Conversion Solutions Holdings (fka CSHD)

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Some history on Furia, just for trivia's sake...

Does anything below have anything to do with what is happening now? Probably not, but who knows. If nothing else, this company has had their hands in the entertainment industry and continue to do so today with RPH & co.

"Sometimes it's not what you know, but WHO you know." - RPH

Without knowing where to look in SEC or NASDAQ sites, I was trying to find if CSHD/Fronthaul/Furia was ever listed on the NASDAQ or another major exchange under a different name or symbol. This was I've found...nothing much really...

http://www.kyfilmlab.com/?25
John Furia, Jr.
Writer, producer, educator

John Furia, Jr. is the past National Chairman of the Writers Guild of America. Mr. Furia has produced two mini-series, "Rage of Angels" and Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". With Barry Oringer he wrote the pilot for the long running series, "Hotel" and the 6-hour mini-series, "Crisis: America and Iran".

As a freelance writer, and then creator and writer/producer, he has worked for most major studios, and the four networks. He has filmed in Canada, France, Spain, Mexico, Yugoslavia and Kenya. Among the Movies for Television, Furia has written and/or produced are "The Death of Ocean View Park", "The Healers" "Caring" and "The Widow". Anthologies and series include "The Twilight Zone", "Chrysler Theater", "The Prudential Specials", "The Waltons", "Hawaii 5-0", and "Bonanza" and pilots for "The Blue Knight", "240 Robert" and "Tom Sawyer".

Furia has been the Showrunner for "Kung FU" (series), "John O'Hara's Gibbsville" (series), "Sweepstakes" (series), "The Dirty Dozen" (series), and nearly 100 dramas for the public service series "Insight", ("Enigma" in Spanish speaking countries) which has won multiple Emmy nominations, the Cine Award, etc. He has written features including "The Singing Nun" starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson, "A Change of Habit" starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore, and sold his original screenplay, "EVIL" to Robert Redford's Wildwood Productions.

As president of his own NASDAQ listed company, he wrote and/or produced the pilot "Powers Play" (CBS); Movies for Television "My Mother's Secret Life" (ABC), "Going To The Chapel" (NBC), "The Intruder Within" (ABC); and the award winning film about starvation in Ethiopia starring Ted Danson and Ally Sheedy, "We Are The Children" (ABC).

Mr. Furia is Vice President of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Trustees of the Humanitas Prize; has been a member the Board of Governors of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He is a tenured professor and Founding Chairman of the Division of Writing in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.

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Ok great. What company? Ours?

Then I saw this...

"SurfWax Archives: News, Reviews and Articles On The DivisionBy John Furia Jr., John Furia Jr. is a former president of the Writers Guild of ... CEO and president of CSG Systems (NASDAQ: - ) in a released statement. ...
news.surfwax.com/tv/archives/The_Division_TV.html - 46k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages"

I went to the link and the cached version, but the story is not there on either from what I can see. This isn't a direct link because of the dots removing much of the article between his name and the CSG Systems. So I searched for CSG FURIA.

That was a dead end because the company is still up and running on NASDAQ. I can't find any other direct link to Furia and them.

However, I did find Mr. John Furia, Jr. to be quite an accomplised player in the movie/tv industry since the 1950's...

John Furia

Writer - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)

My Mother's Secret Life (1984) (TV)
Hotel (1983) (TV)
"Hotel" (1983) TV Series (writer)
... aka Arthur Hailey's Hotel


The Death of Ocean View Park (1979) (TV)
"240-Robert"
- The Apology (1979) TV Episode (as John Furia Jr.)
The Healers (1974) (TV) (as John Furia Jr.)
"Kung Fu" (1972) TV Series (writer)
"Longstreet" (1971) TV Series (writer)


"Hawaii Five-O" (1968) TV Series
... aka McGarrett (USA: rerun title)
"Felony Squad" (1966) TV Series (writer)
The Singing Nun (1966) (as John Furia Jr.) (story) (as John Furia Jr.)
"Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre"
... aka The Chrysler Theater
... aka Universal Star Time (syndication title)
- The Turncoat (1964) TV Episode (adaptation) (as John Furia Jr.)
"Espionage"
- The Liberators (1964) TV Episode (writer) (as John Furia Jr.)
- A Camel to Ride (1963) TV Episode (writer) (as John Furia Jr.)
"The Twilight Zone"
- I Dream of Genie (1963) TV Episode (as John Furia Jr.)
"Zane Grey Theater"
... aka Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater (USA: complete title)
... aka The Westerners (USA: rerun title)
- Honor Bright (1961) TV Episode (as John Furia Jr.)
"National Velvet" (1960) TV Series (writer)


"Bonanza" (1959) TV Series (three episodes) (as John Furia Jr.)
... aka Ponderosa (USA: rerun title)


Producer - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s)

The Sun Also Rises (1984) (TV) (executive producer)
My Mother's Secret Life (1984) (TV) (executive producer)
Rage of Angels (1983) (TV) (producer)
... aka Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels
The Intruder Within (1981) (TV) (executive producer)
... aka The Lucifer Rig
The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980) (TV) (executive producer)


The Death of Ocean View Park (1979) (TV) (executive producer)
"Gibbsville" (1976) TV Series (producer) (as John Furia Jr.)
Widow (1976) (TV) (producer)
The Blue Knight (1975) (TV) (producer)
The Healers (1974) (TV) (producer)
"Apple's Way" (1974) TV Series (producer)


"Insight" (producer)
- Some Talk About Pool Rooms and Gin Mills (1967) TV Episode (producer) (as John Furia Jr.)

Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
(2000s) (1980s)

May (2002) (special thanks)


"Hotel" (1983) TV Series (developed for television by)
... aka Arthur Hailey's Hotel



Filmography as: Writer, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Actor, Self

Actor - filmography

The Blue Knight (1975) (TV) .... Lieutenant Furia



Filmography as: Writer, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Actor, Self

Self - filmography

Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition Interviews (2005) (V) .... Himself


Trivia
(1973-1975) President of the Writers Guild of America, West. (show more)
Sometimes Credited As:
John Furia Jr.

So with that, I will move on to another player back in the beginning of this company...see next post :P