Jacqueline Shorter-Beauchamp
Jacqueline Shorter-Beauchamp is a seasoned international businesswoman and entrepreneur with more than 25-years of experience within the digital media, technology, and entertainment industry. Jacqueline is currently the Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Engaged Media Studios, Inc. is a digital media technology and entertainment production company producing end-to-end PaaS, Web3.0, and VR/MR/AR Immersive integrated products and solutions servicing the Museum, Entertainment, Sports, Industrial and Government market segments.
Before founding Engaged Media Studios, Jacqueline was a co-founder of Nerjyzed Entertainment, Inc. which became the first African-American led video game studio to develop and ship on Microsoft XBOX 360 Console with the shipment of "The Black College Football Experience (BCFx) Video Game Experience - The Doug Williams Edition", thus leading to the company being featured as the promotional showcase for CNN’s Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley with Soledad O’Brien.
Jacqueline’s 25-year high-tech multimedia and executive-level corporate experience includes Fortune 500 companies IBM and Motorola. Her Fortune 500 corporate experience includes General Manager of Motorola’s global Multimedia Systems Division becoming the first African-American female in such an executive leadership position and a Staff Technologist and Patent holder at IBM, respectively.
Jacqueline is a cum laude graduate from Southern University and A&M College where she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and minors in Mathematics and Computer Science. Jacqueline is the proud mother of her adult daughter Corbin who is also a graduate of Jacqueline’s alma mater. Jacqueline also is a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Alumni and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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