Pioneers in Presentation Management
Shufflrr is co-founded by the brother-sister team of James Ontra and AlexAnndra Ontra. The duo have worked together since 2000, developing and marketing presentation software. They founded their own company, Ontra Presentations, in 2002 with a borrowed desk, two phones and licensing rights to the Iguana Presentation system, which James swapped his employment contract to obtain. James and AlexAnndra cold-called prospects every day for eight hours a day, and within 90 days had landed ABC National Television Stations and Towers Perrin. Twelve years, seven different software applications (some discontinued some still going) and over 50 Fortune-level clients later, both are still developing presentation management solutions that help their clients share, shuffle and show their content.
While the technology has certainly changed over the years, and Shufflrr is the latest iteration, the market and the need is still the same. Business to business sales and training teams who need a fast, simple way to create, give and share presentations, all while ensuring brand and message compliance.
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Our History
Miramar CDI — The First Interactive Catalog
James Ontra and David Kopstein created a CD-Log, the compact disc catalog. Converting a storage closet, deep in the recesses of David’s family furniture store, into a computer studio, and build one of the first interactive catalogs. Essentially, it was an interactive presentation kiosk where customers could select a style of furniture and see it in different colors, woods and fabrics. This was long before the Internet was mainstream. James and David both had knowledge of and interest in programming, and David had experience in the retail furniture, the third generation, operating his family’s furniture business.
Several furniture manufacturers participated but stopped shy of paying for this new interactive technology. So goes the dream of early adopters.
Micro Interactive and iXL’s Pitchman: The First Multi-Media Laptop Presentation
As the first laptops with sight, sound and motion gained traction, so did a need for better presentations. James, as head of business development, directed sales for Micro Interactive’s Iguana and then iXL’s Pitchman, selling the first interactive presentation systems.
Other early adapters of presentation management were IBM, NBC Olympics, Lucent Technologies, British Airways, Cigna, Hilton Hotels, and MGM James Bond.
Client Work
James Bond 
Fox News 
British Airways 
GTE Genuity 
NBC Olympics 
Cigna
Iguana Interactive
During the dot com boom, James seized the opportunity to raise venture funding and spin out the Pitchman laptop presentation division of iXL. He became CEO. AlexAnndra left her fun job in advertising to join Iguana. Iguana Interactive not only developed and deployed the presentation management software for their clients, they also wrote, designed and built out the systems. It was a comprehensive, and typical of that time, software and services operation.
In less than two years, they developed applications for such prestigious clients as: NBA, NFL, Johnson Controls, American Express, Bravo, AMC, Mercedes-Benz.
But the boom went bust, the investors pulled out, and James and AlexAnndra were both out of a job.
Client Work
Kelly Services 
SFX 
American Express 
DeBeers 
Mercedes Benz 
GE Equity
Ontra Presentations
From the ashes of Iguana Interactive, James and AlexAnndra start Ontra Presentations with a borrowed desk, a phone, and a license to the then discarded Iguana Interactive software. They had both worked at Iguana Interactive, James as the founder and CEO, Alex as the General Manager until the dot.com bust of late 2001.
They rebuilt the software and founded Ontra Presentations. After 90 days of grueling cold-calls, they landed ABC National Television Sales and Towers Perrin as their first clients.
Clients loved the Ontra Presenation’s ability to playback movie quality video and animated graphics, all while ensuring their sales team had the most up to date banded presentation content synchronized across their networks.
Client Work
Warner Bros. 
Screenvision 
SiriusXM Radio 
Alliance Atlantis 
Ontra 
ABC Television
YouTube Changed Everything
YouTube democratized digital video, and clients were no longer willing to pay a premium for video and animations in their presentations, even if the quality was better. Our software and consulting services business model was falling out of favor.
One client said to us, “Can’t you just make it work in PowerPoint?” We listened and developed PPTshare Slide Library for PowerPoint. It was a PC installed slide library for PowerPoint that synchronized to a central network folder.
Client Work
Bloomberg 
Food Network 
FOX 
Loew’s Cineplex 
St John’s University 
Tribune
PPTshuffle Slide Library for PowerPoint
We developed PPTshuffle a hosted solution on our Cloud servers or installed enterprise on our clients’ networks.
Clients liked the solution because it:
- Ensured presentation compliance across their organization
- Automated video running in PowerPoint
- Was really, easy to use
- Increased productivity, decreasing the amount of time it took to create a presentation from days to minutes
Clients
Presentation Builder is a Home Run for Pharmaceutical Speakers Bureaus
Added the Presentation Builder to PPTshuffle, a presentation wizard that ensured FDA compliance while giving KOL speakers an easy, flexible tool to prepare their decks.
Clients
Shufflrr Launches
Everything we’ve learned, over 30+ cumulative years of developing presentation management software is built into Shufflrr. The practical knowledge, the technology, the users, successes and even the failures, are all integrated in to Shufflrr.
The result? An elegant, easy solution that still ensures brand and message compliance, while giving the team a quick way to create and share a new presentation.
And if we’ve learned anything over the years, all the great technology and features we can add, will never compensate for ease. It just has to be easy. Shufflrr is built to be easy.
Clients
Present Live Changes the Slide and Presentation Management Realm
Our clients are maximizing content productivity with reuse and version-controlled slide update propagation. Now, they can present dynamic and compelling sales and marketing presentations from home. Shufflr, the leader in presentation management, is the first slide and presentation management platform to adapt to COVID-19 with new technical requirements.
Clients
