Jason M. Kates

Chief Executive Officer

A Digital Out-of-Home powerhouse and pioneer, Jason M. Kates has been paving new ground in the DOOH industry for over 15 years. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kates is the visionary and driving force behind rVue, Inc. and the rVue suite of technology solutions. As CEO, Inc. he steers the Internet-based digital media and technology company’s strategic acquisitions, business and product development and fiscal growth from the company’s Fort Lauderdale, Florida headquarters.

Kates’ career began at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. where he managed corporate capital as an investment broker for such prestigious clients as Harley-Davidson. After a successful tenure as a Vice President at Oppenheimer, he founded Kates Communications, where he was charged with marketing products using the power of video. Leveraging this success and recognizing the potential of place-based and emerging digital media, Kates created RMS Networks, Inc. in 1995 where he served as President and CEO. For more than a dozen years, Kates led RMS as it developed many of the industry's largest, most complex and demanding digital networks by providing best-in-class technology, operations and creative solutions that drive ROI. Armed with more than a dozen years of success and recognizing the parallels of emerging and digital media to the Internet, Kates made it his mission to provide next generation, scalable technology solutions designed to accelerate the already strong projected growth of place based media. Through this vision, rVue was born.