Rudy Rupak

Rudy Rupak is an accomplished entrepreneur based in Santa Barbara, California.  Although he was born in London, he's lived all across the world: Calgary, Vancouver, Durban and Montreal, just to name a few.  Rudy Rupak's entrepreneurial career began in 1985, when he started a desktop publishing company at the age of 16.  Two years later, he sold a software he wrote for the desktop publishing business to the company that eventually became IBM Canada.  Rudy then went to medical school, before he quit after a few years to pursue true real passion -- motion picture production.  After spending two years in the distribution industry, Rudy created Millennium Multimedia, which would produce two feature films and two videogames.  In 1996, Millennium became public on NASDAQ with an OTC symbol of PINC.   In 1999, Rudy Rupak became the first CTO of American Apparel. While at American Apparel he founded ContactStation, the first Call Center in Thailand.  In 2002, he invented the "Medical Tourism" industry when he founded PlanetHospital.  The company began to grow rapidly, and in 2006, Rudy was credited with the first International surrogacy.  Subsequently, Rudy began introducing surrogacy to other countries, including Panama and Mexico.   Although Rudy had sold PlanetHospital to a public entity, he bought it back, although he later regretted that decision as the surrogacy business went through turbulent times forcing the company into involuntary bankruptcy. Rudy currently invests in start-ups by financing their internet marketing and helping them grow and is now focused on his next discovery -- mobile search engine optimization.