts, artworks and cultural history.

Awards
Hartman received the 2001 Young Australian of the Year Award for Career Achievement. In 2002, he won the NSW Pearcey Award. He was named a 'Champion' as part of the "What Makes A Champion?" event with Nelson Mandela by Professor Allan Snyder FRS.

Other activities
Hartman served as an Ambassador of the Sony Foundation since 1998. He served on the advisory board of Headspace, Australia's Youth Mental Health Foundation initiative, and was appointed to the Australian Industry Research & Development Board in 2005 by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. He was Chairman of the Australian Technology Youth Skills Hub