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Charles Smith co-founded Digital Stock in 1992 and revolutionized digital image acquisition, production methods, and image delivery via the Internet. As president, he presided over one of fastest growing private companies in the 1990s. Digital Stock was sold to Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation in 1998. Today, the royalty-free transaction model introduced by Smith accounts for approximately 95% of image sales worldwide. In 2001, Mr. Smith founded Nforma (now Knowledge Factor), which invented and patented Confidence Based Learning, the world’s first online training system that simultaneously measures both knowledge and confidence. CBL predicts workforce behavior, allowing organizations to systematically find and fix misinformation before it leads to mistakes. The method is currently being harnessed by global companies to help create enterprise cultures that perform with fewer errors and greater precision. In 2006 he co-founded Redwing Media which develops products within both paper-based publishing and modern electronic communications in fields related to the life sciences. Past projects from the Redwing team have involved numerous Nobel laureates and have garnered awards including an Emmy for the PBS series DNA: The Secret of Life. Currently, Redwing is completing a documentary featuring the eminent biologist E.O. Wilson and co-publishing a new introductory biology textbook with authors at Harvard University. | 