Delon Dotson
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Delon Dotson is a technologist and businessman who has worked in several businesses, including Netscape Communications and MP3.com
MP3.com
MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting...

. He is educated in technology, theater, music and law.

Dotson's career as a business man began when he became founder and CEO of EOS, a technical outsourcing firm located in southern California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Having sold that company he served as a director of software engineering
Software engineering
Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

 for Netscape Communications. Afterwards he was executive vice president and CTO of MP3.com
MP3.com
MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting...

.. In 2000 Delon Dotson moved to the UK and worked with Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and LBS as a lecturer and adviser to business students. Oxford University honored Mr. Dotson with a technical scholarship in his name to be awarded to students called the Delon Dotson prize for technical business development. After settling in Southern France
Southern France
Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...

 he founded and temporarily led Palm Tree Technology, a company in the market for internet security
, funded by the Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group plc is a British specialist financial services group based in the City of London. The company makes loans, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients....

of London.
Finally he returned to the United States, co-founded an independent record label named "PH413" and was its CEO until August 31, 2010, ** Correction note, pH413 was not a record label, but the company did have plans to start a record label division; these plans were never implemented **. As musician he wrote songs for two bands; REALTIME and Streaming Geeks.
He is the owner of a recording studio called HI Q STUDIO.

Dotson's name appears in the 2003 edition of International Who's Who.
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