The Company
ProtonMedia is the developer of ProtoSphere, the market-leading virtual collaboration environment for the high-performance workplace, and the #1 virtual environment for collaborative PLM in life sciences. ProtoSphere’s virtual environment provides an arsenal of business-focused collaboration and communication tools that help companies accelerate decision-making and raise productivity, improving workplace performance overall. The company is a Gartner “Cool Vendor in the High-Performance Workplace” for 2010.
ProtonMedia was founded in 1998 by Chief Executive Officer Ron Burns. Early on, Burns recognized that 3D virtual worlds had the potential to offer significant business benefits for collaborative decision making. This vision led to the ProtoSphere 3D virtual collaboration platform. In July, 2009, Reginald Best joined ProtonMedia as COO, overseeing day-to-day operations, sales force expansion, and the rollout of ProtoSphere 2.0. Cheng T. Chen, one of the top technical minds in the telecommunications industry, was named CTO in August, 2009.
ProtonMedia’s customers include some of the world’s most respected brands, including AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck Inc., BP, Chevron, Duke University, Deloitte, TIAA-CREF, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing.
ProtonMedia has:
- Award-winning Fortune 100 virtual environment implementations and the leader in providing 3-D collaborative decision making used in life sciences
- Nearly a decade of experience in developing virtual worlds and simulation-based activities
- In-depth expertise in unified communications and collaboration, communication, and e-learning solutions
- Deep understanding of how to integrate enterprise-class communications, data, and application services into an immersive 3D experience

